Andrey Shevchenko

Andrey is the technology editor at Cointelegraph. Based in Italy with Russian roots, Andrey discovered the world of crypto by hunting for cybersecurity bounties. He worked at several blockchain startups before turning to journalism, almost by chance. He’s passionate about technology and business in equal measure, and sees blockchain as a potential driver of deep societal change.

Author’s posts

Tokemak plans to become the director for decentralized exchange liquidity.

Tokemak raises $4M from Framework and DeFi investors to build a ‘liquidity reactor’

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-20T18:30:00+01:00

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Ethereum is starting to lose ground to its competitors for USDT usage, and Hermez may help to fix that.

Tether launches on Hermez rollup as Ethereum starts falling behind

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-19T12:30:33+01:00

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The BlockDown panel discussed the current issues but also the potential improvements for DeFi.

BlockDown: DeFi institutional adoption is booming but gas fees hinder growth

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-15T20:40:11+01:00

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In its new vision, Chainlink would allow anyone to deploy an arbitrary executable on its network.

Chainlink releases new white paper in a shift toward smart contract computations

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-15T15:03:57+01:00

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Etherscan and OpenEthereum are stuck on one block shortly after Berlin hard fork.

Client malfunction brings down Ethereum’s most popular block explorer

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-15T13:36:27+01:00

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The two projects seek to become the forerunners of Cosmos and Polkadot interoperability.

Polkadot and Cosmos connect as Plasm and Secret Network release bridge MVP

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-13T17:38:02+01:00

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The Solana ecosystem continues its development in DeFi.

DeFi tracker Step Finance raises $2M from Solana ecosystem investors

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-13T15:01:28+01:00

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Major Polkadot ecosystem investors are backing the DeFi protocol.

Equilibrium raises $2.5M to secure support for Polkadot parachain bid

Andrey Shevchenko

2021-04-08T15:00:00+01:00

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