Traditional financial (TradFi) systems have served us relatively well for ages. But growing misgivings about them, like the much-publicized Trump family debanking, have sent us looking for suitable ...

In traditional finance, fixed-income instruments are rarely held in isolation. They are repo’d, pledged, rehypothecated, ...

DeFi is short for “decentralized finance,” an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency or blockchain geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. DeFi draws ...

Tied to the Trump family, World Liberty Financial has capital, influence, and media attention behind it. USD1 aims to maintain a 1:1 peg with the U.S. dollar, backed by U.S. Treasury assets and ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a revolutionary shift in the financial landscape, offering a blockchain-based system that facilitates transactions without relying on traditional intermediaries like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) were meant to embody the promise of DeFi: open, borderless, peer-to-peer markets that couldn’t be ...

Everything launches EV/USDT pre-market pool on Arbitrum, debuting unified DeFi trading, lending, and margin liquidity.

As one of the largest BTC-backed lenders in the world, Two Prime has a front-row view of how the industry’s lending markets ...

Private credit funds face rising redemptions and defaults. Here's what it means for DeFi, RWA strategies, and retail crypto investors in 2026.

The explosion of new blockchains has fractured DeFi’s once-unified liquidity, threatening its core advantage of composability. Without infrastructure that seamlessly connects siloed markets, DeFi ...