Centralized finance platforms may offer convenience and liquidity, but their history of catastrophic failures calls for a shift to their decentralized alternatives. Centralized finance (CeFi) services such as crypto exchanges have accelerated the adoption of digital assets and blockchain solutions. Despite this, while retail traders can still use them for convenient crypto transactions and day-to-day…

Understanding leased proof-of-stake LPoS is a type of PoS meant to increase mining power, address inherent issues found in PoW, and improve other types of PoS, such as delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS). Regular cryptocurrency users have probably come across the term proof-of-stake (PoS) when dealing with crypto staking, but what is leased proof-of-stake (LPoS), and is there a…

The Ethereum co-founder proposes a solution that could lower the likelihood of any individual liquidity pool growing to a point where it poses a systemic risk. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has expressed worries regarding decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) exerting a monopoly over the selection of node operators in liquidity staking pools. In a September…