The race for the metaverse is heating up as Facebook has officially rebranded to become “Meta,” but judging from token prices, metaverse OGs don’t feel threatened.   

While many crypto analysts spent the week focused on Bitcoin’s pull-back to below $60,000, top DeFi assets quietly saw significant gains to drive the sector’s combined market cap in uncharted territory.

NFT collectibles can rapidly create communities around a shared interest—or a cause. And the most pressing cause in cryptoland recently has been preparation for increased U.S. government regulation. That’s why one group took the millions of dollars it earned from NFT sales last month and gave it to a key crypto industry voice in Washington,…

Institutional investors appear to be flocking into DeFi assets, with a flurry of institutional investment products offering exposure to the decentralized finance sector being launched by major asset managers this year.

Decentralized money market Rari Capital's DAO is the latest to look at diversifying its treasury, launching a governance proposal that pushes for a share of its native RGT token holdings to be converted into stablecoins.

There’s another piece of evidence that the “DeFi 2.0” movement is gaining steam.  Tokemak, a project that bills itself as a decentralized market making protocol, has hit $1B in total value locked, less than two months after unveiling what it calls “reactors.”   Reactors are a pooled combination of a protocol’s token, like Sushiswap’s SUSHI and…

Osmosis, a decentralized exchange in the Cosmos ecosystem, today announced a $21M sale of tokens from the Osmosis Foundation treasury, in a round led by Paradigm. Other investors included Robert Leshner's scout fund, Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon.

Two years before Ethereum had even been released, Worldcoin had already weathered a double-spend attack and released Worldcoin v3 — Flirtatious Ant, to rectify the situation. The DAO hack on Vitalik's blockchain was still three years out and this payments-oriented blockchain was already negotiating a blockchain-wide crisis. And yet today no one is talking about…

“Degen” traders are likely salivating at an announcement by DeFi’s rising star Daniele Sestagalli, claiming that they will soon be able to earn high yields from their stablecoins thanks to a new cross-chain, leveraged yield farming protocol.  The Abracadabra founder said today on Twitter that a protocol which connects Ethereum with the Terra blockchain to…

Another crypto bull run, another whirlwind of regulatory pressure. But if Terraforms Labs’ lawsuit is any indication, DeFi is better prepared to fight back this time around.