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 […]
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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 […]
By Jon Nielsen Since its launch in 2020, Solana has steadily grown into one of the largest cryptocurrencies on the market. In fact, with its market cap being $72.55 billion, it ranks as the 5th biggest cryptocurrency overall. The Solana network is a popular host for native dApps and DeFi platforms, thanks to its high […]