Risk

Jupiter Lend’s risk disclosures and vault-design controversy sparked a Solana-wide contagion scare that exposed how isolated vaults can still create systemic risk. This post-mortem breaks down the technical failure modes, community reactions, and concrete mitigation steps for DeFi product managers and risk traders.

A recent social-media alarm over Tether’s reserves reignited long-running debates about on-chain visibility, attestation vs audit, and stablecoin liquidity risk. This explainer breaks down the facts, the analyst responses, and practical steps for investors and compliance teams.

Tether’s attested move toward Bitcoin and gold raises nuanced solvency and contagion questions for institutional investors. This investigation parses Arthur Hayes’ critique, liquidity scenarios, yield signals for ETH and altcoins, and the monitoring metrics risk officers should adopt.

A focused risk primer for traders and allocators: why the imminent BTC/ETH options expiry, a $7.5B spike in whale deposits to Binance, and deteriorating sentiment raise downside scenarios — and how to hedge them.

A concise framework linking this week's $566M in token unlocks, JPMorgan's MSCI-removal warning, a widening funding gap for Bitcoin strategies, and a $13.3B options expiry — with practical hedging and liquidity-monitoring tactics for traders and funds.

On‑chain data shows Pump.fun moved roughly $436.5M in USDC into custody while PUMP token markets collapsed — a red flag for counterparty, AML, and liquidity risks across Solana memecoins. This exposé reconstructs the timeline, market impact, contagion vectors, and practical monitoring steps for compliance and risk teams.

Decentralized on-chain stop-loss and take-profit primitives promise programmable, transparent risk exits that could blunt cascading liquidations. This article analyzes ORBS' dSLTP launch, design trade-offs, DEX integration paths, and how on-chain stop orders might have behaved during the Nov. 21 crash.

A Dubai court reportedly ordered an asset freeze covering roughly $456M connected to TrueUSD (TUSD) reserves — a wake-up call on issuer counterparty risk. This deep-dive explains the order, contagion pathways into DeFi, market reactions to issuer equity shocks (eg. Circle/CRCL), and practical due-diligence steps treasuries and desks should adopt.