Genesis lending has been an industry leader when it comes to loans/borrowing and lending on both retail and institutional levels. In its recent Q3 report, quite a few interesting developments came to the fore. Loans Source: Genesis For starters, the loan originations increased by more than half in Q3 of 2020, when compared to Q2...Read More
Until a few months ago, DeFi was quite the rage across the ecosystem. Of late, however, the space seems to have lost some steam, with many projects failing to sustain the early gains it made. Understandably, many in the community have since become more skeptical and cautious about the space. CEO of Three Arrows Capital...Read More
CryptoPotato recently had the opportunity to interview Brian Kerr – the CEO of the DeFi project Kava. Built on Cosmos as a proof-of-stake blockchain, Kava allows users to stake tokens and participate as validators in the network. The project saw the light of day as an IEO on Binance Launchpad. Kerr’s project description said it’s...Read More
According to a disclosure by Yearn Finance, a flash loan attack vector was discovered by a security researcher recently, before being resolved by Yearn’s security team. A potential vulnerability was mitigated around 1.5 hours after being reported by Wen-Ding Li through Yearn’s security vulnerability disclosure process on 29 October 2020. It was also revealed that...Read More
Decentralized finance exploded in popularity this year and especially during and after the summer. Apart from numerous DeFi-oriented protocols, the cryptocurrency space saw the emergence of multiple new decentralized exchanges. The sharp increase in demand led to rapid project developments and impressive volume growth. However, the speed compromised user security on some occasions. Consequently, the...Read More
The stablecoins sector has been working behind the scenes and has been witnessing great growth in 2020. Even though Tether was at the top spot in terms of its supply, DAI and USDC were catching up. DAI, a community-driven experiment has acquired a similar share of transaction count as its counterpart, USDC. USDC, a regulated...Read More
Owning to the Bitcoin and the aggregated cryptocurrency market’s recent roaring rally, BTC, and crypto hedge funds have reportedly registered profits upwards of the 100 percent mark. This comes amid the rising sentiment of sidestepping banks to avail quick loans through digital assets. What does this say about the cryptocurrency industry? Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Hedge...Read More
The growing crypto world has enabled the rise of new projects which aim to bridge the gap between the traditional financial system and that of cryptocurrencies. Started back in 2017, Polkadot came in mainstream media recently, when it secured its position in the top 10 from nowhere. In this writing, the complete history of the...Read More
After cryptocurrency exchange Binance said that it would fund 5 DeFi projects, the firm has announced today that it will now be funding the second batch of blockchain projects as part of its $100 million accelerator fund, which was launched in September this year. Altogether, the fund now supports 11 projects that will build on...Read More
Many cryptocurrency projects have been working on financial inclusion and Ethereum Classic recently announced a step towards it. On 28 October, ETC labs and ChainSafe Systems announced the launch of a new bridge between Ethereum [ETH] and Ethereum Classic [ETC], with a focus on bridging the Dai stabelcoin to ETC. According to the announcement: “This...Read More
From Microstrategy’s $500 Million investment in Bitcoin to PayPal’s integration of crypto, in the past three months, we have seen it all. November 2020 is unlike any month since 2018. Bitcoin is trading above $13k and the top 10 altcoins have gained 10-12% in the past week. Additionally, BTC, ETH, and USDT reserves are the...Read More
Nowadays, cryptocurrency has really been popular. Many people have already shifted to crypto and have started to enjoy its perks for being an easy-to-use digital asset. Still, many seem to have no idea about what crypto really is. With that, we decided to make a simple guide to cryptocurrencies that may be helpful to beginners...Read More
DeFi protocol RAI Finance is in the news after it announced that it raised $1.5 million worth of strategic investment led by global crypto-funds including GBIC and Alphabit. RAI Finance aims to build a DeFi ecosystem with a higher amount of liquidity and a diverse set of financial use cases through an integration with the...Read More
The fiasco with Harvest Finance continues with full force. The team has put a $100,000 bounty for the first person or team to reach out with information about the hacker. It’s also important to note that the attacker has decided to return $2.5 million to the deployer contract of Havers Finance. However, given that the...Read More
Details are thin on the ground at the moment as the situation is unfolding, but DeFi yield farming protocol Harvest Finance appears to have become the latest victim of an exploit by a malicious actor. The team is currently updating via their twitter feed but it appears that an ‘economic attack’ was carried out on...Read More
