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Singapore, June 27, 2022 - Torches Finance, a decentralized lending protocol based on KuCoin Community Chian (KCC), announced the mainnet launch on KCC.
Liquid Staking allows using the staked crypto assets in other trading opportunities to let you get the best of both a reward on your staked assets as well as
We've seen a meteoric rise in Ethereum layer 2 as many leading DeFi protocols are now building on, or porting contracts to, a number of thriving L2 ecosystems.
Tokenization can become one of the most significant game changes in the real estate market. It can change the way people are investing in real estate globally
If you're left wondering what on earth an IDO launchpad is, you're not alone! Scaleswap aim to educate and uplift everyone in the crypto community and beyond
Arbitrum's design influences lots of successor rollups and we will dive deep into the core communication component that lets it operate correctly, the inbox.
Wondering what is yield farming and how this strategy can help you profit in the crypto world? We cover all there is to know about this new way of investing.
WallStreetBets is at the eye of a war between Wall Street and an army of small investors over GameStop, a languishing video games chain, that has agitated finan
This article explains the two essential types of blockchain layers: Architecture Layers and Protocol Layers, and will cover the various functions of each layer.
"How to DeFi: Beginners" is a guide to learning and applying the technology behind decentralized applications (Dapps) and decentralized Finance (DeFi).
Uniswap is the gold standard for token swapping, it’s the way most people swap ERC-20 tokens in a decentralized way. In 2020 SushiSwap forked Uniswap and since their UI’s have diverged.
The industry's premier DeFi event, DeFi Live is on the 10th of November online nad on 11th of November in person, in London. It will have experts and more.
Azuro raised $3.5 million in a seed round from Gnosis, Flow Ventures, Polymorphic Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Delhi Digital, Arrington Capital, and Meta Cartel
The sharing economy is fast transforming how we interact as people and work. Valued at around $15 billion five years ago, the sharing economy is predicted to be worth over $335 billion by 2025. The potential for the industry is massive.
There is no doubt that the crypto space is growing at a very rapid pace, but no one can ignore the scams that are prevalent in this ecosystem. If we just go back a few years, more than 80 percent of the ICOs were identified as outright scams in a study conducted by the ICO advisory firm Statis Group.
The concept of the reflection mechanism was newly introduced into the cryptocurrency space a few months back. How is it now? What should you look out for?
Tokenization turns low-liquidity assets into highly-liquid digital tokens enabling fractionalization, trading and compliance by design powered by the functional
What does non-custodial mean in crypto? What's the difference between Custodial Vs Non-custodial exchange? How are custodial and non-custodial methods applied?
Bitcoin — the comprehensive guide in simple terms. The introduction to the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Tutorial to understand Bitcoin.
In the nascent stages of blockchain technology and its accompanying digital assets, smart contracts were the key to unlocking the vast potential of this newfang
An explainer about Stablecoins and how they work. This piece covers the six different types of stablecoins, stablecoin Trilemma, and future of regulation.
Day trading is like a fascinating game that rolls chess, poker, and gaming into an exciting package, adds the adrenaline rush of a roller coaster, and flavors it with a few dashes of lemon and a pinch of salt.
In the early days of crypto assets, there were only a few ways to make gains. One way was trading. The other way was to simply hold onto the assets, in the hope their price would rise to an unexpectedly high rate.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) can be rightfully considered a third revolution in the crypto space. If you wonder what the first two are, these are the invention of blockchain itself along with the technology’s firstborn, Bitcoin, and the inception of the smart contract technology.
dYdX and Antonio Juliano Zhuoxun Yin Brendan Chou Everett Hu just sent me this handy mail announcing a partnership with StarkWare and their scalability engine, StarkEx.
A conversation with Bernd Stöckl, the CPO and co-founder of Palmswap, on making DeFi more accessible for retail investors, perpetual trading, and DeFi 2.0.
This simple questionnaire summarises our 5+ years of experience in this field and will help your blockchain project to get started with tokenomics! You can see
A discussion on the DeFi startup landscape, tips for entrepreneurs entering the space, and the role of crypto incubators with Gaurav Dubey, founder of TDefi.
Plasma.Finance offers the freedom to choose how, when, and where to participate in DeFi. It is a toolkit designed to be intuitive enough for everyday users, but
KOLnet is an innovative, transparent and fair launchpad that allows early-stage projects to optimise their marketing strategy through the innovation of Web3.
Chainlink is the market-leading oracle network, helping secure hundreds of billions in DeFi and providing off-chain data and compute to thousands of dApps.
With Bitcoin's recent surge in price, some people in the cryptocurrency space began to wonder whether the short-lived Alt Season was coming to an end. After all, many of the astounding gains being made by alts coincided with Bitcoin's two-month uncharacteristic lack of volatility. It seemed that traders were looking elsewhere to make large profits.
Navigating smart contracts on the RSK and RSK Infrastructure Framework(RIF) a third-layer protocol on bitcoin. They were used to mint NFTs through Carnaval.
The concept of yield farming comes from a meme, but today it describes the process of making profit through any form of interaction with DeFi protocols.
NEAR is the top decentralized blockchain infrastructure for DeFi yield farming. We examine the features that make it a favorite for developers and users.
The Merge will change Ethereum - and web3 - forever. The change from PoW to PoS will change how the blockchain can affect Web3 in the future when it matures.
There are three hot topics in the crypto space which everybody talks about: BTC price rocketing, arrests and investigations against big market players because of lack of AML-compliance and, of course, DeFi.
Why decentralised exchanges and the way that automated market makers work mean that losses made while investing may not be as permanent as they initially seem.
In recent weeks and days, the crypto markets have been exploding again and Bitcoin is back above the level it was at the end of 2017 with an all-time high based on the market cap.
In DeFi We Trust, should we? Let's discover the potential risks of DeFi and understand them fully before we commit to something we don't fully understand.
The total value of locked assets in DeFi protocols rose to $19.72 billion, having started the year at just $600M. DEX volumes also rose dramatically: at the start of the year they captured just 0.12% of total market, but by October were soaking up over 15%, led by Uniswap, the AMM that everyone in DeFi seemed to be emulating, trading on, and LP’ing in this year.
Ethereum (ETH) returned to its powerhouse status in February 2021. Briefly jumping above the $1,800 mark to score an all-time high, ETH is also the hub for a growing ecosystem of fees and virtual economic activity.
So far, the only trustworthy collateral in the crypto space is BTC and ETH. Stablecoins became a trend because they can also be used as collateral for loans and expand the balance sheets of services such as Maker and Compound. To expand credit in the crypto market, new forms of collateral are needed.
Can Liquidity Mining come back after the mania from DeFi summer last year? How have yield farmers changed the way the system works and have tokens changed?
According to the paper published by Lokman Rahmani et al., the S/Kademlia distributed hash table (DHT) used by the ACN is resilient against malicious attacks.
Waseem Mamlouk, VP of the Nimbus Platform speaks about "Ethical DeFi", and how DeFi platforms can serve buyers with spiritual requirements such as Sharia Law.
DeFi is attracting massive attention and is said to have a lot of potential.
Here are the potential use cases of decentralized finance and why it's important.
The blockchain industry started twelve years ago with the release of Bitcoin. That was a shock, a huge slap for the traditional financial system. However, from another angle, it was a Big Bang of a Decentralized finance universe.
The $69.3 million paid for the NFT Everydays: The First 5,000 Days by the digital artist Beeple is the third highest amount ever paid for any type of art at auction. March of this year saw the hype surrounding NFT reach an absolute fever pitch and this sale was the pinnacle. What followed was a scramble involving seemingly every celebrity to have ever existed to get a piece of the NFT action. Grimes sold a series of gifs as NFTs for $6 million, Jake Paul minted NFTs of himself as a Pokemon character. There was a frenzy that surrounded every NFT minted that had any kind of notoriety.
Automated Market Makers (AMM) seem to be a faster alternative to previous models in the decentralized ecosystem, as they remove a counterparty from a trade.
Uncertainty and risk present challenges to any investment success in cryptocurrency. Managing those factors in your investments is a crucial part of it.
A brief summary of different cross-chain approaches for beginners and non-techers who want to transfer assets from one Blockchain to another with ease.
Solace, a risk management insurance protocol for decentralized finance, has launched after eight months in development and four months on the testnets.
In the presentation below, the Product Owner at T-Systems shares details about how the telecommunications company is providing blockchain infrastructure.
Autonomy Network integrated Autoswap, a decentralized automated solution that provides trading tools to Trader Joe, bringing automated trading to the Avalance.
You have likely heard about decentralized finance (DeFi), but what about decentralized-centralized finance, a bridge between the new system and the old.
The notable crypto network or standards are BEP-20, ERC-20, TRC-20, and BEP-2. Users can easily mistake BEP-20 for BEP-2 and ERC-20 for TRC-20 and vice-versa.
DeFi has virtually transformed and entered into almost every traditional finance sector that we know of. The idea of decentralizing finance for all stakeholders
The Cronos Accelerator Program is designed to enable early-stage crypto companies looking for mentoring, investment, and growth to get the aid they need.
Even if a project has been tested for full-functionality, it is important to work with a smart contract audit company to ensure they have been reviewed.
Network resource exhaustion can grind the entire blockchain down to a halt. As more people begin to rely on and use blockchain technology in their everyday live
From a financial perspective, the past two years have clarified the answer to one simple question: “Who gets hurt the most when a crisis happens?” We, the common people, are the ones who bear the brunt and remain on the shooting line till the crisis ceases.
This is the first in a new series of articles designed to give crypto beginners an introduction to the basic concepts behind decentralized finance (DeFi).
A recent BCG-report highlight that despite the recent cryptocurrency crash, developer activity has continued to sustain. In other words: Developers Never Sleeps
Heyo Hackers! Here we are with the results announcement (Round 1) of one of the BIGGEST writing contests - The DeFi Writing Contest by SORA & HackerNoon.
On August 5th, 2018, Evgeny Gaevoy published an article, titled: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of crypto market making. It was a particularly viral article from perhaps the least transparent sector of the crypto-currency ecosystem.
DeFi has made access to financial services easier and with its farms, lending services and staking rewards, the ecosystem is a go-to for profit-hungry investors
The crypto field is lively as ever in 2020, from platform tokens and the halvings of various PoW coins including bitcoin at the beginning of the year to the explosion of DeFi, and Filecoin's imminent mainnet launch.
Compound is a DeFi lending and borrowing protocol built on Ethereum. Users can use it to borrow certain ERC-20 tokens by depositing another token as collateral. At the same time, they earn interest in supplying liquidity.
Fluid is a low latency liquidity aggregator that leverages AI models primarily based on quant to address unproductive fragmented liquidity in virtual asset
Miner Extractable Value (MEV) is one of the pain points for those who use DeFi products. Here are some possible outcomes if this doesn't get addressed.
