US Federal Reserve discussion paper takes cold, hard look at DeFi, gives it mixed review

The authors see DeFi growing despite barriers such as crypto’s volatility; risks to users and TradFi institutions are inherent in the technology as well as incidental.

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Nested on a mission to turn DeFi into SocialFi

A hard-to-digest user experience that narrows users to diehard crypto fans, steep fees that exclude many, a dire lack of technical guidance leading to expedited liquidations, and the absence of community-oriented mechanisms to incentivize users to share more – DeFi has a lot of work to do before turning the dream of mass adoption into […] The post Nested on a mission to turn DeFi into SocialFi appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Blockify Creates An All In One Shop For Defi Solutions

Blockify integrates major decentralised protocols (DeFi) and liquidity providers, making it easy for users to invest in the DeFi market. Years down the line and users are still finding it challenging to navigate through DeFi.

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DeFi Platform PoolTogether Claims $1.4Million Through NFT Sales

PoolTogether, an Ethereum-hosted DeFi application that enables users to gain access to prize-linked savings pools, has raised over $1 million to secure defense funding. The project allows users to deposit crypto tokens and stablecoins, mainly USD Coin (USDC), and earn profits from yielding.

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Open DeFi Notifications Protocol Promises to Simplify DeFi Management for Users

Orbs, a decentralized public blockchain platform today announced the launch of the Open DeFi Notification Protocol. The newly unveiled offering is designed to provide users with free mobile notifications for consequential on-chain events, the announcement states.

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Venus (XVS) price aims for $100 amid rising TVL and surge in DeFi users

The total value locked in Venus soared to a record $11.1 billion as DeFi users flock to the platform in search of attractive yields.

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Decentralized Insurance Markets Are Taming DeFi Risks

What will it take to get decentralized finance (DeFi) to deliver the promised land of low fee financial services owned by its users? Many DeFi users will argue that day is already here. They are enjoying 10–30 times higher interest from liquidity pools than traditional savings accounts and lending rates under 1 percent across many […]

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Users Surge but Just Five DeFi Projects Account For 94% of Locked Funds

DeFi’s surging popularity has seen the sector grow to comprise 240,000 users and more than $2 billion in value.

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DeFi Boom Almost Doubles Ethereum Active dApp Users in Q2 2020, Report Says

Dapp. com, a leading decentralized application (dApp) analytics platform, has released its Q2 2020 Dapp Market Report showing the big winners and losers in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).

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DeFi Lending Platform Enables No-Collateral Loans With New Feature

The Aave decentralized finance protocol new feature lets users borrow money without posting collateral.

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Is bZx’s New DeFi Token Enough to Win Back Wary Users?

bZx is on the road to recovery and is implementing a plan to breathe new life into the protocol. By tweaking its native token, BZRX, with strong economics and introducing...

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Active Ethereum DApp Users Grew by 97% in Q2 2020

Dapp. com’s new DApp market Q2 2020 report shines brightly for most DApp networks, with Ethereum being the biggest winner. The DeFi space is clearly a fundamental reason for the boom in the DApp market.

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DeFi Exchange Uniswap Is Being Swarmed With Scam Tokens

Scam tokens impersonating legitimate DeFi projects have been running rampant on Uniswap, as the decentralized exchange (DEX) allows users to essentially import any token by pasting its address into Uniswap’s...

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Джастин Сан анонсировал запуск новых DeFi-продуктов в экосистеме Tron

CEO Tron Джастин Сан объявил о запуске трех новых продуктов в сфере децентрализованного финансирования (DeFi): JUST Lend, JUST Swap и JUST BTC. (1/3) JUST DeFi team will launch 3 new DeFi products: (1) “JUST Lend”- place where TRON users can earn interests or borrow assets against collateral (2) “JUST Swap-a fully decentralized on-chain protocol for […]

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Tron (TRX) Jumps Into DeFi Frenzy with Three New Products

Crypto-project Tron is joining the DeFi bandwagon. Founder Justin Sun tweeted early on June 3 the team will launch three products meant for DeFi interactions, all centered around Just (JST) tokens.