2020 has turned out to be quite a year for the DeFi space. DeFi’s rapid growth over the course of the year saw it cross the $12 billion-mark in terms of total value locked, with the same bullishness positively impacting popular Bitcoin (BTC) tokenization protocol – Wrapped BTC (WBTC). WBTC, the ERC-20 token on the...Read More
Owner of the Bitfinex crypto exchange, iFinex announced today integration with cross-chain system pNetwork (pTokens network) which would enable BTC, ETH and LTC to automatically be tokenized, and moved on to DeFi blockchains directly from the Bitfinex platform. pNetwork is the decentralized governance layer operating the pTokens bridges. pTokens makes cryptocurrencies “compatible” with blockchains, such...Read More
With several blockchains integrating the USDC stablecoin last week, crypto payments tech firm Circle announced today that it would now make the dollar-backed stablecoin available for the Solana blockchain, after partnering with the firm. According to Circle, Solana, the blockchain behind decentralized exchange Serum, supports up to 50,000 transactions per second (tps). This surpasses Ethereum’s...Read More
“Ethereum 2.0 phase 0 to be launched at the end of 2019. . . .January 2020. . . .July 2020. . .September 2020. . .November 2020?” The digital asset class has created a very unique community over the years. While a person would rarely hear another one promoting investments in Gold, Silver, or whatnot, proponents...Read More
It is a well-known fact now, that the Bitcoin blockchain is considerably processing fewer transactions than it’s ‘Ethereum’ counterpart. And this decline in transaction processing has significantly reduced the revenue of miners as well. How much? Well, on-chain analysis firm Glassnode points to numbers that are at a 5-month low. Bitcoin Miner Revenue Touches 5-Month...Read More
DeFi’s total value locked [TVL] figures seem to be holding above $10 billion, however, scams are crawling out of the shadows, one project at a time. While ‘scam’ is a strong, blanket word, not all projects are scams per se. This weekend, the COVER project seems to have caught the attention of this label. Riding...Read More
In the latest report summarizing the Q3 2020 developments in the cryptocurrency field, CoinGecko has classified the outcome as the “summer of decentralized finance (DeFi).” The popular data aggregator noted that the top-performing decentralized exchanges saw (DEX) massive growth in terms of trading volume resulting in reducing the market share of centralized exchanges (CEX). DEX...Read More
Bitcoin took a 3% hit as OKEx announced the temporary suspension of crypto withdrawals on 16 October. Reports state that the exchange is being investigated by the Chinese police, however, the nature of this investigation is still not clear. This news definitely caused a wave of panic across the crypto market causing altcoins also to...Read More
As an altcoin, Ethereum has been the leader in terms of its growth observed this year. The evolution of ERC-20 tokens along with the decentralized platform established on Ethereum were vital contributors to Ethereum’s performance. Although the beginning of the final quarter of 2020 did portray as though ‘DeFi was dead’, but that seems to...Read More
The popular decentralized finance tracking resource DeFi Pulse has introduced a new tool to measure risks within the DeFi ecosystem. Developed in collaboration with the digital asset modeling platform Gauntlet, the instrument has already graded two “very safe” DeFi protocols – Aave and Compound. The Launch Of DeFi Pulse Economic Safety Grade The DeFi trend...Read More
YF Link is a fork of the popular yearn.finance (YFI) which combines Chainlink’s LINK token with Yearn Finance YFI’s yield farming/liquidity mining mechanics.YFL is a project which can be easily adopted by the Chainlink enthusiasts, known as ‘Link Marines’. With the growing popularity of ChainLink which surged from $2 to more than $18 which is...Read More
The adoption of traditional financial tools to crypto-currencies is not new and when it comes to gauging crypto prices, several trackers have come and gone that especially allows investors to estimate volatility of each crypto. On that note, the fintech platform which enables cross-chain interoperability, COTI (Currency of the Internet) has developed a Market Fear...Read More
Russian billionaire and owner of two giant UK newspapers Alexander Lebedev is looking into launching his own DeFi project. Dubbed The Independent Decentralized Financial Ecosystem (or bank 2.0), it aims to serve as a better performing bank, which benefits all participants. Lebedev Explains The Current Banking Problems Lebedev, the owner of the UK-based London Evening...Read More
Google trends data suggests that the worldwide interest in DeFi has been continuously declining since early September. Although the TVL remains high, the question arises if the decreasing interest has something to do with the growing number of screw-ups in the field. DeFi Interest Drops? The start of the new century brought a new trend...Read More
On-chain analytics provider Santiment has reported that there has been a decline in unique addresses interacting on the Ethereum network, particularly since mid-September. Both August and September witnessed spikes in address activity, primarily driven by new DeFi yield farming opportunities from the likes of Uniswap. 🤔 $ETH‘s daily active address metric is still revealing that...Read More
