Curve Finance
Defiant Degens: How to Yield Farm with Curve LPs in Convex 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 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: Convex Finance…
Curve Finance Token Holders are Reaping Rewards
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…
Curve Finance Launches on Layer 2 Solution Polygon
Slowly then all at once. DeFi projects’ moves to Ethereum Layer 2s are coming weekly now with Curve Finance joining Polymarket and Aave in the quest for scalability. Curve has launched a pool on Polygon, the Layer 2 network which supports multiple interoperable solutions like a Proof-of-Stake chain and a Plasma chain. The pool hosts…
Binance Launches High-Yield CRV Staking Option
Binance is offering a new high-yield staking option for CRV holders. Locked CRV staking will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis, and is available for 15, 30, and 60- day durations. Lenders can stake anywhere from one to 5,000 CRV, and earn up to 13.42% APY for a 60-day locked stake. CRV is the…
New AMM Saddle Had Bit of a Rocky Start
Everybody hates slippage. That’s the problem Saddle, the freshly launched dApp “designed to enable efficient trading between pegged value crypto assets,” aims to tackle. And while the project quickly reached its initial deposit cap, it wasn’t without a couple of hiccups. Saddle is a new automated market maker (AMM) that intends to provide liquidity for…
Curve Distributed Protocol Fees to veCRV Holders
Curve passed a unanimous governance vote to distribute $3M worth of protocol fees to CRV holders staked into the CurveDAO over the weekend. With just under 50% of all staked token holders voting on the proposal, the 100% majority vote signals strong alignment for the stablecoin AMM to distribute the 2.9M yCRV accrued to the Set converter over the…
DeFi Forks Are Moving Beyond Copy and Paste
In the last month, almost every major DeFi project has been forked. Some of the forks have even been forked themselves. But do these near-copies of projects actually add any value? Or are they simply opportunistic money-grabs? Like many things in life, the truth isn’t always clear-cut. Each fork, from SushiSwap, to Swerve, to Cream,…
The Curious Case of the Curve Launch
This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.
Curve Assets Soar Over $1B After One of Crypto's Strangest Token Launches
From an anonymous account deploying the smart contracts to a fully diluted valuation of $175B and now over $1B in Total Value Locked, Curve’s native governance token launch has been an absolute rollercoaster. The DeFi community had been impatiently waiting for the launch of Curve Finance’s CRV token all last week, until they just couldn’t…
