As DeFi continues to grow and flourish, BTC will eventually be forced to break its 21-million supply limit to remain sustainable and relevant. 2020 was unequivocally the year of decentralized finance. Driven by surging interest and striking breakthroughs, DeFi protocols accelerated financial innovation while reshaping the blockchain landscape. Buoyed by innovations in cross-chain asset gateways…
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Two new synthetic asset and derivatives platforms look to take a slice of Synthetix’s pie. Synthetic assets, one of the most promising use cases for decentralized finance (DeFi), is becoming an increasingly competitive landscape as two new projects aim to bring scalability and new markets to traders. On Friday, decentralized derivatives exchange Injective Protocol began…
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Select DeFi tokens have outperformed Bitcoin and altcoins as investors cheer the news of mutually beneficial partnerships. Yearn.finance has been busy announcing a slew of mergers in the past week, and these have the decentralized finance space buzzing once again. Just after the Yearn and Pickle Finance merger, Yearn has announced a partnership with Cream…
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United States SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to focus on new guidance for DeFi and future Ethereum projects. Hester Peirce, commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, explained during an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph that decentralized finance, also known as DeFi, has created new challenges for the SEC. Peirce, nicknamed “Crypto Mom” for…
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Bitcoin price has overtaken its 2017 high, but should investors expect the top-ranked altcoins to do the same? After a rather lengthy wait, Bitcoin price is finally back to the same price range it was in 3 years ago. Back in 2017, when the Bitcoin (BTC) price peaked near $19,900, most altcoins also posted 200%…
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Eth2 staking has its downsides — people may not have the means to contribute 32 ETH, or the technical knowhow to run a node. Can these issues be solved? How does this ecosystem work? There are three key roles within the Stkr ecosystem. Providers deliver the computing resources that drive the Eth2 nodes — and…
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The concept of a DeFi ETF sounds promising, but it’s not without pitfalls. Index investing in the stock market has become extremely popular thanks to the proliferation of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which often track popular market indices like the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq-100. Investing in the entire market can be a simple but…
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DAI reached a price of $1.3 on Uniswap and Coinbase, the two exchanges used by Compound’s oracles. The crypto market suffered a powerful crash on Thursday morning UTC, which sent prices of major currencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) tumbling in excess of 10%. When traders rush for the exits, the price of stablecoins…
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Pickle Finance got hacked so badly on Saturday that its developers asked to be merged into Yearn. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph’s weekly DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday. On Saturday, we saw one of the most complex smart contract hacks yet affecting Pickle Finance, a yield optimization protocol very similar to Yearn — an…
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Yearn users will be able to use their strategy pool tokens as collateral for lending. Two days after Yearn Finance (YFI) and Pickle Finance joined forces in DeFi’s first effective merger, Yearn founder Andre Cronje published details of another upcoming integration with Cream, a lending protocol similar to Compound and Aave. The blog post, published…
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