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Saga promised infinite scaling. What it delivered was a hard stop.

A $7M oracle exploit froze the Layer-1 itself—blocks halted, funds locked, trust shaken. Chainlets were meant to isolate risk. Instead, one bad feed cascaded across the base layer.

Christmas brought more than holiday cheer to crypto this year.

While markets were quiet, BIFI, one of DeFi’s original yield tokens, exploded over 200% in a single day. No hype launch, no viral campaign. Just real yield, rising TVL, protocol upgrades, and thin holiday liquidity doing what they do best.

It felt less like a pump and more like a reminder:

The DeFi protocols that survived, shipped, and continued to generate fees never really disappeared.