Decentralization
Market Analysis
MakerDAO Defies Bear With $19M in Profit
DeFi Lender Takes 42% Hit to Top Line But Stays in the Black With RWA Strategy
Dive
Data Giant Shocks Ethereum With Ban on Mining
Hetzner's Decision Spurs Debate About Decentralization of Crypto Infrastructure
DeFi Essay
The Center Will Not Hold: How Select Crypto Projects are Decentralizing
Part Two: Optimism, Hop and Loot Provide Key Lessons on the Future of Decentralization
DeFi Essay
The Center Will Not Hold: How Decentralization is Reshaping Technology and Governance
Part One: A Convergence of Forces Disrupts the Logic of Centralization
DeFi First Looks
Justin Sun’s Us Double D – Is It Too Hot?
“The @usddnetwork will provide custody service for the $10B worth of highly liquid assets raised from blockchain industry initiators and use them as an early-stage reserve.”
DeFi First Looks
Leverage Just Got Sexy | Gearbox Protocol
Gearbox Protocol allows anyone to get leverage in a decentralized way and use it across various other protocols in a composable way: margin trading, leverage farming, and more.
DeFi Podcasts
Vitalik Buterin on Building a Base Layer for the Global Economy Without Compromising on Decentralization
Vitalik Buterin wrote the Ethereum white paper when he was just 19. His aim was simple yet comprehensive, to create a ‘world computer’ that was designed to be a flexible base layer for all online applications without the need of any third party. Since its inception in 2015, Ethereum has become the most active and largest smart contracts…
DeFi Podcasts
AVAX's Emin Gun Sirer Says Blockchains Should be Scalable at Their Core; Layer 2s Mean Giving Up
When Emin Gun Sirer first came on The Defiant in May 2020, Avalanche was not even on mainnet yet. Since then, it has risen to become one of the leading smart contract networks, while the AVAX token has risen over 7x in the last 12 months. We talk about how the project got here and how it…
DeFi Videos
Everybody’s Wrong About Web3
Spend any amount of time in the blockchain and crypto space and you find yourself required to develop an extremely thick skin. The attacks come from everywhere and they’re vicious. So we become adept at framing our worldview in simple, defensible concepts. Then we memeify them. And then we go to war. But while most…
DeFi First Looks
Interoperability the Way It Should Be? LayerZero Certainly Thinks So
LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains.
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #9: What Makes Dao a Dao?
We are diving deep into DAO’s for this weeks Jam. Why are they so hot right now? Are they really a viable alternative to group funding? Big questions that our panel is here to answer! Stay tuned.
DeFi News
Team Behind Hummingbot Gives Away Its Code Via Foundation
Sometimes a company can give away their technology and still turn a strong profit. Red Hat became a large company helping businesses use Linux, the classic open source project. It sold in 2018 for $34B to IBM. CoinAlpha is a company that runs on software it created called Hummingbot, a software client that automates market…
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #8: DEXs
We’re chatting with the founders of today’s top AMMs about one of the core infrastructure pieces making up decentralized finance.
DeFi News
Abracadabra’s Stablecoin Races Past $1B and Sparks Talk of Overtaking MakerDAO
New collateralized stablecoin, Magic Internet Money (MIM) is challenging MakerDAO, the grandaddy protocol of DeFi. MIM, issued by lending protocol Abracadabra, broke $1B in supply on Oct. 5, placing it seventh overall in terms of stablecoin market cap, according to CoinGecko. That’s $5.39B behind Maker’s DAI stablecoin supply. So while MIM still has a ways…
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #7: Frontends
We’ll be talking with a stellar collection of DeFi powerhouses about what it takes to create the next frontier… of frontend. What are the challenges they face when looking at UX/Ui within DeFi? What are the risks when going decentralized? And what will it take to get the next BILLION users on board this DeFi…
Byte
The Founder of LOOT Wants to Throw Away the Keys to the Contract
The founder of Loot wants to throw out his most magical item: the smart contract keys that govern the nascent game. “I worry that the contract owner is and always will be the de facto authority (‘the church’) on Loot, and that this will ultimately harm the project,” its creator, Dom Hofmann, best known for…
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #6: TradFi to DeFi
We’ll be talking with DeFi founders who made the move from big banks in traditional finance into the wild west of crypto. We’ll chat about what it was like leaving their comfy jobs, what convinced them to take the leap, how they’re finding this new world compares with the old one, and what advice they…
Byte
SuperRare Drops Token Amid Series of Moves to Empower Artists
SuperRare, the influential NFT art platform, is taking a big step forward in its plan to progressively decentralize with the launch of its RARE token on Aug. 17. As part of a slew of changes, SuperRare is poised to bestow more control to artists. The new token rocketed more than 235% on Tuesday and Wednesday…
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #4: US Crypto Regulation
We’re catching up with some of the most knowledgable names on the regulatory scene for crypto in the US with Jake Chervinsky, Kristin Smith and Rebecca Rettig at a time when the stakes have rarely been higher.
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #3: Synthetic Tokens with Kain Warwick, Do Kwon and Hart Lambur
All the best things come in threes and you, lucky viewer, will get the chance to test that theory live in real time on this very internet web television as we bring you three of the chiefest chiefs in synthetic tokens for the third of our live jam sessions.
Byte
ETH Staking Service Lido Aims To Go Fully Decentralized
The Ethereum staking-as-a-service company Lido is aiming to go fully decentralized. The project has implemented a skeleton upgradable smart contract for making new withdrawals and new deposits fully non-custodial. The project is still seeking an optimal solution to become a trustless node operator. Lido offers users the ability to stake ETH, which will be utilized…
DeFi News
Senate Committee Calls for Crypto Regulations, Labeling Decentralization "Phony"
Brace yourself Defiers: Government regulation in the U.S. is looking more and more like an inevitability. On July 27, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs conducted a hearing to explore potential regulation needs for the cryptocurrency sector. The hearing, titled “Cryptocurrencies: What are they good for?,” largely centered around whether or…
DeFi Podcasts
"I'm Not an Enemy of DeFi; I Want People to Know About Anything That Goes Against DeFi as a Tool for Financial Liberty:" Chris Blec
In this week’s episode, I interview Chris Blec, a researcher advocating for transparency in DeFi. He was first drawn to cryptocurrencies through Bitcoin. He decided to go into crypto full time, first consulting with a token project in the ICO days, and later, in late 2019, by creating a YouTube channel where he aimed to educate…
DeFi Jam Sessions
Jam Session #2: Lending Giants Feat. Stani, Rune, Leo and Calvin
Chiefess of the Defiant, Camila Russo assembles the chief voices of the biggest lending protocols in town from Compound, Aave, MakerDao and CREAM Finance for a spirited debate on the world of DeFi lending.