DeFi
February 24, 2021

DeFi
Ethereum Bots’ MEV Profits are Getting Juicier
Ethereum bots’ profits are getting juicier: Nearly half of the total revenue they’ve made since January 2020 comes from value they’ve extracted in the last 30 days. Flashbots’ newly launched MEV Dashboard tracks and quantifies MEV extracted on-chain, dating back to the first block of Jan. 1 2020. The tracker has documented over 1.3M MEV…
February 24, 2021

DeFi
Non-Ethereum Based DeFi Tokens Show Resilience Amid Selloff
Non-Ethereum DeFi tokens are outperforming their Ethereum peers. Of the top 10 best-performing DeFi tokens with over $100M market capitalizations in the past seven days, six are non-Ethereum or cross-chain based and four exist solely on the Ethereum blockchain. On the flip side, looking at the 10 biggest DeFi losers of the last seven days…
February 24, 2021

DeFi
The State of Layer 2 With Ethereum Scaling is at Stake
With transactions in the several hundreds of dollars and the chain’s blocks perpetually filled as competitors inch in, it’s not an overstatement to say the future of Ethereum depends on scaling solutions known as Layer 2s. Layer 2 (L2) is a term for technologies which take Ethereum transactions off its main chain, enabling the network’s…
February 24, 2021

DeFi
dYdX is Latest Major DeFi Project to Move to L2
Trading Ethereum-based assets is about to get cheaper. Decentralized exchange dYdX is moving its perpetual derivatives trading off the Ethereum main chain to a Layer 2 scaling solution. dYdX, the 7th largest DEX by volume, is moving its cross-margined perpetuals contracts to a Layer 2 protocol built over the past seven months together with StarkWare,…
February 24, 2021
February 23, 2021

DeFi
DeFi Hit With Record Liquidations Amid Market Slump
DeFi is in its biggest market rout of the year and borrowers are feeling the pain. Liquidations in decentralized finance spiked to a record $133M in the past day, according to Debank data. $85.2M, or almost 78% of the liquidations, were on Compound. $13M, or 12%, has been shared between Aave V1 and Aave V2.…
February 23, 2021

DeFi
ETH Remains DeFi King as BSC Fights for the Crown
The DeFi world is abuzz with the following question: Is Binance Smart Chain taking over Ethereum as the ecosystem’s base layer? We looked at the numbers and the answer is not by a long shot ––at least not yet–– and this is assuming that BSC can actually be considered DeFi, which some Ethereum advocates will…
February 18, 2021

DeFi
Ethereum OG Raises $18M With First Reversible ICO
Reversible ICO (rICO)—the latest brainchild from Ethereum dapp developer and ERC 20 creator Fabian Vogelsteller—is a new model for ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings used to fundraise for start-ups) where investors reserve tokens instead of buying them outright. Returnable tokens This new fundraising mechanism allows investors to reserve and buy tokens over time, and “return” reserved…
February 18, 2021

DeFi
Cypherpunk Stablecoin RAI is Live on Ethereum
Rai, a stablecoin for decentralization purists, is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. It’s not pegged to fiat, it’s not backed by fiat, and it’s designed to run completely by computer programs. If it had a physical bill it would carry the inscription, “in code we trust.” RAI is an asset backed only by ETH…
February 17, 2021

DeFi
Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol HiFi Launches
The field for fixed-rate lending protocols is becoming more dense as HiFi has joined the fray. Like Notional Finance and Yield Protocol, HiFi is able to offer fixed rates by locking in a specific duration by which the loan will mature. The debt will be represented with a “yToken,” which refers to tokenized debt backed…