Blockchain technology and smart contracts are significant innovations with huge potential, but, the technology is only as secure as the code written for it.
No one can deny the current success of decentralized finance, or DeFi. A lot of enthusiasts have shown a keen interest in exploring the yield farming aspect. Finding these projects at an early stage makes a world of difference. Slowly but surely, more exchanges provide access to DeFi mining at an early stage.
Let's look at what DeFi is before we dive into analyzing how decentralized finance (DeFi) came to be an over $100 billion industry in just a few years.
Blockchains are notoriously challenging network structures to scale, both in performance - such as latencies, throughput, and number of validators - as well as in feature sets - such as customizability of the bytecode that the blockchain executes.
Tomorrow, I'm getting $1313 CAD refund as a present from Newegg for their defunctional laptop they'd sent me. I'm going to etransfer it to canadianbitcoins.com in exchange for ETH at around 5% loss on the dollar.
A conversation with Sakhib Waseem of Astra Protocol on why regulatory compliance is both needed and a positive development for the Web3 space as a whole.
Proof-of-work (PoW) and proof-of-stake (PoS) are the two most widely employed blockchain protocols. Blockchain proponents often indulge in debates to prove which of the two is actually better, never really reaching a consensus (pun intended).
It’s not often that you see a technological boom inside of another breakout, but that’s precisely what is happening in the crypto markets currently. The DeFi (decentralized finance) sector, which seeks to revolutionize the current centralized financial system by introducing various decentralized replacements, is also experiencing a deflationary yield farming boom.
Dozens of new DeFi coins appear every day. 90% of them may not even exist in a week. Most of the created tokens do not have enough liquidity and are designed to collect money quickly and disappear for good.
Radix, the smart contract platform for asset-oriented DeFi, has released alpha images of its Web3 wallet, which aims to provide a wonderful user experience.
Most of the DeFi projects are built on the Ethereum blockchain, so I thought that would be cool to collaborate with the community by giving some tools to make the development easier for everyone.
A recent report by CipherTrace indicates that crypto-related crimes are on the low as the market matures. The market recently crossed the $2 trillion mark
the segment reached a milestone of $41 billion – the amount of user funds locked in DeFi almost doubled since January. Such figures are understandable, considering
The Badger DAO attack was conceptually very different from the more traditional attack in DeFi. Those traditional ones are aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities in the code of smart contracts of the protocols, otherwise called bugs. We are familiar with flash loan attacks that use uncollateralised loans across a multitude of protocols to manipulate certain markets and pump-and-dump certain assets. We also know about reentrancy attacks that exploit the logic of execution of functions inside a smart contract. However, the Badger DAO exploit was both more and less ingenious at once.
Cosmos Network is making great strides while adding new layers to its already robust DeFi infrastructure that includes many exciting projects such as Terra, etc
Pepemon started as an experiment between developers and graphic designers. But it quickly evolved into one of the most under-the-radar projects in the space.
Ever since its tumultuous stint in 2018, the crypto market has been on the rise. Experts believe that this is due to the emergence of new and formidable financial applications that promise to change the way we access financial services. At the heart of this turnaround is the budding crypto lending sector currently pushing new paradigms in the DeFI and CeFI terrains.
Be it a hot wallet or cold wallet, it's important to understand your options for storing and protecting your cryptocurrency before you start investing.
DYOR-Do Your Own Research-is a phrase that's as important as it is repeated. With the prevalence of crypto scams and rug pulls, keeping it in mind is essential
Creative destruction might ultimately become the driving force towards a more open and fair financial system, and communities like WBS are just the start of it.
On conquest, risk, and reward in the new decentralized open economy and how cryptocurrencies like Ethereum fit into the historical patters of discovery.
Trends in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies are changing amazingly fast. We can express every year as the blossom of some new thing: 2017 - ICO, 2018 - IEO, 2019 - Stablecoin, 2020 - DeFi.
Here, we will show you how each of these decentralized oracles was built and how it tries to make data access faster, cheaper, more reliable, and decentralized.
In my previous article (So Many Public Chains, So Few Dapps), I pointed it out that too many public chains was one of the reasons that there were so few Dapps. App developers really do not want to develop their apps for so many blockchains.
A look at DeFi projects that have a technological foundation due to their Blockchain proposal within the crypto ecosystem, with a low Fully Diluted Market Cap
What is ERC-4337? The ERC-4337 standard allows account abstraction and wallet recovery. Understanding the EIP-4337 proposal and how it secures your crypto.
Decentralized finance is creating a lot of buzz in 2020, especially given the unexpected consequences of this year’s COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has become something of a mess in terms of traditional finance.
IBC is a protocol that allows blockchains to talk to each other. There are several important technical requirements involved and conditions that need to be met
In the #curvewar, protocols are trying to get the best yield for their $CRV aggregator by holding the most $CRV tokens. The lines are drawn and the battle is on
Cryptocurrency aims to make money and payments accessible to everyone globally, no matter where they are located. The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement helps in taking a step towards that goal by creating an open, global alternative to the financial services that are in use today to anyone with a smartphone and an internet connection.
Do you want to know what’s next after Ethereum transition to proof of stake? This article will explain all four phases ethereum needed to reach full capacity.
Vabble, a blockchain-powered subscription video on demand (SVOD) service that gives both creators and consumers total power over their user experience.
We all have heard about the currencies of different countries. But with digitization, people have now become used to utilizing things that are not physical but virtual. One of the best examples of this is the ever growing buzz word Cryptocurrency. This subject has been a trendsetter since the year 2009. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the developer of Cryptocurrency, has not been publicly revealed, but he has changed the way people used to think about digital money.
Why does the price of Bitcoin change so often?
It is because the price of a bitcoin is extremely volatile, and it’s not just the Bitcoin exchange rate that...
The Genesis of blockchain and crypto have drastically turned the world upside down. Every existing sector is on the verge of a complete overhaul. The biggest transformation struck traditional lending.
DeFi's culture is under attack. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the entire crypto industry have forgotten their roots. This is an ode to them and a look at their future.
The worldwide crypto wallet app Crypterium has recently been granted FCA registration and knows for sure that DEXs hold the key to mass crypto adoption.
Blockchain gave investors an alternative to mainstream finance with DeFi, and it can grant artists the control and financial viability they've always wanted.
The thorough investigation into the Skycoin lawsuit against crypto scammers and what other Blockchain Companies might learn from the company's experiences.
Soulbound tokens (SBTs) are non-transferrable, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that can serve as a web3 user’s identity that are intrinsically tied to their owners.
Although I have been in the blockchain space for more than 3 years, I am not from tech, which is probably why this post will be looking more into the story and the human aspects of ICOs.
Story is about the future of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the growth of cryptocurrency trading platforms, also known as decentralized exchanges (DEXs).
Mustafa Kheriba is the Executive Chairman of Iceberg Capital Limited, an asset manager. He launched the Venom Ventures Fund (VVF) in partnership with Venom.
NFTs have been the talk online for a while, but not everyone understands why anyone would want to purchase digital arts for millions! Learn more from our guide.
Mandalin, CEO of the Bucharest-based DeFi company, Sphynx Network, speaks about the new technologies the startup is pursuing and the lessons learned over time.
Running on the AMM model, liquidity pools have proved to be a secure and efficient income source. What is a liquidity pool? How does a liquidity pool work?
Blockchain technology currently limits developers in attempting to empower crypto users with better opportunities than the ones traditional financial ins
While it’s been quite a chaotic year, the DeFi revolution has proven that the key to success in the crypto world is to make a complicated product much, much simpler and accessible. This ideology is manifested through projects that make the user interface (UI) a priority.
As fintech innovations continue to disrupt the traditional financial system, blockchain technology becomes the clarion call for curbing market manipulation
DeFi is an alternative to the traditional financial system, since it offers many benefits and improvements but to become adopted, it must solve many challenges
Different statistics in the cryptocurrency industry aren’t always entwined. Some will see the popularity of OTC trading volume as a result of more people being interested in DeFi and yield farming. In reality, they couldn’t be further from the truth. Those who explore OTC markets are not the target audience for decentralized finance, at least in its current form.
A quick rundown of what kinds of features and trends need to be considered before a DeFi or crypto project is safe for investing into such as wallet types.
We’re all aware of traditional financial products and services. However, since the emergence of blockchain technology, the concept of Decentralized Finance, aka DeFi, has been on the rise.
As the Fed continues to pump our economy with an endless supply of fiat dollars, Bitcoin and the DeFi movement are making strides to level the playing field.
DeFi has been the leading narrative in the crypto space in 2020 with its pulsating innovation and stellar growth. Not only has the entire concept of financial services been turned on its head but we've also witnessed some of the speediest development in tech of all time. In the savage unforgiving decentralized landscape, competition is fierce and protocols are required to iterate almost daily to survive.
Despite its relative straightforwardness as a token, NFT industry participants can have wildly differing opinions on what NFTs really are. Here are 4 viewpoints
Cryptocurrency exchanges have been called altcoin casinos from day 1. They trade and promote thousands of tokens that have been dreamed up by former front end developers turned ERC20 evangelists.
LaCucina - recently came out of stealth and officially launched on the Binance Smart Chain to change the balance of power and make it easy for regular users to
The Ethereum Merge is a significant event in blockchain history that has been heavily hyped by many individuals and investors, including financial experts. After years of development, the gigantic Ethereum upgrade known as the Merge has finally happened, switching the digital machinery at the core of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value to a considerably more energy-efficient system.
Unizen’s smart exchange aims to address these flaws by merging a centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) architecture, dubbed 'CeDeFi' by the crypto community
From Canadian Bitcoin ETFs to decentralized finance protocols running on smart contract blockchains, all the prerequisites for Finance 2.0 are set in motion.
In Web3, how much regulation is too much? How much regulation is too little? How much regulation will provide the perfect balance of safety and competition?
Build the future of DeFi with Ape! From NFT marketplaces to you're own decentralized crypto exchange, Ape's framework provides elevated code for creators.
Following the outbreak of the novel Corona Virus pandemic, Central Banks have had to resort to printing more money to save the dying economy. The US Central Bank, like others, reportedly printed more dollar notes to meet the growing demand of the American economy.
Crowdfunding in the context of a resource-based economy is about intelligent allocation of the Earth's resources to develop innovations that benefit everyone.
The Poly Network cyber attack that has been the largest hack of all time in the cryptocurrency market saw $611 million worth of Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT. The network is a cross-chain bridge connecting Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon Network. The attack produced a host of catchy headlines and more than one version of what happened, some of which contradict each other. But there are still more questions than clear answers.
