What a can of worms.  This weekend, Adamant Finance, a yield aggregator on Polygon, initiated a governance vote to “blacklist” wallets it said belong to Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund that trades up to $10B a day in tokens and derivatives. The fallout has been fast and furious. The action came in response to…

Less than a month after the spectacular implosion of Iron Finance’s algorithmic stablecoin, the DeFi project has relaunched a new yield farm on Polygon. Iron Finance’s IronSwap is an automated market maker (AMM) for stablecoin swaps. It aims to facilitate high-volume, low-slippage trades with low fees. For now, there’s no algorithmic insanity to deal with,…

What are CryptoPunks packing down there?  That’s what one new limited-run avatar NFT project, CryptoJunks, is sharing with the Internet. The CryptoJunks project uses the head and shoulders art of CryptoPunks to create matching genitalia. There’s tentacle penises, peeing pee-pees, regular ole schlongs; pink, coiffed lady parts, peach punani and sadist snatches, where the hand…

It’s shaping up to be a big month for Sushiswap. The decentralized automated market maker (AMM) is slated to release its much-anticipated V3 upgrade, codenamed MIRIN, on July 20. A host of new features are expected including limit orders, improved support for multi-token yield farming, MEV protection, and an upgraded user interface. xSUSHI Boost  A…

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…