Methodology

Data sources (white list)

• DefiLlama — TVL, DEX volume, stablecoin supply.
• L2BEAT — L2 TVL and bridge risk.
• Token Terminal — protocol revenue and active users.
• Artemis — cross-chain activity and fees.
• Industry media — The Block, CoinDesk, DL News, Blockworks, Cointelegraph.
• Primary sources — official blogs, official X accounts, GitHub and chain explorers.

How weekly reports are built

1. Collect signals from the past seven days across all covered chains.
2. Deduplicate and rank by on-chain impact, reach and novelty.
3. Summarise, cross-verify against a second source, then comment.
4. Compute week-over-week change and a trailing four-week baseline with guarded helpers, so the first week of a series cannot wrap around to the last.
5. Screen for anomalies using a z-score against the four-week baseline.

Formulas we publish

Known limitations

• TVL can double-count recursive strategies.
• Wash trading inflates DEX volume on some venues.
• Bridged versus native stablecoin supply requires care per chain.
• Active addresses are not unique humans.
• A four-week baseline is a short window; z-scores from it are indicative only.

Data sources and refresh

Activity figures (TVL, DEX volume, stablecoin supply, network fees) and yield levels are pulled from DefiLlama's public API, not hand-entered. Stock metrics such as TVL and stablecoin supply are Sunday snapshots; flow metrics such as DEX volume and fees are summed across the seven daily observations ending that Sunday. Yield aggregates are TVL-weighted, with small pools and outliers excluded. The site rebuilds against the latest data whenever the editors refresh it, so the figures shown are always current to the most recent complete week.

Disclaimer

Nothing on this site is investment advice. On-chain and third-party data may be delayed, incomplete or inaccurate. Do your own research.