DeFi
April 07, 2021

Kyber Launches Dynamic Market Maker to Optimize Liquidity Provider Fees
Kyber Network, a decentralized exchange, launched a new product called a dynamic market maker (DMM), which the project says will optimize fees for liquidity providers (LPs). The first difference from automated market makers (AMM) is that while the 0.03% which Uniswap LPs receive is fixed, Kyber has introduced “dynamic fees” which increase during times of…
April 07, 2021

Create All Kinds of DeFi Combinations with Furucombo
One key aspect of DeFi is that it enables users to combine different applications in new and meaningful ways. That’s what “Money Legos” are all about. In this tutorial we demonstrate how this works, quite visually, with Furucombo.
April 01, 2021

Aave Sets Sights on Scalability with Polygon
Aave, DeFi’s third-largest protocol by assets in its smart contracts, will be expanding onto the Polygon network as it aims to improve scalability. Need for Scalability Consistently high gas fees, while indicative of Ethereum’s growing success and adoption, have the downside of pricing out smaller investors, Aave said in a March 31 blog post. In…
April 01, 2021

The Beginner’s Guide to Being a Liquidity Provider with Uniswap and Zapper
Liquidity providing isn’t as straightforward as you might think. When becoming an LP, you’re asked to provide both of the coins the pool represents. This can become costly for many, although there is a nifty trick we demonstrate in this video that bypasses that hurdle.
March 31, 2021

Element Finance Raises $4.4M to Boost Fixed Rate DeFi Markets
Element Finance raised $4.4M in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Placeholder accompanied by SV Angel, A.Capital, Scalar Capital, and Robot Ventures. Angels included Joseph Lubin, Fernando Martinelli, Stani Kulechov, Mariano Conti, Robert Leshner and Tarun Chitra. The project aims to bring liquidity to the fixed-rate income and interest markets Users will be…
March 24, 2021

Alpha Finance Lab Launching ALPHA Tokenomics
Alpha Finance Lab will be launching its ALPHA tokenomics system “in the coming days,” allowing token holders to earn fees from staking across all of ALPHA’s products, including Alpha Homora on Ethereum, Alpha Homora on Binance Smart Chain, and Alpha Homora v2. Token stakers will gain access to features on Alpha products with the goal…
March 24, 2021

Curve Finance Fork Ellipsis Launches on BSC
Ellipsis Finance, an authorized fork of Curve Finance, launched yesterday on Binance Smart Chain (BSC).The protocol is an exchange for stablecoins and its launch doc promises traders “very low slippage and minimal fees.” As the protocol is an “authorized fork,” holders of veCRV, Curve’s governance token which earns trading fees and liquidity provider rewards, will…
March 24, 2021

How to Earn Fixed Interest (20%) on UST Using Anchor Protocol
Anchor protocol aims to deliver a fixed rate of 20% APY on your deposits. A huge improvement over traditional savings accounts in trad fi. As always, please exercise caution and common sense. This is NOT financial advice.
March 20, 2021

No Downside!? Deep Dive on Tranches and Structured DeFi
Step into crypto and it can feel like you’re throwing your life to the gods of thunder. I’m here, you say, take me, throw me into the void. And, ape that you are, you keep walking towards that edge.
March 18, 2021

Tyler Winklevoss Makes GUSD Proposal on Aave
“Bitcoin billionaire” Tyler Winklevoss of Gemini submitted a governance proposal on a community forum for GUSD to be used as stablecoin collateral for loans on AAVE. Currently, GUSD can only be borrowed. GUSD is a stablecoin that maintains value by holding one USD in reserve for each stablecoin issued. By using GUSD as collateral, borrowers…