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Kaiser Khan is a London-based entrepreneur and publisher with thirty years in business, media, and financial content. He is Editor in Chief of MoneyGuide.org.uk, a UK personal finance publication covering money management, investment, and digital assets. At Decentralized Finance, he leads editorial direction across DeFi research, cryptocurrency news, and blockchain ecosystem coverage.
Back to aboutAave, Morpho, SparkLend, and Compound supply APYs have compressed in mid-2026 as TVL rebounds post-restaking stress. We break down where borrowers still pay premium rates and where LPs earn real yield.
Hyperliquid continues to lead decentralised perpetual futures by volume in mid-2026 — processing more daily notional than GMX, dYdX, and Drift combined on many sessions. We analyse what is driving the shift to on-chain order books.
Solana DeFi TVL and DEX volume rebounded in June 2026, led by Jupiter aggregators, Kamino lending, and liquid staking flows into JitoSOL and mSOL. Alpenglow upgrade anticipation adds a protocol roadmap tailwind.
Lido and Rocket Pool are the two most significant decentralised ETH liquid staking protocols. Both let you stake ETH without running a validator, but they differ in decentralisation, token liquidity, yield, and risk profile. Here is the definitive 2026 comparison.
Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism are the three dominant Ethereum Layer 2 networks for DeFi in 2026. Each has different liquidity depth, fee structures, DeFi ecosystem maturity, and decentralisation trade-offs. This guide helps you choose the right L2 for your needs.
Ethereum and Solana are the two dominant smart contract platforms for DeFi in 2026. They represent fundamentally different design philosophies — Ethereum prioritises decentralisation and security, Solana prioritises speed and low cost. This guide compares both for DeFi users.
The decentralised exchange landscape in 2026 spans dozens of protocols across multiple blockchains. This guide ranks the best DEXes by volume, liquidity depth, supported chains, and specific use cases — helping you choose the right platform for every swap.
DeFi lending protocols let you earn yield by supplying assets or borrow against crypto collateral. Aave, Morpho, Spark, and Compound are the leaders in 2026 — each with different risk profiles, supported assets, and yield opportunities. This guide helps you choose.
Pendle Finance is one of DeFi's fastest-growing protocols, enabling yield tokenisation — the ability to separate and trade the future yield from yield-bearing assets. It allows DeFi users to lock in fixed yields, speculate on rate movements, and buy discounted yield-bearing tokens.
Hyperliquid is a decentralised perpetual futures exchange on its own high-performance L1, using an on-chain order book for non-custodial perps. Check DeFiLlama for current volume and TVL figures.
GMX is a decentralised perpetual futures exchange on Arbitrum and Avalanche using the GLP liquidity pool model — one of the longest-running perp DEXes, predating Hyperliquid's order-book approach.
Drift Protocol is a decentralised perpetual futures exchange on Solana, offering order-book perps with sub-second execution alongside spot and lending products — the leading on-chain derivatives venue in the Solana ecosystem.