The best Defi newsletters

Data-driven crypto research covering onchain perpetuals, DeFi yield protocols, tokenized assets and weekly market digests. Issues present quarterly metrics, specific figures and takeaways to support investment and market decisions.

A weekly data-driven look at crypto markets and on-chain activity from Coin Metrics researchers, using quantitative methods such as regression and survival analysis. Recent issues cover stablecoin supply drivers, Fed rate expectations and DeFi lending rates, Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade, and memecoin lifecycles.

A paid crypto newsletter that analyzes DeFi protocols, tokenomics and onchain trends, with deep dives, biweekly roundups and reader Q&A sessions. Readers get fundamentals-focused explanations of how specific protocols work and what the market signals mean.

Dirt Roads is an essay newsletter analysing on-chain lending, DeFi credit markets and stablecoin capital structures through a finance and risk lens. Issues mix philosophical framing with technical breakdowns of yield sources, derivative pricing and issuers like Tether.

A fintech newsletter by Lex covering digital assets, DeFi, AI's economic effects and fintech company analysis, with issues mixing long essays and curated news roundups. It offers readers strategic analysis of fintech deals, AI-driven business change and crypto market structure.

A weekly crypto newsletter with a free edition rounding up macro and market news, technical analysis and curated alpha links, plus a premium edition covering on-chain data. It draws on smart money wallet tracking, token unlocks, yields, narratives and prediction markets, with an educational, not-financial-advice framing.

A daily crypto and macro digest that opens with market stats (crypto market cap, gold, oil, Treasury yields, fear & greed) and closes with linked tweets, news and videos. Each issue also features a sponsored-style spotlight on a defi project, plus TVL and chain data.

A weekly onchain crypto research newsletter from OurNetwork that uses blockchain data and analytics to cover sector trends such as privacy coins, prediction markets and stablecoins. Each issue pairs an editorial overview with guest analysis and dashboard-backed charts.