Tagged: dexes

September 20, 2026 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain’s fee boom has unwound far faster than its traffic. After a memecoin-led spike made the young Ethereum layer-2 one of the costliest networks to use, daily gas revenue has collapsed while transaction counts and trading flows have stayed close to their recent peaks…. Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid is expanding its builder-deployed perpetual market framework with an optional add-on known as HIP-3*. The change, discussed by co-founder Jeffrey Yan on September 3, 2026, is meant to let independent market operators restrict access to selected venues without rewriting the protocol’s open core. HIP-3… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain processed about $875 million in decentralized exchange volume on August 30, alongside a record 5.52 million transactions. The session put the two-month-old Layer 2 among the busiest venues in crypto that day and arrived as tokenized stocks, the products the network was designed… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Loopring, one of the earliest projects to bring zero-knowledge rollup technology to Ethereum, has announced the immediate closure of its decentralized exchange and automated market maker (AMM). The decision, shared publicly on June 28, 2026, ends all crypto trading activity on the platform and takes… Read More

March 19, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the latest edition of the Coin Metrics (now acquired by Talos) State of the Network report, analysts highlight a shocking example of the perils facing large-scale trades in decentralized finance. On March 12, a user attempted a straightforward collateral conversion on Ethereum, swapping roughly… Read More

March 5, 2026 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko has indicated that centralized exchanges have long served as the primary gateways for cryptocurrency trading, offering deep liquidity to retail and institutional participants alike. In 2025, these platforms collectively handled nearly $80 trillion in spot and perpetuals volume. Yet analysis from CoinGecko reveals that… Read More

January 9, 2026 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX noted in a report that the perpetual futures decentralized exchange (perp DEX) market is undergoing transformation in 2026, with trading volumes surging and competition intensifying. Amid rivals like Hyperliquid and Aster focusing on high-performance execution for crypto natives, Lighter ($LIT) is seemingly carving a… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko noted that the decentralized crypto exchange or DEX to centralized exchange or CEX spot ratio has more than tripled in the last five years, with DEX spot trading volumes starting “out at just 6.0% of CEX spot volumes in Jan 2021 and growing to… Read More

September 8, 2025 @ 5:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance ecosystem continues to mature, with decentralized exchanges playing a key role in facilitating peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading. According to a recent report by CoinGecko, Uniswap has solidified its position as the largest decentralized exchange by trading volume, claiming 35.9% market share during this… Read More

September 1, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Base, the L2 blockchain developed by Coinbase, has crossed an astonishing $200 billion in trading volume on Uniswap, the decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol. This milestone, reported on August 30, 2025, underscores Base’s ascent in the DeFi ecosystem and highlights its role as a bridge between… Read More

August 10, 2025 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has recently announced significant updates that underscore its commitment to advancing the cryptoeconomy. By integrating decentralized exchange (DEX) trading into its main app and enhancing developer productivity tools, Coinbase is positioning itself as a key player in making crypto more accessible and efficient… Read More

May 6, 2025 @ 5:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm OKX continues to expand its role in the Web3 space with a series of updates, including enhancements to its DEX aggregator, the introduction of OKX Pay, a new digital wallet app, and the appointment of Jonathan Brockmeier as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)…. Read More

April 5, 2025 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In its March 2025 edition of Bobby’s Crypto Aggregate, CoinGecko dives into a crypto market grappling with macroeconomic turbulence and fierce competition between centralized and decentralized exchanges. Authored by Bobby Ong, the research report captures a pivotal moment in Q1 2025, where President Donald Trump’s… Read More

January 31, 2025 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX has released a comprehensive report, “The State of DEXs 2025,” which provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving decentralized exchange (DEX) landscape and its role in shaping the on-chain economy. The report highlights the rapid growth of DEXs, driven by innovation, accessibility, and decentralization…. Read More

December 27, 2024 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Nomic DAO Foundation announced the official launch of a fee-free on-and-off ramp for Bitcoin (BTC) on Osmosis, the “decentralized” exchange (DEX) within the Cosmos ecosystem. Approved by the Nomic DAO and Osmosis DAO through a revenue sharing agreement, Osmosis and Nomic have created a… Read More

December 15, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A staggering 40% of Solana’s transaction volume is now driven by memecoins, according to an update shared with CI. And yet, the majority of these assets never even reach centralized exchanges (CEXs). Memecoins are increasingly bypassing CEXs altogether, launching and thriving in decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

December 8, 2024 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As Ethereum (ETH), the largest smart contract platform and second-largest crypto-asset by market cap, surpasses the $4000 mark, insights from Nansen, a chain analytics firm, shed light on what this development signifies and what is to be expected going forward. Nicolai Sondergaard, Research Analyst at… Read More

June 20, 2024 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Rango, a cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) and bridge aggregator. Rango’s interoperability enables easy transacting “across diverse blockchain ecosystems to drive DeFi growth.” With its expansive capabilities and support for major blockchains including… Read More

May 13, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Uniswap Labs proposes a new methodology for measuring price improvements across Order Flow Auctions (OFAs). Uniswap has been an enabler of automated market makers (AMMs) – which have gained significant traction over the past few years. The Uniswap Protocol alone has “processed over… Read More

May 13, 2024 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch is pleased to announce the release of 1inch Fusion 2.0, which facilitates significant savings on crypto swaps. Launched in December 2022, 1inch Fusion enables users “to swap tokens on various networks without paying gas fees, while enjoying access to liquidity across the entire crypto… Read More