Tagged: defi

September 26, 2020 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Hao, CEO at OKEx, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, notes that it seems everyone in the blockchain space is talking about carrying out a “fair launch.” He goes on to ask, “what exactly is ‘fair launch’ and is it a better model for token distribution?”… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Full-time equivalent employee growth in the blockchain and digital asset sector has slowed down following the 2017 cryptocurrency bull market, according to the findings of the 3rd Global Cryptoasset Benchmark Study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (released in September 2020 by the… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” or high-throughput blockchain platform, have revealed that Citadel.one has joined the Ontology Global Community Contributor (GCC) network, an initiative that aims to effectively leverage blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline real-world business processes. Citadel.one has been… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Avalanche, a blockchain project led by Cornell professor Dr. Emin Gun Sirer, have announced that their platform’s native AVAX token will be available for trading on Binance, the world’s largest digital currency exchange. AVAX token trading will be available on Binance, beginning… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading crypto derivatives exchange, has taken a look at the relatively short seven-year history of decentralized exchanges (DEXes) – which includes the first major iteration of the technology, Counterparty. BitMEX noted that it considers these early attempts to have… Read More

September 22, 2020 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has launched what it calls the “Innovation Zone,” which will permit certain users to trade newer cryptocurrency token offerings directly from their Binance account, while protecting “less suited” traders from being exposed to the potential risks that come… Read More

September 21, 2020 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Kerr, CEO at Kava Labs, which is focused on the ongoing development of Kava (KAVA), a blockchain-based platform that aims to offer a foundation for various open financial services, recently announced that they’re proposing a new initiative, called Harvest, the “world’s first cross-chain money… Read More

September 20, 2020 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA DAO (distributed autonomous organization), a community-governed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to make staking, lending, and governance more accessible to traders and investors, is teaming up with the developers of TomoChain, which describes itself as a “diversified and robust” DeFi ecosystem. MANTRA DAO… Read More

September 20, 2020 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Graph, which serves as an indexing protocol for “organizing and efficiently accessing” data from blockchains and storage networks, has introduced its Curator Program. Crypto data and research platform sites CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, Messari, Delphi Digital, Zapper, Synthetix, Pool Together, LivePeer, mStable, and Balancer have all… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Kava (KAVA) blockchain platform community members noted recently that they had initially compared their platform to MakerDAO, a leading Ethereum based lending system, and its CDP functionality. The Kava team now claims that being compared to MakerDAO “doesn’t really do justice” to what their… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 12:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, a non-custodial Ethereum token exchange, recently introduced a “governance” token, called UNI. There will be 1 billion UNI tokens that will be released to the general public over the course of the next 4 years. UNI tokens will be allocated to Uniswap’s community members…. Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hacken will be integrating with Chainlink so that the platform’s security audit data for smart contracts, decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, and cryptocurrency exchanges can be accessed by decentralized applications (dApps). Hacken is a cybersecurity, auditing, and consulting firm with a special focus on blockchain security…. Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matic, a platform that aims to facilitate secure, scalable, and instant transactions that are verified by the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain network, has announced new project updates. The Matic developers claim that their project has been making steady progress after it was introduced via Binance Launchpad… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Kyber Network (KNC), which allows users to exchange Ethereum (ETH) and other ERC-20 compliant tokens in a decentralized manner, recently announced several updates to their protocol and platform. The Kyber Network team noted in a blog post: “What a crazy few weeks… Read More

September 12, 2020 @ 2:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On September 14, 2020, Coinbase Pro (for professional traders) users will be able to transfer  yearn.finance (YFI) tokens into their accounts ahead of scheduled trading. The San Francisco-based crypto exchange noted that support for YFI tokens will be available in all of its supported jurisdictions,… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch has teamed up with the developers of Tron (TRX), one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications (dApps), in order to complete the integration of JustSwap and Mooniswap. 1inch provides an aggregator for decentralized on non-custodial crypto-asset exchanges with “the best prices” on… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is launching a $100 million seed fund in order to “empower” emerging initiatives in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. These DeFi projects will run on the Binance Smart Chain, a new blockchain network launched by the exchange to support… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 11:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA DAO (distributed autonomous organization), a community-governed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to make staking, lending, and governance more accessible to traders and investors, has announced its first Cosmos ecosystem partnership. MANTRA DAO has teamed up with Band Protocol, a cross-chain data oracle platform… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” or high-throughput blockchain platform for creating enterprise-grade applications, have revealed that Wing, the very first credit-based decentralized finance (DeFi) project, based on the Ontology blockchain, published its first whitepaper. The Wing platform is integrated with Ontology’s decentralized identity… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, confirms that China’s public blockchain network BSN recently launched the new BSN Global Portal. IRISnet will be one of the partners that will contribute to the project. The IRISnet team is… Read More