October is off to an interesting start, as news of charges against BitMEX by the CFTC and DOJ come to light – with the arrest of Arthur Hayes and three co-owners of the BitMEX exchange. The exchange that handles over $1.5 billion of trades each day, has been charged by the CFTC for operating an...Read More
Scaling project SKALE Network, which aimed to ease traffic and lower transaction costs on the Ethereum blockchain, today announced the launch of its Phase 2 mainnet according to a release emailed to AMBCrypto. The mainnet has an estimated capacity of over 1,000 decentralized elastic SKALE chains, each with a throughput of the entire ETH Blockchain...Read More
Tezos Stable Technologies (StableTech), the nonshareholder foundation for DeFi on Tezos has received investment from blockchain-focused VC firm Draper Goren Holm, according to a report published today. The amount of funds in question was not mentioned in the announcement. However, back in 2017, Tim Draper, the namesake of the VC firm had invested in the...Read More
Decentralized crypto-exchange 1inch announced today that it is collaborating with cybersecurity solutions provider Hacken to improve the platform’s security by auditing its code, APIs, and infrastructure. According to the press release, the Hacken team would focus particularly on serving as a cryptocurrency exchange auditor. Hacken was previously in the news after it announced its integration...Read More
The token powers a cross-chain DEX called Polkastarter, which was launched in Uniswap yesterday, Sept. 29. The platform was announced earlier this month when it was touted another Ethereum killing interoperable DeFi protocol powered by the high-throughput Polkadot ecosystem. POLS Volume Surges Today’s announcement has focused on the volumes of the new POLS token, which...Read More
In what seems like a perfectly normal day in the defi landscape, another project was exploited. Andre Cronje’s gaming project – Eminence was pre-launched without his knowledge and a bug in the ecosystem was exploited that cost its users $15 million. This, coupled with low defi volumes, and a few other things indicate that the...Read More
The Aave Money Market DeFi protocol is now about to be more decentralized than ever. In an announcement published on its official blog on 25th September 2020, the team reported on the successful launch of the Aave Governance on the mainnet. This means that users of the protocol will now be able to vote on...Read More
Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje has been busy conjuring up new concepts to bring DeFi to the masses, and his latest brainchild is an ecosystem called Eminence, which targets the gaming world. Gaming tokens and economies have been tried before with the likes of Enjin Coin (EJN) and a couple of others. The latest non-fungible...Read More
With defi frenzy coming to palpable levels, all seemed well until a new project by Andre Cronje went awry. This has resulted in a loss of $15 million in funds, out of which $8 million was sent to Cronje’s yearn deployer account as a “sorry” note. Eminence is/was an unfinished game with an in-game economy...Read More
DeFi protocols have seen rapid adoption, growth, and an exponential rise in TVL in 2020. The latter is an especially good metric since while a high number of daily/monthly active users is not a direct indicator of a project’s growth, Total Value Locked is, when gauging how well a DeFi project is doing. Source: DefiPulse...Read More
Validator participation in Ethereum 2.0’s Medalla testnet is on the rise. And with the growing number of them, the number of staked test ETH is about to close in on a new high of Almost two million test ETH tokens, that are now staked on Medalla. This comes amid the launch of the Optimism Layer...Read More
Layer 2 scaling developers at the Plasma Group have recently announced the launch of their Optimistic Ethereum testnet, which will be deployed on projects to test much needed scaling solutions. Essentially, Layer 2 scaling involves taking work off the root chain to process data and transactions faster. The team has built a system called OVM,...Read More
When it comes to cryptocurrency adoption, the past year has been dominated by the fact that institutional investors are now pouring into the digital asset market. In light of growing regulatory clarity and products like those offered by Grayscale that make traditional investors feel right at home when dealing with crypto, the last 12 months...Read More
Ethereum has been very popular this year, not usually for all the right reasons, however, since network congestion and high gas costs have often kept it in the limelight. While the reason for these issues accelerating was the boom in Decentralized Finance [DeFi] protocols on Ethereum, some projects have already started to work on a...Read More
Over the past ten years, crypto-exchanges have emerged to become extremely crucial, not just with regard to adoption levels, but also when it comes to directing the overall growth of the industry. The previous year saw a lot of interest in greater levels of decentralization, an interest that contributed to the DeFi boom and renewed...Read More
