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How DeFi protocols actually work
Do You Need a Hardware Wallet for DeFi
Anyone holding more in a DeFi wallet than they could shrug off losing needs a hardware wallet, though the device protects less than its marketing implies....
Felix Ndiaye • 6 min readHow a Safe Multisig Works With Hardware Wallets
A Safe multisig is a smart contract account that moves funds only when a set number of its owners sign the same transaction. Each owner holds a separate...
Noemi Vargas • 5 min readWhich Hardware Wallets Support Liquid Staking Tokens
Every hardware wallet on this list can hold stETH, wstETH or rETH, because each is an ordinary ERC-20 token. The devices differ on what happens after that....
Noemi Vargas • 7 min readHow to Vote on Snapshot With a Hardware Wallet
A governance token holder does not need to move tokens off a hardware wallet to vote on Snapshot. The vote is an EIP-712 signed message rather than a...
Noemi Vargas • 4 min readWhy a Hardware Wallet Cannot Stop a Token Approval
A hardware wallet guards one thing, the private key. A token approval is dangerous because, once signed, it no longer needs that key. Figures compiled by...
Felix Ndiaye • 6 min readClear Signing vs Blind Signing on a Hardware Wallet
Blind signing is approving a transaction the device can show only as a hash or raw hexadecimal data. Clear signing is approving one the device has decoded...
Noemi Vargas • 5 min readDeFi Protocol vs DAO What Actually Separates Them
Balancer's code stopped being worth much in November 2025, when roughly $128 million drained out of its v2 pools across several chains. The organization...
Felix Ndiaye • 6 min readHow DeFi Protocols Are Actually Governed
Changes to a live DeFi protocol are approved by a contract, not a company, and that contract executes whatever a token vote tells it to once a fixed delay...
Felix Ndiaye • 7 min readCurve Just Hired the Team Behind a $9.6 Million Exploit to Manage Risk, and This Week's Other Governance Votes You Missed
Curve DAO's binding vote to appoint a new risk provider for crvUSD and Llamalend attracted 5.33 veCRV of opposition against roughly 621.2 million in favour,...
Noemi Vargas • 6 min readTop 5 DAO Governance Strategies That Actually Work
With over $25 billion locked in DAO treasuries, governance isn't just a philosophical exercise—it's the mechanism that determines how massive pools of...
Noemi Vargas • 6 min read