Select altcoins continue to move higher as traders attempt to push Bitcoin price to $60,000. The Purpose Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund debuted on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Feb. 18 and has quickly ramped up trading volumes of about $400 million worth of shares in two days. This is quite impressive, considering that the equity…
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DeFi’s top three lending protocols have reached record levels of collateral lockup above $20B. There has been no slowdown in the amount of collateral pouring into the leading decentralized finance protocols this year. DeFi’s leading three lending protocols have amassed approximately $20 billion according to Dune Analytics. A Messari research report into valuing these platforms…
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GoodFi claims to be the first cryptocurrency alliance focused on furthering education and research into decentralized finance. Some of DeFi’s biggest players have joined forces to launch a new alliance geared towards furthering the education, research and best practices of the nascent industry. The GoodFi alliance includes crypto projects Chainlink, Aave, Radix and mStable, as…
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Total value locked in decentralized finance has hit another milestone, but DeFi proponents would do well to look beyond the effects of the bull market on the gross metric. The total value locked in decentralized finance — a measure of the total value of assets committed to the DeFi ecosystem —has marked a new all-time…
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The DeFi market has corrected hard as Bitcoin dropped below $40,000, but analysts say a recovery is likely. The decentralized finance or DeFi market saw a steep correction over the last 12 hours as Bitcoin (BTC) was unable to break the $41,000 level. Meanwhile, analysts say that the profits from major DeFi tokens are flowing…
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Liquidity pool token-backed collateral could bolster DeFi’s TVL, but can it be used securely? Multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) projects are moving forward with plans to allow liquidity provider tokens as collateral for stablecoin and lending services — though experts caution that the security considerations associated with using LP tokens in this manner can be complex. …
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Aave, SushiSwap, and other major DeFi bluechips are rallying hard despite Bitcoin’s consolidation. DeFi blue-chips, including Aave (AAVE) and SushiSwap (SUSHI), have been rallying hard in the past several days while Bitcoin is seeing range-bound consolidation at around $35,000 as of Jan. 17. Both AAVE and SUSHI prices have risen by more than three-fold since December, within…
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For DeFi believers, vindication has been every bit as profitable as it’s been sweet Hardcore decentralized finance (DeFi) adherents woke up today to a long-awaited sight on Coingecko’s top 100 rankings by marketcap: native tokens for popular DeFi platforms Synthetix and Aave have cracked into the top 20, an event DeFi observers have heralded as…
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DeFi, like crypto as a whole, features brilliant and questionable projects in equal measure. As 2020 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest crypto developments and the wild ride the sector took investors on. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin (BTC) was hovering just above $7,000, and the…
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After a boast about the protocol’s resiliency, Value DeFi loses $6 million to flash loan exploit. Following a Twitter thread on Friday that highlighted the decentralized finance protocol’s flash loan exploit prevention methodology, Value DeFi appears to have been the victim of a $6 million flash loan exploit. At roughly 10:45 AM EST, a user…
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