Algorand is committed is building solutions for the future of economic exchange
Steve Kokinos is the CEO at Algorand. Algorand is an open, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that wants to usher in a new era of serious DeFi. Similar to how AWS (Amazon Web Services) has made cloud computing accessible, Algorand is building an ecosystem to unleash the potential of DeFi.
YFI Price Analysis – Defi innovator grows rapidly
YFI, the native token of the Yearn.Finance platform, has a price per coin twice that of Bitcoin. A scarce and fixed total supply has played a major factor in its eyecatching price as speculators have clamoured to buy a share of governance of this innovative DeFi platform.
Scaling DeFi – Radix is a protocol for building DeFi applications
Piers Ridyard is the CEO of Radix, a layer-one protocol built for DeFi. DeFi applications are currently built on protocols that were not designed to scale. Radix has built a scalable, secure, high-throughput protocol for building applications and tokens. Building on the successes of existing public ledgers, Radix’s protocol is a permissionless framework on which DeFi services can be developed and run. Radix claims to have solved two of the biggest challenges in DeFi - scalability, and security.
Why LEVERJ is the next big thing in DeFi
The next big thing in DeFi is LEVERJ - the world’s first scalable decentralized derivatives exchange. Built on Gluon, a Plasma sidechain, LEVERJ is self-custodial by design, meaning that users always control their private keys and funds. Gluon is a mathematically rigorous solution preventing fraud, compromise, and collusion to provide all the benefits of blockchain without the limitations. Gluon is the first fully operational Ethereum Layer 2 chain, giving LEVERJ the high-transaction throughput to work as fast as centralized exchanges.
Start your own fund – Melon is the infrastructure for asset management 3.0
Mona El Isa is the founder of the Melon protocol. Melon is an Ethereum-based protocol for decentralized on-chain asset management. Melon empowers anyone to set up, manage, and invest in customized on-chain investment vehicles. The process of setting up an investment fund on Melon costs less than $60 and takes ten minutes using the Melon terminal.
DeFi & ETH 2.0 – Building the Ethereum ecosystem with MEW
Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet, one of the original and most popular Ethereum wallets. MEW is now at the center of a fast growing ecosystem designed to become the nexus of Ethereum.
MyEtherWallet has launched new integrations with DeFi platforms Ren and Aave
MyEtherWallet (MEW) has launched new integrations with DeFi platforms Ren and Aave.
What is fair value for DeFi tokens?
DeFi tokens have been stand-out performers in the crypto market. Is it possible to measure fair value for DeFi tokens?
Telos building DeFi ecosystem on EOSIO
While the Ethereum based DeFi ecosystem continues to surge in both value and investor interest, the Telos blockchain is building new tools on Ethereum competitor EOSIO
The Teller DeFi lending project has raised US$1M in a seed round
Teller, a blockchain project for decentralized lending has announced a US$1M seed round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Parafi Capital and Maven11 Capital
BZx DeFi platform launches new governance token
bZx, an Ethereum lending and margin trading platform, has unlocked a new distribution model for its native BZRX governance token. The new model rewards active participation in the platform with an increasing share of protocol ownership.
MonteCarlo Dex (MCDEX) launches decentralized Ethereum perpetual futures contract
MCDEX combines an off-chain order book with an on-chain Uniswap-like Automated Market Maker (AMM). This hybrid allows MCDEX to offer traders functionality and feel that’s similar to centralized exchanges, while the AMM provides the ability to find on-chain liquidity.
DeFi Startup The Graph has closed a US$5M investment round
The Graph is a company that has built an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and the InterPlanetary File System. The companies latest investment round saw participation from Framework Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, and others.
Decentralized Finance surges with “yield farming”
The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem continues to attract new users and capital as new products and services launch. The total value of assets locked into the DeFi ecosystem surged to a new all-time high last week, hitting US$1.52 Billion according to DeFi Pulse.
Compound launches native governance token
Compound Finance moved away from a centralized governance model to one driven by community governance. Every Compound user, both borrowers and lenders on the DeFi platform, will now receive a native governance token called COMP every time they make a transaction.
Zerion tackles fragmented DeFi landscape
According to Zerion CEO Evgeny Yurtaev there are two major issues in the current crypto space. Primarily, although protocols are decentralized many access points to the system, like exchanges, are still centralized. In addition, many crypto projects are managed through centralized organizations that too often lack transparency or accountability. As a result, the blockchain industry has not yet opened up finance.
