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December 15, 2021

Basis Trading Using Perps, Stables and a Whole Lotta Lemma
Lemma uses a market neutral derivatives position to issue a stablecoin and generate sustainable yield
October 29, 2021

First Uniswap ETP Goes Live as Institutional DeFi Products Proliferate
Institutional investors appear to be flocking into DeFi assets, with a flurry of institutional investment products offering exposure to the decentralized finance sector being launched by major asset managers this year.
October 19, 2021

Arrival of Futures ETFs Stokes Bitcoin in DeFi
Bitcoin in decentralized finance has been surging since speculation strengthened that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would finally approve an exchange-traded fund to invest in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. BTC deposited into Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem as shown on DeFi Pulse’s “Bitcoin at Work” page, jumped 2% to 284,331 BTC since Oct. 14, when one…
August 27, 2021

Lyra Plunges into Layer 2 Options Pool with Offering for Hedge Hungry Investors
With the market for Layer 1 tokens such as AVAX red hot this month, it would be easy to overlook a development on the Layer 2 side of the DeFi universe. Yet three days ago Lyra, a cryptocurrency options platform, released a new offering that will let investors trade on Layer 2, a catch-all term…
May 24, 2021

Index Coop’s Leveraged ETH Token 2x-ed Only on the Way Up –– Here’s Why
In a week where the entire market was gapping down, a curious case was how Index Coop’s indexed token ETH 2x – FLI did not reflect this price action proportionally in relation to its methodology, i.e. if ETH is up X, this index token should be up 2x, while if it’s down X, the FLI…
May 24, 2021

An Ape-Friendly Guide to DeFi Yield Derivatives
Generating passive income using DeFi is one of the most attractive things for a newcomer. The interest rates of these protocols are often promoted to be in the range of hundred to thousands % APY, putting the bank interest rates to shame –– but that’s somewhat misleading as returns are calculated on an annual basis,…
March 31, 2021

CME Group to Launch Bitcoin Mini Futures
CME Group, the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, is set to launch Micro Bitcoin futures, at one-tenth of a Bitcoin, on May. CME Group already offers standard Bitcoin futures, which have traded at an average volume of 13,800 contracts (roughly 69,000 BTC) daily throughout 2021. Micro Bitcoin futures will offer institutional traders and investors more…
February 08, 2021

ETH Futures Fears Fade As Tesla Adds $1.5B of BTC
It’s ETH futures time. Ether futures are now available on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world’s largest derivatives exchange by volume, for the first time ever. Many thought the move would mark the top of the market, in the same way that CME futures marked the top for Bitcoin’s 2017 rally, but those fears have…
February 03, 2021

How to Trade Stocks if Your Robinhood Account is Frozen (Mirror.Finance)
Did Robinhood freeze your account? Do you want to buy stocks but you can’t? Well, that’s exactly why we have DeFi — it’s permissionless, it’s trustless, no one can freeze your account here. In this tutorial we take a look at how to buy stocks using Mirror Protocol. Mirror Protocol is a synthetics protocol providing…
January 20, 2021

The 2 EASIEST Ways to Start Staking on #Ethereum 2.0
There are multiple ways with varying difficulties and requirements to stake your ETH. This week we’re covering the most user-friendly, easiest, and fastest ways to start staking.