0x_B1, a pseudonymous trader or traders who holds at least 1% of assets in DeFi, isn’t just about cold, hard cash. In an exclusive interview with The Defiant, they revealed their long term vision for the space, and how their motivation goes beyond financial gain – though of course, they’re raking in profits too. 0x_B1,…

Yearn Finance, the yield farming aggregator,  dropped its version two (V2) on Jan. 17, with a slew of changes including a mechanism to funnel staking fees to the protocol’s treasury, meant to make development sustainable in the long term. Yearn’s much anticipated V2 comes with a new fee structure which, while maintaining the same overall…

Everybody hates slippage.  That’s the problem Saddle, the freshly launched dApp “designed to enable efficient trading between pegged value crypto assets,” aims to tackle. And while the project quickly reached its initial deposit cap, it wasn’t without a couple of hiccups.  Saddle is a new automated market maker (AMM) that intends to provide liquidity for…

Things are hopefully about to speed up and get cheaper in Ethereum land, as Synthetix, the synthetic asset issuance protocol, deployed its staking code from Ethereum to Optimism, a Layer 2 scaling solution on Jan. 15.  Now, users can migrate their Synthetix Network Tokens (SNX), used to mint the protocol’s synthetic assets, to Optimistic Ethereum’s…

As decentralised finance protocols (DeFi) take on a more prominent role in driving total cryptocurrency market cap, Kyber Network eyes the $2 high last seen in August 2020. Currently exchanging hands at $1.33 (Binance), KNC surged 35% in 7 days. The KNC token had been in a period of consolidation since October, but the tables…

It’s time to buy a fire suit, because ETH is super hot. As Ether makes headlines surging past its previous high, other less flashy metrics are also near records, signaling the Ethereum network is strengthening not just in price. ETH hit a new all-time high of $1439.33, topping the previous record of $1432.88 reached during…

There are multiple ways with varying difficulties and requirements to stake your ETH. This week we’re covering the most user-friendly, easiest, and fastest ways to start staking.

A Creator’s Perspective: Music & Distributed Ledger Tech Tokenizing music is still in experimental stages but my long-term vision is that digital collectibles will evolve into true fractional ownership in a song’s master recording rights, allowing artists to disintermediate the music industry and fans to gain from their success.  After brainstorming for months on a…

In this week’s podcast, we interview Justin Blau, better known as 3LAU, one of the world’s top DJs, who is also at the forefront of the intersection between music and crypto. He became interested in blockchain technology because it can provide a means for fans to provably to own digital content, and for artists to better…

While your regular crypto asset will fling you around like a ragdoll and reduce your life expectancy by double digits at least twice a month, stablecoins wrap us in a warm embrace and whisper in our ears that maybe, just maybe, things will be okay. They’re an anchor, a refuge and they too come in…