Messari noted a lack of expenses as one potential reason for this. Messari believes that Yearn.Finance’s YFI token is one of the least expensive in the DeFi space, according to its price-to-sales multiple. The metric is calculated by dividing a token’s market capitalization by its annualized yield. In YFI’s case, its capitalization at the time…
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One project’s founder controls 71% of its voting power. Curve Finance is currently the third largest DeFi protocol, with a total value locked, or TVL, of $1.1 billion. Recently the community realized that the project’s founder, Michael Egorov, had leveraged over 71% of the voting power, ultimately leading to backlash from the community. Andre Cronje, the…
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Rogue actors are swarming Uniswap with fake tokens designed to capitalize on the growing DeFi hype to defraud investors. It’s hype season in the crypto space once again, and unsuspecting investors are at risk of suffering losses. Riding on the coattails of decentralized finance tokens that have provided staggering yields, rogue actors are flooding automated…
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Binance is conducting India’s first DeFi-focused hackathon aimed to accelerate DeFi innovation in the country. Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance is conducting a hackathon in India focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) that will be followed by an accelerator program. Dubbed “Build for Bharat,” the company claimed that this is the first-ever DeFi-focused hackathon and acceleration program…
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Can Radix make DeFi the new normal? Radix is taking a massive step into decentralized finance (DeFi) with the release of its first layer-one protocol made up of four different technologies. In a white paper, Radix said it had released four technologies it believes can bring DeFi for mass adoption. These are Cerberus, a high-speed…
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Some new upgrades to keep in mind. The Binance Chain mainnet, a blockchain software system developed by Binance and its community, is scheduled to do a hard fork upgrade around August 28 at 6:00 AM UTC. According to the company’s post on August 23, the full node runners on the mainnet are expected to switch…
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Maybe Musk just hasn’t checked his Twitter mentions? Aave co-founder and CEO Stani Kulechov really wants Tesla to join the decentralized finance (DeFi) craze. Kulechov tweeted at Tesla CEO Elon Musk offering to tokenize Teslas as collateral in Aave (LEND) to borrow assets such as U.S. Dollar Coin (USDC) and even invited Musk to learn…
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Defining the concept of offline staking, what benefits and risk it poses, and how it could transform the user experience. Are there any examples of projects offering offline staking? Unfortunately, it’s still the case that most staking, whether directly under a pure proof-of-stake model or indirectly using a delegated proof-of-stake consensus, is online. This usually…
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The EOS-based DeFi project announced a token swap to support its newest product. Having set up shop on Polkadot just a week and a half ago, an EOS-based decentralized finance project called Equilibrium is launching a new governance token called EQ. EQ is perhaps the next generation of Equilibrium’s NUT, the platform’s first governance token…
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Uniswap now accounts for more gas fees than anyone else on the Ethereum network. Press time data from EthGasStation shows decentralized exchange Uniswap as the place users have spent the most Ethereum (ETH) on gas payments over the past 30 days. Uniswap participants shelled out a combined 17,700 total ETH as fuel to send their…
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