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Total Value Locked in Defi Jumped 85% in August, $8 Billion in Assets Held
31.8.2020
A lot has changed during the last month, as the popular decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has swelled considerably in value. Since the first week of August, the total value locked in defi jumped over 85% in 27 days from $4.2 billion to $7.88 billion on August 30. The total value locked (TVL)...
Ethereum Classic Suffers 51% Attack Again: Delisting Risk Amplified
30.8.2020
Beleaguered Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain suffered yet another 51% attack on August 29. The latest attack caused the reorganization of over 7,000 blocks and this corresponds to approximately two days of mining. At the time of reporting, it was not clear if there had been any double-spending...
Polkadot Top 10 Redenomination Shot: Is the Token Now Bigger Than Chainlink?
30.8.2020
The Polkadot token, which recently underwent a redenomination, has seen its value more than double in less than seven days. Now with a reported (but unverified) circulating supply of 897,657,920 tokens, the Dot token claims its place as the fifth-ranked token. At the time of writing, the token...
Defi Project Yearn Finance Smashes Records as Native Token Surpasses $30K
30.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) crypto asset tied to the Yearn Finance project has smashed records this week, as the coin touched a high of $30,324 on Saturday evening. Yearn’s token YFI has been recently added to the Aave platform and the project’s founder, Andre Cronje, is currently...
Uniswap and automated market makers, explained
29.8.2020
Decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap have now become popular thanks to automated market makers, but what does it all mean?
Charles Hoskinson's IOHK submitted a decentralized treasury proposal to the Ethereum Classic Community
28.8.2020
Would a 20% block reward reduction matter in the long run?
This DEX is ignoring the ‘test in production’ attitude held by other DeFi companies
27.8.2020
IDEX has chosen to take a more traditional approach to security
DEC777 Decentralized Exchange – The Last Resort for the People Who Lost Trust in Centralized Exchange
27.8.2020
Why do we have to store our digital assets with hesitation? We’ve lost trust in many scam exchanges such as Wex, BITPoint…Maybe this is the right time to look for an exchange that doesn’t need us to deposit to trade. DEC77 is an outstanding decentralized exchange built...
Why DeFi Pulse’s Key Metric Is So Simple It’s Confusing
27.8.2020
DeFi Pulse invented "Total Value Locked." Yet TVL's mechanics have been somewhat confusing to those in the space. Here's how the leading DeFi metric works
What Binance’s choice of integration protocol tells us about DeFi projects
26.8.2020
How do Compound and Kava differ from other popular DeFi projects, and why did Binance select them as its first DeFi integration protocols?
Aave Protocol Outpaces Maker With $1.4B Locked, Defi Project Granted UK Electronic Money License
26.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) open-source protocol built on Ethereum, Aave, has surpassed the Maker Dao project in terms of total-value-locked (TVL) this week. The lending and borrowing platform Aave has $1.43 billion locked on Tuesday climbing 7.7% in the last 24-hours. On August 25, the defi...
Anyswap, Uniswap, or Trustswap: Which Swap Protocol is Best for DeFi Users?
25.8.2020
DeFi or decentralized finance is currently the hottest topic in the crypto space; however, it shouldn’t come as a surpriseContinue Reading
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Binance launches new hackathon and accelerator for the Indian DeFi ecosystem
24.8.2020
Binance is conducting India’s first DeFi-focused hackathon aimed to accelerate DeFi innovation in the country
Inter-Blockchain Liquidity: Minting Synthetic Bitcoin Cash With the Ren Protocol
24.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has matured quite a bit in 2020 and one project that’s seen some growth is the Ren Protocol. The application that allows people to access inter-blockchain liquidity for a number of defi applications. The following post is a step-by-step guide on...
Tachyon VPN Reaches 1 Million Users in Just Six Months
23.8.2020
The app is among the top 5 most popular DApps in the world and it is available for both Android, iOS, and macOS users
Miners on Decentralised Storage Network Compete For 4 Million Token Prize
23.8.2020
It’s a different kind of Space Race
Crypto Travel Agency Travala to Use Binance Chain for Decentralized Services
21.8.2020
The firm plans to become a fully decentralized online travel agency
Farmers Could Soon Be Hedging Their Risks With Decentralized Weather Data
20.8.2020
They’re tackling a problem which affects billions of people
The Rise of Trading Products: Granting Sophisticated Access to Crypto
20.8.2020
With crypto trading products appearing ahead of the legacy financial curve, it’s only a matter of time before they enter the mainstream
Yearn Finance Token Jumps 270% in 5 Days – Defi Token YFI Worth More Than a Single Bitcoin
20.8.2020
Decentralized finance (defi) continues to make waves this week, as the Yearn Finance project token (YFI) jumped over 270% during the last five days. The digital token is worth more per coin than the price of bitcoin today, as the asset is currently trading for $15,934 per YFI. It’s very rare...