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Meet the content team
Cheryle is Director of Content and Strategy at DeFi Rate. She oversees the prediction market research, platform reviews, and editorial methodology behind every guide—from primary source verification through final fact-check. Before DeFi Rate, she led content and growth strategy at Catena Media, where she helped shape the marketing strategy for regulated and financial markets. She has 20 years of experience in research and marketing. LinkedIn
Jason Brow is a contributing breaking news writer with over ten years covering music and pop culture. His work has been featured in esteemed publications like CREEM, Treble, New Noise, Us Weekly, and People. He previously worked as the music editor for Hollywood Life. He holds a Master’s Degree from Southern Connecticut State University.
Dirk van Haaster is a contributing Web3 copywriter. Before joining DeFi Rate in 2025, he spent several years writing about blockchain projects, token ecosystems, and crypto news, with a strong focus on news and marketing content. He has previously worked as a commercial content writer at BeInCrypto. Dirk holds a BSc in International Business and an MSc in Strategic Management (cum laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Alex is a contributing writer and DeFi enthusiast who has been in the space since 2016. He has written whitepapers, press releases, and social media content for several projects in the space. Alex covers DeFi topics extensively for the site.
Media mentions
Our coverage at DeFi Rate has been recognized across the industry, with mentions in leading news outlets, trade publications, and analyst reports. These citations reflect our commitment to balanced, fact-driven and original coverage.
Financial Times (12/19/2025): Another well-resourced group that doesn’t see much of a distinction between prediction markets and gambling: the leagues themselves. They don’t seem particularly happy about an arrangement that removes a potential layer of regulatory oversight on platforms that may be susceptible to insider trading, at a time when integrity concerns are already under the microscope. (Sam Learner)
CCN.com (12/01/2025): Prediction markets experienced rapid growth in 2025 as more users joined on-chain platforms and regulated exchanges. Weekly activity has exceeded $2.1 billion across more than 85,000 active markets. (Dr. Lorena Nessi)
CoinTelegraph (11/26/2025): Coinbase Ventures investor Jonathan King predicted the emergence of prediction market aggregators, “which we expect to emerge as the dominant interface layer consolidating $600 million in fragmented liquidity and providing a unified view of real-time event odds across venues.” (Martin Young)
Coinbase.com (11/25/2025): Prediction markets have emerged as the one of the leading consumer crypto applications, crossing the chasm into mainstream adoption. However, today’s prediction markets suffer from the same fragmentation that plagued early DeFi. For example, users must navigate multiple interfaces with limited tooling and isolated liquidity pools. Enter prediction market aggregators, which we expect to emerge as the dominant interface layer, consolidating $600M+ in fragmented liquidity and providing a unified view of real-time event odds across venues. (Jonathan King)
Yellow.com (08/07/2025): Protocols typically offer 3-4% annual yields on Ethereum and 6-8% on Solana, combining network staking rewards with MEV extraction and other optimization strategies. (Kostiantyn Tsentsura)
Benzinga (01/01/2025): The average lending rate offered by banks in 2023 based on 83 countries was 14.19%, while the general average lending rate across all tokens and crypto platforms is approximately 6.06%. (Gracey Chen)
Reuters.com (06/11/2022): So-called stablecoins play a pivotal role in crypto markets. Traders use them to store idle cash and avoid the cost and inconvenience of moving dollars into and out of exchanges. Holders can also earn interest, opens new tab by lending out their tokens. (Liam Proud)
Coinbase.com (11/12/2021): As of September 2021, DeFi users could potentially earn yields up to 11% by lending stablecoins such as USDC on popular protocols like Aave and Compound. (Coinbase Staff)
Wired.com (11/2/2021): One notable recent example among many saw the creator of SushiSwap, another highly touted token, disappear with $13 million in September 2020 in what investors feared was a “rug pull.” (Chris Stokel-Walker)
NYTimes.com (09/05/2021): Compound — backed by prominent crypto venture capitalists like Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures — now has more than $20 billion in assets. (Eric Lipton and Ephrat Livni)
Yahoo Finance (06/21/2021): According to the site DeFi Rate, it is possible to net an annual percentage yield of more than 53% APY staking crypto on lender Fulcrum – and sometimes much more on new projects for those who get in early. (Daniel Cawrey)
NBC New York (06/18/2021): When borrowing on a DeFi application, you typically offer other crypto assets owned as collateral. For example, DeFi protocol Maker requires borrowers to collateralize their loan 150% of the loan value at minimum. (Taylor Locke)
BusinessInsider.com (05/28/2021): DeFi Rate also has a comparison calculator to see how much returns on different coins would be on different platforms at different durations. (William Edwards)
Entreprenuer.com (06/04/2020): According to DeFiRate, these benefits include non-custodial ownership of assets, composability to seamlessly plug in DeFi products with other products, automation, global access and financial inclusion and pseudo-anonymity. (Jared Polites)
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