About

Nick Sawinyh on 01 Apr 2019

DeFiprime has covered decentralized finance since 2019. The scope has changed a lot since then. Stablecoins now settle hundreds of billions of dollars in monthly volume, real-world assets are showing up on-chain in size, the SEC has started to draw clearer lines around what is and isn’t a security, and machine-to-machine payments are a real product category.

Our editorial focus has moved with the market. We write for people who build, allocate capital, or regulate in this space. Expect research-driven pieces on yield math, risk curation, stablecoin issuance, RWA structure, governance failures, exploit postmortems, and the regulatory frontier.

What we publish

Practitioner research. Risk premiums, yield decomposition, protocol mechanics. If the APY doesn’t justify the downside, we show the arithmetic.
Regulatory reporting. SEC releases, MiCA, enforcement actions, read against the primary source rather than a press release.
Infrastructure deep-dives. Stablecoin issuers, perps venues, prediction markets, credit markets, settlement layers.
Incident coverage. Exploits, governance blow-ups, peg events. What actually happened, and who bore the loss.

Product listing

We run a curated list of DeFi products. We aren’t trying to catalogue every project; we’re trying to surface the ones worth paying attention to.

Criteria we actually apply:

Live on mainnet with real usage. Not a testnet, not a pitch deck.
Open to users regardless of jurisdiction, or at minimum honest about its geofencing. “Region is not supported” is not a feature.
Chain-agnostic. We don’t play tribal.
No pay-to-list. This has always been the rule.

If you’d like to submit a project for consideration, use the listing form.

Advertising

The only ad format we run is native articles: interviews, use cases, technical explainers. No display ads, no sponsored listings. If you have something worth writing about, use the advertising form. Listing a project and advertising are separate processes, and listings are free.

Events

Hosting a DeFi conference, research event, or hackathon? Submit it via the event listing form and we’ll add it to the DeFi Events Calendar and share it on our social channels.

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