Three blockchain projects built on Polkadot won the Polkadot Buildathon: India. Learn more about what they built, the Buildathon and Polkadot's support for devs
With the passage of time, the popularity and usage of crypto markets have grown among masses. Therefore, apart from tech geeks, even laymen have become a part of this ‘thrill’. Let it be teenagers, adults, or the CEOs of tech giants, everyone seems interested to explore cryptocurrencies for their benefits.
UniMex is the first and only on-chain crypto margin trading system. It makes it possible for traders to execute short and long crypto trades on margins
The entry of NFTs to the Blockchain ecosystem has brought a variety of use cases that suggest the new boom within the DeFi sector and crypto in general.
While the lending market craze is plummeting and the “yield farming” opportunities are not as profitable as they were in the beginning, you might be looking for new ways to put your money at work.
Cross-chain solutions are increasingly catching the attention of speculators within the decentralized finance ecosystem. As products and platforms grow in popularity, interoperability between separate chains is becoming increasingly important.
Ethereum (ETH) which was launched in 2015, and is the second most valuable cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, is known for its high developer activity, alongside certain other cryptos like Cardano (ADA) and Kusamo (KSM).
Read more in the interview of Serge Levin, founder of Structure Finance, about financial products, how DeFi can influence Wall Street, trends in DeFi, and more
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), one of the most discussed ideas in the cryptocurrency space at the moment, is seen as a harbinger of new possibilities. The wealth of DeFi projects that have shown up in the past few months is extraordinary, matched only by the ICO boom of 2017.
Bitcoin is the purest and most battle-tested form of crypto money, and we must focus on its price action to divine whether the market's bottom has occured
Every crypto and DeFi enthusiast knows what difficulties he might face during blockchain project development: strict regulation, a public opinion upon the entire industry, lack of assets security. However, let’s ask ourselves a question: What stands above all of it? Uncertain future of Digital Finance? Hardly. Dependency on the Bitcoin rate? Partly yes, but recent cases show that it's not always the main factor.. Another thing came across my mind because I work a lot on the promotion of crypto and DeFi projects.
With DeFi, crypto assets can be put to use in ways not possible with fiat currencies or traditional financial products, though it has its own quirks to it.
ShareRing has pioneered the World's first user-focussed ecosystem for the issuance, storage, verification and sharing of personal information and key documents.
In this era of a radical transformation of traditional finance, it seems to be natural development that credit and debit cards are the next set of products
One of the most important parts of cryptocurrency has always been the potential for privacy. These are six coins that promote that aspect more than others.
With the Crypto Market crashed, now's a good time to refresh yourself on small facts about the space while it recovers and stabilises in the meanwhile.
Unit is a DeFi project that allows its users to create collateralized debt positions (CDPs) and mint the protocol’s native stablecoin. Be your own bank.
Crypto lending is a growing market that started only a few years ago. Unless you're new to cryptocurrency, you probably have heard this term at some point. Crypto lending works similarly to peer-to-peer lending, where borrowers are connected with lenders via an online crypto lending platform with cryptocurrency as the currency of trade instead of fiat money. Technically, the more appropriate term is crypto-secured lending because not all loans are denominated in cryptocurrencies.
This DeFi guide explains all the popular questions about decentralized finances. You will discover whether DeFi is dying, why DeFi still lacks security, etc.
Bitcoin and whole crypto space are stronger than ever. A deep dive into reasons why crypto has solid foundations that are becoming even more solidified.
The Bitcoin blockchain was revolutionary and still is. It changed the way we look at money. With the rise of decentralized finance, new blockchains are being built around it, but users should tread carefully because what to look for in a blockchain is changing.
A rebuttal of crypto skeptics who claim that the cryptocurrency industry is doomed to collapse because of its failure to deliver substantial innovation.
So you've founded a crypto project, and you're going to issue tokens to investors as a way to generate funds and turn your vision into reality - but have you thought about how you're going to take care of those investors beyond launch? After all, getting buy-in to the initial token-sale doesn't mean you take the money and run with it.
The interest in crypto-derivatives has gained substantial momentum among investors and traders since the introduction of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in late 2017. Crypto derivatives trading volume soared by 58 percent as compared to the prior month. The monthly volume reached $712bn in August, sufficient to surpass the previous high of $602bn registered in May 2020. Huobi, OKEx, BitMEX, and Binance registered a volume of $208 billion, $190 billion, $72 billion, and $184 billion, respectively.
The complete guide to yield farming in DeFi: how it works, how much is it possible to earn on it, and the risks involved in engaging in this form of investment.
Where does money in DeFi come from? How to earn on DeFi? Many of us might have heard that somewhere, somehow, there is that magical place in DeFi where you can
Cryptocurrency adoption is accelerating at a rapid pace in Africa. Free TON African subgovernance is doing big things in raising awareness for their solutions.
Recently venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz launched a new crypto fund worth $515 million. The company is focused on being part of the development of the new web 3.0 since it believes high-performance programmable blockchains are vital to the arrival of the new third-generation tech.
Hackers or group of hackers have exploited the bZx Protocol, twice, in under a week, profiting almost USD 1M. In the infographic below, we cover the technicals behind the exploitation.
Ethereum whales are undoubtedly driving the decentralized finance (DeFi) movement by depositing millions of dollars into decentralized liquidity pools to earn interest.
Real estate enterprises are recognizing the inevitable impact of blockchain technology to streamline payments and for the optimization of both commercial and re
Punk Protocol, providing the world’s first decentralized annuity product, partners with Gitcoin and becomes a sponsor for Grants Round 10 Hackathon on the 16th.
Is DeFi the killer app for blockchain or is it just hype based on the imperfection of the market? The more interesting question, though, is: how long will this growth continue?
In #DeFi 1.0 users are chasing the next high (yield). DeFi 2.0 provides: Increased capital efficiency, Protocol controlled liquidity, Advanced treasury mgmt
How Mango Markets were manipulated by attackers to drain the platform of over a $110 million without needing any advanced hacks or other complex breaches.
Those privileged players knew that we would consume whatever they produced because we had no other choice. Lack of competition put us, the end user, in a helpless position.
A good way to start thinking about decentralized finance is that it is peer 2 peer finance that is enabled by the blockchain. It's growing exponentially and...
With the news that January trading volume on decentralized exchanges reached an all-time high (above 55 billion - can you imagine?), unfortunately, an increased risk of money laundering (ML) occurred as well.
YFIDapp is an upcoming decentralized finance project committed to creating an elaborate and intuitive ecosystem for the participants. The project is made of five modular products that work in tandem to deliver high-yields to the lenders and borrowers engaged in the network. A great addition to the thriving, multi-billion dollar DeFi ecosystem, YFIDapp will focus on promoting an inclusive and lucrative network to all.
The enormous growth of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector in recent years has captured the attention of crypto users and the traditional finance sector.
Governments must identify, discuss, and ideate their wallet choices when thinking about CBDCs, incorporating key policy considerations for true defi for all.
Bitcoin holders that want to use BTC in decentralized finance (DeFi) are currently forced to rely on centralized providers, but there is a way to fix that.
Truflation is a data aggregation suite of APIs that allows users to fetch compilations of present and past rates in the US economy, including, but not limited to: inflation rates, price indexes, and other inflation categories such as food or housing.
DeFi Saver introduced Recipe Creator, an advanced defi transactions builder that lets you combine multiple actions from different protocols in one transaction.
The current time in the cryptocurrency space feels like a more mature version of 2017. Bitcoin is once again on a bull run, and it is about to once again reach the all-time high of $20,000 set three years ago. Two of the major differences between the crypto bull run of 2017 and 2020 is the involvement of institutional investors and the absence of initial coin offers, or ICOs.
Following the devastating effect of the pandemic, the world has quickly realized that it has to adapt to the new fickle environment – otherwise it will not withstand the hardship of Covid-19.
Data analysis as a whole is one of the most important industries. Now that DeFi is a full-fledged industry, there is a growing need for valuable data analytics.
Financial NFTs have the potential to reshape and vastly improve the financial landscape. Here we discuss the future of Financial NFTs in DeFi and trade finance.
Bitcoin may have more in common with traditional financial assets like bonds and stocks than other cryptocurrencies making it a particularly enticing investment
DeFi continues to play a crucial role in the evolution of the financial sector for many reasons. For one, it is an open and permissionless system that is available to everyone.
The NEM blockchain has come a long way since its launch back in 2015. As one of the earliest and most prominent blockchain platforms, it has built a solid community globally, with XEM.
Ivan Starinin and Alexander Salnikov are two alumni of Moscow’s elite Higher School of Economics that went on to forge a prolific entrepreneurial partnership in the blockchain space.
DeFi future is bright, but many investors are still interested in DeFi mass adoption. The article explains how DeFi is revolutionizing the financial industry.
Defi's increased popularity has also come with challenges now standing as roadblocks to further growth. Here, we discuss those problems and possible solutions.
Until today, access to DeFi services for Bitcoin holders has required handing Bitcoin over in return for an IOU on ethereum. Now Sovryn aims to change that with its Bitcoin native DeFi platform, with a strong focus on trading, leveraging, lending.
DeFi continues to garner the attention of retail and institutional investors with incentivized participation, one of the keys to Bitcoin’s continued success. Unlike most of us in 2020, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been having a very good year, becoming one of the most compelling innovations in the blockchain space with over $12.27 billion of value locked in the sector (based on 44 providers tracked by DeFiPulse).
During the three years of DeFi's existence, this year it rematerialized stronger than ever before. Many other platforms aim to reach the gates of DeFi with exuberant yield farming projects in progress, thus revolutionizing traditional users' operations and introducing other comforts into daily life.
However scarce or unknown it may be in the crypto and Blockchain sector, I have never stopped and I have never pulled back, even when even today, in my part, when I talk to him about this technology and of course Bitcoin (BTC), a laugh is what I get.
El Salvador's crypto bonds sale is not popular yet. Other countries are not likely to follow. But it's worth recognising the mainstreamness of the approach.
Twitter has recently hired Tess Renearsson – a famous blockchain engineer – to lead a new department at Twitter that will research decentralised technologies and look for ways how Twitter could implement them in its products and infrastructure. Twitter has responded to its users’ rising interest in decentralised technologies and will try to contribute to their development and to make them part of its user experience.
FTX + SBF Chapter 11 (Bankruptcy) Court Filing by John J. Ray III, Nov 17, 2022 is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. Part 13/20: Digital Asset Custody
After disruption, there's mainstream incorporation. DeFi companies need to incorporate best practices from traditional finance to shape the new digital economy.
CakeDeFi has paid around $317 million in rewards to its customers as of the end of Q1 2022 to become one of the fastest growing DeFi platforms in Asia.
A discussion with Abhishek Singh, Co-founder and CEO of Comdex on the recent crypto crash, features of a robust DeFi infrastructure layer, and much more.
