Market Wrap: Bitcoin Sticks Around $13K While Ether Locked in DeFi Dips
Bitcoin stays in bull mode but on lower volume while the amount of ether locked in DeFi falls. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $13,103 as of […]
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Lossless Lottery PoolTogether Opens Up to More Coins, More Prizes
More games with no losers are coming to Ethereum (kind of). PoolTogether, the lossless lottery on Ethereum that’s meant to gamify savings, is releasing its […]
Harvest Finance Doubles Total Value Locked to $704M in One Week
Harvest Finance, a decentralized platform that lets users automatically “farm” assets for the highest returns in other decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, now has more than […]
USDC Is Coming to Solana Blockchain in Potential Boost for Non-Ethereum DeFi
The Coinbase- and Circle-backed CENTRE Consortium announced support for its USDC stablecoin on the Solana blockchain Wednesday, marking the dollar-backed asset’s fourth blockchain integration, after […]
Tether Still Dominates Stablecoins, but USDC and Dai Are Winning DeFi
While tether (USDT), with a market cap surpassing $16 billion, continues to hold the lion’s share of stablecoins in circulation, two smaller rivals are trouncing […]
With COMP Below $100, a Look Back at the ‘DeFi Summer’ It Sparked
The curtain has fallen on DeFi Summer – not that the sector is done, but the wild buzz seems to be. The changing of the […]
Uniswap’s First Governance Vote Ends in Ironic Failure
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First Mover: OKEx Private Key Snafu Sends Bitcoin Lower as China DeFi Rises
Bitcoin (BTC) fell 2% Friday, the most in three weeks, after the market was spooked by the announcement that the cryptocurrency exchange OKEx had suspended withdrawals because […]
DeFi Audit Firms Seeing ‘Overwhelming Demand’ Even Amid Token Price Slump
If you’re an Ethereum project looking to get audits done before the close of 2020, it’s probably too late in the game. Audit firms CoinDesk […]
How the DeFi Craze Made Its Way to China
When Nervos co-founder Guoning Lü saw a few China-based decentralized finance (DeFi) projects raise millions of dollars in a matter of hours, he knew the […]