The next era of crypto belongs to decentralized markets — TradingView News
Opinion by: Rachel Lin, co-founder and CEO at SynFutures
DeFi has come a long way since the boom-and-bust cycle of 2020’s DeFi Summer. Much of the surge in the early days was fueled by experimentation, hype and unsustainably high incentives.
Five years on, DeFi’s foundations look very different. The past year’s experimentation is a quiet consolidation phase, setting the stage. 2025 may be remembered as the year when DeFi surpassed centralized exchanges (CEXs).
The bear market in 2023 and 2024 washed out many DeFi projects that lacked a product-market fit, and forced other DeFi platforms to mature, focusing on infrastructure and achieving real adoption.
Decentralized exchanges evolved
While Celsius and BlockFi’s collapse and FTX’s…
