The last few days have seen a lot of public debate and questions emerge around the use of FTX’s FTT token by Alameda and Sam Bankman-Fried to borrow assets for short-selling. The issue in question initially arose after people accused SBF, a well-known industry figure and CEO of FTX, of borrowing YFI, allegedly destroying its...Read More
Many investors in Uniswap’s governance token, UNI, were hurt by the token’s crashing price. While UNI had peaked in early-September with a value of $8.59 within days of its launch, it could not hold onto this value and soon began its gradual descent on the charts. Further, the low volatility period in September was followed...Read More
A recent report exploring the Q3 2020 developments in the decentralized finance ecosystem confirmed the narrative that it was the best quadrant for the entire field. Additionally, it highlighted Ethereum’s massive role as the underlying technology but also broached several potential competitors, including TRON and EOS. Confirmed: DeFi Exploded In Q3 2020 The analytics company...Read More
United States Securities Exchange Commissioner (SEC) Hester Peirce said at a recent summit that the DeFi economy had “real potential” for “revolutionary change” but that it would also challenge the current regulatory structure in several ways. Further detailing about the DeFi economy in the LA Blockchain Summit, Peirce stated that the many “governance tokens” emerging...Read More
Decentralized oracle network Chainlink’s Grant Program is making more than $100,000 worth of blockchain integration grants available to developers that fully integrate the smart contracts platform into new blockchains. So far, Chainlink has accepted the first integration proposal for the DeFi scaling provider Solana network, including its Serum project. The program is an addition to...Read More
Bitcoin has finally managed to surpass the resistance at $11k, at press time and was valued at $11,045. There has been a push and pull in the price of the digital asset but at the time of writing the value of the digital assets seemed to hold above the $11k, price level. Source: BTC/USD on...Read More
CorionX, a platform designed to incentivize and promote the global adoption of stablecoins and decentralized finance platforms, has announced it will be partnering with Syscoin to help tackle two of the biggest barriers to entry to DeFi — awareness and cost. Breaking Down Barriers to Entry As part of the partnership, CorionX will begin using...Read More
Solana, which offers scalable solutions to decentralized applications, today announced the launch of its cross-chain bridge, dubbed Wormhole, which connects ETH and ERC-20 tokens to the Solana blockchain’s SPL tokens. Wormhole bridge will allow DeFi developers to move tokenized assets “trustlessly” across blockchains, taking advantage of Solana’s “speed and cost” which the firm claimed was...Read More
After months of hype and activity, the DeFi space is finally facing some tough questions. This, after the space noted major price corrections over the past week, with the top ten DeFi assets sustaining an average loss of 23.4% and losing an average value of 27.44% over the past month. Source: DeFi Pulse Here, it...Read More
Many of the DeFi and crypto industry’s top influencers and personalities have waded in with their take on the highly charged subject. The ethos behind DeFi is largely to remove the controlling element of a CEO, or board of directors, that dictate the movements of centralized finance such as crypto exchanges and banks. From a...Read More
With many speculating the future of DeFi, given the rapid growth in the ecosystem, investment firm, Pantera Capital has announced that its Digital Asset Fund will actively invest into DeFi assets more, as Pantera Capital believed that DeFi was the future of finance and the sector is expected to grow as crypto prices go up. ...Read More
The community-led decentralized exchange, CoFiX, raised $500k in funding from investors like Huobi DeFi Labs, Dragonfly Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, among other DeFi angels, according to a release emailed to AMBCrypto today. The new DeFi protocol planned to use the funds to work on its protocol audits and cover early development costs. Like other DeFi...Read More
The DeFi markets have had a rough few days over the past week. The majority of the cryptocurrencies centered in the space are trading well in the red. At the same time, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols has been on the decline over the past two days as well. According to DeFi...Read More
Yearn Finance has become the hottest thing in DeFi over the past couple of months when it introduced high yielding liquidity vaults boasting three-figure annual returns. Since then, liquidity has fallen back, and collateral has been shifted to better yielding pools resulting in a slump in earnings. According to Defipulse.com, Yearn liquidity has fallen 26%...Read More
2020 has been a good year for Ethereum: Its price increased month after month, and its technological security is at a new peak now that its total hash rate is at ATH levels. The Ethereum hash rate is above 250 Terahashes per second for the first time in the blockchain history. This new record comes...Read More
