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Ada Michael

@ada-michael · 1918 live articles · Page 5

Ada Michael is a DeFi writer and research contributor at DefiLiban, where she covers decentralized finance, blockchain infrastructure, token economies, and crypto market behavior. Her work focuses on breaking down complex DeFi systems, liquidity mechanics, yield strategies, on-chain analytics, and emerging blockchain trends into accessible research-driven content for both retail and experienced crypto readers. Before joining DefiLiban, Ada worked across crypto research, fintech content strategy, and blockchain education initiatives related to digital assets and decentralized technologies. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Lagos and has completed additional certifications in DeFi, blockchain analytics, and financial storytelling. Ada’s writing combines analytical depth with practical market insight, with a particular interest in DeFi adoption, protocol design, and behavioral trends within digital asset markets.

Liquidity

Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Hits Record $989M as TVL Climbs

Robinhood Chain posted a record $989 million in daily DEX volume, its highest single-day onchain trading total to date, while total value locked on the chain continued to climb, a combination that points to deepening liquidity across the network's decentralized exchange venues.

Sep 1·2 min read·By Ada Michael

Liquidity

DeFi Market Update: TVL, Liquidity and Protocol Activity Overnight | September 1, 2026

This DeFi market update on TVL, liquidity and protocol activity is narrower than a normal overnight wrap.

Aug 31·3 min read·By Ada Michael

Liquidity

DeFi Market Update: TVL, Liquidity and Protocol Activity | Evening, August 31, 2026

As of the evening close on August 31, 2026, no confirmed total value locked figure was available to anchor a session-over-session comparison. Without a verified aggregate, any claim about protocol- or chain-level inflows versus outflows would be speculation rather than analysis.

Aug 31·3 min read·By Ada Michael

Liquidity

DeFi Market Update: TVL, Liquidity and Protocol Activity for August 31, 2026

DeFi liquidity conditions held in a consolidation posture through the afternoon of August 31, 2026, with capital appearing to rotate between segments rather than expand outright, based on the limited on-chain and market data verifiable for this update window.

Aug 31·3 min read·By Ada Michael

Liquidity

DeFi Market Update: TVL, Liquidity and Protocol Activity

The core distinction for any morning read is between total market TVL and protocol-level movement. Aggregate value locked across chains can hold flat while capital rotates between individual networks, so a single headline number rarely tells the full session story.

Aug 31·2 min read·By Ada Michael

Risk

Cronos Network Halts After Tectonic Exploit Estimated at $75M

The Cronos network halt Tectonic exploit shifted the chain's immediate value proposition from yield access to execution risk, because users first need block production and protocol availability before they can manage collateral.

Aug 30·2 min read·By Ada Michael

Risk

$1.1M Crypto Card Hack Sends Neobank Token Down 49%

The core facts confirmed so far are narrow. Reporting on the incident describes a crypto card breach with losses near $1.

Aug 30·2 min read·By Ada Michael

Press Release

Bullish Gives USD.AI $100M Facility for GPU-Backed Loans

Bullish is providing USD. AI with a $100 million stablecoin-based liquidity facility for GPU-backed loans, extending institutional credit rails into AI compute infrastructure and putting a new asset-backed lending market in focus for DeFi users.

Aug 28·3 min read·By Ada Michael

Protocols

Solana Vote to Double Disinflation Passes: What Changes for SOL Emissions

Solana validators have passed a governance vote to double the network's disinflation rate, a tokenomics change that steepens the decline of SOL's issuance schedule and marks one of the chain's first binding on-chain economic decisions.

Aug 28·2 min read·By Ada Michael

Protocols

Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing

Ethena is planning to extend its basis-trade model beyond crypto into equity perpetuals, adding a new sleeve to the collateral that backs its USDe synthetic dollar. The move would source yield from the funding spread on equity-linked perpetual futures rather than relying solely on crypto-native positions.

Aug 28·3 min read·By Ada Michael

News

Crypto Traders Brace for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech

Jackson Hole is a communication venue rather than a policy-decision meeting, which is precisely why traders treat it as market-moving: the Fed chair can reset expectations for the rate path without changing a single target rate.

Aug 28·3 min read·By Ada Michael

Liquidity

Aave V4 Deposits Hit $806M After 30% Weekly Gain

Deposits into Aave V4 have reached $806 million following a 30% gain over the past week, marking one of the clearest signals yet of capital rotating into the latest iteration of the lending protocol's liquidity stack.

Aug 27·3 min read·By Ada Michael