Where’s the bottom? That’s the vital question investors are asking with ETH down almost 18% in the last 30 days, and with other major Ethereum-based DeFi tokens nosediving as much as 57% in the same time span.  Clear Deviations The one bright spot is that this week hasn’t been quite as brutal as the horrorshow…

Defying the funk that’s gripped the broader crypto market, Yield Guild Games (YGG) announced today that it will release its YGG token on July 27 on Sushiswap’s MISO launchpad. The move comes as NFTs are increasingly being utilized in gaming. Launched in October 2020, YGG is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that invests in NFTs;…

In a sign of volatility in the blockchain-derivatives market, liquidations on the Synthetix platform skyrocketed to $19.4M, on June 11, a 30-fold jump from the next highest level on May 13, according to data from The Graph. . As worrisome as that spike might be, the liquidations were right in line with how the system…

If a long bear market is truly beginning in cryptocurrencies, then be thankful for stablecoins. With the Defi Pulse Index (DPI) down 40% on the month and the overall crypto market losing a third of its market value, the stablecoin supply has continued to march upward. Stablecoin supply grew 21% in the last 30 days…

This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities to consider yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to the Defiant and member of the core team at Zapper. The goal is to expose more Defiant readers to new DeFi applications and their associated liquidity mining programs. Background on Protocol: Last…

On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock When Curve launched back in February 2020, many might have thought a DEX for stablecoins was a niche segment. Fast forward to today and Curve is averaging over $300 million in daily volumes, and has recently seen competing moves from the likes of Uniswap and Coinbase as the…

After 14 days of mayhem in the crypto markets, DeFi investors have stopped hyperventilating.   Yes, it’s true that Ether lost more than half its value in the last two weeks, hitting $1,853 on May 23. That’s a pretty heavy drop even in the wild and woolly world of crypto. Then it jumped 40% to $2,591…

In a selloff which saw Ethereum’s ETH and the DeFi Pulse Index basket of DeFi tokens dropping over 20% in an hour and more than 40% overall yesterday, DeFi protocols never stopped running and generally behaved as designed. As DeFi grows to hold $100B in assets with millions of users, yesterday was a test on…

On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock Following the biggest crash since Black Thursday, DeFi protocols have managed to withstand major headwinds and liquidations. While DeFi tokens dropped significantly along with the rest of the market, they sustained above their lows relative to Ether and still managed to grow in key on-chain metrics.   The DeFi…

Binance Smart Chain’s most popular lending protocol, Venus, experienced a massive string of market liquidations totaling over $200M on May 18, and Venus, itself, has been left with $100M in bad debt because of it.  The liquidations were primarily caused by the massive price swing of Venus’ governance token, XVS. The token jumped 88% from…