Step into crypto and it can feel like you’re throwing your life to the gods of thunder. I’m here, you say, take me, throw me into the void. And, ape that you are, you keep walking towards that edge.

In this week’s episode we speak with Antonio Juliano, founder and CEO of dYdX, one of the biggest decentralized exchanges on Ethereum, focusing on derivatives. dYdX recently made news by being one of the first major DeFi projects to move to Layer 2.  One of the main goals for his team this year will be to further…

“Bitcoin billionaire” Tyler Winklevoss of Gemini submitted a governance proposal on a community forum for GUSD to be used as stablecoin collateral for loans on AAVE. Currently, GUSD can only be borrowed.  GUSD is a stablecoin that maintains value by holding one USD in reserve for each stablecoin issued. By using GUSD as collateral, borrowers…

Gnosis’ newly launched DAO governance tool, SafeSnap, aims to allow users to execute decentralized governance decisions  without incurring expensive gas fees on-chain. Gnosis has merged its multisig wallet, Gnosis Safe, with the off-chain (and therefore gasless) DAO governance dashboard, Snapshot, to create SafeSnap as an addable module for Gnosis Safe. SafeSnap is designed to verify…

Version 3 of the 1Inch DEX Aggregation Protocol is launching with a focus on facilitating lower gas fees. 1Inch v3 has aimed to optimize its assembly code to reduce gas fees applying to swaps using Uniswap v2 and its forks. The new version is also designed to use traditional splits across several paths if those…

ETH in whales’ wallets isn’t budging while smaller holders take their tokens to DeFi. The number of wallets with 100 to 10K Ether have dropped by 7.2% since the cryptocurrency hit an all-time high four weeks ago. In contrast, the amount of wallets with over 10K ETH, valued at more than $18.4M, dropped only 0.9%…

Ethereum wallet MetaMask introduced Swaps to their mobile app yesterday. The feature allows users to trade cryptocurrencies with a single swipe.  Swaps finds prices and network fees by combining data from automated market makers, professional market makers, request for quotes (RFQs), and individual decentralized exchanges (DEXs). By acting as an aggregator, the trading system aims…

Have you ever you clicked through a captivating article headline only to be met by a paywall, looked at the subscription prices and wished, “if only I could pay for this single story,” before clicking away? We’ve all been there. In fact, you’re likely having this experience often lately as more websites turn to subscriptions…

Anchor Protocol will be targeting a 20% fixed annual yield on stablecoins—the highest fixed stablecoin rate to-date. Anchor, a newly launched low-volatility savings protocol by the Terraform Labs team, aims to achieve this 20% rate by passing borrowers’ staking rewards onto lenders, instead of charging a  borrowing rate. In other words, the borrowing cost equals…

Leverage is difficult to monitor in DeFi’s current state, but it may have found a friend in a new product called the Flexible Leverage Index (FLI). The ERC-20 token, pronounced “Fly,” created by Index Coop and DeFi Pulse, using Compound and Set Protocol, aims to help token holders manage their leveraged positions.  Managing these positions…