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349 guides on defi, newest first.
DeFi · Explainer
A claim that a simple BNB Chain DeFi app generates $5 billion is hard to verify and often mixes up volume, deposits and revenue. This guide explains what such figures usually mean and how to check them before you trust any app.
DeFi · Explainer
Bogged Finance is a BNB Chain toolkit for swapping, tracking and analysing tokens across decentralised exchanges, and its BOG token powers parts of the platform. This guide explains what the token does, what the snapshot and claim history means for holders, and how to check current figures yourself.
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BPRO is a token from the Money on Chain system on Rootstock, a smart contract layer tied to Bitcoin. This guide explains how holders can earn income from it, what drives that income, and the risks of holding a leveraged Bitcoin position.
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Public reporting did not confirm a DeFi farming token called Cait on the WAX blockchain. This guide explains what a token 'arriving' on a chain means, how to verify a WAX token contract yourself, and what to check before farming a new token.
DeFi · Explainer
A $1,600 COMP price is a market-cap question before it is a price question. This guide explains how governance tokens like COMP are valued, what a target like that would imply, and which supply, fee and vote data to check before drawing conclusions.
DeFi · Explainer
ADALend was a lending protocol on Cardano that announced cross-platform integrations in late 2021. This guide explains what those plans covered, what the follow-up partnership and roadmap showed, and how to check where the project stands today.
DeFi · Explainer
Celsius froze customer withdrawals in June 2022 and later filed for bankruptcy, a case that showed how custodial crypto lenders can fail when they cannot meet withdrawal demands. This guide explains what happened, where the case stood according to the reporting available, and how to judge counterparty risk before you lend crypto.
DeFi · Explainer
ClaimSwap is an automated market maker exchange on the Klaytn network, which is now part of Kaia. This guide explains what active wallet growth figures measure, why they can mislead, and how to check activity and trade safely.
DeFi · Explainer
ClaimSwap is an automated market maker exchange on Klaytn, which is now part of Kaia. This guide explains how it works, what a claim about wallet growth can and cannot tell you, and how to check activity yourself.
DeFi · Explainer
Clash of Coins is a free-to-play real-time strategy game connected to Base, an Ethereum layer-2 network. This explainer covers how the game links to Ethereum, how seasons and tokens work, and how to check current facts before you take part.
DeFi · Explainer
A large US exchange listing brought SushiSwap back into the spotlight, but the protocol's launch history and founder controversy still shape how it is judged. This guide explains what the Coinbase connection does and does not mean, and how to check the current facts yourself.
DeFi · Explainer
The Coinbase effect is a real pattern around token listings, but the sources do not show that it reliably drives DEX volume spikes. This guide explains what the term means, what moves DEX volume, and how to check the data yourself before drawing conclusions.
DeFi · Explainer
COMP is the governance token of the Compound lending protocol, and it can jump up 24-hour gainer lists for reasons that have little to do with the protocol's day-to-day use. This guide explains what COMP does, why short-term rankings are misleading, and how to check public sources yourself.
DeFi · Explainer
Compound is one of the oldest and most studied lending markets on Ethereum, so learning how it works gives a clear view of the wider DeFi lending, borrowing and stablecoin landscape. This guide explains the mechanics, the risks and the related protocols to compare.
DeFi · Review
Compound is one of the longest-running lending markets in decentralized finance. This guide explains how it works, how its two main versions differ, what the COMP token does, and the risks to weigh before you deposit or borrow.
DeFi · Explainer
A reported record in CoW Swap active users is a useful signal, but a single headline number says little on its own. This guide explains what the metric measures, what the available reports do and do not confirm, and how to check usage and security yourself before you trade.
DeFi · Explainer
CoW Swap is a DEX aggregator that matches trades in batches to limit MEV losses. This guide explains how it works, what the COW token does, what the sources do and do not show about a 'Gouda' token, and how to protect yourself after the 2026 frontend attacks.
DeFi · Explainer
Some DeFi platforms now let you pay by card instead of moving crypto from an exchange first. This guide explains how card-funded DeFi works, what it costs, what the risks are, and how to check what Bogged currently supports.
DeFi · Explainer
Crypto yield is the return you earn for lending, staking, providing liquidity or holding a yield-bearing product. This guide explains where yield comes from, how the main options differ, and what risks to weigh before committing funds.
DeFi · Review
Curve is a long-running Ethereum exchange built for swapping stablecoins and closely priced assets with little slippage. This guide explains how its pools work, what CRV and veCRV do, where crvUSD fits, and the risks to weigh before depositing.
DeFi · Explainer
Decentralized exchanges started on Ethereum and spread to many other chains, including EOS and Tron. This guide explains how that happened, what each chain actually offered, and how to judge a DEX on any network.
DeFi · Explainer
DeFi 2.0 is a loose label for later DeFi designs that try to fix the problems of the first wave, and Bitcoin holders now have several routes into lending, yield and trading. This guide explains those routes, what BiFi is known for in the sources reviewed, and the checks to run before depositing.
DeFi · Explainer
DeFi 2.0 is an informal label for a later wave of decentralized finance protocols, not a standard. This guide explains what the term means, where the real security risks sit, and how to use DeFi apps more safely and clearly from a phone.
DeFi · Explainer
DeFi aggregators compare routes, prices and yields across many exchanges and blockchains at once. This guide explains how they work, where cross-chain risk comes from, and how to check an aggregator before you use it.