DeFi


Tech

Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Creeps Onto Chainlink’s Turf With Oracle Product

Band Protocol 2.0 launched Wednesday with its mainnet oracle solution, BandChain, leveraging the Cosmos SDK from Tendermint Labs.

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Markets

ConsenSys Muscles Into Compliance With New Regulatory Product for DeFi

ConsenSys says its new regulatory compliance product can analyze up to 280,000 different tokens.

ConsenSys' co-founder Joe Lubin (Credit: Michael del Castillo)

Tech

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.

DEMOCRACY: Ancient Greeks on a 1955 drachma banknote. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

RenBTC Quietly Goes Live in Latest Bid to Bring Bitcoin to Ethereum

RenBTC, the latest implementation of bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, quietly went live this week, though the general public can't yet mint thier own tokens.

Winter wren

Videos

A DeFi Deep Dive

DeFi (decentralized finance) exploded to over $1 billion in value deposited in DeFi applications over the last year. Learn why DeFi became the most recognized killer use case for Ethereum and this pandemic has only accelerated the urgency for DeFi. We begin the program with “Defying Traditional Finance” with Ryan Adams of Mythos Capital.

Foundations – Consensus: Distributed

Markets

Why Kyber Network Tokens Tripled to $100M Despite the Coronavirus Recession

Here's why Kyber Network's KNC is this season's hottest token across decentralized cryptocurrency markets.

Kyber Network CEO Loi Luu

Tech

Why $4M Dai Made From WBTC Matters for DeFi's Maturation

Crypto lender Nexo minted $4 million in dai on MakerDAO using synthetic bitcoin token WBTC as collateral. Here's why that matters.

Nexo co-founder Antoni Trenchev speaks at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

UMA Project Creates Its First Synthetic Coin, Matching ETH Against BTC

Want to bet the price of ether is rising relative to the price of bitcoin? There's now a token for precisely that.

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Markets

Market Wrap: Here's Why Ether's Price Has Jumped 65% So Far This Year

Ether is outperforming bitcoin in 2020 but has lower liquidity and different technical dynamics than the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

Source: CoinDesk BPI

Tech

Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans

The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any token pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum.

MAGIC: Some tokens are more like amulets. (Credit: Thomas Wyness/Shutterstock)