Before April 2020, Paul had never purchased cryptocurrency, let alone even heard of an NFT. Less than a year later, his NFT trading profits have netted him around 17 times the yearly minimum wage in his native Colombia (around $3,100 annually) and allowed him to buy his first house.  He isn’t the only one, either.…

Fei Protocol was one of the most anticipated project launches this year –– an algorithmic stablecoin backed by heavyweights like Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures–– and it raised funds accordingly, attracting an eye-popping $1.3B in ether over the weekend. But it’s all spiraled down from there. The high of the sale was immediately tainted by…

Viewing eth2 through the lens of traditional financial tools will help the industry mature and grow. Historically, it was difficult to participate financially in the development of the interworking protocols that formed the basis of the internet. Web3.0, however, flips this on its head. Decentralization, a core tenant of most proof of stake (PoS) blockchains,…

In this week’s episode we talk with the DeFi artist of the moment. Pplpleasr got into DeFi drawn in by the crazy yields but really stayed when she resonated with the community  —the gaming-like, niche subculture of memes and internet-native humor. She started making videos for many DeFi teams, from Yeran to Pickle Finance. Her latest and…

I always want to give things the benefit of the doubt, try and see the positives but I’ve never come across a project that I found as hard to like as this one. So let’s give it a fair shake and try and understand why so many are getting so excited about it.

Enjin has revealed more details about their NFT-focused blockchain, Efinity Network, which was announced earlier this month alongside their “high-speed bridge network” scaling solution, JumpNet. Efinity Network will be built as a parachain (ie: an offshoot blockchain) on the Polkadot network. Enjin plans Efinity Network to be a cross-chain highway for NFTs, capable of supporting…

Filecoin’s token is soaring by the most in all of crypto.  FIL  has jumped 168% to $231 in the last week, the most among the top 100 tokens listed on CoinGecko. The project raised $52M in a presale and $205.8 million dollars in an ICO during the 2017 crypto boom only to largely fall off…

Aave, DeFi’s third-largest protocol by assets in its smart contracts, will be expanding onto the Polygon network as it aims to improve scalability. Need for Scalability Consistently high gas fees, while indicative of Ethereum’s growing success and adoption, have the downside of pricing out smaller investors, Aave said in a March 31 blog post. In…

While searches for “NFTs” have outpaced those for “DeFi” by seven to one at the close of 2021’s first quarter, DeFi has quietly doubled or tripled by most key metrics. Deposits in Ethereum-based DeFi more than doubled to $37.7B from $16.6B at the start of the year, according to DeBank, besting 2020s Q4’s 90% increase…

A new web3 media platform called Mirror offers a new way for journalists to monetize their work. This past month, I set out to explore the NFT value stack – leveraging Mirror to make the essay into an NFT. The post, titled “NFT Value Capture Equation” was broken down using a fractional token called $VALUE.…