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Airdrops Delivered Windfalls and Drama to Diligent Defiers
Airdrops emerged as one of the juiciest trends for Defiers in 2021.
Incentive Programs and Rewards Were Nine-Figure Gushers
DeFi incentives and rewards were a major plotline in 2021.
Hybrid AMM DeversiFi Delivers Airdrop and Trading Rewards
DeversiFi, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Ethereum blockchain, has launched trading rewards for users who swap tokens on its platform and announced a retroactive airdrop for early adopters. As many as 25,000 DVF tokens, currently valued at $300,000 will…
New Play-to-Earn Collective HumanDAO Announces Token Sale
HumanDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization connecting play-to-earn (P2E) gamers with digital asset owners, has announced it will hold a public sale for its forthcoming governance token HDAO on Dec. 1.
Smart Contract Platform NEAR Gains Momentum with Plan to Distribute 40M Tokens
This research piece explains NEAR, a smart contract protocol that uses a sharded public Proof-of-Stake blockchain.
Trailblazer THORChain Accidentally Front-runs THORSwap Community in Latest Woe
THORChain's woes continued when its DEX accidentally front-runned its community.
Axie Infinity’s Katana Breaks $1B in TVL After Launch of Governance Token
Axie Infinity's new AMM for Ronin exceeded $1B in TVL.
DOT Holders Have Pledged $800M Ahead Of First Polkadot Parachain Auction
Polkadot's first parachain auction is expected to be a hit with $800M already committed.
Own a .ETH Address? $ENS Tokens Are Headed Your Way in Major Airdrop
ENS Domains, the protocol that issues and manages domain names on the Ethereum blockchain, has announced plans to issue a token and form a DAO to govern the future of the protocol.
Axie Infinity is Up 223x This Year: Here's the Skinny on What's Propelling AXS
On-Chain Markets Update by Juan Pellicer, IntoTheBlock Since our last in-depth analysis of Axie Infinity almost two months ago the price of their AXS token has increased over 100% within a few weeks. The rally has multiplied the value of AXS by…
RBN Airdrop Holders Hit Jackpot as Ribbon’s Token Becomes Transferable
First DYDX, now RBN. After governance rejected a proposal to make RBN transferable in June, a second go-round passed, garnering over 99% support from voters. The unlock happened at 12pm UTC on Oct. 7 and was a windfall for investors…
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…
Crypto Tax Debate On Capitol Hill Signals Big Changes for DeFi
Taxing cryptocurrencies just picked up serious momentum, with potentially serious ramifications for DeFi. The U.S. Senate’s $1 trillion infrastructure package now under consideration includes a provision that would tax transactions involving Bitcoin and its ilk to raise around $28 billion…
Gitcoin Opens the Dog Food to Fund its DAO
In a fresh move to bootstrap Gitcoin’s DAO, holders of the protocol’s GTC token voted to add a $50K category to its grants program. Gitcoin, a funding platform that supports open source development, typically concentrates on what it calls Grant…
Curve Finance Token Holders are Reaping Rewards
Curve Finance users are getting a steady stream of rewards lately. In the last month, holders of the Curve voting token veCRV have gotten news of airdrops from two separate projects. Frozen Yoghurt, a Curve Finance fork, launched this week…
Ampleforth's Forth Governance Token Rallies After Launch
Ampleforth, the rebasing token which aims to create a currency with stable purchasing power by programmatically managing supply, has launched its FORTH governance token. Anyone who has interacted with AMPL, the stable token, can claim FORTH tokens. The token, which…
1inch Fuels DeFi Airdrop Trend With Christmas Present
DEX aggregator 1inch surprised DeFi users with a holiday treat with the release of the 1INCH governance token on Christmas Eve. 1INCH features a total supply of 1.5B tokens, which unlocks every 6 months over the course of the next…
Tornado Cash to Decentralize Governance Via TORN Token
Tornado Cash presented a governance proposal to incentivize use of the Ethereum-based privacy tool via a new token called TORN. Tornado Cash allows users to deposit a fixed amount of supported assets (ETH, USDC, DAI) and “wash it” through an…
Basis Cash Revives Shuttered Stablecoin With 10,000% Yields
Basis Cash, a fork of shuttered algorithmic cryptocurrency Basis, is touting DeFi-summer like APYs as the newly launched stablecoin – BAC – trades at $64 despite targeting a $1 peg. With ~10,000% APYs on the BAC stablecoin liquidity pools, DeFi…
Traders Pour $200M+ Into New Risk-Hedging DeFi Protocols in Two Weeks
There’s a new investment category rising in DeFi: yield optimized by risk level. At least two projects, Saffron Finance and Barnbridge, have started to offer investors the ability to earn differing yields in accordance with their risk tolerance. Barnbridge currently…
A New Andre Cronje Beta Project, a New Token That Pumps
As has become all too common in DeFi, Yearn founder Andre Cronje is tinkering with a new project and speculators are rushing to buy its token —aka aping in— before it’s even live.The project, called Keep3r Network, is a decentralized…
Clock Starts Ticking for Filecoin Investors to Cash Out
Filecoin had a record breaking $205M token sale in the 2017 boom days, promising to bring decentralized file sharing to the world, but all investors had to show for it in the three years since, was FIL token IOUs as…
MetaFactory Distributes Ownership Via ROBOT Token
What happens when you create a fair launch governance token for a community-owned digi-physical brand apparel platform? You get $ROBOT.MetaFactory, which produces limited edition wearables for crypto designers advancing Web3 culture, is distributing the ownership of the project via a…
Uniswap's UNI Instantly Becomes One of DeFi's Most Widely Held Tokens
Uniswap dropped the mic with the surprise launch of its native governance token – UNI.Uniswap, the leading DeFi DEX averaging more than $350M in daily volume over the past month, airdropped 15% of the total 1 billion UNI minted at…
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