All signs point towards lending giant Aave getting a V3 soon. Voting is now live on Snapshot, with well over 99.9% of the votes supporting the protocol releasing its next iteration. 

DeFi founders debated whether to embrace or resist regulation in the marketplace at the LA Blockchain Summit on Nov. 3.

The NFT-secured lending market is exploding with loans exceeding $1M on 30-day terms.

Fodl enables traders to utilize leverage for their trades without paying a funding rate. This leverage is derived from existing DeFi building blocks, such as Compound and Aave.

While many crypto analysts spent the week focused on Bitcoin’s pull-back to below $60,000, top DeFi assets quietly saw significant gains to drive the sector’s combined market cap in uncharted territory.

There’s another piece of evidence that the “DeFi 2.0” movement is gaining steam.  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.”   Reactors are a pooled combination of a protocol’s token, like Sushiswap’s SUSHI and…

“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.  The Abracadabra founder said today on Twitter that a protocol which connects Ethereum with the Terra blockchain to…

They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. In crypto, this manifests as forks, or copies of a project’s codebase. In that sense, OlympusDAO must be feeling pretty flattered.

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…