2026 DeFi Outlook: Maturity and Growth Trends
📋 Key Facts ✓ 2025 advanced DeFi along its maturity curve with discernible credit cycles ✓ Growing institutional inflows strengthened t...
📋 Key Facts ✓ 2025 advanced DeFi along its maturity curve with discernible credit cycles ✓ Growing institutional inflows strengthened t...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The 'big beautiful' budget bill created a $2,000 above-the-line deduction on charitable donations. ✓ This deducti...
The UK plans to bring crypto in line with traditional finance by 2027, with FCA proposals shaping trading platforms, DeFi and oversight of political donations....
Lighter’s LIT token launch sparked debate over insider ownership, while prediction markets and whale trades revealed divided expectations regarding valuation....
📋 Key Facts ✓ Digital asset funds saw $952 million in outflows last week ✓ Outflows triggered by US regulatory delays ✓...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Triton Partners transferred assets into a continuation fund. ✓ The firm sold these assets for more than the projected wor...
RWA protocols have overtaken decentralized exchanges by total value locked, as tokenized Treasurys, private credit, and commodities become core onchain building blocks....
Rich Passer will begin trading at his new firm with $50 million in assets. Mecox Capital Partners Mecox Capital Partners is a new $50 million hedge fund focused on options trading. Peter Borish, a fou...
ValentynVolkov/Getty Images Separately managed accounts in the hedge fund industry boomed in 2025. Insiders say demand will only accelerate the trend in 2025. Emerging managers face challenges from ta...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Department of Education removed the partial financial hardship requirement for IBR plans on December 22. ✓ Higher-inc...
Investors trading commodities, such as oil, have been in high demand. Jeri Clausing/AP Hedge funds that trade commodities struggled in 2025. Big-name managers with exposure to energy or agriculture tr...
Move by hedge fund TCIM comes as US retailer struggles with a sales slump...
BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund has distributed $100 million from Treasury yields, offering a real-world test of blockchain-based financial infrastructure....
Germany's labor market is losing momentum with diminishing opportunities, according to the national labor agency. Germany needs a fund to tackle loneliness, which is now hitting under-30s. DW has more...
High cocoa prices pushed Singapore's Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie to innovate across its business. Huileng Tan/Business Insider Faced with soaring cocoa prices, Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie is turning crisis in...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Asset manager Janus Henderson agreed to be acquired by investors Trian Fund Management and General Catalyst. ✓ The acquis...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Strategy paused its streak of bitcoin purchases ✓ Added $748 million to its USD reserve ✓ Total f...
Thousands of student-loan borrowers are waiting for their income-driven repayment applications to be approved. nirat/Getty Images Over 800,000 student-loan borrowers are waiting for their income-drive...
The people, funds and institutions behind the emirate’s staggering rise to riches...
Dogecoin found itself at the center of a controversial political storm, all while being embraced by traditional institutions....