Bitcoin
July 20, 2021

Twitter's Jack Dorsey Announces DeFi on Bitcoin Project
Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO and Bitcoin enthusiast, wants to bring decentralized finance onto the OG cryptocurrency protocol. On July 15, Dorsey announced that his financial services and digital payments company, Square, is creating a new business focused on bringing non-custodial, permissionless DeFi services to Bitcoin. The new company, which is called “TBD” (just like…
July 14, 2021

The DeFi Future is Automated
A race is under way in DeFi innovation. Established players and upstart newcomers alike are in the running. Gelato has been tinkering with use cases since 2019 and launched its production-ready V1 last July. Meanwhile, Keep3r network has been executing its own solution since late October 2020. And just last month Chainlink announced an Open…
July 07, 2021

Crypto Scams are Out of Control, Again… Here's How to Stop Them Forever
You may have seen this statistic floating around blogs and influencer feeds recently: an estimated 80% of ICO’s in 2017 were scams. This may have been four years ago but there is good reason to be concerned. That’s an alarming number, and it underscores a sober reality in the crypto community — grifters remain a…
July 06, 2021

The Riddle of Ethereum: Bullish Signals Abound as Price Starts and Stops
Bullish news continues to circulate as ETH price keeps dropping or moving sideways at best. Are we merely in an accumulation phase, or has the bear market started, and we’re all in denial? Ethereum’s Ether is down 11% in the past 30 days and has plunged 46% since its $4,357 high reached in May. It…
June 28, 2021

Love Dies Hard: Data Shows Institutions Still Sweet on BTC and Crypto
Welcome to the first Global Digital Finance x The Defiant column, bringing you the stories and discussions that have caught our eye this month. From market infrastructure to institutional investors to the digitalization of private markets, we’ll look at how decentralization is reshaping traditional finance. . ETPs showing that Digital assets are ‘here to stay’ Bitcoin-indexed…
June 10, 2021

Latin American Bitcoin Backers Scramble to Follow El Salvador’s Lead
Lots of laser eyes….but little actual legislation, at least for now. El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender this week has captured the imagination of lawmakers across Latin America. That’s no surprise considering the region, long plagued by underdevelopment and volatile politics, has struggled to enfranchise its citizens in the global financial system, with…
June 09, 2021

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin But a Stablecoin May Have Worked Better
Ever since El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele activated his laser eyes and made Bitcoin the nation’s legal tender this week, crypto communities have been gushing about this latest milestone. But in his bid to provide his citizens with more financial freedom, did Bukele pick the wrong token? Stablecoins — cryptocurrencies that peg their value to…
June 08, 2021

1% of Bitcoin Supply is Now Wrapped onto Ethereum
They just couldn’t resist. Many Bitcoin diehards disdain other digital tokens but when it comes to capturing yields it’s hard not to embrace Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem. With wrapped Bitcoin’s total supply at 187,610, the leading form of Bitcoin on Ethereum constitutes over 1% of BTC’s overall supply which stands at 18.729M at the time of…
June 02, 2021

Defiant Degens: How to Earn Yield on Your BTC via DeFiDollar and Badger Finance
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 member of the core team at Zapper. The goal is to expose more Defiant readers to new DeFi applications and their associated liquidity mining programs. Background on Protocol: For…
May 26, 2021

Musk and Saylor Catch Flak for Bitcoin Mining Council Gambit
What were they thinking? When billionaires Elon Musk and Michael Saylor met behind closed doors with some of North America’s biggest Bitcoin miners on May 24 they were asking for trouble. The two Bitcoin champions were certainly confronting a big problem: In recent weeks the long simmering concerns about the soaring amount of power consumed…