Tagged: defi

June 26, 2020 @ 1:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lex Sokolin, the Global Fintech Co-Head and CMO at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum (ETH) development studio, recently noted that COMP tokens, which belong to major DeFi lending solution Compound, ballooned over 200%. As reported, decentralized finance protocol Compound saw a dramatic increase in lending dctivity… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Balancer, a “decentralized” digital asset manager and protocol, has reportedly made changes to its codebase, in order to limit or prevent large players from taking advantage of the platform to mine Blancer’s BAL governance tokens, instead of using them for crypto-asset trading…. Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Emin Gün Sirer‘s Ava Labs Avalanche token sale has raised $12 million led by Initialized Capital and other well-known investors including Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, NGC Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital. Avalanche (previously AVA) has recently gone through a brand consolidation following the successful launch of its… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum based Opyn, an options issuance platform, has secured $2.16 million in capital via a round led by Dragonfly Capital, a cross-border crypto-asset investment firm. Other investors in Opyn’s latest round included 1kx, an early-stage token fund focused on remittances, computation, storage, prediction, and the… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new type of user reward scheme to distribute the Compound governance tokens (COMP) has led to a significant increase in the amount of value locked into the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Traders using Compound are now “farming” COMP tokens. Notably, the total value… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global stablecoins markets recently surpassed the $11 billion mark. Many blockchain and crypto firms are beginning to realize the potential of stablecoins in facilitating many different types of transactions including cross-border or remittance payments. Tether (USDT), the blockchain-powered platform that powers the world’s largest… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Matrixport, a company that aims to serve as a gateway to the digital economy where users can trade, custody, invest, and borrow crypto-assets through a single, unified platform, recently compared the advantages and disadvantages of using centralized and decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions…. Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jake Chervinsky, General Counsel at Compound, an open-source, autonomous interest rate protocol, confirmed that Compound Labs achieved an important milestone “in our pursuit of progressive decentralization.” Chervinsky, a former Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and also former Associate at Kobre & Kim,… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Li Jun, the founder of Ontology (ONT), a high-performance enterprise blockchain platform developed in 2017 with technical support from Chinese firm called OnChain, which is headed by Erik Zhang and Da HongFei, the developers of the NEO Blockchain (which was… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized VPN network, Orchid Protocol, is developing two Chainlink-powered decentralized oracle networks which will allow users to estimate the bandwidth cost on Orchid. Users will know how much they can expect to pay (approximately) in the native OXT token and US dollars. The OXT/USD feed… Read More

June 14, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The controversial Facebook-led Libra project is reportedly the most active project in terms of developer activity, according to CoinCodeCap data. There are 41 active developers working on Libra, meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, has 36 active developers, the data site… Read More

June 12, 2020 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Kava’s decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform went live on June 10, 2020.  It features Binance Coin (BNB) collateral, USDX loans, and allows network participants to earn rewards. The Kava Labs team noted: “With this … launch, Kava [aims to] open the doors of DeFi… Read More

June 11, 2020 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Turkish stablecoin BiLira will reportedly be launching on AVA, an open-source platform for building and deploying decentralized finance (DeFi) apps and enterprise-grade blockchain solutions that can be run in “one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem.” The AVA Labs team says that the new stablecoin should… Read More

June 7, 2020 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, have been working for many years on the ongoing development of Ethereum 2.0 or Eth2, which is a major systemwide upgrade that will involve a transition from the current proof of work (PoW) consensus… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 5:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet and Kava Labs have teamed up in order to further support and promote decentralized finance (DeFi) application development on each other’s respective blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks. The collaboration between Kava Labs and IRISnet will involve the whole interchain ecosystem that has… Read More

June 3, 2020 @ 12:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Kerr, CEO at Kava Labs, notes during an interview with Alexandre Raffin at GAINS Associates that Cosmos’ value proposition is that “if you make a blockchain and it has a similar consensus mechanism to another blockchain …[then by using] … the inter-blockhain communication protocol… Read More

June 2, 2020 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Businesses throughout the world are looking for ways to cope with the adverse effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. Governments across the globe have enforced lockdowns and recommended that people observe safe distancing measures to avoid the further spread of the Coronavirus. There are now over… Read More

June 1, 2020 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, will reportedly launch its stablecoin, Binance USD (BUSD) on Harmony protocol’s blockchain network. Stephen Tse, founder at Harmony, noted via Twitter that the launch is “just in time for Harmony’s Binance Launchpad anniversary.”   BREAKING: @binance USD (BUSD) will… Read More

May 31, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the blockchain-powered platform that’s used to power the largest stablecoin by market cap, and Aave Protocol, an open-source and non-custodial money market protocol, have reported a significant increase in demand for Tether (USDT). They claim that the surge in demand for USDT may be… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Hayden Adams, the inventor of Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, claims that decentralized trading platforms are “already beating centralized ones for a ton of ETH/ERC-20 pairs.” Adams acknowledges that trades involving fiat and cross-chain cryptocurrency pairs are still mostly being done on… Read More