Decentralized Exchange News

Chains are launching perp DEXs to capture trading activity, but history suggests liquidity will consolidate around only a handful of platforms.

HYPE technical setup points to an initial breakout, with growing demand for macro-linked perps adding to the upside case.

The Curve Finance team told PancakeSwap that it must go through the proper licensing process to collaborate and use code created by Curve.

A massive leveraged long in the ARC perpetuals market collapsed on Lighter, triggering auto-deleveraging but limiting liquidity provider losses to about $75,000.

By using onchain data, the platform structures trading into ranked 1v1 matches to create a verifiable skill hierarchy.

Crypto’s future demands pragmatic decentralization. Decentralization thrives on capturing real transaction flow from centralized giants, turning open rails into unbeatable economic models.

A mistaken Bitcoin payout revealed how exchange ledgers work and why South Korea is rethinking internal controls for crypto platforms.

Proof-of-reserves shows assets at a single point in time, but it does not prove solvency, liquidity or sound governance. Here is what PoR misses and what real trust looks like.

Hyperliquid's HIP-3, also known as "Builder Deployed Perpetuals," lets anyone who stakes 500,000 HYPE to create a new perpetual futures market on the Hyperliquid blockchain.

Restaking yields come from token emissions and VC incentives, not productive activity. Complex models concentrate power among large operators, while compounding risk cascades.

Cross-chain bridges concentrate risk and centralize trust, creating vulnerabilities that could trigger a systemic crypto crisis under stressed market conditions.

Perp DEXs handle only a fraction of the trading activity seen in TradFi investments, but their infrastructure is catching up to the slow and fragmented centralized trading venues.

Bitcoin steadied near $90,000 as ETF flows turned negative, altcoins continued a valuation reset and DeFi markets showed pockets of renewed activity.

Bitcoin’s liquidation map is still heavily biased toward downside liquidity, but a swift rally to $100,000 could quickly turn the tables in the bulls’ favor.

Bubblemaps said Lighter airdropped $675 million in LIT — one of crypto’s biggest ever — as data shared on X suggested about 75% of recipients were still holding.