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Compound users now supplying over $1 billion in ETH assets; COMP a top-25 altcoin

Compound’s meteoric rise in the crypto-space is coupled with the rise of DeFi tokens and retail traders chasing the next moonshot. The post Compound users now supplying over $1 billion in ETH assets; COMP a top-25 altcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Latest Compound proposal aims to resolve issue soaking up 80% of BAT’s liquid supply

A previous Compound proposal for COMP yield farming caused a mess in the DeFi market, pushing users to yield farm only in the markets with the highest interest rates. The post Latest Compound proposal aims to resolve issue soaking up 80% of BAT’s liquid supply appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Andreas Antonopoulos Explains How to Generate Passive Income via DeFi with Bitcoin

The biggest buzzword in the crypto space today – DeFi, short for decentralized finance – has made finance cool again. Apart from making financial products decentralized and easily accessible to users of all stature, DeFi platforms such as MakerDAO also offer users the option to generate passive income on their crypto holdings, including Bitcoin (BTC).

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Ethereum users continue to accumulate despite DeFi hack, ETH 2.0 uncertainty

It’s been a boring past few weeks in the crypto markets.

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Beam set to execute a second major hard fork

Following its first successful hard fork in August 2019, the privacy-focused Beam (BEAM) blockchain is set to execute its second hard fork on June 28th, 2020. The update comes with a new hashing algorithm as well as a new DeFi focused upgrade that will allow users to issue confidential assets.

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How to Yield Farm on Uniswap and Not Get Rekt

Yield farming is back-breaking work. Farmers need to understand the trade-offs to optimize their profits ruthlessly. We lay the groundwork for how DeFi users can ensure they’re making the best...

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Compound (COMP) sees massive surge in on-chain activity despite 23% price slide

The recent growth of the DeFi sector has primarily been driven by the recent launch of Compound, which has seen massive inflows of capital and new users due to the bourgeoning “yield farming” trend.

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Why One Analyst Thinks the Collapse of DeFi Will Fuel a Historic Ethereum Rally

Ethereum has been generating significant buzz across the crypto sphere over the past few days, primarily due to the explosive surge in the popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi). Much of this popularity has been driven by an emerging trend called “yield farming,” in which users can leverage different protocols in order to receive massive payouts, […]

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Decentralized Finance surges with “yield farming”

The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem continues to attract new users and capital as new products and services launch. The total value of assets locked into the DeFi ecosystem surged to a new all-time high last week, hitting US$1.52 Billion according to DeFi Pulse.

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Some Ethereum DeFi Users Are Making 100% APY But There Are Multiple Risks

Unlike Bitcoin, which has stalled in the low-$9,000s, Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen exponential growth over the past few weeks. Camila Russo, a former Bloomberg journalist turned Ethereum publicist, noted on June 19th that the amount of value locked in DeFi applications is up 40% in the past seven days alone.

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PieDAO Launches USD++ to Reduce Risks With ‘Unstable-Coins’

PieDAO has launched its USD++ protocol, comprising a hedged basket of Ethereum-based stablecoins designed to reduce risks for long term DeFi users.

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Cosmos-Based Interoperable DeFi Project Launches on Mainnet With BNB Collateral

The Kava decentralized finance project has launched on the Cosmos blockchain, giving users the ability to put BNB for collateral to receive its stablecoin, USDX.

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Kava Is Offering Users Millions to Mint Its Stablecoin With BNB

Interoperable DeFi gains a further boost today as Kava launches its lending platform. Built on the Cosmos SDK, Kava can interact with all blockchain assets. The first supported asset is... The post Kava Is Offering Users Millions to Mint Its Stablecoin With BNB appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Balancing Black Swan Events With Centralization May Cost Maker Its Community

The evolution of DeFi’s most valuable project has trended towards centralization. Whether it be the small number of users who hold its governance token, MKR, or collateralizing centralized digital assets,... The post Balancing Black Swan Events With Centralization May Cost Maker Its Community appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Ledger Users Can Now Connect Their Wallets to DeversiFi DEX

The hardware wallet company has stepped into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).

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Crypto Users Could Soon Receive Interest From Two DeFi Protocols at Once

The Aave protocol has introduced Uniswap tokens as a collateral form, which opens the door to the somewhat risky practice of leveraged liquidity pools on the exchange.

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Compound’s Approach to DeFi Governance Starts With Giving Away COMP Tokens

Users of the Compound lending platform will begin earning COMP governance tokens in mid-June.

