DeFi
February 27, 2021

Education
Top Teams Building DeFi
DeFi is constantly changing, with new projects popping up seemingly every single day. This is by no means an exhaustive list. It’s just the tip of the iceberg. We went with the more tried and tested projects, the ones that have been live the longest and have the most value locked in their smart contracts.…
February 27, 2021

Education
Top Tools to Get Started with DeFi
In DeFi, our money is controlled by us, the user, while the apps we use are created by different teams who share one common thread, the blockchain. In most cases that’s Ethereum. The first tool one needs in DeFi is a wallet that interacts with smart contracts in DeFi apps so you can tell the…
February 27, 2021

Education
How Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Other Blockchains Fit Within DeFi
DeFi today can be found mostly flourishing on Ethereum. New applications launch faster than you can keep up with.That empire is only going to grow. The network effects of developers working together and building composable tools that can be stacked and benefit one another is a very competitive moat, making it difficult for other smart…
February 26, 2021

Education
KYC and Why It’s Not Needed in DeFi
While crypto has been around over 10 years, the most popular apps until the last year have been centralized crypto exchanges. These centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase do billions in trade volume daily but also require users to submit personal details like name, email and even physical address. This might seem harmless at first…
February 26, 2021

Education
Common Uses of DeFi: Lending, Borrowing, Trading, and Stablecoins
In DeFi, the possibilities of what can be built to replace legacy finance are endless, but there are a few use cases that every newcomer to DeFi will want to know about and explore early on because 1) they’re easy to understand and 2) battle-tested with billions in liquidity and hundreds of thousands of users…
February 26, 2021

Education
What is a Dapp and How Does it Use Smart Contracts?
dApps or decentralized applications are applications powered by a public blockchain protocol like Ethereum. When you build a dApp on Ethereum, you’re programming a simple set of rules for an application to follow when it receives money or other inputs from users. Smart contracts are a lot like programming a robot. Smart contracts on a…
February 25, 2021

DeFi
DEX Project Proposes Porting SushiSwap to Solana
The SushiSwap community is now voting on a proposal to build SushiSwap on the Solana blockchain using the Solana-based Raydium DEX as a bridge. Raydium proposes “acting as a bridge and partner for SushiSwap’s expansion onto Solana,” allowing SushiSwap to access additional liquidity from Serum and leverage the chain to increase transaction fees and lower…
February 25, 2021

DeFi
Brave is Planning to Build a DEX Aggregator
Brave, the company behind the open source Brave web browser that allows users to tip publishers and content creators with its first-party Basic Attention Token (BAT), is setting their sights on a lofty new project: a Brave DEX aggregator. The Brave DEX aggregator is intended to have multi-chain support featuring many assets across different blockchains,…
February 25, 2021

DeFi
1Inch Expands to Binance Smart Chain
1INCH is expanding into Binance Smart Chain (BSC), one of the first major Ethereum-based DeFi projects to make the jump. “Crossing the hell of burned #Ethereum lands our hero stumbles upon the mysterious yellow portal,” the project tweeted today. BSC users will get access to all the same 1Inch functionalities that are already available on…
February 25, 2021

DeFi
DeFi Tokens Correct Amid High Speculation
Having been some of the highest-performing assets in 2021, DeFi tokens experienced a sharp correction this week. The aggregate market crap in DeFi governance tokens managed to drop approximately 30% from $41 billion to $28 billion within three days. As of February 25, 2021 using IntoTheBlock’s DeFi Insights Although the market has recovered significantly over…