This is Jam Session No. 1. We’ll be exploring the long term viability of NFTs as artist/creator communities, what we can learn from Hollywood and major platforms like Beats and the bright future of play-to-earn.

Crypto prices have taken a hit in the past 24 hours with open finance’s leading index DeFi Pulse Index down 8.14% at the time of writing and Ether down 8.9% in that same span. Bitcoin too is down 6.1%. The selloff comes with the backdrop of a slump in the general equities market — the…

The date is set. The upgrade, called London after Ethereum’s Devcon 1 location, includes the famous improvement proposal.  EIP-1559, as the upgrade is labeled, will go live at block number 12,965,000. The launch date is expected to be August 4. EIP-1559 will change Ethereum’s fee model so that each block will have a set “BASEFEE,”…

For any Defiers wondering why gas prices on Ethereum have been so high over the past few days, you can blame it on the dog — $SHIB, that is. The meme coin’s revival through a new swap protocol has driven traffic, and gas costs, through the roof. While most meme tokens that moonshot and then crash…

In the DeFi world, oracles aren’t the seers of Greek myth but handy tools that enable data to flow between blockchains and traditional networks in the form of smart contracts. Now oracles have landed right in the middle of a clash pitting two of the biggest players in the space against one another — Chainlink…

Yearn Finance’s founder Andre Cronje triggered a dustup on Twitter yesterday when he announced a new Layer 2 scaling solution for multichain.xyz, a cross-chain token transfer tool. Cronje said multichain.xyz would support Goerli, an Ethereum test network. The announcement has left some users wondering whether their tens of thousands of Goerli ETH are about to…

Opyn is a capital efficient DeFi options protocol that allows users to buy, sell, and create options on ERC20s. DeFi users and products rely on Opyn’s smart contracts and interface to hedge themselves against DeFi risks or take positions on different cryptocurrencies.

Join us for our first ever livestream – Defiant Weekly is our friday deep dive show and where the video department first began. In this special episode we’re going back to basics and doing a live version of Robin’s now infamous Consensus presentation. We’ll cover the basics of DeFi from LP’s to Collateralized debt positions…

“If you have seven figures in JPEGs…”  Deeze doesn’t have to finish the thought as he scrolls through his gallery of NFTs. The 27-year-old collector doesn’t have his camera on, but his profile photo is an NFT avatar with a hoodie and 3D glasses blowing bubbles from a pipe. It’s an aesthetic he searches for across…

DeFi’s borrowing and lending rates are trending downwards, opening questions of what will happen to open finance if yields converge with those of traditional finance. Borrowing rates for USDC have declined to 2.5% and 3.1% on Compound and Aave, from over 15% three months ago, according to LoanScan. Lending rates have suffered similar compression, with…