The DeFi space continues to expand as the total value locked in protocols has recently almost hit $11 billion. More interestingly, BTC value locked in DeFi is also on the rise as there are currently around 141,000 bitcoins locked in various lending protocols. RSK’s infrastructure framework (RIF) has recently integrated Maker’s DAI stablecoin into its...Read More
The $3 Trillion Hedge Fund industry is likely to suffer more blow-ups than the 2008 financial crisis in the next few quarters. In the midst of the pandemic, hedge funds lost 7-8% in a month in March 2020. This drop left the 2008 crisis behind. The resulting dynamics have affected Bitcoin’s price and traders’ portfolios....Read More
When it comes to the DeFi ecosystem at large, there seems to be a lot of eagerness with regard to the growth of Bitcoin’s DeFi space and on those lines, another startup has taken up the expansion of BTC-backed DeFi products. RSK Infrastructure Framework (RIF), a Bitcoin-powered smart contract platform will make MakerDAO’s ERC-20 DAI...Read More
Decentralized Finance (Defi) is the talk of the town, and many crypto enthusiasts are flocking into space. While the stability of the space remains quite uncertain, coins relating to such financial tools are gaining great market traction and attention. The “big names” of the industry have evolved over time. While Chainlink (LINK) was the first...Read More
In August 2020, Token Market was excited again with the presence of a token that uses the Ethereum ERC20 Protocol which builds self-government in the Smart Contract and the formation of the ecosystem itself in the Smart contract, this token is named YFI. Yearn.finance and the presence of YFI has made Uniswap V2 Exchanger is...Read More
Yield chasers in search of the next “DeFi gem” are falling victim to elaborate scams with rogue actors on the prowl, using cleverly devised malicious contract codes to steal funds. From “rug pulls” to outright absconding with presale funds, the activities of DeFi scammers are threatening to overshadow the novel developments in the emerging crypto...Read More
There are enough narratives of DeFi’s bullishness in response to every new development in the crypto space. Starting from the KuCoin hack to the recent CFTC charges on BitMEX, every event is known to have a positive impact on DeFi projects’ ROI in the long run. However, the immediate and short-term implications of DeFi are...Read More
In late August this year, Binance launched its DeFi Composite Index. Trading under the DEFIUSDT symbol, it’s currently down over 50% in a little over a month. Unfortunately, there is even worse news for the young index. DeFi Composite Index Down Over 50% At this point, it’s quite clear that DeFi is where all the...Read More
BitMEX was in the eye of the storm this past week after U.S regulators took its case. The charges brought by the CFTC against BitMEX argue that the exchange facilitated cryptocurrency derivatives transactions with an aggregate notional value of trillions of dollars and failed to implement the most basic of compliance procedures required of financial...Read More
Everyone involved in blockchain and cryptocurrencies knows that it is a rapidly evolving space. Since the first Bitcoin was mined in 2009, several developments have led to the formation of what is known today as the Crypto-Industry, one characterized by a 24-hour market, DeFi, and over 2000 cryptocurrencies. In light of important present-day developments like...Read More
Band and Chainlink are both building infrastructure that enables interoperability of smart contracts, and while these are two leading oracle projects in their own right, the rivalry and drama between the two seem to go beyond token sales and market capitalization. Off late, however, every time a DeFi protocol has announced its partnership with Band,...Read More
After losing more than $250 million worth of cryptocurrencies in a security incident on September 26, KuCoin may have found new evidence to identify those responsible for the hack. It’s been exactly one week since Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin suffered what would be the third-largest hack in the history of crypto. And now, the exchange...Read More
On the question of asset allocation, fund managers are spending more time looking for avenues to park funds, rather than assets for investing in. DeFi has proven to be a rather attractive avenue for parking funds. Investors look for capital efficiency as that is the driving force behind management fee cuts in traditional finance and...Read More
Since President Xi Jinping’s announcement last year to prioritize blockchain development in China, the country has been the first to launch its CBDC, created the BSN network, and applied for a record 4,435 blockchain patents. While these seem like big strides forward towards adoption, there is still a ban in place on trading cryptocurrency. The...Read More
Prominent cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced the listing of yearn.finance [YFI] on 2 October. Although a bit late in the race of listing the governance token, Bitfinex noted that the deposits were now open, while trading and withdrawals for the same will commence on 3 October at 10:00 AM UTC. YFI on the exchange can be...Read More
