DeFi

DeFi

Degens for Hire: Based.Money Is Launching Moonbase, a Place for DeFi Projects to Find Community

Brady DaleSep 25, 2020

BASED has a new method for aligning decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with each other. At its core is a smart contract called Moonbase.

Bitcoin

Voyager CEO Says Revenue Growth Accelerates 8-Fold as DeFi Trading Surges

Bradley KeounSep 25, 2020

CEO Steve Ehrlich says this quarter's revenue is on track to double what the company produced in all of its last fiscal year.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Balances on Exchanges at 2-Year Low and That May Be a Bullish Sign

Muyao ShenSep 28, 2020

Bitcoin balances on major exchanges have hit their lowest point since November 2018. Yet unlike that time, it may be a positive signal.

First Mover

First Mover: Tron’s Play for WBTC Shows Competition to Relieve Ethereum Congestion

Bradley Keoun Omkar GodboleSep 25, 2020

Competition builds in market for tokenized bitcoin, used to get extra profit off holdings of the cryptocurrency recently denigrated as a "pet rock."

Dharma

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

Stablecoins

Stablecoins Hit $20B Milestone, a Nearly 300% Year-to-Date Surge

Muyao Shen

The total value of stablecoins has now surpassed $20 billion, reflecting the growing demand of investors looking to hedge their risks in both crypto and traditional markets amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Wallets

ConsenSys-Incubated Startup Releases In-Browser Atomic Swap Wallet for DeFi

William Foxley

ConsenSys-incubated startup Liquality’s new wallet lets you atomically swap digital assets directly from your browser.

Tron

BitGo Is Bringing DeFi-Friendly Wrapped Bitcoin to the Tron Blockchain

Ian Allison

The partnership will bring BitGo’s wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) into the Tron ecosystem as a TRC-20 token.

DeFi

Uniswap Users Have Claimed $560M-Worth of UNI Tokens in a Week

Paddy Baker

Dune Analytics data shows nearly 80% of the current UNI token supply has so far been snapped up by eligible Uniswap wallet addresses.

DeFi

Ocean Protocol and Balancer Want to Do for Data What Uniswap Did for Coins

Ian Allison

Ocean Protocol is teaming up with Balancer Labs to create the first automated market maker (AMM) for data.

MakerDAO

MakerDAO Users Hosed by March Flash Crash Won’t Get MKR Payouts, Say MKR Whales

William Foxley

After initially voting to do so, the Maker community will not compensate investors who lost big on the lending platform during "Black Thursday's" price rout.

Markets

UNI Market Cap Rebounds $120M as Rest of Crypto Market Falters

Paddy Baker

Uniswap's week-old governance token is outperforming more established cryptocurrencies Wednesday.

DeFi

This Ethereum Startup Is Building a ‘DeFi Firewall’ for Institutional Investors

Ian Allison

How risky do you like it? Wallet shop Trustology is launching a "DeFi Firewall" to help institutional investors dabble in decentralized finance.

First Mover

First Mover: Bitcoins Hit Exchanges as Bloomberg Touts Crypto and DeFi Hedge Fund Seeks $50M

Bradley Keoun

Bloomberg hails crypto as top 2020 asset, bitcoin hits exchanges, options traders see calm around U.S. elections, hedge fund seeks $50M for DeFi.

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