So far this year interest rates on USDC have moved in lockstep between major decentralized finance protocols dYdX and Compound. This correlation exist largely because both protocols share a lot of the

The Brave browser is gaining serious momentum during the Covid-19 lockdown. On April 29, the Brave ecosystem had its biggest one-day growth record with 5039 new creators signing up. Batgrowth.com and bat.watch

DuneAnalytics released several new data dashboards for the defi economy recently and the charts speak volumes. The most interesting one for myself is 'Total DeFi users over time' chart, which show only

I accidentally found out today the Linen App, a mobile app that gives retail investors easy access to ethereum-based liquidity pools and protocols like Compound, is doing a sharedrop for US residents.

In August of 2019, Compound users were given a vote on which new coins should be added to the protocol. Tether (USDT) and MakerDAO's MKR coin won the vote by a wide margin. And in April 2020, Compound

I decided to look into liquidity provision on Uniswap to see if there were any pools that would satisfy my requirements: steady 90-day returns above 1% APR with respectable daily volume. As it turns out,

A clear divergence between transaction growth on ethereum and bitcoin emerged in late-January. TXs on etherem began to grow rapidly after the 26th, while bitcoin daily transactions counts have not made

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Tokenized gold is a big use case for the crypto space as it allows exposure to the market without any of the hassles of taking physical delivery of the metal. There is real demand for gold-backed ethereum

DAI is finally starting to make its way back to the $1 mark. Since MakerDAO voters lowered the interest rates on vaults collateralized with ETH and BAT to 0%, the supply of DAI has steadily grown by about

Two major announcement today from dYdX and newcomers Futureswap. dYdX launched a private alpha for perpetual leveraged bitcoin futures today. The interesting thing about dYdX's new protocol is that funding

Programmatic yield chasers like Iearn.Finance and Idle.Finance have become popular with the rise of the defi economy on ethereum. What better hands-off way to earn passive income than to have your stabelcoins

Since Tether launched their stablecoin USDT on the ethereum blockchain, USDT on Bitcoin has dwindled to just $1.5B. Why this growth in supply never took place on bitcoin? Well, ethereum transactions are

The defi protocol Compound made another step towards total decentralization today by shifting control of the underlying smart contract from a central administrator and into the hands of COMP token holders.

While everyone was busy tracking DAI and USDC, the PAX stablecoin has been steadily increasing its market share in the ethereum's stablecoin economy. PAX now has the same active daily users as USDC and

The big story today is Atomic Loan's seed round of $2.45 million to bridge the gap between bitcoin and the decentralized finance movement taking place on ethereum. Some big names were involved in the seed

Was pleasantly surprised today to find a new pool on Balance Labs, and it has one of my favorite coins: BAT. The pool was seeded with quite a bit of liquidity so it can handle fairly large swaps. The WETH/BAT

Despite numerous attempts by MakerDAO voters (lowering the stability fee to 0.5% on all collateral coins, adding USDC as collateral to the system) the DAI stablecoins has been trading above $1 since Black

Crypto markets crashed hard in March, with bitcoin and eth seeing their biggest one-day busts in history. However, there is a silver lining here: dex popularity has increased even more. Decentralized exchanges

Bitcoin Cash underwent its first block-reward halving yesterday. Profit-oriented miners were very quick to bail, as expected. Coin Metrics shows the BCH mining rate falling off precipitously after the