Synthetix – a leading derivatives protocol – has launched a new initiative to incentivize native protocol integrations through fee rebates. Introducing the new Synthetix Volume

DeFi truly never sleeps, with “insurance mining” and a new token called SAFE making big waves this past week. After a strong community push, a

Set Protocol and DeFi Pulse have partnered to launch one of the first non-derivative DeFi indexes called the DeFi Pulse Index (DPI). 1/ Today, Set

To the DeFi Community, DeFi is starting to experiment with token distributions. Whether it’s a fair launch, an initial bonding curve offering (IBCO), Balancer’s new

BarnBridge – a cross-platform fluctuation derivatives protocol – announced the close of a $1M seed round yesterday afternoon led by Fourth Revolution Capital and ParaFi.

yEarn – a tokenized yield aggregator – unveiled a new product called StableCredit – “a protocol for decentralized lending, stablecoins, and AMMS”. The product is

Flexa – a crypto payments protocol – has upgraded to a new token in light of a product upgrade in partnership with Consensys. Today we

Hegic – a permissionless options protocol – is currently conducting its token distribution through an Initial Bond Curve Offering (IBCO) which started earlier today and

Perpetual Protocol – self-described as the decentralized hybrid of Bitmex and Uniswap – has announced that their liquidity mining program will be conducted through Balancer’s

Over the weekend, the community-driven Uniswap fork – SushiSwap – faced an existential crisis when the anon founder Chef Nomi market sold $6M worth of

UMA – a permissionless synthetic asset platform – and Ren Protocol – a trustless cross-chain bridge – are teaming up to launch a bitcoin-backed yield

Special thanks to Kirby Ong for the guest post!  Maker – the leading DeFi lending protocol behind Dai – has a new competior, Lien Protocol.

In a bizarre turn of events, Chef Nomi, the anonymous creator of SushiSwap, removed his liquidity from the SUSHI/ETH pool and liquidated it for ETH. 

To the DeFi Community, This week comes to a close on a somewhat sour note. After months of ‘number go up’, the markets were due

SushiSwap – a community-forked clone of Uniswap – is offloading central points of failures with a community-operated admin multisig. With all the growth of @SushiSwap

Binance – the leading crypto exchange – has launched it’s Smart Chain on mainnet. #Binance Smart Chain Has Launched! 🚀 Numerous crypto projects are already

yEarn – a yield aggregation protocol – has deployed it’s highly anticipated yETH strategy. https://t.co/Tm4Su0BzFk updated; – yETH vault added– yWETH vault added– SNX assets

Lending and margin protocol bZx is back with a splashy re-launch and reportedly better than ever. 📣You may now stake your tokens at https://t.co/sWf5MdoE8s. The

Aave – the sector leading lending protocol – has partnered with RealT to bring interest-earning mortgages to DeFi. Dive into the Aave x @RealTPlatform collab

StarkWare LTD, the company behind the L2 privacy solutions zkSTARKS and StarkEx, has announced a Turing complete platform called Cairo. Hello, Cairo! 1st production-grade Turing-complete

Thanks to 420slap for the guest post! It’s the season of vegetables & forks within the DeFi universe and a new dish has been served,

yEarn – the leading DeFi yield-aggregator – has announced an addition to their delegated vaults called the yDAO Funding Vault. Delegated Funding DAO Vaults a

Compound – the leading US lending protocol – has passed a proposal to cut COMP liquidity incentives by 20%. Proposal 21 has been created by

dYdX – the leading DeFi margin-trading platform – has launched its new LINK-USD perpetual swap contract, enabling users to trade LINK with up to 8x

To the DeFi Community, Tokens have made a roaring comeback. What seemingly was looked down upon for years during the bear market has been pretty

Centre Consortium has upgraded USDC to accommodate gasless transfers. USDC 2.0 is being released today bringing “gasless sends,” improved security and administration. And it’s 100%

Uniswap – the leading DEX – has introduced Token Lists to counteract fake tokens on their permissionless exchange. 🦄We are excited to announce Token Lists,

Zapper – a leading DeFi asset management protocol – has closed a $1.5M seed round lead by Framework Ventures and Libertus Capital. Zapper Closes $1.5M

ConsenSys, Ethereum’s leading blockchain software company, has acquired JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s platform Quorum. ConsenSys has acquired Quorum! Through this acquisition and investment from JP

There’s a new token incubator in town. “We are not Fair Launch Capital, we provide fair launch capital”. 1/ Today we’re announcing fair launch capital

Perpetual Protocol – a rising DeFi derivatives protocol –  has closed a $1.8M seed round alongside the announcement of an upcoming distribution of its PERP

Aave – the sector leading lending protocol – has confirmed that Aave’s UK business entity received an Electronic Money Institution license (EMI) last month. Aave’s

Balancer – an automated asset management and liquidity protocol – has amended its liquidity mining distribution to further favor BAL-based pools. Tomorrow, Saturday 22nd of

Opium Network – a permissionless derivatives protocol – has teamed up with Aave to launch the DeFi’s first credit default swap (CDS). Opium Team brings

1inch – the leading DEX aggregator – has announced it’s native token, 1INCH, along with plans for Mooniswap liquidity mining. 1INCH token and liquidity mining

To the DeFi Community, In the midst of a yield farming frenzy, governance tokens are starting to show signs of true value. Despite Curve‘s APY’s

Opyn – a platform to hedge DeFi risk –  have re-instated their options schedule today for ERC20 tokens only, along with the launch of two

Elastic-supply token project Ampleforth has announced an expansion of its “Geyser” liquidity mining initiative, now integrating with 1inch’s Mooniswap exchange. Did you know there are

The leading stablecoin Tether has announced they are leveraging OMG Network to circumvent congestion issues from Ethereum. We are pleased to announce that Tether (USDt)

dYdX – the leading DeFi derivatives exchange – announced a partnership with StarkWare for their Perpetual Contracts to run on StarkEx zkRollup by Q4 of

WARNING: XTOKENS HAS EXPRESSED XSNX HAS FOUND A VULNERABILITY AND HAS TEMPORARILY DISABLED THIS CONTRACT. THIS WARNING WILL BE REMOVED WHEN THE CONTRACTS ARE SAFE

yEarn – the leading yield aggregator – announced yinsure.finance, a new kind of tokenized insurance. https://t.co/enY8w7wIwG a new insurance primitive https://t.co/ONkO0BsUWZ — yearn.finance (@iearnfinance) August

“Bitcoins are being tokenized to use Ethereum faster than they’re mined” – Zack Voell. That’s right – 6,785 BTC got wrapped in the Wrapped BTC

Binance – the leading crypto exchange – has launched a DeFi Special Savings products with three stablecoins. #Binance Launches 14.8% APY Stablecoin Savings Products, Receive

To our DeFi Community, This may have been the craziest week in DeFi to date. It kicked off with the launch of Yam Finance, a

Aave – the third-largest lending protocol – has showcased a suite of new protocol upgrades falling under the umbrella of its V2 upgrade. 1/ Today

Curve – the third-largest DeFi DEX – has officially launched its long-awaited governance token, CRV. So, Curve DAO and $CRV token are launched by https://t.co/26L8Wt13oe,

Coinbase – the leading US cryptocurrency exchange – has announced that US customers will soon be able to borrow up to 30% cash positions against