Blockchain oracles, or off-chain data providers, are key players in the blockchain ecosystem - wielding as much if not more power than miners and protocols developers. Often misunderstood and overlooked, they suffer from constant misuse and security vulnerabilities. Licensing and endorsing professional oracles is key to improving the overall health of the blockchain ecosystem.
Project Serum is a brand new decentralized exchange (DEX) for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sphere from the same team that created FTX Exchange. It is said to test the boundaries of DEXs using a non-Ethereum blockchain.
Recently, decentralized finance (DeFi) projects are also dipping into the Metaverse. Their decision lets them leverage technologies from the uncertain field.
The expression decentralized finance - often abbreviated as DeFi - describes to an alternative financial infrastructure built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. DeFi uses smart contracts to create protocols that replicate existing financial services in a more open, interoperable, and transparent way. This article highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem. I propose a multi-layered framework to analyze the implicit architecture and the various DeFi building blocks, including token standards, decentralized exchanges, decentralized debt markets, blockchain derivatives, and on-chain asset management protocols. I conclude that DeFi still is a niche market with certain risks but that it also has interesting properties in terms of efficiency, transparency, accessibility, and composability. As such, DeFi may potentially contribute to a more robust and transparent financial infrastructure.
Most ordinary people don’t waste time thinking about Wall Street. This past week, however, regular folk sat up and took notice after hedge fund fat cats were beaten at their own game.
Kava Labs is proud to confirm that HARD Protocol is now being hosted on Binance’s Launchpool platform. Launchpool is a new initiative designed to bring the decentralized finance (DeFi) experience to Binance users.
Long before the invention of Bitcoin, the computerized world has become dependent on open source developers. Some pieces of code such as Internet browsers, operating systems, and code libraries have become so essential that it is unanimously agreed upon that they should not be controlled by a single company, who might charge exorbitant fees for their usage, withhold the software from certain users for any reason, or do other nefarious things with the code.
Globalization and liberalization in the 1990s changed the divided global economy into what was to become a single market, thus, making our global economy a hustling global village with free movement of capital, freedom of establishment and freedom of services.
DeFi industry is stepping forward at a great pace. Currently it appears to be the largest tectonic plate covering the Blockchain sphere and you have to be fully prepared.
Web3 products, platforms, and technologies offer unparalleled levels of transparency and security while allowing direct trade between individuals and companies.
DeFi staking is one of the hottest trends in the cryptocurrency industry today. It is a simple yet powerful concept that leverages the benefits of decentralized finance. Moreover, staking is still considered one of the best ways to generate passive income from one's existing crypto holdings.
The growth of Defi is remarkable, with the industry making great strides in just the past few years. It's quite right to conclude that this industry is probably the next big thing in the financial world, especially owing to the many use cases of the upcoming projects.
The article discusses the issue that regulations are coming to stablecoins and that Tether is to be blamed for it due to non-transparency in operations.
In recent years, the term decentralized finance (DeFi) has proliferated across the internet. Spreading from an obscure Telegram group chat to the force it is today, its meteoric rise might spell the end of the global financial system as we know it.
Uniswap can facilitate the exchange of tokens without relying on the conventional architecture of an order book method and curb liquidity issues simultaneously.
Yield farming is one of the more powerful trends in decentralized finance today. Anyone can put their[crypto] assets to work, although it involves a significant amount of trust. In a perfect world, which I think is within reach, anyone can earn yield on their assets natively.
The crypto market in recent times has been hot with lots of new monies going round due to the sudden attention to altcoins, while mainstream currencies continue to experience high level of inflation leading to sharp value declines.
As Decentralized Finance continues to mature and establish footholds in global commerce, the time for its potential to deliver a user-first banking experience has arrived.
Supply chain finance is one of the concepts countering conflicting interests arising from buyers’ traits of extending their payment terms and suppliers’ desire to receive payment instantly. This model mitigates the risks involved in the financing of the increasingly digitized global supply chains by enabling adequate working capital and providing the appropriate liquidity. As such, a supplier, with approved invoices, can receive the full amount owed by sourcing for funds from financial institutions. In turn, the financiers can provide extensions on the payables depending on the credit-worthiness of the buyer in question.
DeFi is booming, but while industry records are smashed, questions about Ethereum’s ability to shoulder the burden mount. The burgeoning DeFi sector is putting increasing pressure on the Ethereum network, with the problem growing so acute that Vitalik Buterin recently described gas prices as something “we now have to spend years painfully fixing”.
Back in 2015, the launch of Ethereum heralded a brand new day in the world of cryptocurrencies. It wasn't because people believed that it would displace Bitcoin as the dominant cryptocurrency. It was because of the major advances that the Ethereum blockchain introduced to the industry.
New EU crypto laws might "substantially widen" the scope of existing EU regulations by requiring non-fungible token issuers to consolidate their assets.
Whether you are an active day trader or a passive holder, taxes are likely not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your crypto portfolio.
Learn by example and find out what farming yield with leverage means, what some of the most widespread risks it carries are, and what you can do to avoid them.
In order to take advantage of all the benefits the DeFi world has to offer, you need to go through KYC procedures. What is KYC? And what is wrong with it?
The decentralized finance industry never sleeps, as competition remains fierce. Several new trends can be identified every month, yet the reputable projects appear to remain on top. For those who like fast-paced action and competitiveness, DeFi is well worth keeping an eye on.
The Gravity DEX protocol is finally live. Users will be able to experience the protocol when Emeris, the first platform to support it, launches in beta.
This article is about a Web3 company called YellowCard that has a crypto exchange app platform for bitcoin, ethereum and others, based for the African market.
Everyone has heard the latest hack, or the exploit, or the arbitrage, or the profit :) done in the Decentralized Finance World. The main reason was short of liquidity in an exchange, and using a single source to get prices.
When it comes to determining the best staking rewards, a lot comes down to your strategy. DeFi is diverse, and you can earn profits in many different ways.
You may have seen numerous articles about decentralized finance (DeFi) and its claims that it will radically change the traditional finance (TradFi) sector.
We all enjoy seeing our investment portfolios turn green as numbers hit all-time high levels, however, the crypto market has a cyclic nature, which means that there are periods of time when users also have to tolerate losing their funds.
A true representation of what went down with FTX, Alameda & SBF. This article also highlights the necessity of decentralization in the financial markets.
The prediction markets depend on crowdsourcing information from the general public to form beliefs and forecasts about the occurrence of future events.
AllianceBlock is helping to close the gap between decentralised finance and traditional finance by solving problems in both areas and bringing them closer.
The future of Defi hasn't looked better in years until recently. Learn about the newly implemented ERC-4337 standard and what it means for Defi's mass adoption.
The integration of financial services by non-financial organisations is referred to as embedded finance. This system has changed the way we engage with money.
Building great applications takes both decentralized and centralized databases, and so Koinos is being designed to enable developers to integrate a decentralized database into their stack regardless of how much or how little they want to rely on that database.
Overview of Yeti Finance on Avalanche Blockchain. Yeti is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers huge earning potential for its users. AVAX NFT $$$
To investors looking for staking rewards, blockchain adopting the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with liquid staking components are great options to participate in.
Stablecoins have been gaining traction among users ever since their inception. Thanks to steady market growth, its risk-mitigating properties and DeFi and more.
It seems that you can’t open Twitter or switch on the news without being subjected to something DeFi-related. The movement has the momentum of a freight train and has the potential to disrupt the way we do everything, from finances, healthcare, even the way we get our news. The core message of the DeFi movement, which is decentralization of power from historically centralized entities, is finally moving into the mainstream.
The rise of open finance solutions powered by public code exemplifies how the benefits of simplicity, steeled by decentralization, can be revolutionary.
If you have checked the latest crypto news, you must have heard about DeFi and the yearn.finance project. Its YFI token has surged by one mln percent in just two weeks and costs much more than bitcoin right now. So, I want to reveal how this could have happened and what is all the buzz about.
While we are experiencing a great deal of AI disruptions in several industries, the movement is facing a bit of resistance in the investment landscape.
NFTs are becoming mainstream due to recent innovations. Non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs, are taking the blockchain, collectibles, and investment world
How to promote a DeFi and NFT project, the full guide to NFT marketing that will help to make non fungible tokens and decentralised finance projects successful
Decentralized finance and the metaverse are mainstream today. That is why these two topics attract people very much, they do not understand these trends. In 2022, investments in these areas will increase exponentially, even despite the bear market. In this article, let's take a look at what DeFi and Metaverse are, what their prospects are, and why you should pay maximum attention to these areas.
This Slogging thread by Akasha Rose, Limarc Ambalina, Lavinia Osbourne and Michiel Mulders occurred in slogging's official #amas channel, and has been edited for readability.
Once upon a time, the emerging of the blockchain seemed to initiate a parallel new era, a utopia of the Value Internet. However, now the tide has receded, Bitcoin and Ethereum, as the flagships of the blockchain, are still struggling to get out of the dark tunnel, and the difficulty of landing various blockchain applications still has not been resolved.
When we launched our eco-governance token on Ethereum in September, it was the peak of the first DeFi season. Prices were rising, degens were aping, and morale was peaking. But under the ebullient surface, a storm was brewing…
In the cryptocurrency industry, there are currently two hot trends. On the one hand, there is DeFi, or decentralized finance. On the other, there are decentralized exchanges. Both segments intertwine for many different reasons, yet they are also very different from one another,
SEC chairman Gary Gensler was sworn in as a Securities and Exchange Commission member on February 3rd, 2021. Many considered him Bitcoin-friendly and great for crypto as a whole.
Find out how we used Ethereum to create Morpher, a trading app that has “virtual copies” of over 700 markets on the blockchain, from Apple stocks to gold.
Despite its popularity, traditional finance has some inefficiencies that need to be addressed. We spoke to Jack Tao of Phemex to get his thoughts on this.
On October 21-22, Moscow hosted the 5th international forum Blockchain Life. With 4,000 participants and 50 speakers, it became one of the largest live crypto events of 2020. I had the opportunity to be there and interviewed speakers, organizers, and guests to find out what it felt like to take part in an offline conference during a pandemic.
Decentralized exchanges are a safe way to trade without having to trust any third parties. In this article, we look at the top 3 decentraliced exchanges.
Predictions for Crypto industry in 2021: DeFi, DEX, STO, ETH 2.0, CBDC and everything that can affect crypto / blockchain world and can help users and projects
In today’s vicious bear market, crypto investors should exercise caution and turn to what made blockchain so great in the first place: decentralization.
Kurt Farrugia, product leader of a family of stablecoins, Samecoin, spoke to me recently in order to share his expert knowledge by answering some of the questions about the stablecoin sector in the crypto niche.
It is difficult not to define 2020 in the crypto and blockchain world, given the countless positive and negative events that have taken place since the beginning of the year.
DeFi is a buzzword that is on everyone’s lips today. Its staggering pace of growth mounting up to 2,000% in 2020 could not be left unnoticed, and there could be no way of foreseeing it even by the most vigorous market analysts just a year ago.
