Hugh Karp on 19 Nov 2019 I regularly get questions like, could you use a prediction market for insurance instead? Or how does a financial

Decentralized Exchanges in a nutshell A decentralized exchange (DEX) is a way of exchanging cryptocurrencies or other blockchain-based assets without a centralized agency or intermediary.

Terraform Labs has raised $25 million in a new round from Galaxy Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital and others. The stablecoin for e-commerce creator has

USDT volume surpasses Ethereum for the third week in a row The number of Tether transactions on the Tron blockchain has surpassed Ethereum’s count for

Balancer –  the decentralized asset management platform – has announced the start of a new gas reimbursement program that will run for four weeks starting

Badger user activity grows 300% Badger is strongly contributing to the use of Bitcoin across the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector on the Ethereum blockchain. Even

To Our DeFi Community, It’s been another thrilling week in DeFi. We saw two prominent projects, 0x and Gnosis, each announced new decentralized exchanges (DEXs),

An offline mobile map for travelers has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Alameda Research. Announced Monday, the fresh capital will go

Chainlink and Aave, two major DeFi-related cryptocurrencies, are surging strongly in tandem with Bitcoin. Aave surpassed $200 for the first time in history, solidifying its

Ether’s latest rally to all-time highs appears to be driven, in part, by the sort of institutional investors who piled into bitcoin in 2020 for

Opium Finance has released collateralized debt obligation products (CDOs) for Compound Finance’s automated lending markets, Opium Protocol founder Andrey Belyakov told CoinDesk in a phone

Nick Sawinyh on 20 Nov 2019 Fredrik told us the backstory of Dune Analytics and shared plans for lowering the bar for anyone who wants

Don’t miss the DappRadar NFTX airdrop! NFTX has migrated its liquidity from Uniswap to Sushiswap in order to qualify for its rewards program. The DAO

In the past year, we’ve seen a wide number of initiatives to further distribute governance into the hands of the community. Examples include but are

The latest crypto stimulus (or DeFi stimulus check, to be more accurate) has just dropped. Badger DAO, a Bitcoin-focused decentralized finance project based on Ethereum,

Nick Sawinyh on 25 Nov 2019 OpenSea co-founder Devin Finzer shared his thoughts on what it takes to build a decentralized market place, and intersection

New York-based tech company TQ Tezos has announced Homebase—a new project that allows Tezos (XTZ) users to easily set up and interact with decentralized autonomous

Earlier today, we saw the exploitation of a liquidity pool on Uniswap for imBTC – a wrapped version of Bitcoin created by imToken and the

Binance, Blockchain Firm Orbs to Sponsor New Accelerator for DeFi Innovation Source link

To the DeFi community, This week, Curve and Synthetix are joining forces on new smart contracts that enable low slippage using synthetic asset. One difficulty

Alex Melikhov on 26 Nov 2019 Cryptocurrency at large has a volatility problem, and decentralized stablecoins like MakerDAO’s DAI and Equilibrium’s EOSDT each present their

Bitcoin price, the 30-day moving average is a strong resistance level Bitcoin went up to overcome the resistance level of the 30-day moving average (MA) and hit a high of

Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase revealed its plans yesterday to offer Ethereum 2.0 staking through its platform. While users can stake their 32 ETH on their

While Bitcoin has been grabbing most of the headlines for its amazing price appreciation this year, Kraken CEO, Jesse Powell believes that Ether (ETH) is

dForce – a China-based startup aiming to build a DeFi super network – was hacked for nearly $25M late last night. The attack was on

As prices for bitcoin and ether retreat from their recent highs, the strong performance of other cryptocurrencies indicate traders and investors may now be turning

At the end of 2020, I wrote about the cultural differences of Eastern and Western crypto communities. As we kick off 2021, I’d like to

Once Cardano’s Goguen era is launched, users will be able to earn additional yield on their ADA without having to unstake their funds. Liqwid Finance,

Ethereum recently took a dip, after almost reaching the highs at $390. Ethereum is currently trading at $343, taking an 8.4 percent dive in the

Money makes money and you can’t afford to miss out Decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen dramatic growth last year as it rose to prominence during

Leading liquidity ecosystem Kyber Network revealed a new reserve system on which other DeFi developers will be able to deploy unique reserve models to provide

Following the Cover Protocol (COVER) hack that resulted in the token’s price plunging by more than 90%, popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced a compensation

Own a piece of the internet with Unstoppable Domains Unstoppable Domains, a San Francisco based company building blockchain domain names, is calling all dapp developers

dYdX – the permissionless margin trading platform – just announced it’s first set of decentralized perpetual contracts, starting with the BTC–USDC pair with up to

As the recent price rally in bitcoin and ether cools down, investors and traders are taking a closer look at alternative tokens (“altcoins”), particularly those

The high-speed blockchain has garnered quite the fan following in the past year. Parachains on Polkadot  Blockchain ecosystem and crypto protocol Polkadot saw the launch

With its record-breaking bull run, Bitcoin stole the public spotlight from the equally explosive DeFi. To be sure, Bitcoin represents a simpler affair compared to

Bitcoin may be the original cryptocurrency, but that doesn’t mean leading decentralized finance (DeFi) projects aren’t feeling self-confident enough to distinguish themselves from Satoshi’s vision.

Nick Sawinyh on 27 Nov 2019 Caleb on challenges of communicating and distilling information about Uniswap liquidity pools, and Ethereum business models. Hello! What’s your

The launch of Uniswap’s UNI token, its own governance token has created massive hype as users flocked to claim the token, skyrocketing Ethereum transaction fees.

Infamous decentralized exchange (DEX) SushiSwap has developed a new user interface for its protocol, revealed soon after their merger with Yearn Finance. On Twitter, creator

As the DeFi space continues to develop and increase, many entities are migrating into the industry to increase customers’ privacy. The most recent institute to

A new proposal has been announced for a cross-chain development on Cosmos, a high-speed, interoperable blockchain.  Connecting Cosmos and Ethereum Althea Network, a decentralized mesh

Saddle Finance has launched as an automated market maker optimized for pegged value crypto assets like wrapped BTC on Ethereum and stablecoins. #SaddleUpWe’re launching Saddle

FutureSwap – a new DEX derivatives platform – has just launched on Ethereum mainnet. Futureswap is LIVE on Ethereum!!! Trade 20x Perpetual Futures Now!! https://t.co/nsF196oz55

As prices for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to surge this year, many traders are looking for any indicator for when – or if –

Nick Sawinyh on 20 Jan 2021 Aparna told us about Opyn backstory, state of defi options market and what’s new in Opyn v2. Hello! What’s

THORChain (RUNE) is surging higher today after the cryptocurrency joined hands with SushiSwap. THORChain is a cross-chain liquidity protocol that allows investors to trade cryptocurrencies