Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Exposed Chicanery For Grateful Community

DeFier of the Year

• Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Exposed Chicanery For a Grateful DeFi Community

DeFi Breakthrough of the Year

• Chicken Bonds Pecked Their Way Into a Reward-Hungry Market

DeFi 2022: The Year That Was

• Bear Attack: Investors Lick Their Wounds After Grim 2022

Trends to Watch 2023

• DeFi To Widen Gap With CeFi After Stormy Year

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Defier of the Year

Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Exposed Chicanery For a Grateful DeFi Community

Deeply Researched Probes of Questionable Projects Proved ‘Invaluable’ in Mad Year

By Aleksandar Gilbert

“The obvious,” one commenter wrote, “needs to be stated again and again.”

And what might that be?

“The space is not only safer and smarter because of you, but unequivocally better,” they told the man who moonlights as crypto sleuth ZachXBT on Twitter. The Defiant community agrees.

Read the full story in The Defiant

DeFi Breakthrough of the Year

Chicken Bonds Pecked Their Way Into a Reward-Hungry Market

Novel Liquidity Mechanism Attracted More Than $70M

By Owen Fernau

In a year whipsawed by falling asset prices and yields, it’s easy to forget that there was a whole lot of labor and innovation going on, too.

Read the full story in The Defiant

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DeFi 2022: The Year That Was

Bear Attack: Investors Lick Their Wounds After Grim 2022

Global Markets Had A Volatile Year As Inflation Took Centre Stage

By yyctrader

Don’t fight the Fed.

That was the incontrovertible truth of a 12-month period that erased 65% of the market value of cryptocurrencies.

Read the full story in The Defiant

Trends to Watch 2023

DeFi To Widen Gap With CeFi After Stormy Year

Collapse Of Centralized Crypto Players Makes The Case For Self-Custody

By Owen Fernau

To the outside observer, if an application uses digital assets, that’s part of “crypto” — there’s no distinction between the now-bankrupt FTX and on-chain exchanges like Uniswap and Curve Finance.

For those more plugged into the space, the difference between an exchange like FTX and decentralized exchanges is crucial.

Read the full story in The Defiant

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