Compound has reigned supreme as DeFi’s most popular lending protocol since its inception in 2018, but according to recent data trends, Aave has a fighting chance to take its crown.  Price-wise, AAVE has massively outperformed COMP since the beginning of 2021. COMP started the year around $145 while AAVE was around $88. As of Feb.…

Ren Project, an open protocol that facilitates value transfer between blockchains, has joined forces with quantitative trading firm Alameda Research.  Ren Project said in a Medium post that it will be prioritizing support for the Solana blockchain as part of its new partnership with Alameda.  They plan to bridge assets between Solana and Ren’s multi-chain…

Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and investor who stars on Shark Tank and owns the Dallas Mavericks, thinks that blockchain is the future of mainstream finance. After vocally supporting Reddit’s WallStreetBets during their GME stock rally aimed against Wall Street hedge funds, Cuban made himself available to WSB community members for an AMA (Ask Me…

Balancer unveiled its V2 protocol upgrade, offering a generalized AMM solution for DeFi liquidity. Balancer allows users to create token pools with flexible constituents, weights and trading fees. With V2, Balancer will aggregate all its liquidity in one vault, while users will maintain an internal balance of the tokens they hold. The change is meant…

Synthetic assets trading in decentralized finance is picking up after stock buyers were locked out of traditional markets last week. Platforms like Mirror, FTX, and Synthetix, which are live, and others still in the works like Injective Protocol, allow investors to gain access to traditional stocks and assets via tokens which replicate their price.  Daily…

Did Robinhood freeze your account? Do you want to buy stocks but you can’t? Well, that’s exactly why we have DeFi — it’s permissionless, it’s trustless, no one can freeze your account here. In this tutorial we take a look at how to buy stocks using Mirror Protocol. Mirror Protocol is a synthetics protocol providing…

Yearn Finance token holders voted for the protocol to mint 6,666 new tokens, prioritizing the implementation of a funding model for contributors over keeping a hard cap. Holders of 1.66k YFI (83.4%) voted “yes,” compared with 330.5 YFI (16.6%) voting “no,” on the off-chain governance tool Snapshot. In a recent proposal, Yearn Finance laid out…

A new twist on NFTs might hold the potential to change the entire nature of freelance writing. Mirror is a new publishing platform, akin to an open source, DeFi-oriented take on Medium. The platform will allow individual writers to crowdfund their work by minting their essays as NFTs.  Backers will be able to exchange ETH…

NFT collectors are flocking to get their hands on Hashmasks – a collection of 16,384 unique digital portraits. Each portrait features a combination of five traits with different levels of scarcity. The sale window opened with seven price tranches, quickly breaching the 100 ETH threshold and selling out yesterday morning for a total of $14M…

Goldfinch, a newly launched DeFi lending protocol focusing on loans without collateral, today announced a $1M funding round and progress on its pilot lending program in emerging markets.  Goldfinch, which launched in December, said it’s working with PayJoy in Mexico, Aspire in Southeast Asia, and QuickCheck in Nigeria, which have collectively drawn down $1M from…