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Tether Leads Stablecoin Liquidity on Flash Loans Platform Aave

Although activity in the DeFi space has dropped since reaching $1 billion in March, the flash lending platform Aave continues to see new users. Aave’s success also has much to do with its inclusion... The post Tether Leads Stablecoin Liquidity on Flash Loans Platform Aave appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Tether’s Stablecoin Leads Liquidity on Flash Loans Platform Aave

Although activity in the DeFi space has dropped since reaching $1 billion in March, the flash lending platform Aave continues to see new users. Aave’s success also has much to do with its inclusion... The post Tether’s Stablecoin Leads Liquidity on Flash Loans Platform Aave appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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DeFi Startup Eidoo Partners With Contis To Launch Visa Crypto Card For EU, and UK Users

Eidoo, a Swiss-based Defi startup has partnered with Europe’s principal Visa member Contis to offer Visa crypto debit cards in Europe and the United Kingdom. The new Visa crypto debit card would support Bitcoin and Ethereum while utilizing regulated stablecoins to offer crypto-to-fiat conversion to negate the volatility factor associated with crypto assets. The card […]

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Crypto Visa card to launch for UK and Europe

Eidoo’s non-custodial card is targeted for millions of Visa users in the UK and Europe Decentralised finance (DeFi) platform, Eidoo, has announced the launch of a Visa-enabled crypto debit card that the company says will bring crypto payments to millions of users in the UK and Europe.

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UMA Project Launches Synthetic Token ETHBTC Which Tracks Relative Value of ETH to BTC

UMA Protocol, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project, has approved an innovative contract to create a synthetic token called ETHBTC which would track the relative value of Ether concerning BTC. This synthetic token would allow users to bet on the relative value of the second largest token concerning Bitcoin.

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Celsius CEO: Catering to ‘The 1%’ Was Not the Plan

Despite Celsius surpassing 50k BTC in user deposits, the DeFi app’s CEO is unhappy with the high percentage wealth investors compared to ordinary users on the platform

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Bitcoin users can now Access Ethereum’s DeFi Through tBTC

The competition is heating up when it comes to tokenizing Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain. The launch of tBTC is very interesting to behold, especially for those seeking active exposure to decentralized finance.

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IOV Labs Brings Bitcoin DeFi to Mobile Devices

Financial solution provider IOV Labs has taken Bitcoin’s scaling solution to the next level with the launch of a new mobile light client for Lumino Payments Network. This will allow users to carry out off-chain transactions with a higher TPS of 100 and a potential to reach 20,000 transactions. Lumino Payments Network is a third […]

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PegNet Launches Mobile Wallet for Android

The fully-decentralized network of stablecoins, PegNet, announces the launch of the first mobile wallet for Android users to easily convert pegged asset tokens. PegNet wallet hosts 42 stable pegged asset tokens of the top fiats, cryptocurrencies, and commodities gold and silver PegNet is the first proof-of-work oracle-based stablecoin network for DeFi Fixed $0.

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HTC Releases EXODUS Upgrade, DeFi and SegWit Integration Included

HTC has announced upgrades to its EXODUS blockchain smartphone to improve users’ experience. This includes SegWit and decentralized finance (DeFi) integration, as well as Stellar memo support to improve security and increase transaction speed.

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DeFi Protocol dForce Successfully Compensates All Users After Last Week’s $24.95 Million Hack

Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, dForce was hacked last week but the startup promised to make users whole again. The platform announced that it has fully compensated the victims through the funds that the hacker returned.

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DeFi Project dForce Refunds All Affected Users After $25M Hack

The Lendf.me smart contract was hacked on April 29, but then, curiously, the funds were returned two days later.

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Coinbase Launches Price Feed to Help Secure $1 Billion DeFi Economy

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has released a price oracle that allows anyone to publish price data on-chain. The Coinbase Oracle, a signed price feed, grants users free access to data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets, the company announced Thursday.

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Happy Ending of Ethereum DeFi Hack Still Leaves Much to Be Desired

It has been a tumultuous ride for users of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) over the past few days. The evening of April 18th saw DeFi protocol Lendf. me go into a tailspin, with the protocol’s primary address bleeding funds at a rapid clip.

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Ethereum’s Killer Use Case, DeFi, is Far From Going Mainstream

Over the past few months, decentralized finance — best known as “DeFi” — has been branded Ethereum’s killer use case. Indeed, data from sites like DappRadar show that a majority of smart contract volume on the second-largest blockchain is related to many of these DeFi apps, which offer bank-like services to users.

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Deal with the devil: Ethereum DeFi protocol negotiates with hacker of $25 million

It’s been a crazy past 24 hours for users of decentralized finance, also known as “DeFi. ” Over this time, devious Ethereum users managed to steal over $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from two separate protocols.

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Binance venturing into DeFi positions it as Ethereum's latest competitor  

Binance has been leading the exchange battle by providing a plethora of services to its users. It recently launched P2P trades on 14 April and today, in its recent announcement, Binance informed that The post Binance venturing into DeFi positions it as Ethereum's latest competitor   appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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