DAI is an ERC20 token designed to maintain a peg to the US Dollar, also known as a stablecoin, generated and maintained by the Maker Protocol. Every single DAI in existence has been generated by users locking collateral into Maker’s smart contract system and opening what’s called a Vault. When you open a Maker Vault, …
Alex Miles, co-founder of TokenTax, discusses his quest to ease the crypto community’s DeFi tax woes. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? I first heard about bitcoin while i was in university around 2010, but didn’t mine or purchase any (fml). I …
Off the heels of Aave Protocol storming DeFi Pulse’s rankings, Stani Kulechov founder and CEO of Aave joins us today. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? I first got into crypto because of the Ethereum community back when I was in college. …
Loi Luu, Co-Founder and CEO of Kyber Network, spoke with us about his past and the fantastic world of money legos. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? Since I was young I have been interested in programming, particularly in algorithms and data …
It’s official! Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has reached a new milestone surpassing $1,000,000,000 Total Value Locked (TVL). Thank you to the community for every like, share, retweet, mention, citation, and refresh! $1 Billion marks an important milestone for DeFi to be celebrated. It illustrates the progress we’ve made towards our community’s vision of decentralized finance and …
Felix Feng, Co-Founder and CEO of Set Protocol, sat down with us today to discuss the future of asset management. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build Set Protocol? I first heard about crypto during the bull market in 2013 when Bitcoin went from $100 to $1300. When …
Hugh Karp, founder of Nexus Mutual, walks us through what led to the creation of their smart contract insurance platform and what the future has in store for community driven insurance in DeFi… How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build Nexus Mutual? I stumbled across bitcoin some time …
Lately there’s been some buzz around the concept of social money in the crypto space. If you’re not familiar with the term, you’re probably asking yourself: “What is social money?” And to be honest, the term’s so loosely defined to the point it’s probably easier to see a few examples. So, here’s a Uniswap interface …
Today we interview Paul Razvan Berg, previously a part of Aztec Protocol, self-proclaimed “Streamer of Money” and the man behind new Sablier. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build Sablier? The bull market of 2017 took me by surprise and I said to myself that there must be …
2020 is set to be an exciting year for DeFi. Lending markets are more competitive than ever. Countless layer 2 solutions are being built with new ZK technology. And to top it off, this year we’re likely to see interoperability make great strides. Let’s dive into a few DApps who have hit the ground running …
We spoke with Peter Vecchiarelli, Operations at Augur, a bit about where Augur’s been and where it’s headed… How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? Augur was started by Joey Krug in the following manner: “I got involved in Bitcoin in 2011 by …
No, we’re not talking about the beverage. We’re talking about this new token creating buzz in the Ethereum community lately called Chai. CHAI is an ERC20 token that’s like DAI which earns interest from Maker’s Dai Savings Rate (DSR), currently 4% as of writing this. It’s a lot like how cDAI represents DAI supplied to …
