Deposits in Yearn Finance’s DAI vault are rising after synthetic assets protocol Alchemix started using Yearn for its backend last week.  Alchemix deposits quintupled to almost $130M from less than $25M on Feb. 27, when the protocol launched. The surge pushed Yearn to raise its Dai vault limit to 300M from 100M. The move shows…

The SushiSwap community is now voting on a proposal to build SushiSwap on the Solana blockchain using the Solana-based Raydium DEX as a bridge. Raydium proposes “acting as a bridge and partner for SushiSwap’s expansion onto Solana,”  allowing SushiSwap to access additional liquidity from Serum and leverage the chain to increase transaction fees and lower…

Brave, the company behind the open source Brave web browser that allows users to tip publishers and content creators with its first-party Basic Attention Token (BAT), is setting their sights on a lofty new project: a Brave DEX aggregator. The Brave DEX aggregator is intended to have multi-chain support featuring many assets across different blockchains,…

1INCH is expanding into Binance Smart Chain (BSC), one of the first major Ethereum-based DeFi projects to make the jump.  “Crossing the hell of burned #Ethereum lands our hero stumbles upon the mysterious yellow portal,” the project tweeted today. BSC users will get access to all the same 1Inch functionalities that are already available on…

Last weekend Alpha Finance was hacked to the tune of $37m but this was a hack so specific and well-informed it was immediately assumed to have been an inside job. Have you ever wondered what happens when a hack goes down, or how a perpetrator can successfully escape with the money?

The field for fixed-rate lending protocols is becoming more dense as HiFi has joined the fray.  Like Notional Finance and Yield Protocol, HiFi is able to offer fixed rates by locking in a specific duration by which the loan will mature. The debt will be represented with a “yToken,” which refers to tokenized debt backed…

Vesper, a DeFi investment platform, came out of beta and launched its VSP governance token. Following a successful beta period with $28M in total value locked, Vesper aims to bridge the gap between traditional DeFi users and investment industry professionals who are new to the space. Users are able to choose to deposit crypto in…

Yield Farming can mean many things — it comes in different shapes and flavors. There are many strategies to consider and yes, it’s risky, heady stuff so this video will run you through the essentials to give you a head start.

Equilibrium, an interoperable money market, announced on a Feb. 9 Medium post plans to create a version of Curve Finance’s automated market maker on the project’s chain within the Polkadot ecosystem. Equilibrium will be able to facilitate trading for homogeneous assets on Polkadot, whether they are DOT-based or different tokenized versions of the same asset,…

Ethereum applications incubator ConsenSys has completed the transition to Phase II of their decentralized peer-to-peer trading system, AirSwap, enabling token-based governance. AirSwap said their token launch participants included over 9k people from 135 different countries. Now with Phase II completed, they’re aiming to push their network development further. AirSwap is now inviting users to stake…