About Synthetic Finance

The outlet publishes news on AI-driven decentralized finance infrastructure, covering protocols, token economics, liquidity mechanisms, and on-chain automation for developers, investors, and regulators.

Synthetic Finance publishes on the same schedule as the news, not a print cycle. Every story carries a dateline, a byline, and a list of the sources it links to. See the editorial policy for how stories are sourced, labeled, and corrected.

What we cover

Synthetic Finance focuses on ai agents, decentralized finance, token economics, layer2 protocols, onchain automation. Coverage is organized around these tags: protocols liquidity governance automation markets infrastructure tokens

Contact

Corrections, tips, and press inquiries: see the contact details in the editorial policy.

Authorship

Articles are bylined to Synthetic Finance (the outlet). Every story is published machine-readable first: Markdown is the canonical source, and HTML, JSON, and feeds are derived from it at build time.

For agents

This site is built to be read by machines. Every discovery surface:

• /llms.txt — Agent-oriented site summary, URL patterns, and latest articles.
• /llms-full.txt — All articles concatenated as Markdown, full text.
• /feed.xml — RSS 2.0, full content.
• /atom.xml — Atom, full content.
• /feed.json — JSON Feed 1.1.
• /feed/<tag>.xml — Per-tag RSS (e.g. /feed/defi.xml).
• /api/articles — JSON envelope of all articles, newest first. No query parameters; filter client-side.
• /a/<slug>.md — Single article as Markdown with normalized frontmatter.
• /a/<slug>.json — Single article as JSON (all derived fields).
• /openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 description of the API.
• /.well-known/agent-card.json — A2A agent card for this outlet.
• /.well-known/mcp.json — MCP manifest pointing at the OpenAPI spec.
• /sitemap-index.xml — Standard XML sitemap (index).
• /news-sitemap.xml — Google News sitemap (last 48 hours).

URL patterns

Given an article slug (e.g. 2026-08-28-example):

• HTML: https://syntheticfinance.media/a/<slug>
• Markdown: https://syntheticfinance.media/a/<slug>.md
• JSON: https://syntheticfinance.media/a/<slug>.json
• API (list): https://syntheticfinance.media/api/articles (no query parameters)

Article HTML pages also declare their alternates via <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> and type="application/json", and respond to Accept: text/markdown content negotiation on hosts that support it. Slugs are listed in llms.txt, the feeds, and /api/articles.