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FTX Fallout's Ugliest Turn Yet
On today's live: All the latest on FTX, how far the contagion spread, and did DeFi really win?
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The Defiant is looking for a data engineer to help build out its DeFi-focused data platform.
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Makers of Alien, Gladiator and Blade Runner to Produce The Infinite Machine Movie
Scott Free Productions will produce a feature film based on The Infinite Machine, Camila Russo's bestselling book on the history of Ethereum.Scott Free Productions will produce a feature film based on The Infinite Machine, Camila Russo's bestselling book on the history of Ethereum.
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The Infinite Machine Movie NFT Holders Will Sit at The Producers’ Table Via a DAO
Infinite Machine DAO to be credited as an Executive Producer.
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The Defiant's Defiers of 2021
unders, hackers and investors who helped advance the open economy; politicians and regulators who are laying the groundwork for the industry or threatening to restrain it; CEOs in DeFi adjacent industries who, with their global influence, shape the space; artists and community builders who are pushing crypto further into mainstream culture.
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The Infinite Machine Collection’s First Mint Sells Out In 28 Hours, Raising $670K
Infinite Machine NFT collection sells 2100 NFTs in 28 hours.
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The Story of Ethereum to Become a Movie and NFT Collection
The Infinite Machine, a book about the development of Ethereum, will be produced as a feature film and support an NFT community.
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'Work Smart, Not Hard': DODO's Diane Dai Used a Get-it-Done Tack to Build an AMM
An interview with Diane Dai, CMO of DODOm an automated market maker in DeFi.
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The Defiant Terminal is Coming: Join the Waitlist
We’re excited. We’re getting ready to launch The Defiant Terminal, a platform for investors and analysts to track all DeFi data in one place. Join the waitlist today to be notified as soon as it’s live. You’ll want to be the first to get your eyes on that alpha. The Defiant is devoted to being…
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THE DEFIANT MANIFESTO
WHO WE ARE The Defiant is the definitive information platform for the open economy. We are the paper of record, reporting on all the most important developments, downfalls and milestones of the new financial system. The Defiant creates the foundational educational material for newcomers, and delivers the actionable reports leveraged by professionals. We craft tutorials…
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Defiant Media Raises $1.4M to Build the Financial Information Platform for Web3
Defiant Media Inc., the creator of The Defiant, closed a $1.4M pre-seed round to build the leading information company at the intersection of tech and finance, from investors including IDEO CoLab Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, MetaCartel Ventures, Defiance Capital, Mechanism Capital, GBV Capital, and angels including Anthony Pompliano, Mariano Conti, Andrew Keys and many…
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The Future of DeFi
The biggest question in DeFi is always: What’s next? And that’s what’s so magnificent about this new world of DeFi: nobody knows, but whatever it is, it’s coming fast and furious. Back up a moment to appreciate DeFi in 2020–the landmark year of Ethereum to date. You can ponder regrets having not bought ETH for…
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What is Gas and How to Save on Fees?
“Gas” is the ETH required to power every transaction on Ethereum. Gas is a term that was coined to describe the ETH (ether) required to transact on the Ethereum network. More specifically, every transaction that occurs on the Ethereum network requires a set amount of gas, which is the unit used to measure the computational…
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Top 10 DeFi Resources
There are countless resources that can provide crucial information and education to help you along in your DeFi journey. These (in no particular order or ranking) are our Top 10 DeFi Resources: The Defiant. No surprise here. Subscribe to The Defiant YouTube channel, newsletter and podcast, covering the most interesting, most extraordinary, and sometimes, most…
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Risks of DeFi
You can lose 100% of your money in any DeFi app or protocol. So above all else, apply a simple rule of thumb to help mitigate this risk: don’t deposit more than you’re willing to lose. Here’s a rundown of the 7 most common risks (or 7 most deadly DeFi sins) that everyone should consider…
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DeFi Insurance and how Nexus Mutual Works
As more apps and protocols launch, and more money pours into DeFi, it’s important that DeFi investors can mitigate the risk of losing their funds. With great power, comes great responsibility. Insurance protects us from the unexpected, and in DeFi, there’s nothing more expected than the unexpected. While DeFi is exploding in growth, it also…
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DeFi On-Chain Options
Options are yet another money lego growing like crazy on Ethereum, with growing liquidity on Hegic and Opyn. Options, like the name implies, give traders the option to buy or sell an asset at a pre-determined price on a future date. They are used to protect against price volatility and speculate on market moves. Options…
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Trading Every Asset Class with DeFi Derivatives
A derivative is a big word created by Wall St that simply means: a financial security with a value that is reliant upon, or derived from, an underlying asset or group of assets. In other words, it’s trading a thing that represents the price movements of the underlying asset. According to the Bank for International…
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Algorithmic Stablecoins
Stablecoins on Ethereum boast an estimated $20B in liquidity (according to usdonethereum.com) and they show no signs of slowing down in growth. Stablecoins, examples of which include DAI, sUSD, USDC or USDT, come in all sorts of varieties: decentralized vs centralized, backed 1:1 by dollars vs overcollateralized vs reportedly undercollateralized (in the case of USDT).…
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What’s Layer 1 vs Layer 2?
If you have tried DeFi recently, you have probably experienced the frustrations of high transaction fees. As the demand for DeFi services on Ethereum have increased, it has become “normal” to pay higher fees such as $20 per transaction or even several hundred dollars on occasion. If this blockchain scalability problem isn’t resolved, these transaction…
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DEXs vs CEXs
CeFi vs DeFi. Centralized exchanges (CEXs) versus decentralized exchanges (DEXs). Trading on CEXs involves trusting a centralized company with your private keys and information. It also often means a faster trading experience. Trading on DEXs means not having to ask for permission and maintaining control of your assets and information. The differences between trading on…
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What is yearn.finance
Yearn.finance automates yield earning. It started out as a “yield bouncer” called iearn.finance, automatically moving stablecoins like DAI from one lending protocol to the next across Compound, dYdX, Aave, and more to maximize lending yield. Then the idea evolved when founder Andre Cronje combined this yield bouncing strategy with a stablecoin pool in Curve. Anyone…
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What is Yield Farming and Liquidity Providing
Yield farming is one of the many memes that was created by the DeFi community. While it’s a term that gets tossed around loosely, there’s a narrower criteria to define what is yield farming: It often requires providing liquidity or lending liquidity in a permissionless DeFi protocol to earn passive income. It results in traders…
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