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Stablecoin Supply Just Shed $15 Billion in Three Months, the Biggest Drop Since Terra — But It's Not a Depeg

Stablecoin supply just shed $15 billion in three months, the biggest drop since Terra — but nothing broke $1. This is capital relocating, not trust collapsing.
On August 2, 2026, DefiLlama data showed total Stablecoin supply had fallen from a mid-May peak of roughly $322.1 billion to about $307.6 billion — a drop of more than $14.5 billion in under three months, the steepest quarterly decline since the Terra/UST collapse in 2022. June alone wiped out about $11.4 billion, the sharpest single-month contraction since UST imploded. The headline number invites comparisons to a depeg crisis, but a closer look shows the cause is fundamentally different...
beginners
You Don't Even Need to Own Bitcoin to Bet on It: What a Perpetual DEX Is Actually Trading With You
The long position you open on a perpetual DEX never once gives you actual...
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When Your Position Gets Liquidated, It's Not Just "Sold": Dissecting Dutch Auctions vs. Fixed-Discount Liquidation
When your collateral gets liquidated, it's not just "sold" — whether it's a...
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No Code Was Broken: How a Governance Exploit Drained $8.5M From Term Labs' Vaults Despite a Seven-Day Timelock
No code was broken — Term Labs' $8.5M loss was waved through by the very...

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Concentrated Liquidity
An advanced automated <a href="https://crypto-bible.com/en/glossary/exchanges/market-maker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Market Maker</a> design letting liquidity providers choose to concentrate capital within a specific price range, rather than spreading it across the entire price range (from zero to infinity) as in a traditional AMM — substantially improving capital efficiency.
What is concentrated liquidity, and how does it differ from the traditional AMM covered earlier? A traditional AMM (such as the original constant...
intermediate

Impermanent Loss
The value gap that arises when the price ratio of two tokens in a liquidity pool diverges, causing a liquidity provider's pooled assets to be worth less than if they had simply held the tokens.
What is impermanent loss, and how does it differ from a typical 'loss'? Impermanent loss refers to the value gap that occurs when you provide...
beginner

Impermanent Loss Protection (ILP)
A protocol, through an additional funding source (such as its own issued native <a href="https://claude-me.com/en/glossary/core-concepts/token/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Token</a>, or the protocol's own reserve assets), actively absorbs the <a href="/en/glossary/amm-liquidity/impermanent-loss/">Impermanent Loss</a> a liquidity provider would otherwise bear, letting the provider recover a value close to or equivalent to simply holding these assets without depositing them in the pool upon withdrawal — shifting the impermanent loss risk covered in an earlier article from the individual provider onto the protocol as a whole.
What is <a href="/en/glossary/amm-liquidity/impermanent-loss/">Impermanent Loss</a> protection, and how does it differ from impermanent loss...
intermediate

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What Are You Actually Mining in Liquidity Mining? A Guide for People Who've Never Touched DeFi

You think you deposited one ETH into the pool — what you actually deposited was a ratio that...
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Nobody Actually Lends You Anything: How Collateralized Debt Positions Mint Stablecoins Out of Your Own Assets

Every stablecoin a CDP lends you was negotiated between your own collateral and a piece of code...
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Ethereum Proposal Would Burn Staking Yield to Zero — Aave and ether.fi Founders Push Back: What EIP-8363 Actually Does

Staking yield is DeFi's risk-free rate on Ethereum — which is exactly why a draft to burn it to...
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Robinhood Says It'll Pay You 7% — Your Money Actually Passes Through Five Hands First: Breaking Down the Earn Stack

Robinhood's interface gives you one button, one number — but five roles are lined up behind that...