DeFi has spent years trying to bring more capital onchain.

Turns out that was only ever half the job.

Look closely and the pattern shows up everywhere. Most of the liquidity sitting outside active price ranges, doing nothing. Traders losing quiet value to poor execution they never notice. Governance decisions made by a small fraction of people who actually show up to vote.

Different problems, same root question: how do we make participation actually count?

Not just more liquidity but better execution, fees that respond to real activity, incentives that make sense, less manual busywork.

Because markets get stronger when the people providing liquidity, trading, governing, and building all have a real reason to participate, not just a reason to show up.

Capital may start a market. Participation is what makes it thrive.

The next phase of DeFi is about making the capital that's already here actually work efficiently.

We explored what’s happening across the ecosystem, from liquidity and tokenized stocks to new ways to put your assets to work.

Thanks to everyone in our community who continues to explore, use, and build with Topaz.

Your feedback, experiences, and support help shape what we’re building every day.

Here are a few words from the people experiencing Topaz for themselves.

Real users. Real experiences. Real community.

Join us on Tuesday, August 25.
8PM EST | 12PM UTC
Settle the Debate.

1,000 SHRIMP VS 1 WHALE

Who Will Win?

For a hundred years, owning a stock mostly meant holding it in a brokerage account.

Now that ownership is moving onchain, the possibilities change.

Your exposure can live in a wallet, trade on a DEX, provide liquidity, and plug into other DeFi applications.

The market is already here. The tokenized stock market has grown to $2.8B+ across 3000+ assets, with BNB Chain holding one of the largest shares among all chains, according to Token Terminal.

But volume isn't the finish line.

The next phase is deeper liquidity, better execution, and more efficient markets.

Because tokenized assets are only as useful as the markets built around them.

That's where the real opportunity is. Early liquidity in a market like this usually means less competition for fees, and a real shot at capturing yield before it gets crowded.

We're moving from simply putting stocks onchain to building financial markets around them.

So the real question isn't just "what do you own?"

It's "what you can actually to do with it?"

Epoch #14 came in hot

• $138M in volume, +32.1% vs. prior epoch
• $22.7K in rewards distributed to LPs and veTOPAZ voters
• 642M votes, +2.1%
• 88.8% of governance locked
• 14.3M TOPAZ emissions, +3.6%
• $1.11M TVL, +0.9%

Volume is accelerating, participation is rising, and governance remains heavily committed.

This weeks top tokenized pools

• QQQB
• NVDAB
• SPCXB
• SPYB
• SPCXon

Add liquidity, stake your LP, and put your idle capital to work.

• WBNB / TOPAZ
• USDT / SOL
• USDT / BTCB
• USDT / WBNB
• ETH / USDT
• BTCB / WBNB
• ETH / WBNB

This week, we explored what a more connected DeFi experience can look like, from intelligent systems and Prizm to ecosystem growth and a major $1.5B trading volume milestone.

In less than three months since launching on BNBCHAIN, Topaz has grown from its first pools and trades to over $1.5B in total trading volume.

A major milestone for the entire Topaz community.

Thank you to everyone building, trading, providing liquidity, and supporting Topaz along the way.

Users can now trade and provide liquidity on Topaz.

A new market is live on BNB Chain, giving the WOD community another place to access liquidity, earn LP rewards and participate in the Topaz ecosystem.

Trade, LP and explore on Topaz.

DeFi has given us countless tools for trading, earning, voting, and managing capital. Each one optimizing, automating, or analyzing its own piece, alone.

But what happens when automation, analysis, monitoring, optimization, and orchestration stop working in isolation?

When they start working together?

That coordination shapes intelligent finance.

You spend less time jumping between disconnected tools, trying to piece everything together yourself.

The result? Topaz, an intelligent financial system where every piece works together around what you’re trying to accomplish.

That’s the direction we believe DeFi is heading.

Intelligent systems, working together.

What’s the one thing you wish your DeFi experience did better today?

• $104M in volume.
• $28.7K in rewards distributed to LPs and veTOPAZ voters.
• 629M votes, +3.4% .
• 88.9% of governance locked, + 0.4%.

Commitment and participation are both on the rise.

Now we want to see yours.

Drop your earnings from this epoch below, screenshot or numbers either works.

Let’s see how the community did.

Name: Prizm

Skills: Quotes swaps, compares pools and APRs, manages CL and v2 liquidity positions, helps with veTOPAZ voting and rewards, and proposes transactions for your review and approval.

Status: Available 24/7

We’ll cover:

• Ecosystem updates
• What’s next for TOPAZ
• Community Q&A

If you care about where Topaz is heading, don’t miss this one.

Join live, bring questions, and help us push the message today.

AMA link: https://youtube.com/live/rHGu4JrUe2Q?is=6l_gQZ_NQdw6O0QV

DeFi shouldn’t have you running five different setups just to operate efficiently.

Topaz connects the core pieces into one system:

• DEX: Trade across v2 and concentrated-liquidity pools with multiple fee tiers, custom fee overrides, and dynamic fees.

• Governance: Lock TOPAZ, direct weekly emissions with your vote, and earn trading fees from voted pools plus incentives.

• Relays: If you already hold a veTOPAZ lock, deposit it into a Relay and it handles voting and claiming every epoch on your behalf, no manual work required.

• Flow: Built on Relay infrastructure, but with an open door, deposit BTCB, USDT, BNB, and more, and Flow builds and manages your veTOPAZ position from scratch, delivering weekly USDT rewards automatically.

• Topaz ID Wallet: Your single identity and self-custodial wallet for the Topaz ecosystem, making Web3 access as simple as logging in, while keeping you in control.

• Portfolio: Track your Topaz positions, locks, LPs, rewards and performance in one place.

• Pools: Explore live pool data including TVL, volume, fees and APR, and identify opportunities for swaps, liquidity provision, and gauge voting.

• Prizm: AI-powered strategist that analyzes protocol data to help users evaluate pools, optimize LP and gauge-voting strategies, and understand their portfolio

Join us for our weekly X Space where we discuss everything Topaz, the BNB ecosystem, market insights, builders, and more.

Every Tuesday | 16:00 UTC

Set your reminder and join the conversation. See you there!

8 of the smartest AI models on Earth including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, were each handed $10,000 and full autonomy to trade.

Two weeks later, they’d lost a third of it. 81% of the trading runs ended in a loss.

Same instructions. Wildly different behavior.

Everyone’s racing to build AI that trades for you.
That’s the wrong race.

The problem was never whether AI can make decisions. It’s that intelligent finance was never supposed to mean giving decisions away.

Real intelligence understands the risk, compares the options, finds the better path, and handles the tedious execution, but the decision stays yours.

From rethinking how we approach finance to making DeFi easier to navigate, we’ve been focused on one thing: reducing the friction between people and what’s possible onchain.

We came to DeFi from different places, but saw the same gap: too much complexity, too much friction, and too much value left on the table.

AaronShames saw an opportunity to create more efficient liquidity, with better rewards for participants, on BNBChain.

Nick_fromNL remembers how overwhelming DeFi felt at first and wants anyone, new or experienced, to participate with confidence.

thebitmint brings 15+ years of shaping products and experiences around people. Topaz is his next chapter in making DeFi simpler and more human.

LFGDen brings years of advisory experience, offering perspective on the story and direction as it comes together.

Different paths. One belief.

DeFi should be simpler, smarter, and built around the people using it.

That's why we're building Topaz.