Latest

DeFi
Prediction Markets Expand from DeFi Niche to Global News Sources
Polymarket has been thrust into the mainstream limelight in 2025, making it one of the year’s breakout products.

Markets
Bitcoin Slips Below $87,000 in Choppy Holiday Trading
Top altcoins remain under pressure amid muted ETF flows and thin liquidity.

DeFi
PUMP Plummets as Legal Dispute Escalates
Burwick Law has filed a misconduct notice against pumpfun, alleging intimidation and retaliation against the defendants.

DeFi
Hyperliquid Launches Portfolio Margin and BLP Pre-Alpha
The feature adds a more flexible approach to margin management, as well as earning and borrowing features to Hypercore.

Markets
Bitcoin Slides Back Below $88,000 as ‘Santa Rally’ Gets Derailed
Most Top 10 cryptocurrencies are in the red, with Bitcoin and Ethereum posting the largest losses.

DeFi
Aave Founder Calls Contentious Token Alignment Proposal ‘Bad for Aave’
Stani Kulechov claims that moving forward with the proposal would negatively impact Aave Protocol, the DAO, and token holders.

Research & Opinion
Token Launches With Low FDVs Vastly Outperformed Hyped Debuts in 2025: Memento Research
Most tokens launched in 2025 are now trading well below their initial valuations, with projects that started at smaller FDVs outperforming billion-dollar debuts.

DeFi
Polymarket Volumes Surge on Layer 2 Speculation
The leading decentralized prediction market clocked its busiest weekend since the 2024 US presidential election.

Markets
Crypto Markets Rally Ahead of Holidays
Bitcoin and Ethereum rise over 2% while SKY and NEAR lead the altcoin market.

Podcast
Uniswap is about to “turn on the switch.” with Hayden Adams
In this episode of The Defiant Podcast, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams joins us right as the UNIfication (Unification) proposal has moved to a final governance vote—a sweeping plan from Uniswap Labs + the Uniswap Foundation that would activate protocol fees, introduce a programmatic UNI burn, and realign how value accrues across the Uniswap ecosystem.





