Coinbase integrating DEXs into their mobile app? Sounds revolutionary, right? Hold on a second. Having “every asset onchain” to interoperate with, that’s a juicy opening line. The shift nevertheless appears less the result of a logical strategic progression than a last-ditch forward-looking roll of the dice. Are they really going...

Coinbase is opening the floodgates. By integrating DEXs directly into their app, providing access to every crypto asset under the sun. It's a seismic shift, especially for Africa. Consider the outdated, tortuously slow, bureaucratic pace of traditional finance, and let’s say it, even Coinbase’s own so-called “rigorous” CEX listing process....

Kana Labs has deployed Kana Perps on Aptos mainnet on June 11. Kana Perps is the first fully on-chain, CLOB-based perpetual exchange (DEX) on the Aptos network. The platform offers fast, frictionless trading.Kana Perps leverages Econia’s on-chain infrastructure and order book/matching engine for its continuous liquidity model seen on centralized...

DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, is still one of the hottest trends in crypto enabling new financial alternatives to everything from saving to insurance. Of all the sectors in DeFi, Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) and Lending protocols are the most important sectors of DeFi. Right now, DeFi lending protocols maintain a...

Let’s face it, the DeFi narrative for most of 2021 was centered around DEXs. Decentralized exchanges were meant to be the next big thing, the promised land where anyone could freely trade anything, at any time, all without permission. Remember the hype? The insane APYs? The promises of financial freedom?...

DEXs. Decentralized Exchanges. Sounds futuristic, right? Enjoy grassroots movements such as sticking it to the man and taking control of your finances. In a way, it is. Let's be brutally honest: diving into the DEX world without a life raft of knowledge is like swimming in shark-infested waters with a...

Picture Amina, a dynamic and creative Kenyan entrepreneur hawking her colorful beadwork at the local market. For years, she has been constrained by high transaction fees and slow international payments. This severely limited her ability to grow her business beyond the personal networks of her community. This is not only...

We know that the cryptocurrency landscape is ever evolving. In Q1 2025, we saw substantial changes in the balance of power from centralized exchanges (CEXs) to decentralized exchanges (DEXs). CEXs are still the overall trading volume leader by a long shot. At the same time, Solana is gaining quickly in...

In the tech world, everyone is fired up about a possible revolution in Samsung’s DeX platform. Leaks about the as-yet-unveiled One UI 8 indicate a complete overhaul. This change has the potential to revolutionize the way users see these mobile desktop environments. With mobile devices becoming increasingly powerful and the...

Samsung's DeX. It’s a neat capability few outside the Samsung galaxy smartphone ecosystem (and even some in it) go too much further. What if this relatively obscure feature could serve as a powerful new key to unlock opportunity for millions across Africa? What if Africa’s future finance is in the...