As a teenager, I was mostly concerned with getting decent grades, obtaining terrible liquor, and attracting girls with a rock band despite only playing the saxophone. Today, teenagers are running multi-million dollar DeFi protocols. Jai Bhavnani, 19, David Lucid, 20, and Jack Lipstone, who just turned 20, founded Rari Capital in April 2020, less than…

On-Chain Markets Update by IntoTheBlock Almost a year since the initial release of COMP fueled DeFi Summer, Aave’s governance voted to implement a similar incentive program. The effects were just as momentous. Aave’s total value locked more than doubled within less than two weeks.  As of May 5, 2021 through IntoTheBlock’s DeFi Insights This sharp…

Want to play tennis with serial entrepreneur and tech investor Gary Vaynerchuk?  You’ll have to snag a VeeFriends non-fungible token. Gary Vaynerchuck, also known as Gary Vee, is working on a new project combining collectible NFTs with social token utility. The result is a novel project with big potential benefits for Vaynerchuk fans, including annual…

Uniswap launched its third and most comprehensive update yet. This new version of DeFi’s largest decentralized exchange by traded volume has the potential to usher in a new era for automated token swaps. The most notable change is that with Uniswap V3 decentralized trading becomes more capital efficient as liquidity providers can now set price…

Meebits has everything an NFT investor could ask for ––random computer-generated traits to assign uniqueness and scarcity, the pedigree of the CryptoPunks maker and their community, and extremely cool-looking creatures many crypto enthusiasts would want to have as an avatar. But is that all worth $1.4M for a single token? Artists in the NFT community…

Curve Finance users are getting a steady stream of rewards lately.  In the last month, holders of the Curve voting token veCRV have gotten news of airdrops from two separate projects. Frozen Yoghurt, a Curve Finance fork, launched this week on the Fantom blockchain, but the project will airdrop its token, FROYO, to holders of…

Have you ever wanted to go to the moon and reach those crypto prices with your own hands? Well strap into your spaceship, because millionaire, serial IT entrepreneur Roman Kropachek has an NFT for you. “Moon house concept by Roman Kropachek” is more than just an NFT; it’s an experimental art and architecture project. Billed…

The S&P Dow Jones Indices, the maker of likely the most widely referenced indices in finance, has added three crypto indexes to its offerings. The firm added the S&P Bitcoin, Ethereum and Crypto Mega Cap––a combination of BTC and ETH–– indices. The benchmarks can be used by the financial industry to track the underlying assets’…

Sotheby’s art auction house is accepting Bitcoin and Ether as payment for physical artworks.  In collaboration with Coinbase, Sotheby’s becomes the first major fine art auction house to do this.  While Christie’s art auction house recently accepted $69M in ETH for Beeple’s “EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS,” that was an NFT. Sotheby’s is taking its…

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