# Writing: DeFi

Canonical: https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/category/defi

Engineering notes on liquidity, trading mechanisms, token standards, stablecoins, and DeFi risks.

- [Why I'm Bullish on 2026](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-11-bullish-2026): Why I expect AI agents, stablecoins, wallet signing, and tokenized markets to converge in products over the coming year.
- [Intent-Based Multichain DeFi](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-10-multichain-defi-intents): How solver networks and ERC-7683 support intent-based transactions across EVM chains, Solana, and Cosmos.
- [Stablecoin Summer](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-10-stablecoin-summer): Why the GENIUS Act and Treasury-backed reserves matter as stablecoins become infrastructure for payments and settlement.
- [Agentic Finance](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-09-agentic-finance): How AP2, x402, and agentic commerce protocols could let AI agents authorize payments and settle transactions with stablecoins.
- [Web3 Composability](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-09-web3-composability): How shared token, liquidity, governance, and DeFi standards accelerate new products while introducing systemic risk.
- [EVM Token Standards Overview](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-05-evm-token-standards): What ERC-20, ERC-1155, ERC-6909, and ERC-7281 each define, where each one fits, and how they compare on batching, approvals, and gas.
- [Managing Risks in DeFi](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-05-managing-risks-defi): The technical, economic, systemic, and operational risks in DeFi, the incidents that exposed each one, and the checks and tools I use before trusting a protocol.
- [AMMs, Liquidity Pools & Yield Farming](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-05-amm-yield-farming): How automated market makers price trades from liquidity pools, what liquidity providers earn and risk, and yield farming strategies on Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, and zkSync.
- [Trading Engines - Order Books & AMMs](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-05-order-books-and-amms): How order books and AMMs match trades, which projects run each model and hybrids of both, and when I would pick one over the other.
- [How USDT0 Improves Stablecoin Bridging](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-03-understanding-usdt0): How USDT0 and LayerZero's OFT standard move USDT across chains without wrapping, with unified liquidity and a smaller bridge attack surface.
- [EVM on Bitcoin - The Future of DeFi](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-03-bitcoin-defi-evm): The Layer 2s, sidechains, and token standards bringing programmability to Bitcoin, and what EVM compatibility through projects like SovaEVM adds for Solidity developers.
- [The Power of Bitcoin Runes](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-03-the-power-of-bitcoin-runes): How Runes represents fungible tokens through Bitcoin's UTXO model, and what its design does and does not provide.
- [Math in JavaScript and DeFi](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2025-01-math-js-defi): Floating-point quirks, precision, and BigInt choices I use when JavaScript math has to hold up in DeFi contracts and onchain apps.
- [Modern Next.js Web3 Architecture](https://gaboesquivel.com/blog/2024-10-modern-nextjs-web3-architecture): How I structure Next.js Web3 applications using URL state, colocated features, TanStack Query, wagmi, and viem.