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LOOKSRARE Airdrops Token and Entices NFT Fans to Try Out New Marketplace
New marketplace LOOKSRARE airdrops up to $26K to NFT traders.
ERC-4626 Proposes To Make Yield-Bearing Tokens Their Own DeFi Lego
ERC-4626 has been proposed to standardize yield-bearing tokens.
BitGo Makes Deal with Index Coop in Bet Institutions Want 'Thematic' DeFi Tokens
BitGo has done a deal with Index Coop in a bid to offer institutional investors more offerings…
Blockchain Interoperability Moves Closer to Fruition But Challenges Remain
DeFi will draw closer to interoperability in 2022, potentially reshaping blockchain technology.
Oh &#%[email protected] Seriously!? Top DeFi Debacles of 2021
There were many WTF moments in DeFi this year. Here's some choice debacles.
Airdrops Delivered Windfalls and Drama to Diligent Defiers
Airdrops emerged as one of the juiciest trends for Defiers in 2021.
Bored Apes and CryptoPunks Minted Fortunes Beyond Belief in the Year of the NFT
This article is part of our Year in Review series. It’s known: 2021 was the year of…
Airdrop Coming for Terra Name Service That Aims To Unite Cosmos
Terra Name Service to airdrop TNS tokens to domain owners.
Transak Launches Fiat Onramps to Top L2s Arbitrum and Optimism
Layer 2 blockchains Arbitrum and Optimism got a boost from a new fait-to-crypto offering.
Bored Apes’ Floor Price Briefly Passes CryptoPunks as NFT Race Intensifies
The floor prices for Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs briefly surpassed CryptoPunks as the context between the…
Opyn to Unveil Squared ETH Token as DeFi Derivatives Race Heats Up
Here comes SQUEETH. Decentralized options protocol Opyn is readying to launch its Squared ETH or SQUEETH token,…
Market Maker Flaws Open Door to Middleware Providers in Race for Liquidity
The yield farming revolution has been one of the biggest stories in DeFi over the last year, thanks largely to automated market makers (AMM). Operating behind the scenes, these protocols attracted billions of dollars into smart contracts. Spurred by incentives…
Here's How EIP-1559 Changes the Economics of Ethereum
Defiers may be a disparate, opinionated bunch but there is one thing we can all agree on — Ethereum gas prices are a real drag. Just look at what’s happened over the past few months. Gas prices have ping-ponged all…
DeFi is Getting Into Everything
Crypto isn’t just about simple financial tools anymore. Any project can be a DeFi project. Here’s how. The current crypto bear run is finally seeing a few flecks of green, but some still believe that plunging through multiple death crosses…
Deflation is About to Whack DeFi Tokens -- Is This Actually a Good Thing?
During the crypto bull market of the last year, deflationary tokenomics were a major force in many of the record price increases in the industry. The knowledge that the amount of certain tokens was decreasing over time triggered a stampede…
Rogue Bots are Funneling Millions from Wax Blockchain's Star Dapp Alien Worlds
Alien Worlds, one of the biggest blockchain games running on the Wax blockchain (EOS fork), is making some participants millions of dollars in weeks. The issue is, these players are gaming the game. Players buy NFT tools and click a…
Crypto Scams are Out of Control, Again... Here's How to Stop Them Forever
You may have seen this statistic floating around blogs and influencer feeds recently: an estimated 80% of ICO’s in 2017 were scams. This may have been four years ago but there is good reason to be concerned. That’s an alarming…
After the Gold Rush: What Are the Next Steps for NFTs?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) exploded into popular consciousness in the first half of 2021. In particular, the art world really began to take notice of this asset class, which allows for clear ownership of a unique virtual item. Whether it was…
Not Just a Bank Run: New Evidence Shows Iron Finance Crashed Due to Code Exploit
$2B of market value lost in even less time than what would be considered an “overnight disaster” will be recognized as one of DeFi’s darkest days. It would be pretty unbecoming if the people didn’t band together against centralized entities…
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Fractionalization Makes NFTs Affordable... and Big Targets for Securities Regulators
Fractionalisation of NFTs is a key development in a maturing market. These assets amount to more than just a craze for artists to sell digital art at sky-high valuations. Non-fungible tokens are also being used in sophisticated ways such as collateral for lending products. Divvying…
A Call to Action: How to Mobilize and Save the Crypto Movement
Yesterday, Connor Spelliscy and Holmes Wilson argued that the cryptocurrency industry is confronting an existential crisis. In Part 2 of this Defiant Essay, Connor and Holmes issue a call to action and lay out a primer for mobilizing the community to rescue the movement from…
Crypto Endangered: Confronting An Existential Threat
In Part 1 of this Defiant Essay, Connor Spelliscy and Holmes Wilson argue that the cryptocurrency industry is confronting an existential crisis. The cause: unwise and unjustified regulation that could thwart the promise of the crypto movement. Smart contracts may be unstoppable, but the crypto…
How Decentralized Identity Can Take Crypto to the Next Level
Over the past year, there has been a notable increase of awareness and interest towards decentralized identity solutions. Decentralized identity solutions help users, amongst other things, to control their digital identity without the input of intermediaries. As well as the individual user benefits, decentralized identity…
The Problem with Voting in DAOs
The first major blockchain conference I attended in person was this July at EthCC 4 in Paris. It was an amazing experience. I met so many people and learned about so many projects and gathered perspectives on where Ethereum is headed. But there was one…
Scaling DAOs Won't Be Easy: Five Major Challenges to Overcome
The only thing cooler than working for one DAO is working for all the DAOs. But to do that you need to figure out what all DAOs need. That sounded tricky to us, too. So we asked! We gathered together some of the leading DAO…
The Defiant's Definitive Guide to DeFi
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This guide is meant to be a one-stop-shop to get started. These are all the DeFi basics you will need to start exploring the internet of money.