Today, we will analyze Ethereum's (ETH) value and the various technical, competitive, and regulatory factors that may affect its valuation in the future.
There's no denying that DeFi will play a major role in finance of the future, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission looked at the problems with regulating it this week.
Look at the fundamentals by using what happened to stock trading when retail investors were allowed to participate as a case study compared to tokenization.
Do you remember when stablecoins were still just for hedging risks? In the crypto industry, just about anything can become a source of profit – including stablecoins. But which of the USD-pegged coins should you buy to maximize your earnings?
Solana is quickly becoming one of the top blockchains and communities with hundreds of new ecosystem partners. Solana Summer represents Solana's time to shine.
A detailed examination of DeFi risk that projects must address in order to step out of the sidelines and move to crypto's forefront of innovation and adoption.
Morphware is a decentralized approach to deep learning. The main problem that Morphware aims to address is the computational complexity required to train.
The future of DeFi and whole crypto industry is Multi-Chain / Cross-Chain. Protocols cooperating to provide user with experience close to CEX like Binance.
The hacker attacks at DeFi protocols are a threat to DeFi's institutional adoption, but with the right precautions, banks can enter the space at minimal risk.
NFTs should be more than bullshit. As technologists, we must mint meaningful assets with real-word use cases- I found one, with Rich-Dad Poor Dad know-how! YASS
Smart contracts have a lot of potential, even though they remain fairly limited in approach. Obtaining external data is impossible for a contract on its own. The future will inevitably involve decentralized oracles, which can serve many different purposes.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) was created back in 2015, when the pioneer application, MakerDAO, allowed any crypto holders to take out loans in the DAI stablecoin. Years of steady growth followed and a palpable buzz around DeFi started to emerge in the crypto community, leading to the breakout year that was 2020.
DeFi security is a booming sector as we protect against an ever-increasing amount of hacks, and Immunefi has had a metaphorical rise in the blockchain sector
The idea of blockchain was first introduced in 1991 by Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta. It was not until 2008 that the first blockchain was conceptualized by Nakamoto Satoshi and created Bitcoin. Since then, numerous projects emerged hoping to revolutionize the blockchain space.
What if your money was intelligent and could lend itself out to the highest interest rate or how about a no-loss lottery where you always get your initial money back, or perhaps you'd like to receive your paycheck on a daily basis rather than monthly. Well, this is all possible today.
Distributed public networks face a trilemma: digital transactions must provide privacy while meeting compliance requirements in a trustless environment.
The future is now, it's 2020 and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are experiencing a Cambrian explosion.
Typically in an enterprise, you have top-down hierarchies as the mechanism of control. Let's look at a quick example of how a DAO works differently in action.
Imagine you’re building a startup, except at this startup, there is a clear sense of organization without humans organizing other humans. It all runs organically, and it's generative in nature, meaning it evolves, innovates and experiences high growth from within.
Leaderless leadership!
How is such a way of working together achieved?
Through active participation from interested parties who share common values, missions and objectives. People-driven autonomous organizations happen mostly through voting on decisions that are proposed by other community members.
You can propose, vote and discuss decisions as a team without having to have a singular authority to report to. Resulting in new ideas being seeded and proposed from within the organization to solve mission-critical challenges that the DAO is facing.
It's really a synthesis of innovation and ambition, it's great!
With that said there are certainly some balanced benefits and drawbacks about this model that we should explore.
For the moment DAOs function in a fairly binary nature, you vote on proposals that you or others have submitted, typically these votes take place on blockchains by signing a transaction with your crypto wallet. That means the current state of DAOs is experiencing the highest growth in the blockchain industry. So whilst DAOs are now, they might be somewhat gravitating around the future of money.
However crypto-centric it is right now, it is definitely laying out an exceptional framework that any organization type could be built upon. We are seeing many other non-crypto DAOs emerge too, using platforms like Aragon to create a DAO in minutes on the blockchain. This is achieved by creating a Governance Token on the Ethereum blockchain. When users hold these Governance Tokens they can vote on proposals put forward to the community.
These communities can even have treasuries where the DAO can organize their finances. For example, members that hold these Governance Tokens can suggest making a payment, creating a vote inside the community so it can be approved or denied collectively.
There are many lessons to learn about how to coordinate large groups of self-interested people.
I recently wrote an article, "Failure shows us the way", where I outlined my thesis on how I think we can even coordinate groups who don't explicitly share the same values, they instead just share the same mission. It's going to be very interesting to see what unfolds with the DAOs that are experimenting right now.
Why are DAOs exploding right now?
Basically there is an entire unstoppable movement happening because of projects offering up a Governance Token as a bonus to those who are using some Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.
I've heard many stories from folks achieving incredible results in less than 5 days. For example, "With YFI I earned like $3.5k on $24k", one community member shared with me.
That example is a 14.58% increase in capital in just five days, no wonder it's getting attention.
Wait, how are people making money from these Governance Tokens?
In the DeFi world, there is a new meme known as Yield Farming 👨🌾 its technical name is Liquidity Mining.
This is where a user deposits crypto stablecoins like USDC, DAI & USDT to earn a reasonably safe and secure return, which lately seems to be roughly 8% APY. As well as this, these DeFi applications which have newly formed their own DAOs to oversee their protocols, are rewarding users with Governance Tokens when they have funds deposited into their various DeFi products.
This has added rocket fuel to the DeFi community, with an explosive $3 Billion USD flowing into projects in just the last couple of weeks. This doesn't stop here either, there are many more DAO innovations that will be made known during this wave of Governance Tokens. One example is Referral Yield Farming, where you can earn Governance Tokens for referring people to DeFi platforms without having to deposit any funds of your own.
From the dawn of human history, money has been serving as an unmistakable reflection of material worth, which deserved all members of the society placing trust in it. However, as the reality often showed, the economy - and money intertwining with it - has been prone to instability over a longer period of time: once the political stability has been undermined, money quickly eroded in value, making thousands of citizens tighten their belts or otherwise, look for alternative ways to escape the economic unease.
In 2022 may mark a turning point for decentralized finance (DeFi), which enables customers to conduct financial transactions without the use of middlemen.
The main motivation behind RIF Enveloping is to allow users to pay for transaction fees using their preferred tokens, driving down the barriers to DeFi adoption
DeFi's sudden popularity in 2020, excessive increases, constant security
concerns, and the entry of so much capital, where DeFi will be pushed? What future directions are more worthy of our attention?
There are lots of positives to take away from the ongoing DeFi renaissance. For one, the emergence of this concept has brought about truly liberating financial infrastructures designed to deploy user-centric solutions. With the help of DeFi, developers look to enable new paradigms in the financial sector, which hopes to strip away the input of intermediate service providers in banking processes. Fortunately, this unique approach to banking and related concepts has begun to catch the eye of industry participants. As such, it is no surprise that the DeFI landscape has attracted unprecedented coverage, with the assets locked in decentralized finance protocols registering exponential growth in just a short period.
To be sure, blockchain rose to the world stage on the back of Bitcoin's remarkable performance. However, blockchain technology is gaining its significance, especially after the cryptocurrency ecosystem nearly collapsed in 2018. Today, the technology anchors around three primary use cases: staking, custody, and DeFi.
Making sense of crypto markets always invited comparison to traditional assets. On the surface, crypto trading is similar to stocks, but also to the forex market. The forex market may be a more apt comparison, since crypto startups do not treat their tokens as securities.
What if it were possible to send and receive cryptocurrencies across different blockchains? For example, using bitcoin on the Binance Chain would allow users to transact bitcoin for a lower transaction fee with a faster payment settlement time. Instead of taking roughly an hour to receive six confirmations on their BTC transaction, the transaction would take as little as 6 seconds to receive that same amount of confirmations on Binance Chain.
The article talks about Web 3.0, DeFi and smart contracts. Web 3.0 is an evolution enabled by blockchain and smart contracts opening the door to the next era.
Since its origin quite long ago, asset management has been considered a smooth way to effortlessly kick your financial portfolio into gear using a professional’s help. To get it done, people prefer to hire professionals who possess a strong level of financial sensibility and constantly keep their hands on the pulse of the market. Whether you are driven by their competence or your own lack of free time, financial professionals can do all the grunt work for you and in the best cases, end up with returns which exceed initial expectations.
The internet is littered with posts aimed at unborn Bitcoiners, those who resist the red pill and maintain a limited awareness about the revolutionary characteristics imbued in BTC. We've all heard the tales, and many of us chose the rabbit hole instead.
Alarm continues to grow around further interest rate hikes and the impact on the global economy. But an interest rate reversal may be closer than once thought
“Aren’t cryptocurrencies anonymous by default?” I’m sorry to be the one telling this to you, but Bitcoin is not anonymous. At least, not by default. Bitcoin is known as an immutable ledger, a leger that is publicly available and keeps a record of every single transaction that happens on the network. It’s true that anybody can transact Bitcoin, but it’s also true that anyone can see all of those Bitcoin transactions.
You are looking to invest in crypto and are probably weighing your options from different ways to earn. Staking is one of the most lucrative investment options in the crypto world.
NFTs or Non Fungible Tokens can be quite an interesting target for profitable investment since the platforms where such kind of tokens is application...
2020 was great for Non-Fungible Tokens. This market gained volume, fame, and infrastructure. But what all the buzz is about? And what can we expect in 2021? I want to make it clear and to share my thoughts about the future of NFT.
Neuron Fund is an investment management company working in crypto financial markets and dedicated to delivering attractive risk-adjusted performance. NEUR token
The pandemic has changed the rules of the game, not only for business, but in fact, has affected everyone. The words quarantine and remote work have become commonplace in our everyday life. Those companies that could not switch to remote operation suffered losses or were completely liquidated.
Mainstream projects keep on unraveling in the DeFi world, intending to provide convenient financial services to everyone. Leveraging ethereum's technology is one of the best boosts that the projects have adapted to thrive in the market.
Are blockchains decentralized and if yes, to what extent? Blockchains may be not as decentralized as they claim to be which may affect how you view them.
Metaverse is going to change society and how humans interact with each other. The interview talks about metaverse, DeFi and trends to watch out for in 2022.
To answer this question we must make some considerations and compare them with the traditional system of finance, because only by analyzing those aspects will we be able to understand whether DeFi in its entirety is actually convenient.
The term DeFi, short for "decentralized finance," has been entering the lexicon of the tech world for the last few years, yet only gaining real popularity recently.
Margin trading magnifies the market’s every move. Leverage intensifies the trading experience and captivates our inner risk-taker. It’s either moon or gloom. We are lured in, naturally focusing on the upside potential. As volumes grow along with increasing crypto-optimism, demand for leveraged exposure is rising.
As the popularity of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) continues to grow, so does the potential for scams using it. Learn to protect yourself against scammy NFTs.
