Spout Finance – Let Your Stocks Pay the Interest
Marc Ryan is Co-Founder and CEO of Spout Finance, a Solana lending protocol that lets people borrow USDC against tokenized US stocks without paying interest. Based in New York, Marc first got into crypto during the 2017 ICO boom and stayed through DeFi summer and the NFT cycle. Meanwhile he worked as a technology investment banker at HSBC, covering fintech, software and hardware, and that experience showed him how cheaply wealthy clients could borrow against their portfolios compared with everyone else.
Greenlane – Why Chain Revenue Is Mostly a Meme
Jason Hitchcock is CEO of Greenlane Holdings (Nasdaq: GNLN), the only US-listed vehicle purpose-built to hold BERA, the native token of the Berachain network, and to put that treasury to work inside the chain's Proof of Liquidity economy. Before taking the job in February he spent fifteen years on the business side of technology startups — a venture studio that sold an app to Amazon, a stint at Twitch, then a liquid token fund launched off the back of a DeFi Summer obsession — and most recently ran business development at thirdweb, where he built out chain infrastructure partnerships across more than 150 networks.
Seasons – DeFi Yield 3.0
Andrey Didovskiy is the CEO of Seasons, a Solana DeFi protocol built around a Yield 3.0 mechanism which pays holders real assets, gold, Bitcoin and dollars, funded by trading activity. A near-decade crypto veteran who broke into the industry writing white papers before running Atleta Network and co-founding the consultancy SYSDK, Andrey brings an operator's eye to a key problem in decentralized finance: yield that vanishes when prices turn.
From Discovery to Trajectory: What This Means for Stabull Going Into 2026
At the start of this series, we set out to answer a simple question: What is actually driving trading activity on Stabull outside the UI? What we uncovered was not a single partnership, feature, or campaign — but a pattern. Across Base, Ethereum, and Polygon, Stabull liquidity is increasingly being used as part of the execution layer of DeFi itself. Not occasionally. Not experimentally. But repeatedly, programmatically, and with growing confidence.
After Kelp, DeFi Faces an AI Problem It Has Not Begun to Price
A $292 million exploit at Kelp DAO has drained $6 billion from Aave and pushed DeFi's April losses past $580 million — but the configuration errors behind this month's hacks are the easy problem. The harder one, already visible in AI red-team research, is that autonomous exploit generation is becoming cheap enough to industrialise.
Tok-Edge – The Crypto Hedge Fund with a Token
Raees Chowdhury is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Tok-Edge, a London-based regulated DeFi hedge fund built around a novel cryptoasset structure called the Redemption Token. With a career spanning senior roles at BCG and Bain Capital, a managing partner position at Revolt Ventures — a fund sitting beneath a $10 billion AUM vehicle — and deep roots in on-chain markets dating back to the ICO era of 2016–17, Raees brings rare dual fluency in institutional finance and DeFi to one of crypto's most ambitious new fund structures.
Anthropic’s Mythos AI Is a Bigger Threat to DeFi Than Quantum Computing
The crypto industry has spent years debating whether quantum computing will eventually crack Bitcoin's cryptography. That threat remains largely theoretical. The one that arrived this week is not.
Bots, Solvers, and Aggregators: Who Is Actually Trading Through Stabull?
After reviewing non-UI activity across Stabull pools on Base, Ethereum, and Polygon, one question comes up repeatedly: Who is actually sending these transactions?
How ~$30k in Liquidity Supported $4m in 30-Day Trading Volume
One of the most striking findings from our review of non-UI activity on Stabull was not a complex execution path or an obscure protocol interaction. It was a simple relationship between two numbers.
How Crypto Trades Use Stabull — Even Though We Only List Stablecoins and RWAs
At first glance, Stabull’s role in DeFi seems narrowly defined. The protocol lists stablecoins and real-world-asset–backed tokens. It does not offer direct swaps into volatile cryptocurrencies like ETH. There are no memecoins, no long-tail assets, and no attempt to compete for speculative trading volume.
Solvers, Searchers, and Smart Execution: The Invisible Users of DeFi
If arbitrage bots are the most visible form of programmatic trading, solvers and searchers are the least visible — and often the most important.
Bots, Arbitrage, and Price Alignment: Why They’re Good for LPs
When liquidity providers talk about risk, one concern often comes up quickly: bots. They are frequently blamed for extracting value, front-running users, or profiting at the expense of LPs. In some contexts, those criticisms are justified. In others, they misunderstand the role bots actually play in DeFi markets.
Atomic Swaps Explained: How Multi-Protocol Trades Actually Execute in DeFi
Many of the non-UI transactions we traced on Stabull shared one defining characteristic: they were atomic. At first glance, that word can feel abstract or overly technical. In practice, atomic execution is one of the most important — and least visible — building blocks of modern DeFi. It is also the reason why Stabull can be safely used inside complex execution flows without introducing additional risk.
Tales from DeFi: What We Found When We Traced Non-UI Trades on Stabull
By early January, one thing had become increasingly clear to the Stabull team: the growth we were seeing in trading volume could not be explained by user interface activity alone. There was more happening beneath the surface.
From UI Swaps to DeFi Infrastructure: How Trading Really Happens on Stabull
When Stabull launched, the most visible way to interact with the protocol was simple: users visited the interface, selected a pool, and executed a swap. Liquidity providers supplied assets, traders swapped against them, and fees were generated in a way that looked familiar to anyone who had used a decentralised exchange before. That model still exists. But it is no longer the full story.
Oracle-Anchored BRL Liquidity in Practice
Much of the most important work in decentralised finance happens quietly. Rather than pursuing rapid growth through incentives, emissions, or headline volume, Stabull’s focus throughout 2025 was on building execution infrastructure capable of handling real market behaviour: professional routing, economically rational participants, and capital that moves only when conditions genuinely warrant it. BRZ liquidity on Stabull provides a clear example of that approach in practice.
