https://daodigest.com/ 2026-11-02T23:09:25.460952-08:00 https://daodigest.com/how-defi-protocols-make-money-and-who-actually-gets-the-fees/ 2026-11-02T13:50:32.043004-08:00 2026-11-02T13:50:32.043004-08:00 Noemi Vargas

A DeFi protocol makes money by keeping a slice of a payment that one group of users makes to another, and for most protocols the slice is small. Between...

https://daodigest.com/what-happens-to-a-defi-protocol-after-it-gets-hacked/ 2026-10-30T13:59:41.696834-07:00 2026-10-30T13:59:41.696834-07:00 Noemi Vargas

A hack does not end when the funds leave the contract. It starts a sequence of halts, freezes, negotiations and votes, and for most depositors the only step...

https://daodigest.com/who-actually-controls-aave-compound-and-the-other-top-defi-protocols/ 2026-10-27T13:50:41.831997-07:00 2026-10-27T13:50:41.831997-07:00 Damon Iverson

Total value locked, or TVL, is the dollar value of the tokens sitting in a protocol's smart contracts. It is the most quoted figure in DeFi mostly because...

https://daodigest.com/is-your-defi-protocol-really-decentralized-or-just-a-multisig/ 2026-10-23T23:13:11.277466-07:00 2026-10-23T23:13:11.277466-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

Most protocols described as decentralized can still be upgraded, paused or frozen by a small set of keys. The useful question for a depositor is therefore...

https://daodigest.com/the-biggest-defi-protocols-by-governance-token-market-cap-right-now/ 2026-10-20T22:15:00.821328-07:00 2026-10-20T22:15:00.821328-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

These are the nine largest DeFi protocols by total value locked, ranked largest first, on a day when DefiLlama counted $93.9 billion across the whole of...

https://daodigest.com/the-erc-7730-standard-explained/ 2026-10-17T21:13:00.571603-07:00 2026-10-17T21:13:00.571603-07:00 Damon Iverson

ERC-7730 is a JSON format that tells a wallet how to turn a contract call or a signed message into a sentence a person can read, and nothing on-chain has to...

https://daodigest.com/ledger-vs-trezor-for-defi/ 2026-10-14T20:25:37.216332-07:00 2026-10-14T20:25:37.216332-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

For signing on Ethereum and its layer 2s, Ledger and Trezor now decode transactions from the same shared ERC-7730 registry. At Trezor's September launch,...

https://daodigest.com/do-you-need-a-hardware-wallet-for-defi/ 2026-10-11T19:15:00.441032-07:00 2026-10-11T19:15:00.441032-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

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....

https://daodigest.com/safe-multisig-with-hardware-wallets/ 2026-10-08T18:18:53.810277-07:00 2026-10-08T18:18:53.810277-07:00 Noemi Vargas

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...

https://daodigest.com/which-hardware-wallets-support-liquid-staking-tokens/ 2026-10-05T17:15:59.533373-07:00 2026-11-02T23:09:25.460952-08:00 Noemi Vargas

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....

https://daodigest.com/vote-on-snapshot-with-a-hardware-wallet/ 2026-10-02T16:49:12.524948-07:00 2026-10-02T16:49:12.524948-07:00 Noemi Vargas

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...

https://daodigest.com/why-a-hardware-wallet-cannot-stop-a-token-approval/ 2026-09-29T14:15:45.163644-07:00 2026-09-29T14:15:45.163644-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

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...

https://daodigest.com/clear-signing-vs-blind-signing-on-a-hardware-wallet/ 2026-09-26T13:11:22.118734-07:00 2026-11-02T22:22:33.833804-08:00 Noemi Vargas

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...

https://daodigest.com/defi-protocol-vs-dao-what-actually-separates-them/ 2026-09-21T15:13:33.638371-07:00 2026-09-21T15:13:33.638371-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

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...

https://daodigest.com/how-defi-protocols-are-actually-governed/ 2026-09-18T12:14:03.842556-07:00 2026-09-18T12:14:03.842556-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

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...

https://daodigest.com/curve-just-hired-the-team-behind-a-96-million-exploit-to-manage-risk-and-this-weeks-other-governance-votes-you-missed/ 2026-09-14T11:54:01.763245-07:00 2026-09-14T11:54:01.763245-07:00 Noemi Vargas

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,...

https://daodigest.com/top-5-dao-governance-strategies-that-actually-work/ 2026-01-19T12:36:54.366085-08:00 2026-01-19T12:36:54.366085-08:00 Noemi Vargas

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...

https://daodigest.com/how-whales-swing-dao-votes/ 2026-01-16T09:07:21.087250-08:00 2026-10-01T10:43:56.070042-07:00 Noemi Vargas

A whale does not swing a DAO vote by owning most of the tokens. It swings the vote by owning most of the votes that are actually cast, and Compound's...

https://daodigest.com/top-5-dao-governance-voting-strategies/ 2026-01-12T19:07:46.831902-08:00 2026-10-01T10:45:03.851018-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

Most investment DAO votes are lost to a threshold, not to an opponent. Aave counts no result unless 320,000 AAVE, stkAAVE or aAAVE takes part. The episode...

https://daodigest.com/dao-voting-power-explained/ 2026-01-11T11:10:25.735132-08:00 2026-10-01T10:46:57.031248-07:00 Damon Iverson

In February 2026 more than 13,000 Jupiter DAO voters chose to keep the "Jupuary" airdrop, and lost. Measured by weight, the rival "Zero Net-New Emissions"...

https://daodigest.com/top-5-governance-token-voting-platforms-compared/ 2026-01-07T17:59:21.719220-08:00 2026-10-01T10:42:57.896911-07:00 Felix Ndiaye

For a DAO choosing governance software in late 2026, the answer is Snapshot for gasless signaling and Agora for binding on-chain votes, and the protocols...

https://daodigest.com/how-to-vote-like-a-dao-whale/ 2026-01-06T08:02:48.391839-08:00 2026-01-06T08:02:48.391839-08:00 Damon Iverson

In the world of decentralized autonomous organizations, not all votes are created equal. DAO whales—addresses holding substantial governance token...

https://daodigest.com/yield-farming-for-beginners/ 2026-01-04T01:51:08.896490-08:00 2026-01-04T01:51:08.896490-08:00

Welcome to the world of yield farming—one of the most exciting ways to put your crypto assets to work. If you've heard terms like "liquidity pools," "APY,"...

https://daodigest.com/defi-security-for-beginners/ 2026-01-04T01:47:16.908056-08:00 2026-01-04T01:47:16.908056-08:00

Welcome to the world of decentralized finance. If you're reading this, you've probably already heard about the incredible opportunities DeFi offers—earning...

https://daodigest.com/defi-protocols-for-beginners/ 2026-01-04T01:45:39.376726-08:00 2026-11-02T13:51:07.933302-08:00 Noemi Vargas

A DeFi protocol is a set of smart contracts that holds deposits and moves them according to fixed rules, with no bank or broker in between. The sensible...

https://daodigest.com/dao-governance-for-beginners/ 2026-01-04T01:43:36.385349-08:00 2026-01-04T01:43:36.385349-08:00

Welcome to the world of decentralized decision-making. If you've ever wondered how crypto projects make important decisions without a CEO or board of...

https://daodigest.com/cross-chain-bridges-for-beginners/ 2026-01-04T01:41:14.460254-08:00 2026-01-04T01:41:14.460254-08:00

Welcome to the world of cross-chain bridges—one of the most important yet often misunderstood pieces of infrastructure in decentralized finance. If you've...