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Tech

The Smart Way to Talk About DeFi's $22B

"TVL isn't the best indicator when ETH and all other crypto is green for weeks," one observer said of DeFi's recent growth.

Billions of stars

Finance

Compound's New Blockchain Readies DeFi for Central Bank Digital Currencies

"We want to announce the designs for a blockchain that can scale Compound over the next century," Compound founder Robert Leshner told CoinDesk.

Compound is scaling its ambitions.

Finance

With COMP Below $100, a Look Back at the 'DeFi Summer' It Sparked

Compound's governance token, COMP, fell below $100 early Tuesday. The DeFi token kicked off the yield farming craze way back in June.

DeFi Summer has cooled.

Finance

Braintrust Raises $18M to Bring DeFi-Thinking to the Gig Economy

Braintrust, a tech talent marketplace that will essentially be owned by the IT freelancers and companies using it, has raised an $18 million strategic growth round.

A new approach to the talent marketplace.

Tech

MakerDAO Adds Chainlink, Compound, Loopring as Collateral Options

MakerDAO has voted to add support for a trio of new tokens for the decentralized finance (DeFi) loans that generate DAI stablecoins.

MakerDAO

Finance

Fintech Giant Plaid Has a Hidden Passion for DeFi

Fintech enabler Plaid is quietly working with at least two decentralized finance (DeFi) startups.

Plaid

Tech

Yearn, YAM and the Rise of Crypto's 'Weird DeFi' Moment

What do these various memecoins do? Here's the rough TL;DR of the latest tokens to top the DeFi charts.

DeFi, Yield Farming, Yearn Finance, YFI

Markets

Huobi Launches Consortium of DeFi Providers and Platforms With MakerDAO, Compound

Huobi has launched a new consortium with MakerDAO and Compound to promote decentralized finance.

Huobi OTC

Tech

Crypto VC Firm Assesses the 'State of Blockchain Governance'

Greenfield One, an early-stage venture capital firm, just published a comprehensive new resource on the topic of blockchain governance.

Inside the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament. (Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash)

Tech

CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum's DeFi Luminaries Discuss What's Next

MakerDAO's Rune Christensen, Compound's Robert Leshner and Uniswap's Hayden Adams discussed the state of the $3.8 billion DeFi market.

Will Foxley, Hayden Adams, Rune Christensen and Robert Leshner (clockwise from upper left) discuss DeFi on CoinDesk Live. (Screenshot)

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