Uniswap v3 introduces concentrated liquidity, giving individual LPs granular control over what price ranges their capital is allocated to, and multiple fee tiers, allowing LPs to be appropriately compensated for taking on varying degrees of risk.

This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities to consider yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to the Defiant and the Chief DeFi Officer of Zapper. The goal is to expose more Defiant readers to new DeFi applications and their associated liquidity mining programs. Background on Protocol: When you…

Ethereum’s cryptocurrency has shot up, almost doubling in price in one month and piercing through a record $4,000 on Monday. But some traders are preparing for a pull-back. Short interest is at the highest since the depths of the bear market, while options traders are buying contracts to protect against a drop. ETH has been…

By Marina Spindler and Paulina Rodriguez According to a recent study, the total number of global cryptocurrency users has surpassed 100 million for the first time. The highly specialized crypto landscape is increasingly diverse. Exchange platform surveys indicate women make up 15-55% of crypto users, depending on the region.  Tonya Zhang, head of marketing of Hong…

DeFi Saver is an advanced one-stop management solution dashboard for decentralized finance protocols, including MakerDAO and Compound. It offers options to create instantly leveraged positions in DeFi lending protocols, as well as tools to leverage, deleverage or fully close down a position in 1-transaction. It also includes loan shifting or refinancing tools for anyone looking…

As a teenager, I was mostly concerned with getting decent grades, obtaining terrible liquor, and attracting girls with a rock band despite only playing the saxophone. Today, teenagers are running multi-million dollar DeFi protocols. Jai Bhavnani, 19, David Lucid, 20, and Jack Lipstone, who just turned 20, founded Rari Capital in April 2020, less than…

On-Chain Markets Update by IntoTheBlock Almost a year since the initial release of COMP fueled DeFi Summer, Aave’s governance voted to implement a similar incentive program. The effects were just as momentous. Aave’s total value locked more than doubled within less than two weeks.  As of May 5, 2021 through IntoTheBlock’s DeFi Insights This sharp…

Uniswap launched its third and most comprehensive update yet. This new version of DeFi’s largest decentralized exchange by traded volume has the potential to usher in a new era for automated token swaps. The most notable change is that with Uniswap V3 decentralized trading becomes more capital efficient as liquidity providers can now set price…

Meebits has everything an NFT investor could ask for ––random computer-generated traits to assign uniqueness and scarcity, the pedigree of the CryptoPunks maker and their community, and extremely cool-looking creatures many crypto enthusiasts would want to have as an avatar. But is that all worth $1.4M for a single token? Artists in the NFT community…

Curve Finance users are getting a steady stream of rewards lately.  In the last month, holders of the Curve voting token veCRV have gotten news of airdrops from two separate projects. Frozen Yoghurt, a Curve Finance fork, launched this week on the Fantom blockchain, but the project will airdrop its token, FROYO, to holders of…