🚀Tokemak Decentralized AMM Hits $1B TVL — And It’s Not Even Fully Launched Yet

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• Tokemak Decentralized AMM Hits $1B TVL — And It’s Not Even Fully Launched Yet
• First Uniswap ETP Goes Live as Institutional DeFi Products Proliferate
• DeFi DAOs Diversify Token Treasuries Seeking Long-Term Survival

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• Jam Session #9: What makes DAO a DAO?
• What is a DAO? The Defiant Guide

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• BSN Architect Red Date to Launch NFT Infrastructure in China: CoinDesk
• Facebook Changes Company Name to Meta, Plans NFT Support: CryptoBriefing
• Floki Inu Pumps 223% as the Dogecoin and SHIB Rival Plasters Ads Across London: Decrypt
• MicroStrategy added 9,000 BTC last quarter, its stash is now worth $7 billion: Cointelegraph
• ‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy boosts valuation to $3.5B with $250M raise: Tech Crunch

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• Abracadabra To Offer Supercharged Stablecoin Yields By Leveraging Terra’s Anchor Protocol
• Paradigm Bets on a Cross-Chain Future With $21M Round for Cosmos’ Osmosis DEX
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🚀Tokemak Decentralized AMM Hits $1B TVL — And It’s Not Even Fully Launched Yet

Tokemak, a project that bills itself as a decentralized market making protocol, has hit $1B in total value locked, less than two months after unveiling what it calls “reactors.”

$1B MARK Hitting the $1B mark is a major sign of momentum for a project that hasn’t fully launched all its functionality yet. Tokemak aims to facilitate liquidity provisioning for protocols’ tokens instead of the projects doing it themselves. That functionality is set to go live in December.

“Tokemak is gearing up for a different way, kind of like a meta-layer liquidity distribution, for protocols to get deep liquidity by creating this decentralized market making platform,” a Tokemak representative told The Defiant.

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🚀 DeFi DAOs Diversify Token Treasuries Seeking Long-Term Survival

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) in the DeFi sector are increasingly moving to diversify their treasuries to ensure long-term survival.

DIVERSIFYING Decentralized money market Rari Capital’s DAO is the latest to look at diversifying its treasury, launching a governance proposal that pushes for a share of its native RGT token holdings to be converted into stablecoins.

RARI PROPOSAL Published by Rari Capital investor Framework Ventures, the proposal advocates for the DAO to sell off up to 250,000 RGT or 10% of its holdings for USD Coin (USDC) through a public batch auction.

NOT ALONE Rari is not alone in looking to diversify the assets its treasury is exposed to, with some leading projects recently turning to venture capital to offload large sums of tokens. We give a complete breakdown of the the latest examples of DAO treasury diversification.

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🌈 First Uniswap ETP Goes Live as Institutional DeFi Products Proliferate

Institutional investors appear to be flocking into DeFi assets, with a flurry of institutional investment products offering exposure to the decentralized finance sector being launched by major asset managers this year.

Valour Inc., a Switzerland-based issuer of digital asset-based exchange-traded products (ETPs), became the latest asset manager to embrace DeFi on Oct. 26 when it launched the world’s first ETP tracking the governance token of leading decentralized exchange Uniswap (UNI). The product is trading on the German-based Börse Frankfurt Zertifikate exchange.

However, Valour’s ETP is not the only way institutional investors can gain exposure to UNI via a regulated product…

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Crypto Jams

👀Jam Session #9: What makes DAO a DAO?

Camila Russo is joined by Covalent’s Pratik Gandhi, Gnosis Safe’s Lukas Schor, and Taksh’s 13-year-old founder Gajesh Naik to discuss the present and future for decentralized autonomous organizations.

Links

🔗 BSN Architect Red Date to Launch NFT Infrastructure in China: CoinDesk

Red Date Technology, the firm behind the Blockchain Services Network, will launch infrastructure to support the deployment of non-fungible tokens in China.

🔗 Facebook Changes Company Name to Meta, Plans NFT Support: CryptoBriefing

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would change its company name to Meta—reflecting Zuckerberg’s focus on the metaverse, which can be thought of as a virtual world that is a “successor to the mobile internet.”

🔗 Floki Inu Pumps 223% as the Dogecoin and SHIB Rival Plasters Ads Across London: Decrypt

After Shiba Inu’s rise this week, Floki Inu puts up an even more dramatic climb amidst transaction tax changes and marketing blitz.

🔗 MicroStrategy added 9,000 BTC last quarter, its stash is now worth $7 billion: Cointelegraph

The company highlighted the purchase of 8,957 BTC in its Q3 report on Oct. 28, with the firm’s perma-bull CEO Michael Saylor stating that there is more BTC accumulation to come.

🔗 ‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy boosts valuation to $3.5B with $250M raise: Tech Crunch

Exactly six months after raising $80 million at a $505 million valuation, blockchain and Web3 development SaaS startup Alchemy has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $3.5 billion.

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• Abracadabra To Offer Supercharged Stablecoin Yields By Leveraging Terra’s Anchor Protocol“Degen” traders are likely salivating at an announcement by DeFi’s rising star Daniele Sestagalli, claiming that they will soon be able to earn high yields from their stablecoins thanks to a new cross-chain, leveraged yield farming protocol.
• Paradigm Bets on a Cross-Chain Future With $21M Round for Cosmos’ Osmosis DEXOsmosis, a decentralized exchange in the Cosmos ecosystem, today announced a $21M sale of tokens from the Osmosis Foundation treasury, in a round led by Paradigm.
• CREAM Finance Exploited for $130M in DeFi’s Third-Largest Hack Projects like OlympusDAO, Fei Protocol, and Alchemix, are all experimenting with new ways of capturing users with the new challenge of getting them to stay.

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