Chainlink Boosts Data Access, Dexes Become More Sophisticated, Scalable Payments Are Coming
Hello Defiers and happy Friday! Here’s what’s up,
- New Chainlink website provides access to more than 25 decentralized oracle networks
- Dex aggregator 1inch launches limit orders
- Fuel, Ethereum sidechain for scalable payments, launches testnet
- DeFi reaching milestone on top of milestone
and more :)
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Chainlink Boosting Access to Price Data for DeFi
Data feed provider Chainlink launched a platform which provides increased access to data feeds for Ethereum applications.
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Dexes Become Increasingly More Sophisticated
Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch is launching limit orders.
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Scalable Ethereum Payments Are Closer
A testnet for Ethereum sidechain Fuel is now live. Fuel v0, whose code is open source, will test stability and performance of the scaling solution, which uses optimistic rollup technology.
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Recent DeFi Milestones:
- Total value locked in DeFi at a new record, approaching $900 million
- 5 million USD locked in Aave Protocol three weeks after launch
- 50 Million Dai locked in DSR. That's 46.74% of total Dai
- PoolTogether crossed the $1 million Dai milestone
- Uniswap crossed $50 million in value locked
Thin Applications: Placeholder
Joel Montenegro of venture fund Placeholder writes about the concept of “thin applications,” “fat protocols,” and the “Web3 applications stack.”
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About the author: I’m Camila Russo, a financial journalist writing a book on Ethereum with Harper Collins. (Pre-order The Infinite Machine here). I was previously at Bloomberg News in New York, Madrid and Buenos Aires covering markets. I’ve extensively covered crypto and finance, and now I’m diving into DeFi, the intersection of the two.
