Ethereum scaling solution Optimism will launch its mainnet this coming month after announcing a major investment from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that closed in November. “We’ve

dYdX – the popular decentralized trading platform – has just opened up early access for users to test out cross-margin perpetual trading on Layer 2,

Off-chain data aggregation is coming to the Chainlink network with promises of up to 10 times the speed over the current tech stack. Chainlink has

Decentralized finance (DeFi) trading venue dYdX is now onboarding users to a new version of its platform built on StarkWare’s Cairo software. Cross-margin perpetuals are

As you remember, we are dealing with external contracts, which are by the way written on Vyper. In order to interact with them, we need

A group of crypto industry heavyweights are set on bringing the rather specialized world of decentralized finance (DeFi) to the masses.  Announced Wednesday, Alameda Research,

Ethereums DeFi Unicorn Ever since it launched in 2019, Uniswap has provided the simplest way to exchange Ethereum-based tokens. Uniswap v2 is the second iteration

DeFi dapps explained During 2020, the 1inch dapp more than doubled its daily activity, becoming one of the top DeFi dapps on Ethereum. Partly this

William M. Peaster on 24 Feb 2021 Ethereum is the unquestionable king of the hill when it comes to smart contracts right now. In every

SEC’s Hester Peirce Says ‘Alluring’ DeFi Space Needs Legal Clarity Source link

From their inception, the coins or tokens pegged to the US Dollar, commonly referred to as stablecoins, provided a way for many users to exit

Yesterday’s decline of the crypto market has triggered the second-largest wave of liquidations in decentralized finance’s (DeFi) history as a total of $24.1 million worth

A record-high $115 million in decentralized finance (DeFi) lending positions were wiped out Tuesday after the price of ether continued to correct to as low

The capital markets feel like one giant game. With the profound volatility of crypto assets, the billions of issuance in special purpose acquisitions companies (SPAC)

Centrifuge, a blockchain startup focused on bringing real-world assets to decentralized finance (DeFi), has raised millions from big-name investors. According to a press release provided

Convergence Protocol, a decentralized project focused on bringing liquidity to real-world assets in decentralized finance (DeFi), has secured $2 million in its latest funding round.

Decentralized finance is a prevalent industry that keeps reaching new milestones. Despite the appeal, no one can deny plenty of issues with the current DeFi

The latest Binance Smart Chain DeFi dapp Venus Finance is a decentralized finance application running on the Binance Smart Chain, offering users an algorithmic-based money

Binance token surges to all-time highs in 2021 BNB is the native coin of the Binance Chain and powers the Binance ecosystem launched through an

The Binance Smart Chain answer to SushiSwap PancakeSwap is a decentralized finance application running on Binance Smart Chain. Looking past the creative name, PancakeSwap is

The developers of Primitive, Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) permissionless options protocol, “whitehacked” their own platform after a severe exploit was discovered today. “EMERGENCY ALERT @PrimitiveFi

Daily trading volume tripled The decentralized exchange Tokenlon has seen its audience double in the past seven days, while the total trading volume doubled to

Nick Sawinyh on 23 Feb 2021 James told us how mStable started, why they choose guarded launch for mUSD, and where is mStable’s protocol business

Crypto.com, the Hong Kong-based payments and crypto exchange platform, will conduct one of the biggest token burns ever ahead of its mainnet launch. Crypto.com’s DeFi

Bitcoin (BTC) price plunged as much as 19% in a violent sell-off Monday, the biggest of the year in dollar terms with a loss of

Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platforms liquidated some $25 million in assets Monday as the price of ether (ETH) plummeted as much as 15% to $1,655

Source: a screenshot, Instagram/metamask.io While most of the crypto world was enjoying new all-time highs this past weekend, popular crypto trader under the Twitter pseudonym

Asset manager CoinShares is coming to market with a decentralized finance (DeFi) token – one meant for institutional investors. The London-based firm best known for

The euphoria in the DeFi market continues and it seems that uncorrected growth will last forever. In 2 weeks, LINK buyers managed to raise the

One of the most iconic moments of the past week was when Keith Gill, otherwise known as Reddit trader DeepF**kingValue, testified in front of the

The average person would describe cryptocurrency as highly volatile. And while this is true for many, there are coins designed to reduce volatility or stability

Welcome to DeFi Pulse Farmer – your guide to staying up on the latest and best trends in yield farming and beyond. In this newsletter,

To the DeFi community, What would this be without a mention of Binance Smart Chain. While this is “DeFi Rate”, we must pay respect to

The Binance Smart Chain project is giving top DEXes a run for their money with lower fees and an easy-to-use interface. The day a pancake

Source: Instagram, Binance Binance coin (BNB) is now the third-highest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after its price rose by more than 40% in 24 hours.

Source: Adobe/immimagery Justin Sun‘s Tron (TRX) has attracted more unwanted media attention this week after French politician Georges Tron was convicted of rape and sexual

The phenomenal growth of the UNI price, which began in late December 2020, significantly slowed down. Raising the price by almost 600%, buyers paused. Since

DeFi thriving on new Binance Smart Chain with more than $10B TVL In this week’s highlights from the DeFi market we dive into a $38

Bitcoin hovers around $52,000 as markets wait and see whether the current price level will be held in the next few weeks. Bitcoin (BTC) trading

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Competing decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are trading blows in the world of open-source software as rivals to Ethereum-based

Yield bugs“People are building treadmills for capital,” billionaire venture capitalist Matthew Roszak said on CoinDesk TV this morning. The founder of Bloq, a blockchain enterprise

In retrospect, it was inevitable: A team of blockchain developers has replaced GitHub with a decentralized system for collaborating on open source software. There’s even

DeFi dapps finding success on Binance Smart Chain Autofarm, a Binance Smart Chain (BSC) decentralized finance app, has overtaken Ethereum competitors to climb to second

PoolTogether –  the popular no-loss prize protocol –  has launched its own native token, POOL, and airdropped it to over 17,072 unique wallet addresses. The POOL

Reflexer Labs has announced the mainnet launch of RAI, which started as a governance minimized fork of MakerDAO’s multi-collateral Dai. 1/n RAI is (officially) live!

Bitwise has launched the world’s first DeFi index fund today, simply named the “Bitwise DeFi Crypto Index Fund”. It will hold a basket of the

3 of the top 5 DeFi dapps are running on BSC in the last 24 hours In a historical moment, Ethereums DeFi crown has been

The Secret Network, a protocol focused on privacy for decentralized finance (DeFi), has launched SecretSwap, a front-running resistant and cross-chain decentralized exchange. It is now