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Compound

Braintrust Raises $18M to Bring DeFi-Thinking to the Gig Economy

Ian AllisonOct 1, 2020

Braintrust, a tech talent marketplace that will essentially be owned by the IT freelancers and companies using it, has raised an $18 million strategic growth round.

DeFi

MakerDAO Adds Chainlink, Compound, Loopring as Collateral Options

Colin HarperSep 30, 2020

MakerDAO has voted to add support for a trio of new tokens for the decentralized finance (DeFi) loans that generate DAI stablecoins.

DeFi

With COMP Below $100, a Look Back at the ‘DeFi Summer’ It Sparked

Brady DaleOct 20, 2020

Compound's governance token, COMP, fell below $100 early Tuesday. The DeFi token kicked off the yield farming craze way back in June.

DeFi

Fintech Giant Plaid Has a Hidden Passion for DeFi

Ian AllisonSep 25, 2020

Fintech enabler Plaid is quietly working with at least two decentralized finance (DeFi) startups.

DeFi

Yearn, YAM and the Rise of Crypto’s ‘Weird DeFi’ Moment

Brady DaleAug 31, 2020

What do these various memecoins do? Here's the rough TL;DR of the latest tokens to top the DeFi charts.

Compound

DeFi

Huobi Launches Consortium of DeFi Providers and Platforms With MakerDAO, Compound

Sebastian SinclairAug 17, 2020

Huobi has launched a new consortium with MakerDAO and Compound to promote decentralized finance.

Governance

Crypto VC Firm Assesses the ‘State of Blockchain Governance’

Brady DaleAug 13, 2020

Greenfield One, an early-stage venture capital firm, just published a comprehensive new resource on the topic of blockchain governance.

Ethereum at Five

CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum’s DeFi Luminaries Discuss What’s Next

Nathan DiCamilloJul 30, 2020

MakerDAO's Rune Christensen, Compound's Robert Leshner and Uniswap's Hayden Adams discussed the state of the $3.8 billion DeFi market.

Ethereum at Five

One Billion, Two Billion, Three Billion, Four? DeFi’s Knocking on TradFi’s Door

Brady DaleJul 28, 2020

DeFi is an overnight success years in the making. From "The DAO" hack to $3.6 billion in total value locked, here's the history of decentralized finance.