DeFi has been on fire lately. Following the space has been absolutely riveting. We’ve got another sneak peek of an interesting DeFi protocol for you today. The folks over at MCDEX have taken decentralized perpetual contracts and combined them with a hybrid on-chain AMM/off-chain order book in their recent upgrade MCDEX V2. MCDEX’s first decentralized …
Liquidity is paramount to the growth of DeFi. Many DApps require reliable pools of liquidity to function. One of the most interesting project’s innovating in the pool liquidity space is Balancer. If you haven’t heard of Balancer, now’s a great time to learn because Balancer is about to start distributing BAL tokens to liquidity providers …
TLDR: Integrating DEX.AG’s X Blaster with custom fees into your platform provides your users or smart contract with convenient native liquidity while allowing you to build a sustainable business model. Liquidity is vital for the growth of DeFi Users want to experience all DeFi has to offer. But often times to do that you need …
Imagine you’re trying out a new DeFi project. Everything is going smoothly; the instructions on screen guide you, making you feel confident in your actions. That is until you complete your transaction and then your tokens don’t arrive. You start to get that sinking feeling in your stomach as you realize you’ve received tokens the …
Today, we interview UMA co-founder Allison Lu who talks about her and her team’s mission to bring market access to everyone through synthetic asset tokens, decentralized oracles, and priceless financial contracts. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? Starting in late-2017, my co-founder …
DeFi doesn’t just stand for decentralized finance; DeFi is a community of users, developers, investors, traders, researchers, writers, and so much more. Our collective endeavors are etched into the blockchain; our stories and shared history can be found in our data. Ask anyone who’s familiar with DeFi and they’ll tell you that it’s been exhilarating …
In this edition of DeFi Dive, Daniel Wang, founder and CEO of Loopring, discusses how zkRollups can scale high-throughput DeFi applications like Loopring.io while maintaining layer 1 security. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? I learned Bitcoin back in 2013 when I …
If you ask me, the most exciting part of decentralized finance is seeing DeFi’s money legos stacking up over time. Futureswap, launching Monday afternoon PST (April 20th, 2020), is a great example of how decentralized finance iterates on past successes to evolve into something even better. Futureswap is like a blend of Uniswap and BitMEX …
In this edition of DeFi Dive, we’re joined by Synthetix Founder Kain Warwick who shares his unique experiences which lead to the creation of DeFi’s second biggest DApp. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? I’d been involved in several startups in my …
It’s been a wild ride watching decentralized finance grow alongside the DeFi Pulse community. From every celebratory tweet about climbing up a rank on our leaderboard to the palpable buzz around new listings, we’ve been blown away with how the community has adopted our metrics and relied on us as a resource for DeFi. We’ve …
On Thursday March 12, 2020, the price of Ether (ETH) dropped over 30% in about 24 hours. The result sent chain reaction rippling through DeFi in an event many will likely come to refer to as Black Thursday. DeFi users rushed to make transactions like trading on DEXes, paying off debts, bolstering collateral ratio, etc. …
In this edition of DeFi Dive, Michael W. Burgess, Ren’s Head of Operations, discusses their team’s journey of bringing interoperability to DeFi. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? I got into crypto early 2017 and one of the most obvious issues at …
