Balancer is moving to generate more yield on Aave.

A platform called Sudoswap plans to test an exchange for trading NFTs.

Uniswap is considering a proposal to launch liquidity mining with an eye toward a Layer 2 deployment.

Bancor V3 will cut gas costs for traders in half and offer instant IL protection.

Axie Infinity has launched an automated market maker called Katana for its sidechain Ronin, and it had 25,000 people interact with it less than 10 hours into its existence, according to Jiho Zirlin, co-founder of the team that built the game.

Stellar has launched Protocol 18, integrating automated market maker functionality into its Layer 1 DEX.

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.

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…

Osmosis, a decentralized exchange in the Cosmos ecosystem, today announced a $21M sale of tokens from the Osmosis Foundation treasury, in a round led by Paradigm. Other investors included Robert Leshner's scout fund, Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon.

We’re chatting with the founders of today’s top AMMs about one of the core infrastructure pieces making up decentralized finance.