By Wayne Jones Binance users hold about 87% of USD1, the Trump-linked stablecoin, according to a Forbes report published on February 9, 2026, putting most of the token’s circulating supply on a single exchange. The concentration has drawn criticism online, but Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao says the figures reflect user demand across stablecoins rather […]
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By Wayne Jones Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has questioned the legitimacy of popular USDC yield strategies, arguing they don’t follow the principles of true decentralized finance (DeFi). His critique was in response to crypto analyst C-node, who said that most modern DeFi focuses on speculative gains instead of building genuinely decentralized infrastructure. Critique of Modern […]
By Ben Wallis Quick Facts: Vitalik Buterin challenges DeFi to move away from centralized stablecoins ($USDC/$USDT) toward automated, decentralized models to reduce systemic risk. The computational requirements for these ‘sovereign’ stablecoins favor high-throughput environments like the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) over congested legacy networks. Bitcoin Hyper combines Bitcoin’s settlement security with SVM speed, raising over […]