In DeFi, while it’s not necessarily true that bigger is always better, the beauty of a high APY never fails to turn heads. And regardless of how much higher DeFi yields are compared to traditional finance, there’s no shortage of DeFi users eager to maximize their profits, chasing higher yields from platform to platform and…

Arbitrum, one of the most awaited Ethereum scaling solutions, has attracted $2.9M on its first day after launch, becoming the 11th largest so-called Layer 2 platform, according to L2BEAT. Offchain Labs, a blockchain software maker, launched Arbitrum on Aug. 31 with the promise to offer  lower fees and faster transactions. So far, it’s delivering: ETH…

Fantom’s liquidity mining program is once more showcasing the power incentives can have in markets as total value locked in the smart contract chain’s DeFi projects has nearly doubled in the three days since offering token rewards. TVL on Fantom soared by 80% to $990M from $547M on Aug. 29, the day before the liquidity…

Does leveraged yield farming sound intimidating? It’s understandable that some would feel that way. After all, leverage and yield strategies are tools that professional investors have been known to utilize, their inner workings esoteric to the every-day investor. Yet, with the growth of decentralized finance, that’s no longer the case. Easy-to-use platforms now exist to…

In Facebook’s early days, it famously limited membership to students in colleges and universities, opening a few at a time. Hyype, a new social network for NFT collectors, plans a similar approach but Discord server by Discord server rather than school by school. To that end, Hyype today announced a $1.5M seed round from Electric…

Pylon aligns the interests of both users and creators involved in long-term value exchanges via simple user deposits and stable yield payouts over time. Pylon’s products build on low-volatile yield-bearing protocols in order to unlock a new suite of options for payments and savings.

Metamask has broken 10 million monthly active users, according to the blockchain infrastructure company ConsenSys. Metamask is the leading Ethereum wallet, working both in browsers and on mobile devices. It allows users to hold cryptocurrencies on Ethereum and compatible blockchains such as Polygon. Metamask also enables users to interact with Web3 applications that use crypto…

What’s the answer to make decentralized finance more fun and immersive than its current incarnation of websites and bulletin boards? Apparently it’s community environments reminiscent of video games played on 1990s-era consoles. That at least is the bet DeFi portal Yearn Finance is making with its latest grant to Atlantis World. The company makes two-dimensional,…

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to get insurance on your deposits on Anchor Protocol with Nexus Mutual, Bridge Mutual, and InsurAce.

Nature doesn’t mess about. When you take a ship into the deep ocean you’d best beware, because she can really f*&k you up. Way back before all this crypto malarkey a young filmmaker used to hike up mountains and film the bravest souls in the world backflip off 100 foot cliffs and ski away as…