DeFi

How to Yield Farm – Staking on Aave
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 Creating Version of Curve on Polkadot
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,…

AirSwap Enables Token-Based Governance
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…

Tornado Cash Rewards Security Focused Power Users
Tornado Cash passed its first governance proposal to make its native token – TORN – transferable yesterday afternoon. Tornado Cash offers a way for users to privately send funds between any two addresses using an anonymity pool, meaning tokens sent through the mixer can not be tracked between the sending and receiving address. It also…

DeFIRE: How to Retire Using Only DeFi With Passive Income (Mirror Protocol, Anchor Protocol, Terra)
It’s sometime in the near future. We’re on the moon, in a Lambo. Yes, we made it. But now what? Are we going to cash out into fiat or cling onto another bear market? Or maybe there’s another way, something more sensible…

Ren Project Joins Forces With Alameda Research
Ren Project, an open protocol that facilitates value transfer between blockchains, has joined forces with quantitative trading firm Alameda Research. Ren Project said in a Medium post that it will be prioritizing support for the Solana blockchain as part of its new partnership with Alameda. They plan to bridge assets between Solana and Ren’s multi-chain…

Balancer Unveils Generalized AMM in Upgrade
Balancer unveiled its V2 protocol upgrade, offering a generalized AMM solution for DeFi liquidity. Balancer allows users to create token pools with flexible constituents, weights and trading fees. With V2, Balancer will aggregate all its liquidity in one vault, while users will maintain an internal balance of the tokens they hold. The change is meant…

Yearn Holders Vote to Lift YFI Cap
Yearn Finance token holders voted for the protocol to mint 6,666 new tokens, prioritizing the implementation of a funding model for contributors over keeping a hard cap. Holders of 1.66k YFI (83.4%) voted “yes,” compared with 330.5 YFI (16.6%) voting “no,” on the off-chain governance tool Snapshot. In a recent proposal, Yearn Finance laid out…

Goldfinch Says it Has Enabled $1M in Un-Collateralized Loans
Goldfinch, a newly launched DeFi lending protocol focusing on loans without collateral, today announced a $1M funding round and progress on its pilot lending program in emerging markets. Goldfinch, which launched in December, said it’s working with PayJoy in Mexico, Aspire in Southeast Asia, and QuickCheck in Nigeria, which have collectively drawn down $1M from…