“Just like locking the door doesn’t guarantee the safety of your home, TrustToken’s team token lock doesn’t guarantee liquidity won’t be pulled.” This was the statement made by Jeff Kirdeikis, CEO of TrustSwap, after he took to Twitter to respond to criticism after a company, HatchDAO, allegedly used TrustToken’s technology to exit scam users by...Read More
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Decentralized Finance has been all the rage for the past few months, and its tokens’ prices are a testament to the excitement. But while the objective of decentralized finance is a financial world which is without a centralized authority, one administered through efficient and seamless smart contracts...Read More
ETH inflows to exchanges have dropped by 53% in less than a week, a development that may sound alarming to DeFi traders. The inflows to exchanges dropped from $3.15M on 21 September 2020 to $1.48M, at the time of writing. While a drop in ETH held on exchanges may be perceived as a bearish signal,...Read More
DeFi is the latest hype machine in the crypto-market. It has evolved from simply earning interest by locking crypto to Governance tokens and being able to trade these derivatives. As of 01 January 2020, the total value locked [TVL] in DeFi was just around $675 million. However, as DeFi, governance tokens, and yield farming mania...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced that the platform will now enable trading and custody for seven new DeFi tokens such as Balancer (BAL), Curve (CRV), Ren Network (REN), Synthetix Network (SNX), Uma (UMA), Uniswap (UNI), and Yearn.finance (YFI). In addition to this, Gemini stated that five other tokens namely, Decentraland (MANA), Kyber Network (KNC), Maker (MKR),...Read More
Uniswap made a shrewd move by airdropping millions of tokens and launching its own liquidity pools to reclaim what SushiSwap had taken from it in just over two weeks. It has propelled the platform back to the most dominant DEX as total value locked approached $2 billion while that on rival SushiSwap has dwindled. Uniswap...Read More
MakerDAO vault holders who lost about $2.5 million during Black Thursday will not receive any compensation following a governance vote that ended on Tuesday. While decentralized finance (DeFi) continues to garner attention, issues like the type suffered by the MakerDAO project earlier in the year continue to plague the market as a whole. MKR Holders...Read More
Around four months ago the crypto winds started blowing towards defi. The total value locked up in defi-related protocols increased from about $1 billion to $10 billion. Although a lot of this hype began after Compound’s Comp token, there was a new bubble – it was the governance protocol/token bubble. Source: Defipulse Defi aka decentralized...Read More
Several crypto firms and DeFi angels have invested in Dune Analytics, a Norway-based, Ethereum data analyzing firm, which raised $2 million in a seed round according to an announcement today. The funding round was led by Dragonfly Capital and other VCs like Multicoin Capital, Hashed, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Coingecko, and the Digital Currency Group among...Read More
Airdrops have apparently become the next big thing in DeFi as means of “fair” distribution of tokens of fresh projects. The first one to really catch the attention of the masses was Uniswap with their UNI governance token. Everyone who used the platform received a minimum of 400 UNI tokens. At the time, many people...Read More
After a failed (but not regretted) attempt, Thesis, the blockchain development company behind Keep Network, has just released the new version of tBTC. tBTC is simply Bitcoin tokenized in the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC20 token backed by the original Bitcoin. The initiative might seem like another one of the many projects that seek to...Read More
Despite the growing DeFi craze in the past few months, a recent survey compiled by CoinGecko revealed that just 23% participate actively in some form of yield farming. However, many of the farmers answered that they don’t know how to read smart contracts but were enjoying high ROIs. Yield Farming Is A Growing Trend This...Read More
ERC-20 token, TBTC, which lets Bitcoin holders safely copy BTC over to Ethereum and access yields from DeFi apps on Ethereum, has been launched and is ready for use on the tbtc.network, according to an announcement from the Keep Network today. According to the release, TBTC is trustless and is fully backed and matched by...Read More
Ethereum addresses holding more 1,000 ETH have leaked out to a number last seen almost 2 years ago. In 2017, there were approximately 7,200 addresses holding more than 1,000 ETH, however, this was during thebull run and this metric was hitting new highs. Considering the current situation this might seem like a disconcerting issue on...Read More
The DeFi space continues to amaze with stunning developments happening on a daily basis. Announced on August 18th through a Medium Post, Meme protocol is quickly catching speed with its native token hitting almost $2,000 a couple of hours back. The interesting thing is that it has a very limited supply of 28,000 tokens and...Read More
