As we step into another exciting week in crypto, the emerging trend of personal token sales continues to heat up. Earlier today, a prominent member

In recent months, we’ve seen a growing trend around the proliferation of social currencies (also known as personal tokens) – or those tied to specific

FutureSwap – a permissionless DEX offering 20x leverage – has ended it’s Alpha early after experiencing exponential growth in its first 3 days of going

MakerDAO – the lending protocol behind the popular DeFi stablecoin, Dai – is hosting an executive poll to add wBTC as a collateral type, lower

On April 28, Tom Schmidt and Ashwin from Dragonfly Capital announced the release of oracles.club. 1/ Today, @ashwinrz and I are excited to launch https://t.co/tbzR2Dpz9i,

In an age when crypto companies are continually duking it out to take market share from one another, it’s refreshing to see DeFi projects take

To Our DeFi Community, Another week in DeFi officially in the books! This Week in #DeFi 💥 @UMAprotocol Uniswap listing launches with a bang 🚀

As we continue to watch the DEX ecosystem flourish, it’s no surprise that many are shipping exciting new features that benefit DeFi power users. Today

Gnosis – a protocol offering open finance tools for users to better interact with Ethereum has just launched an application extension on their industry-leading multi-sig

With over $120M locked in Synthetix, the derivatives protocol sits as the second most valuable DeFi protocol in terms of value locked. The growth in

The LAO – a legally compliant for-profit invest DAO created by OpenLaw – has officially launched on Ethereum mainnet. Let’s re-build how we capitalize new

UMA – the permissionless derivatives platform – has officially kicked off it’s Initial Uniswap Listing, directly tying into its mission to provide Universal Market Access.

tBTC – a trustless solution to bring Bitcoin to DeFi – has officially launched on Ethereum mainnet. Day 0 @keep_project. pic.twitter.com/CBVo3VUeIs — Matt Luongo (@mhluongo)

While last week marked the beginning of our DeFi governance campaign, this week marks the first governance proposal we’ll be voting on – supporting USDT

As the Ethereum ecosystem continues to thrive, there’s an increasing need for tools to keep track of the widespread amount of innovation across so many

Yesterday, Hegic announced the v1 launch of its options protocol, allowing anyone to buy and sell American call/put options on Ethereum. 🛡️ Announcing Hegic Protocol

PoolTogether – a no-loss savings game built on Ethereum – announced the release of Pods earlier this week.  1/ Introducing Pods – a new way

To Our DeFi Community, Another week in the world of DeFi in the books! Per usual, it’s been filled with excitement and innovation. This Week

Synthetix – the sector leading derivatives platform – is adjusting its SNX inflation rewards for both the sUSD and ETH liquidity incentives to better neutralize

Aave – a sector rising lending protocol – has just rolled out a Risk Framework to evaluate new assets being added to the platform. Aave’s

With DeFi nearing $1B in value locked for the second time this year, the reliance on secure price oracles continues to grow rapidly. Oracles act

UMA – a protocol for permissionless derivatives – is announcing an Initial Uniswap Listing (IUL) for the protocol’s native token, $UMA. The UMA project token

In the past year, we’ve been quite vocal about the rapid development of decentralized exchanges, herein referred to as DEXs. For those who may have

Compound – the permissionless cryptocurrency lending platform – has replaced the administrative controls of the Compound protocol with community governance. We’re extremely proud to announce

In a world in which DeFi has largely democratized access to novel revenue streams, it should come as no surprise that fundraising opportunities are now

Welcome to our second edition of This Week in DeFi – a newsletter covering the top stories in open finance! The global pandemic doesn’t seem to be

Augur – the permissionless prediction market – has officially announced its V2 deployment in June. The highly anticipated upgrade comes jam-packed with a ton of

Synthetix – the permissionless derivatives protocol – went live with a range of new Synths and other improvements with its recent Hadar upgrade. The protocol

For those who have been keeping an eye on Kyber Network, it should come as no surprise that the sector leading DEX has seen a

On Thursday, the team behind tBTC – a platform for bringing Bitcoin over to Ethereum in a trustless fashion – announced the closing of a

Earlier today, Coinbase – a leading US crypto exchange – announced their deposit of $1.1 million USDC into two popular DeFi applications: Uniswap and PoolTogether.

As we touched on earlier this week, the nature of DeFi lending is largely variable. Even as we begin to see more projects rising to

When it comes to interfacing with DeFi, many have come to learn that browser-based applications tend to be the standard for many new projects. However,

Many have come to recognize the value of governance in the gradual progression of many popular DeFi projects shifting major protocol decisions into the hands

Many have come to recognize that one of the core drivers of DeFi is that of liquidity. Whether it be in the form of DEX

With the recent Coronavirus outbreak, we’ve seen a severe liquidity crunch in the legacy financial system. As a result, risk-on assets like Bitcoin and Ether

As seen with Maker and the surrounding liquidity crunch, liquidity is everything. Without it, systems crumble. As a result, we’ve seen the realized potential for

When it comes to leveraging DeFi for innovative business models, projects like Saint Fame are pushing the envelope on the way we create, distribute and

When it comes to making DeFi accessible to the masses, many have pointed to smart wallets as the biggest opportunity to get nontechnical users onboarded.

For those who have been keeping up on the recent surge of web3 gaming interest, you may have heard of a project called Axie Infinity.

When it comes to enhancing the capacity for DeFi, it’s no surprise that assets like Bitcoin offer a huge opportunity for the ecosystem to scale.

Nick Sawinyh on 18 Nov 2019 Philip on real-world assets tokenization, bridging the gap between traditional finance and web3, and the promise of DeFi. Hello!

Nick Sawinyh on 13 Nov 2019 Jordan shared the backstory of MyCrypto and talked about what the next steps for the Ethereum will look like.

Nick Sawinyh on 10 Nov 2019 Igor Barinov, the founder of POA Network, told us backstory of xDAI and shared his thoughts on blockchain interoperability,

Nick Sawinyh on 08 Nov 2019 Alexandre Bourget told us how dfuse going to empower developers around the world to integrate blockchain into their applications

Nick Sawinyh on 04 Nov 2019 Federico told us about DAO and decentralized justice for the DeFi space that uses cryptoeconomics to incentivize users to

Nick Sawinyh on 28 Oct 2019 Nick Spanos from Zap.org sharing his thoughts on oracles, bonding curves, decentralized economic ecosystems, and the future of crypto

Nick Sawinyh on 23 Oct 2019 John Wong from the Switcheo team shared the backstory of multichain DEX and talked about perspectives of DeFi. Hello!