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 …
We spoke with Frontier Co-Founder & Head of Marketing Palash Jain who longs to bring DeFi to the masses with slick features like TxLink. How did you get your start in crypto and what inspired you to build your project, product, or service? I first heard about Ethereum back in 2017, and that’s where my …
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 …
