Every one of those 3 sits in a single category, markets. That works out to roughly 2.6 stories per week across an 8-day span. The busiest single day carried 2. Of the tracked stories, 1 of 3 also mention Aave, the most common co-covered peer.
Figures are computed live from our source-verified story record
— see our methodology for how impact and
sentiment are derived.
What the coverage shows about DeFi
Every one of those 3 sits in a single category, markets. That works out to roughly 2.6 stories per week across an 8-day span. The busiest single day carried 2. Of the tracked stories, 1 of 3 also mention Aave, the most common co-covered peer. Their average consequence score of 6.7 runs above the beat's 6.1 for that window. Source depth averages 2.3 original sources per story, versus 2.6 across the same-window beat baseline. This profile follows 3 Finance stories mentioning DeFi across the period from February 19, 2026 to February 26, 2026.
Stories tracked
3
Per week
2.6
Sources per story
2.3
Computed from the 3 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 716 Finance stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Appears alongside
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering DeFi. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
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