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Stablecoins listed on CoinGecko have grown from <50 in 2018 to nearly 400 in 2025, with issuance still accelerating.
The credit infrastructure to deploy that capital with discipline needs to scale alongside it.
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Lending sees the highest count of DeFi exploits because it integrates the most components: oracles, liquidations, collateral, external markets.
Bridges produce fewer events but the highest loss per event by a significant margin.
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Most DeFi exploits still originate on chain, though off-chain and hybrid incidents have grown visibly.
A formally verified contract can be drained if the wallet controlling it is compromised through phishing or a malicious dependency.
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How do you model what you cannot see?
Certain risks, such as hidden leverage and reflexivity, can quickly turn minor risks into systemic ones.
Patrick Loughran explains it on June 17 at 12pm ET.
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While risk models from TradFi share concepts with digital assets, critical onchain dynamics often go unaccounted for.
Where do these models hold? Where do they break? Patrick Loughran covers both on June 17 at 12pm ET.
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Bitcoin ETFs saw their largest weekly outflows since late January, when a similar bout of ETF weakness coincided with BTC falling from $89k to roughly $62k
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40+ DeFi protocols.
12+ blockchains.
One analytical view.
The data fragmentation problem in DeFi vault research is a real cost for institutional teams and end users alike.
Smart Yield consolidates it.
Explore the real DeFi:
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Tempo currently holds $18.3M in on-chain stablecoins. Only $7.4M is deployed in DeFi. The remainder sits idle in wallets and payment settlement rails.
The Morpho integration is built to close that gap. Where that capital routes next is the more interesting question.
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Tail risk is extremely difficult to model, but it's also crucial
Our June 17 webinar examines how to analyze tail risk in detail
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Liquidation cascades, correlation breakdowns, liquidity evaporation, reflexivity, hidden leverage, and convexity. Conventional risk models struggle to capture the complexity of these risks.
Patrick Loughran walks through the full picture on June 17.
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A DeFi borrow rate is a layered output and each layer requires separate analysis.
We cover this in our latest report:
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Stripe-backed Tempo has activated Morpho's $7.5B lending marketplace on its payments chain.
The integration shifts Tempo into a full financial operating system for enterprises, with meaningful implications for institutional stablecoin flows.
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Nearly $900 million worth of BTC moved into exchanges this week as prices fell, indicating significant sell-side pressure
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Two vaults can carry identical APY figures and represent entirely different risk profiles.
Smart Yield makes those differences visible so you can compare positions on the factors that matter most.
DeFi decisions deserve better information:
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APY is the first metric DeFi users look for. It's also the most deceiving.
It describes vault returns under current conditions, but it ignores the risk, liquidity depth, or protocol exposure behind it.
Sentora Smart Yield makes all of that visible:
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Crypto in The Age of AI
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We'll be live in 1 hour to discuss the risk AI poses to DeFi security.
Jesus Rodriguez will explore the evolving threat model and the case for continuous, runtime-aware security in DeFi.
Register now:
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