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DeFi Giants Join Forces on Twitter to Promote Decentralization
Aave, MakerDAO and Yearn Seek to Show Contrast with Scandal-Plagued CeFi Firms
DeFi News
Yearn Finance Releases Permissionless Vault Factory
Factory Vaults To Include Preset Strategies and Reduced Fees
DeFi News
DeFi Stalwarts Explore Tie-Ups to Weather Bear Market and FTX Fallout
Aave, MakerDAO, Compound and Yearn Seek Partnerships as DeFi Shifts into Next Phase
DeFi News
Cronje Explains Why Fantom is Poised to Run 30 Years — DeFi
Foundation Increased Treasury from $3M to $1.5B in a Year
Byte
Cronje Rejoins Fantom and DeFi After Posting Essay on Crypto Winter
FTM Jumps 20% on News Yearn DeFi Pioneer is Back in the Game
Dive
Yearn Finance Struggles to Find its Footing as Rates Rise
The Yield Aggregator Trailblazer is Lagging Other DeFi Stalwarts and Ether
Byte
New Standard Promises to Clean Up 'Mess' in Yield-Bearing Tokens
The Fresh Approach Could Support All Yield-Bearing Tokens
Dive
Andre Cronje's Sudden Exit Leaves DeFi Agog But It's Right in Character
Andre Cronje's abrupt exit has roiled DeFi but not all are surprised.
Markets
Cronje's Exit Hits Yearn and Fantom as Defenders Scramble to Shore up Confidence
Andre Cronje's abrupt exit from DeFi sent the value of his projects downwards.
Markets
DeFi Blue Chips Slide 80% Since 2021 as New Generation Rises
DeFi 1.0 blue chips such as Uniswap are as influential as ever but their tokens are fading as a new breed emerges.
Byte
Cronje and Sesta Reveal Details of ‘Solid Swap’ Project to Spur Fees
Two DeFi trailblazers have joined up to create a new project called Solid Swap.
Byte
Yearn Finance Changes Up its Tokenomics and YFI Soars 85%
Yearn Finance has soared following a change in its tokenomics.
DeFi News
Doomsday Scenarios in DeFi Revolve Around Stablecoins USDC and USDT
Doomsday scenarios in DeFi revolve around the strength of stablecoins such as USDC and USDT.
DeFi News
Bellwether DeFi Pulse Breaks Past $100B in Historic Moment for Decentralized Finance
DeFi Pulse's bellwether DeFi Index crossed $100B for first time.
Byte
Fantom Surges 90% in 30 Days to Hit All-Time High and Challenge Elite Layer 1s
Fantom's FTM token hit an all-time high this week and is a hot new entrant in the elite club of Layer 1 blockchains.
DeFi News
Shell Protocol Jumps into 'Concentrated Liquidity' Just Like Uniswap and Curve
When decentralized exchanges started to take off in 2019, the designs were very simple, but simplicity in these marketplaces might soon be a distant memory. The most successful category of decentralized exchanges are the automated market makers (AMMs), such as Uniswap and Curve. The Cowri Labs team, builders of the Shell Protocol, a small AMM…
Byte
Yearn Finance Launches on Red Hot Fantom and Goes Multichain
The yield aggregator, Yearn Finance announced last night that it has gone live on Fantom and incorporated the blockchain into the new version of its user interface. “The Realm of Multichain beckons. And Yearn has heeded the call,” Vany, a Yearn Discord admin, said in the announcements channel. “Today, we go multichain with the launch…
DeFi News
DeFi Powerhouses Curve and Aave Deploy on Avalanche to Profit from Incentives
Incentives work. Or at least they do in terms of wooing DeFi protocols to deploy on other blockchains. Case in point, Curve Finance, the automated market maker, and Aave, the leading DeFi lending project, have each deployed their offerings on Avalanche as a part of the blockchain’s $180M incentive program called Avalanche Rush. It’s the…
DeFi News
Liquidity Mining Set to Begin Friday on the Risk Tranching Gro Protocol
Everyone is looking for stronger yields in DeFi. Gro is a new yield platform that aims to offer boosted returns on leading stablecoins to users willing to accept some risk. Gro is set to launch liquidity mining shortly for its depositors, which means they will begin receiving its governance token, GRO, based on the funds…
DeFi News
DAOs Accelerate Token Swaps in Push to Diversify Their Treasuries
DeFi DAOs have made some serious cash in 2021 — but generally only in their native tokens. Now they’re looking to diversify. Fueled by a combination of rising token prices and an explosion in fee revenues as DeFi continues to attract new users, the decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that act as a management layer for…
DeFi News
Crypto is Hungry for a Political Leader From its Own Ranks
The blockchain industry is ready for one of its own to join the U.S. Congress, whether it’s Messari founder Ryan Selkis or someone else. That’s judging by reactions on the floor of Messari’s conference, Mainnet 2021, taking place at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan this week. Yesterday Selkis said he was going to run for…
DeFi News
Yearn Finance Backs Atlantis World to Draw Degens Into the Metaverse
What’s the answer to make decentralized finance more fun and immersive than its current incarnation of websites and bulletin boards? Apparently it’s community environments reminiscent of video games played on 1990s-era consoles. That at least is the bet DeFi portal Yearn Finance is making with its latest grant to Atlantis World. The company makes two-dimensional,…
DeFi Tutorials
Defiant Degens: How to Earn Up to 16.5% Interest with Stablecoins on Orion Saver
This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities in yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to The Defiant and Head of Marketing and Portfolio Support at Fourth Revolution Capital. Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by DeFi Dad are solely his own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of 4RC…
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DeFi Videos
$YFI at One. Remembering One Hell of a Year.
YFI launched in 2020 as one of the most memorable DeFi protocols ever with its fair launch, tiny token supply and reluctant anti-hero Andre Cronje as a pivotal figure in just doing things differently. Since then $YFI has suffered hacks, merged, purged, grown, shrunk but above all endured as a genuinely decentralized home for those…