DeFi News and Information Today

Chainlink staking: Economics 2.0 starting in early December

Nov 25, 2022

Chainlink is a vital part of DeFi infrastructure. Its technology allows to track data that is not on the blockchain and provide it to dApps and protocols. This includes price feeds for decentralized exchanges but is not limited to this use-case.

After FTX crash, DeFi gains users

Nov 16, 2022

The reverberations of the downfall of crypto exchange FTX are felt across crypto. One immediate aftereffect is that crypto investors have been moving their stash from exchanges to cold storage. The other is the rising popularity of Decentralized Finance.

Stablecoin growth: Circle integrates EUROC on Solana

Nov 08, 2022

Solana is one of the fastest and most scalable blockchains and has a thriving DeFi ecosystem. Despite several hiccups and complete outages, this ecosystem is growing. It was last weekend during the Solana Breakpoint conference when Circle announced its new plans for Solana.

Floki launches long-anticipated FlokiFi locker

Oct 28, 2022

Many Floki fans (or: Floki Vikings) are cheering now that the FlokiFi locker was launched on their mainnet yesterday. Floki is working hard to shake off their memecoin reputation and has been focusing on creating more utility.

Tectonic shifts in the stablecoin market: USDC slowly slides

Oct 25, 2022

When summer started in earnest this year, the second biggest dollar stablecoin, USDC, started losing market share. It was a trend change from a years-long uptrend versus USDT. People were already preparing for 'the flippening': the moment where USDC would surpass the original stablecoin in market cap. What's going on?

Uniswap raises funds, valued at 1.6 billion

Oct 14, 2022

Uniswap Labs, the company behind Uniswap, has raised $165 million in a new funding round. Uniswap Labs can use the capital to expand the number of services it offers. It’s a remarkable injection of capital at a time when the bear market is in full swing.

What is DeFi? Decentralized Finance explained

Sep 29, 2022

Decentralized Finance is one of the most important technological developments in the recent years. It became so popular that there is even competition between different blockchain technologies and each one is trying to capture as much market share as possible. The most promising platforms so far are Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Cardano and Solana. Of course, there are even more blockchain technologies out there trying to built their own ecosystem, but in this article, we are going to focus on the most successful cryptocurrencies in this particular field and like to answer the question what DeFi really is.

What is MEV?

Sep 12, 2022

Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) is the (potential) profits for miners or validators producing blocks on a blockchain. They do this by picking and re-ordering transactions within blocks. You can view MEV as a tax on users of the blockchain.

How are the blue chip dexes doing?

Sep 01, 2022

Earlier we wrote about the importance of the revenue from transaction fees that blockchains and Defi apps bring in. It is an important measure of how popular and therefore valuable an app is. We now take a look at how things work behind the scenes at the big (blue chip) dexes: the largest decentralized exchanges.

Compound's ETH market is frozen – What went wrong?

Sep 01, 2022

Compound allows its users to earn interest with crypto lending. Unlike Celsius, Compound is a decentralized protocol governed by the holders of COMP tokens, granting them voting rights and enabling them to determine the direction that the protocol is taking. With more than $2 billion in total value locked, Compound is the ninth-largest protocol on the market and is of significance to the DeFi space. What went wrong, and why is the ETH market on Compound frozen?

Which blockchains and apps still generate trading fees?

Aug 31, 2022

The DeFi bubble burst this year. The prices of the coins have fallen, and so has the overall value locked up in those protocols. But that doesn't mean the apps stopped working. On the contrary, they kept working flawlessly during the last crash and are still raking in nice transaction fees. Which chains and apps are doing best in this respect?

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