The recent GameStop short squeeze has brought decentralized finance (DeFi) into mainstream public consciousness. Well-known crypto influencers such as Caitlin Long have espoused decentralized exchanges

The leader of lossless lotteries on Ethereum, PoolTogether, is airdropping a new token to all its users who have joined it for the ride so

Bitwise Asset Management on Wednesday launched a decentralized finance (DeFi) index fund, hoping to capture deep-pocketed investors’ bets on the corner of the crypto markets

A flash loan is relatively new type of uncollateralized lending that has become popular across a number of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols based on the

A private subsidiary of the French bank took a liking to the fast-growing NFT space in its latest note. The next frontier? Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

Binance Smart Chain continues to push DeFi forward ApeSwap, a decentralized finance application running on Binance Smart Chain has exploded in both user activity and

Aaron Briggs on 17 Feb 2021 2020 was an incredible year for decentralized exchanges, with Uniswap surpassing Coinbase in trading volume in September of 2020.

Bitcoin faced choppy markets for most of Tuesday after briefly trading above $50,000 for the first time during early U.S. trading hours. With some remaining

Decentralized insurance alternative Nexus Mutual received a $2.7 million boost to its foundation treasury, the not-for-profit umbrella organization charged with selling NXM tokens to fund

Entire DeFi market reached $50 billion TVL recently The decentralized exchange Uniswap launched in May 2020 and has become to most prominent trading platform in

Uniswap (UNI) has become the first decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform to generate over $100 billion in volume, the protocol’s founder Hayden Adams announced today.

Polygon token price up 181% in the last 14-days Ethereum startup and layer-2 solution Matic Network is rebranding to Polygon. Polygon announced the name change

1inch Exchange – a leading DEX aggregator – has provided another round of token distributions via airdrop under slightly different conditions from their prior airdrop

Nick Sawinyh on 15 Feb 2021 Guillaume talks about 88mph backstory, community building, DeFi structured products, and how we could derisk lending. Hello! What’s your

DeFi is a fast moving and highly competitive space. While DeFi may level the playing field by allowing anyone to participate, it still comes with

Decentralized trading platform Synthetix has raised $12 million from venture capital firms Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and IOSG. The raise looks to be a rare occurrence

To the DeFi community, This week, Claimable  helped DeFi users claim more than $50,000 in tokens from various airdrops like Uniswap, 1inch, Badger, and Tornado

Active wallets up 30% after last week’s hack In the past seven days the transaction volume of Yearn Finance has increased 72% week-over-week to more

UMA –  the decentralized derivatives platform – has introduced a new incentivization structure designed to grow their community further called KPI (Keep Performance Indicators) Options.

Other DeFi-focused networks are surging as Ethereum congestion narrative spurs up Source link

Reduced costs and faster transactions Most decentralized finance (DeFi) projects are hosted on the Ethereum blockchain and according to the 2020 DappRadar Industry Report, the

In January 21′ BSC reached new heights Binance Smart Chain has quickly become one of the strongest contenders to Ethereum’s blockchain. Although, currently there are

AirSwap – the p2p trading protocol- has announced that it has completed it’s transition into a decentralized governance system along with other major changes. Phase

Badger DAO, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on absorbing bitcoin liquidity on Ethereum, recently announced a partnership with Yearn.finance. Badger DAO launched in December as

EarniFi is a nifty new tool that aggregates all known airdrops and POAP tokens on one page. Users can visit Earnifi, input their wallet address

The prices and market capitalization of tokens in the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) ecosystem are booming as the whole sector is up 135% over the

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) tokens are positioning themselves as investors’ favorites amid their impressive run in price. The DeFi tokens, particularly, SushiSwap (SUSHI), Aave (AAVE), and

The global cryptocurrency ecosystem recorded a productive week, marked with a lot of cryptocurrencies soaring to new all-time highs (ATH). Amongst the digital currencies that

Ethereum continues to press forward to new all time highs as ETH price surged to $1756 for the first time last night according to CoinMarketCap.

With all the speculation around future growth of cryptocurrency protocols, it can be hard to gauge fundamental network health accurately. However, one metric that never

Armor.fi – the smart cover aggregator for DeFi –  recently announced 2 new liquidity pools that are incentivized with ARMOR tokens. 1/ As requested, 2

PancakeSwap is the most used DeFi product on BSC right now In the past week, DeFi product PancakeSwap has seen its user base grow over

William M. Peaster on 10 Feb 2021 On a smart contract platform like Ethereum, you can tokenize really anything you can imagine. This includes media

JulSwap is Uniswap on the Binance Smart Chain JulSwap, a Binance Smart Chain (BSC) decentralized finance (DeFi) application has surged to second place in the

PoolTogether is best known for its no-loss prize pools that utilize efficient capital coordination and DeFi primitives to generate winnings for selected winners. The no

The ADA price smashed through the $0.55 resistance over the weekend to hit a three year high of $0.70 as IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson explains

Source: Adobe/sommersby In the industry where memes can dictate the value of a cryptoaset, wars of narratives are intensifying amid fresh capital entering the nascent

Aave is taking the open finance sector by storm. Last week, the Ethereum based Defi lending and borrowing protocol reached the number one spot on the

We’ve made it. Kind of. A paper regarding decentralized finance—which surprisingly included the term “DeFi”— was recently published to the website of the St. Louis

Curve Finance’s AMM is making its way to another blockchain – Polkadot. Money market Equilibrium is building a cross-chain implementation of Curve Finance on its

Source: Adobe/alesmunt Decentralized Finance (DeFi) remains a niche market, but its efficiency, transparency, accessibility, and composability make for interesting characteristics, enabling it to potentially contribute

Xend Finance, a Nigeria-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for credit unions and cooperatives, has secured new partners and funding as it prepares for its bid

New $50M Venture Fund Aims to Bridge East-West DeFi Investment Divide Source link

DeFi’s value keeps rising with the latest data showing over $9 billion in locked in value of DeFi projects which continue gaining traction, with several

The St.Louis Federal Reserve Bank recently shared a detailed overview of decentralized finance written by Professor Fabian Schär of the University of Basel. Read new

The U.S. dollar value of cryptocurrency liquidity locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) hit $37.17 billion. What’s more, this growth came about not from the usual

Nick Sawinyh on 09 Feb 2021 Update: Please note, a few months later of this interview SynLev developers performed exit scam and deleted accounts on

Recent events have made it all too clear to the average user why decentralization has a key role to play in having a fair and