Finance has normally been a solo affair. But change is here, from DAOs, play to earn and gamified finance - defi is the new social frontier of the internet.
The 2020 version of DeFi looked like a radical and frankly weird alternative to legacy banking. But in 2021, we might start moving to DeFi v.2 – one that banks and corporations can embrace. However, it will be very different from the sushi swaps and yield farming crazes that we've seen so far, with bank-friendly projects like Cryptoenter taking the lead.
Welcome to our series, "Behind the Startup." Tell us about your book on Security Token Offerings ('STOs') and your journey
into the blockchain industry?
In this slogging thread, our technology channel talked about companies starting to pay their employees with cryptocurrency and how this can be a new reality
Is decentralization fair for everyone? This Week On Planet Internet, Utsav Jaiswal, Sidra Ijaz, and Amy Tom talk about the decentralization movement. What's the latest with DeFi? Can AI & decentralization be friends? 🥺
Most of the common blockchain audience has by now heard of DeFi, and the implications it has to those who know how to utilise it - but one thing that hasn't been greatly explored is Price Oracles and their impact on these applications.
By definition, a fungible asset is a type of asset that is interchangeable with other assets of the same type. Currency is a fungible asset. After borrowing a $100 bill, the borrower can return the amount either in a combination of bills of different denominations or in a different $100 bill. The value of the dollar $100 remains the same in both cases.
If we imagine a fully decentralized and free digital space in the Metaverse then DeFi also plays a crucial role to fulfil the growing demands of users.
With over $16 billion worth of assets locked in the market, the buzz surrounding the yield generating protocols of this ecosystem has brought about new growth dynamics to the already star-studded crypto industry.
Since its grandiose debut on the world’s stage in 2008, blockchain brought a revolutionary promise of shaking up multiple existing industries and defining the new vector of their development. 12 years later, this is still far from being completely true; right now, blockchain hype is said to be ”paused” mostly due to the global mobilization to fight the pandemic.
First of all, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to all of our new community members and HASH Token holders. We are grateful for the support you’ve shown this far and are excited to explore new chapters together!
From any point of view, 2019 was a great year for crypto. First of all, Bitcoin, Ethereum and other core industry projects survived the bear market. The Ethereum ecosystem got a lot of adoption and traction with Defi and its decentralized financial instruments, such as reliable stablecoins, money markets, futures, options, DAO and many more. At least two digital currencies with a >1 bln user base each are on the track: China Central bank CBDC (digital Yuan) and Facebook’s Libra. Ethereum is on the long-awaited path to ETH 2.0 and PoS. The previously very specific token engineering discipline is getting more and more attention, first of all from academic, business and developer’s community. The largest financial companies in the world are developing blockchain solutions, engaging new and new market players to the blockchain industry.
Avoid crippling gas fees! Learn how to transfer your tokens from the Ethereum to Polygon blockchain, so you can trade at a fraction of the cost and speed.
Binance is widely considered to be a top cryptocurrency exchange. At the same time, their approach to crypto-assets can be improved. It is not unthinkable a better platform will emerge over time, capable of rivaling this industry giant.
Decentralized Finance, also known as Defi, has grown massively since its beginnings in 2020. As this industry continues to grow, new innovations come into play.
Yields in financial markets have reached historical lows. For example, US 10 year bonds are paying a mere 1.52% annually and the S&P 500 Dividend yield is down to 1.94%. To earn higher yield, investors are buying deeper into illidiquity and risk targeting non-government debt in emerging markets. Another space that is evolving is Decentralized Finance (DeFi) based on blockchain protocols, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts.
Its growth has brought new opportunities to users, developers, and the industry in general, but has also brought new risks that investors may not be aware of but must endure nonetheless.
Why are we all so entitled to the Blockchain industry? For the high development pace? Of course. For the number of appearing opportunities, growing like a weed under the sun and rain? Surely. For building up an alternative financial and tech sphere? You name it.
While pitching investors might sound straightforward, there are some underlying technicalities most people fail to understand. Here's an explanation of them.
Some blockchain projects did a lot of thinking about what their “killer app” would be, and most decided that gambling is the answer. Even a perfunctory glance will show you that most applications involve some form of gambling or games run on chance. Clearly, blockchain wants a piece of the online gambling business, a sizeable industry worth more than $80 billion that’s set to grow significantly in the coming years.
Web3 and DeFi are hot and trendy topics these days. What does Web3 actually mean? How do Web3 and DeFi impact each other? What's the best Web3 example?
In the world of decentralized finance (“defi”) we often hear
about “banking the unbanked”. The vision is to give people with no access to even a bank account, access to global financial market. People from developing countries often suffer from hyper inflation, massive fluctuations of their local currencies, restrictions by their governments or simply have no bank account to store their financial valuables.
Interview with QuickSwap’s co-founder Sameep Singhania about the motivations behind behind the project and how it can improve the user experience within DEXs.
In this multi part series I'll be delving into the Defi playground with a few low cost entries and revealing my experiences. Part 1 looks at the Drip Network
The article discusses the importance of privacy for DeFi protocols and how cross-chain privacy is critical for protecting the financial privacy of users.
The current DeFi craze has caused a seismic shift within the crypto industry. Yield farmers and traders are exploiting the most of this current trend to maximize earning opportunities.
On this day, as everyone knows, Halloween is celebrated, a holiday that is not very clear its origin, especially for the word that could derive from the Scottish variant "All Hallows'Eve" but others trace it back to the character "Jack O ' Lantern” that condemned by the devil to wander at night with a hollowed pumpkin with a candle inside, and then from the word hollowing it became Halloween.
After having seen one of the 5 macro areas of decentralized finance (DeFi), namely lending and borrowing, today we will focus on another aspect and which is ...
Enterprises and Startups are crazy about the idea to use the Blockchain to track products, building trust and develop new services. In fact, Blockchain Technology is designed to work as a Triple-Entry Accounting to solve Cross-Boarder Trust with math.
The DeFi space is growing tremendously since its inception, and platforms like Fusion and Fantom are proving to be the catalyst in this ever-growing niche.
Synthetic assets have proven to be an exciting addition to the cryptocurrency and DeFi industry. Bridging the gap between crypto and real-world assets will provide better liquidity
There is a lot to take away from the price performance of the digital asset market in 2020. One of such is that the concept of bitcoin halving, as expected, is a major contributing factor to the success of the bitcoin market and has eventually delivered the level of price swings projected during the pre-halving days. Another is that DeFi is perhaps the most potent application of cryptocurrency technology, which makes it the most plausible instigator of the next wave of growth. In the months following the global market crash, the DeFi landscape has attracted around $14 billion worth of capital. Why is this so?
‘Fair launch’ of a crypto project = Tokens are distributed fairly to the market participants. There is no founder allocation, early access. Everyone is equal in the project’s ecosystem on day one.
The current push for DeFi has not only changed the way we engage with our everyday financial needs but has also introduced new means of accessing, supporting, and investing in new projects. Tagged as Initial DEX Offerings (IDO), the possibility of bypassing restrictions when identifying and investing in projects has improved crypto funding. However, this does not mean that other models of crowdfunding have become redundant. For what is worth, Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) is still the go-to option for projects that prefer to capitalize on established launchpads and introduce a more diverse array of crypto products not necessarily restricted to the financial sector.
Do cryptocurrency projects need a leader? Or are there alternatives to celebrity culture in decentralised communities? Free TON may offer a better way forward.
When Ethereum first launched back in 2015, it marked a new era for the blockchain ecosystem. For the first time, anyone could mint their own tokens using the ERC-20 standard, creating a new means of crowdfunding and leading to the heady days of the 2017 ICO boom.
Crypto’s growing attractiveness stems from digital assets’ unique capacity to eliminate pain-points peculiar to certain industries. Without any doubt, one of the defining successes of crypto in 2019 is the emergence of DeFi technology, especially in the lending and investment market. Together, cryptocurrency and its underlying technology enable lending ecosystems devoid of challenges prevalent in legacy systems. With this setup, lenders can easily invest in the budding crypto lending market, while borrowers can evade the bureaucratic structure of traditional lending facilities and enjoy lesser interest rates.
Using blockchain technology requires safe smart contracts. Therefore, businesses must have their smart contracts audited by a reputable, experienced company.
The NFT market has proven to be as lucrative as the DeFi sector in the Blockchain ecosystem and some Metaverse show this with their successful virtual LAND sale
The Decentralized Flexible Organization is a new concept, that reshapes how we’re building Decentralized Applications, solving some critical points of failure in the today’s Dapp ecosystem like the needs of a Legal Known Entity to Trust, the slowly Smart Contract Developing and the Centralized or Distributed Servers Needs.
How DeFi adoption will impact the market cap of the King of Cryptos
When discussing bitcoin with investors who are new to the crypto sector this is their recurring question “… all very interesting but ultimately what can I do with bitcoin? What can I buy with it?”
DeFi security provider, Hackless, is introducing a new tool that helps fight sandwich attacks on BNB Chain and Ethereum. Try safe swaps with AntiSandwich
Many people ask me about a simple way to get involved in the brave new world of Web3, Decentralized apps, and blockchains in general. I have now learnt that the
The crypto space has very few barriers to entry when it comes to building a team and launching a product. Both developers and the community flock to new projects, even if they are competitive.
In this article, we’ll take a look at the latest iteration of the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC), and what this new feature means to you.
Future trends in crypto might revolve around metaverse and NFT, Zero Knowledge proofs, evolution of DeFi, growth of Social Identity importance, and Multi-Chain.
The DeFi space we know today is a result of years of development, with each innovation prompting new use cases and the creation of new products. But some blockchain lovers argue that innovations come at a cost of reduced decentralization. Thus, price oracles instigated a discussion on “The Oracle Problem” regarding the mere idea that relying on a single source of information pushes blockchain to sacrifice decentralization-related benefits, creates a possible single point of failure and introduces the idea of putting trust back into the system.
Technological developments and their rapid adoption make this the right time for a new decentralized financial system to emerge. So far, the products with more traction have been protocols offering lending/borrowing of crypto assets.
The Ethereum community has been awkwardly quiet in the face of ETH 2.0 difficulties. Many DeFi projects are playing the waiting game on implementing layer two solutions or wait for good news from Vitalik Buterin.
After a season of crazy pumps, new projects, and exit scams, the DeFi Summer of 2020 is cooling down. The food is rotting on the vine and the seafood is going stale.
Huobi DeFi Labs, the latest venture of the Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, is the platform for Defi research, investment, and ecosystem building. The Chinese venture portfolio for the Defi Industry with a focus on lending, decentralized exchanges, and derivatives markets, has issued its first research report “Price Oracle: a Must-Have Infrastructure”. It makes a strong case for the adoption and usage of oracle projects and suggests that price oracles are an integral part of the decentralized financial services infrastructure.
