🦄 Recap: DeFi Week of Oct. 16

Hello Defiers! Happy weekend! It’s been six weeks since The Merge, which is just enough time to take stock of how Ethereum’s shift to Proof of Stake consensus is unfolding and how it’s changing DeFi’s primary network.DeFi, NFT & Web3 Insights - The Defiant is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my…

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