Excitably, I FINALLY get to announce that institutions are pouring nearly 58 million dollars a week into Bitcoin! Oh, and Jr over there, Ethereum is seeing nearly $10M/USD in trades, weekly.
There are major players as exchanges that are running in a fully controlled manner. The solution recently presented itself in IDO - Initial DEX Offering.
Most crypto traders are comparing 2020 with 2017 when Bitcoin hit its all-time-high of $20,000 and altcoins were doing a 2-5-10x in just a matter of days. This year is different, though. Traders, holders, and investors have more knowledge and the market growth is not based on hype. The crypto market is close to reaching mainstream adoption and that wouldn’t be possible without all the DeFi (Decentralized Projects) that are making crypto more accessible and easy to use for the average user.
DeFi or decentralized finance is a growing sector in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space that defines an ecosystem of decentralized applications providing financial services with no governing authority.
Since the last two years, a significant upsurge has taken place in the Defi space. Gone are the days where you had limited options for what you can do with your crypto.
Blockchain-based lending/borrowing protocols have proliferated at a rapid rate in recent years, flying under the flag of open or decentralized finance (DeFi).
Liquidity is one of the most improtant aspects in every market and asset. The main reason liquidity is so important is that it greatly affects asset prices. In
Decentralized finance project Kava launches cross-chain money market Harvest.io. The media is calling Kava, the "Apple App Store of DeFi" because the platform enables app developers to quickly deploy DeFi apps using its cross-chain infrastructure and framework.
Decentralized finance dApps (DeFi) are, without a doubt, the way we can see real progress being made in regard to the general adoption of cryptocurrencies. As we know them now, cryptocurrencies are still climbing the adoption curve.
It was in July 2018 when Vitalik Buterin, in a well-balanced TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain, said he wished all centralized exchanges would burn in hell.
DeFi charity projects have become stellar examples of consumer activism and social sustainability. Charity DeFi projects numbers have been growing exponentially
This article will teach you different Web3 learning platforms where you can earn while learning diverse topics, including crypto, Web3 development, and DeFi.
Avoid crippling gas fees! Learn how to transfer your tokens from the Ethereum to Polygon blockchain, so you can trade at a fraction of the cost and speed.
The past year has shown that it's possible to earn in the cryptosphere by investing in an asset and using it in the DeFi ecosystem. And what is about Bitcoin?
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It is not a big secret, that a lot of market players are trying to compare the current situation on the crypto market with the phenomenon we saw in 2017. Back then, in October, the BTC price was 2 times lower and ICO made the market super attractive for scammers (so as DeFi now). Should we really be prepared for a rally starting from now?
The Bear Market is time to build and learn, experience in the space and network with people. Bear market is time to stay active and not leave the space.
In the last couple of years, the DeFI landscape has worked tirelessly to improve the way we interact and engage with financial processes and systems. Needless to say, all that hard work has begun to pay off.
After a user on Reddit informed me the smart contract allows the team to create unlimited tokens, I became interested in traveling further down the wormhole.
Many of us have come to know about decentralized finance (DeFi) and have faced this sector with many doubts, understanding its potential, especially given the interests and the APR and APY it provides to those who interact with the various protocols.
Hi Dan Schatt, welcome to our series “Behind the Startup” tell us about your journey from the payments industry to decentralized finance (DeFi)?
My “Aha” moment was in 2013 at PayPal. We called ourselves “The Internet of Payments” and had spent so much time plugging into traditional payment and settlement systems around the world, eliminating buyer and seller frictions, as long as they all used PayPal. Moving bits of data is easy when everyone is using the same database. I thought to myself, I don’t know if it’s 10 years or 20 years, but when distributed ledger technology scales, they will eventually overtake traditional payment networks. We started thinking about what infrastructure would be needed to spur the development of financial services for the “token economy” and that’s eventually how CRED was born!
The rapid growth #DeFi in 2021 exposed many flaws in the pioneering new financial system. In 2022, we look forward to improved #security, #insurance and more.
Imagine ecentralized YouTube, Facebook, Gmail. Are we there yet and what will the decentralized web for developers look like once it all finishes maturing?
Businesses, traders, and individual users can benefit from the ability to monitor activity on their crypto addresses in real-time. PARSIQ empowers these users.
Unit Protocol is a decentralized borrowing platform that allows using a variety of tokens as collateral including USDP Stablecoin and Stake DUCK token.
The most essential difference between Libra and Saga is a governance mechanism. In Saga, the owners of the currency and its "fate" so to speak are the SGA holders. Saga has a built-in democracy to prevent the case of plutocracy.
Can we decentralize the internet? Or are the blockchains of today not up to task? I speak to Pavel Prigolovko, of TON Labs, to find out how it can be possible.
The world witnessed some of the massive DeFi hacks in 2021 on some of the most renowned protocols like bZx, Cheese Bank, Harvest Finance, Value Defi, etc.
It is common knowledge that the global financial service sector, which is projected to reach $25.6 trillion by 2022, is undergoing some changes as a result of the extensive incorporation of disruptive technologies. Stakeholders have come to understand that financial services need a lot of revamping to meet the current needs of consumers. As of now, the universal requirements of banking services and products are speed, transparency, security, and affordability. However, we all know that it is impossible to seamlessly combine these features if financial service providers rely solely on conventional practices.
Read about the history and underlying Web1.0 and 2.0 technologies. Let the article provide you with a vision about the decentralized internet future of Web 3.0.
Blockchain smart contracts enable trust-minimizing escrow agreements, where value can be received, held, & remitted pursuant to objective conditions & triggers.
It has been an impressive year for cryptocurrencies. From Bitcoin soaring to as high as $41.9k in early January 2021, to Ethereum rising above Jan 2018 high, and Cardano reaching a new three-year high, investors are upbeat.
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is a relatively recent variation on FinTech that is seeing a massive surge in popularity. As of the time of writing, there’s over $12.4 billion of value locked into DeFi, which is an enormous jump up from the $547 million it held a year ago.
So far 2020, has been a truly magnificent year for Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Since the beginning of the year, the total value locked in DeFi smart contracts has risen fivefold, with the vast majority of this growth coming from the last two months alone.
Coinbase represents one of the world’s most popular digital currency exchanges, but the company is involved in numerous other crypto-related spheres. For instance, it has its very own investment department named Coinbase Ventures.
The goal of Coinbase Ventures is to help create a suitable open financial system. To do this, it provides funding to early-stage startups with promising ideas and dedicated teams. As such, Coinbase Ventures has invested in dozens of innovative projects that are building the future’s financial infrastructure.
This article will highlight Coinbase Venture’s long-term plans by providing readers with an overview of the most promising ventures.
Lower transaction fees and settlement time is crucial for the success of any decentralized application, and for that, you need to have a scalable blockchain framework
The two latest thrilling things in the Ethereum ecosystem are NFT and DeFi. Until 2020, these "Money LEGOs" were quite isolated from each other but became the arena of many new projects, innovations, and volume records. And I'm sure that there's more room to grow and blend.
With DeFi trend steadily gaining momentum across the world, 2020 has been deservedly proclaimed as the year of “DeFi Renaissance”. Indeed, no other technological innovation shook up the world to the same extent as decentralized financial technology did earlier this year. Even in the face of such a major ground-shaking event as Covid-19, not only DeFi stood up to its position, but also magnified in value to an extent hardly envisaged half a year ago. The TVL index accurately reflects it – compared to the start of this year with $80 million, the total value has now augmented to the transcendental value of $11 billion.
2019 was marked by a boom of DeFi apps and neobanks. Both form part of the wider fintech industry, and both can change the way people view and use money. But you shouldn't lump them together. In this post, I'll explain the subtle differences between decentralized finance and neobanking apps.
Cryptocurrencies offer a unique opportunity to monetize assets through Liquid Staking regardless of their nature, from NFTs to synthetic Forex derivatives.
If you have been keeping up with the latest developments in crypto; BTC is only a tip of the iceberg. This year saw the rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), which is now a hot topic amongst the crypto community and stakeholders including regulatory authorities.
This guide, written by whitehat Lucash-dev for Immunefi, will help you set up a local environment, reproduce DeFi exploits. Join Immunefi bug bounty platform!
With the rising popularity of cryptocurrency, the rise of a new generation of crypto-lovers has also fueled the growth of a new beast: non-fungible tokens.
The insurance industry is a huge market. In the United States, in 2019, the volume of paid insurance premiums amounted to a trillion dollars. However, despite such volumes, the industry is experiencing great difficulties, because of which insurance companies are losing more than $100 billion every year.
In order to save money and time, many users choose infinite approval when needed. As a result, they do not know the day when they suddenly find that their token has been transferred away.
Blockchain provides a wide variety of channels to create or recreate new models for legacy systems. The components of this technology offer disruptive frameworks that can optimize the way we execute transactions and much more. And although financial applications remain the most compelling use case of blockchain, it has registered a similar level of success in the gaming industry. The introduction of CryptoKitties in 2017 showcased just how versatile blockchain is and the enormous demand for blockchain-enabled gaming platforms.
Crypto projects went through multiple cycles, seeking the right recipe to build finance operations. The most intuitive and immediate takeaway was that crypto was volatile and unpredictable, with wild price swings for new projects. There were multiple reasons for the price swings, ranging from outright scams to coordinated pumps.
On June 26, 2020, the value locked into the Compound protocol reached a staggering $1 billion, making it the "most valuable" decentralized finance protocol. In the past year, DeFi became the hottest topic in the crypto. Let's take a close look at one of its most popular projects.
Although human kicked off a quite challenging start of the year 2020, for most governance protocols of DAOs, they have made pretty great progress and gained a lot of attractions alongside DeFi.
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is one of the most transparent forms of modern finance with immediate oversight of the total value locked. Whether collateralized lending or automated trading pairs, the number of assets in each DeFi protocol can be traced, verified, and evaluated for trends.
2020 will go into crypto history as the year of DeFi. It has been a long time since we have seen a hype of similar magnitude, probably best comparable to the 2017 ICO hype.
The blockchain is a cryptography-focused architecture based on the internet protocol, powered by networked computer servers that do not need to be set up by developers.
A recent CipherTrace study paints a sad picture: even though crypto users’ losses from criminal attacks have dramatically fallen by 57% in 2020 to $1.9 billion (compared to $4.5 billion in 2019), fraud within the DeFi space continues to grow, leaving more users deceived.
Decentralised wallets, or DeFi wallets are a gateway to the world of Decentralised Applications, that helps users store their digital assets in a safe way.
As software and hardware engineers around the world are untangling the centralization of the internet, a vocal portion within the enclave of blockchain-based solutions - generally referred to as decentralized finance - or DeFi for short - has emerged. While blockchains provide the building blocks for reliable information and - to a lesser extend value - transport functions - a layer of middleware to the larger concept of cryptographic primitives mapped by protocols, current developments are largely focused on digitally native assets, and their derivatives. However, a first-principles view on the innovation of financial services will focus on the central tenet of technology: the increase of productivity of human activity, freeing up individuals’ attention — measured in time — that these can assign to leisure activities or higher-order pursuits, such as the accumulation of knowledge. To that end, network technologies, in particular, the internet and consequent emergence of the World Wide Web, amplified human productivity by fueling a surge of synchronous and asynchronous coordination methods of human fecundity, as well as the wider distribution of economic activity in general.
As an advocate of open market and capitalism, in the book The Road to Serfdom, P. A. Hayek claimed that the competition in the free market would be much better than centralized and mandatory planning because he believed the open competition was the only way to coordinate social activities and stay away from the autocracy and manipulation.
Following the crypto hype-cycle of 2017–18, it’s safe to say that the industry has made some progress. There is now a spectrum of crypto-enabled financial services available; from stable coins, synthetic assets, peer-to-peer insurance, and peer-to-peer borrowing and lending, to name a few.
Interview David Vorick CEO of Skynet Labs about trends, pitfalls, why it’s important to own the data and how Homescreen's going to change the way we use the Web
You walk into a coffee shop and want to start your day with a grande Cappuccino. The barista starts making your coffee, and you’re sitting at your table, staring at the birds chirping outside the window.
A detailed 2021 guide on Polkadot and how it is geared towards solving some of the most fundamental yet complex problems faced by the blockchain ecosystem today
The DeFi frenzy has got the crypto world in its grip. Recently listed DeFi projects, such as MantraDAO, DeFiPie and PlutusDeFi, have generated a significant amount of interest. Simultaneously, existing DeFi platforms like Uniswap, Compound and Aave, have seen a tremendous increase in usage.
And it’s not just an increase in use cases that has fueled this DeFi frenzy; there’s enough theatrical in the world of DeFi to keep the crypto enthusiasts glued to their seats.
In all my discussions and brainstorming sessions about crypto with others, I keep going back and forth on one particular aspect – reliable reading resources on various topics. Whenever something new comes up, the first thing on my mind is where to learn all about it.
Chances are the recent wave of decentralized finance speculation hasn’t passed you by. The yield farming gold rush has seen hundreds of millions of dollars locked up in unaudited smart contracts within hours. Promises of life-changing returns such a short space of time has resulted in the return of crypto-mania.
The whole fintech industry is built around the interactions of various institutions. Fintech products can be as advanced and complex as you want them to be; they can solve essential problems for their customers, but in the end, the focal point is always some bank happily sitting on money. Thus, centralized finances are the banks and their subsidiaries. Many things in fintech are controlled by bureaucrats and most fintech apps function only because they are allowed to.
Accepting payments in foreign currency from a credit card for an online business is a cross-border operation, which leads to a sharp increase in the cost of accepting payments for businesses or leads to a decrease in the conversion of payments by customers. I will examine internally the options for connecting acquiring for international online business and touch on the topic of “High Risk”.
After the holidays, we can resume our path in decentralized finance (DeFi) and as we had seen in the previous article in which we presented the macro areas of this sector, in the next articles, we will analyze in detail the individual sectors to better understand what they offer and what can be done.
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are becoming a very popular blockchain trend in gaming, while also being used in the sports (ticketing) industry, financial services, and as a way to sell and transfer ownership of virtual goods
How to get a loan secured by your cryptocurrency and make money on it? If you do not know anything about stablecoins with cryptocurrency backing or lending in decentralized finance, read this article.
Decentralized Finance is unchartered territory for most non-crypto users. If you are ready to invest in cryptocurrencies, here are some important terms to know.
Setting up your dev environment for Ethereum development takes just a few minutes. It’s important to have a basic understanding of a few general concepts before we start writing code.
The overarching trend that marked the beginning of 2020 has been fear and uncertainty driven by the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in China, devastating bushfires in Australia, US-Iran brinkmanship, widespread citizen protests in various nations and more. As a result, money across geographies has been moving towards safe haven assets such as gold and bitcoin.
This article talks about compliance by design in a blockchain ecosystem focusing on Zk-protocol and the development of smart contracts using rust language.
While the global economy is being severely impacted by the coronavirus crisis, we. at Sperax, a Silicon Valley-based blockchain company, are aiming to build a trusted infrastructure for a decentralized economy that provides far greater efficiency, flexibility and self-governance than the traditional economic model. The world needs decentralisation more than ever to bring everyone together, to collaborate and to share the value created.
In this series of three articles, we are going to build a decentralized application with a back-end. We will use rLogin suite, developed by RIF Identity team, which will allow us to build a secure, reliable and scalable application from scratch.
Verifiable Credentials heavily utilize Decentralized Identifiers to identify people, organizations, and things and to achieve security and privacy guarantees.
This is the story of dOrg’s evolution from a few passionate engineers to a heterarchical network of builders developing industry-leading Web3 software.
Since its inception, blockchain technology is actively disrupting the financial industry, including cryptocurrency. One of the rising trends among crypto enthusiasts is the emergence of crypto lending. As an alternative for hodlers to increase their assets' productivity, crypto lending is becoming a pivotal instrument in the crypto ecosystem. What's unique about using Blockchain in the economic system is that the rules are defined by smart contracts and algorithms to ensure the transactions are autonomous and decentralized.
DeFi projects are changing the way we’re interacting with digital funds. We’re taking real money and transforming them into digital assets that can be used in blockchain-powered applications. Anyway, as much as we want to think that the cryptocurrency world is one that is separated from the actual real-world, it is not. Otherwise, why are you checking the USD price of your tokens?
Unbank banking and make the underbanked financially sovereign. After all, a major part of freedom is being able to freely use your own assets.
DeFi and Bitcoin.
This is an interview with the CEO and co-founder of Bifrost, which will attempt to create a decentralized infrastructure that connects the fragmented markets.
I asked 10 Web3 technical writers how they started in Web3, their core skills, the challenges they face and how they can help newbies navigate this path.
There is no question that there has been considerable progress and development in the DeFi ecosystem. Still, it is prudent for investors to steer clear at least at the moment as transaction fees guzzle the entire ecosystem.
We often hear about decentralized finance (DeFi) and the first thought, especially to beginners, would associate this word and sector with the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, which is not entirely wrong, but which tends to be a vision. limited reality.
With the world moving towards Web 3.0, continuous innovation and optimization have become the core pillars of mass adoption. What was once considered as a barrier to the adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is now acting as the foundation for future implementations. The vast applications and potential of these revolutionary technologies have left no stone unturned. Almost every domain has recognized the powers of this unstoppable technology.
How do you develop a smart contract for your Dapp? How do you best design the Dapp interface? How do you connect the front end to the backend smart contract?
"Seeing that there was a massive influx of ICOs back then, and having over seven years of experience in the communication industry, I figured that I should merge my hobby in trading cryptocurrencies with my professional talent in communications/public relations."
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have been big winners amid rocky economic environments in 2020. Roughly halfway through the year, Bitcoin’s already outperformed the S&P 500 index and gold.
In recent months, a Vincent Van Gogh painting, 45 drawings of a renowned Marvel Comic artist, and a rare digital sword from an online gaming world were stolen. In the traditional criminal network, these items would eventually be sold on the black market.
The go-to blockchain for decentralized finance is still Ethereum (ETH). It has the great advantage of being a first mover, so plenty of investors are already aware of ETH and its use cases. ETH tokens also played a role in the tokensale bonanza of 2017 and 2018, and are now becoming highly active again in their new role as the backbone of the DeFi market.
In this article I would like to break down how we do promotion in Dracula, without going into technical details in the text, during our development we have made many updates, launched Snapshot DAO voting and constantly improving our product.
The Pandemic has left the world’s economy plunged into a struggle--already for the second time. With the level of workplace layoffs reaching the fever pitch, there’s still an even more critical problem of an avalanche of country debt that severely gnaws the welfare of all global economies, let alone developing ones. Small businesses are among the most exposed to this damage.
DeFi (decentralized finance) is now providing the same investment opportunities that ICOs (initial coin offerings) once offered in the not so distant past.
After the global economic crisis of 2008, the question of trust in the modern international financial system arose globally. The answer to this request was the emergence of the first decentralized Internet system — Bitcoin, which from “decentralized” money turned into a valuable financial asset by 2020.
In this article, I present a new fair-launch method for fungible tokens that instantly and permanently locks up a large portion of the supply in an AMM.
The outbreak of the coronavirus has disrupted our daily lives. Places that we enjoy our everyday life have become deserted, and we have had restrictions imposed on our day-to-day existence.
Writing about the current situation in DeFi space, regulations for its users, and the LTO solution using Verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.
DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, is a movement for developing a suite of financial products in a decentralized world. We currently live in a world of CeFi, or Centralized Finance, where all the financial instruments are built and offered by large institutions having centralized control.
The definitive degen guide to not losing your money in DeFi rug pulls or getting rekt by crypto scams.
Do your own research and show off your new crypto bags.
The blockchain sector is among the fastest-moving industries, susceptible to change and disruption. Here are 15 upcoming events to look out for in 2021.
In an era where yield farming has become one of the most profitable activities within the crypto realm, it is no surprise that the success of the landscape hinges on the advancements registered in the DeFi ecosystem.
Decentralized finance is slowly transitioning from a mere buzzword to being a major contributor to the crypto economy. The development outputs of the sector and its growing appeal in the investment landscape has culminated into financial successes for a long list of protocols and systems relying on decentralized governance models to deliver financial services.
Yield farming has taken the cryptocurrency industry by storm, becoming the cornerstone concept for DeFi in 2020 and likely far beyond. The craze started with Compound, which was the first to initialize this investment mechanism in June 2020. Even though yield farming is still quite a niche strategy, it’s popularity is accelerating. The experts from Platinum Software Development Company have taken an analytical dive into the current state of yield farming and are ready to share their key findings and insights.
Entering the decentralized finance space can often seem daunting. With the help of companies such as Priority Token, that process becomes a lot smoother. Existing technology companies can reach out to a growing network of highly qualified investors.
🔥Now the question is which DEX is the best to list your token at? Plasma.Finance presents the best tools for token launch and advanced AMM protocol PlasmaSwap.
The creator economy, emerging online trends, and new crypto economies are pioneering more opportunities for creators to capitalize. Various platforms, protocols, and digital marketplaces are all competing for the attention of users and the creativity they provide. This is spearheading a high level of independence and entrepreneurial mindset, especially within the younger digital-native Gen Z generation. Crypto economies are shaping the future of work for the next generations of creator economy participants.
DeFi vs CeDeFi and Ethereum vs BSC: their competitive advantages, their defensibility, and how this might shape their market position and dominance over time
