DeFi News

A new DeFi and enterprise blockchain app protocol, AVA Labs, will distribute 2 million tokens in a final testnet before mainnet launch in summer.

The price of Maker has surged 30% in less than one hour following news of forthcoming listings on Coinbase Pro.

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.

Torus has launched its non-custodial key management solution, which is designed to bring web2.0-like user experiences to web3 applications.

Celsius users can now purchase Tether Gold via credit and debit cards with a minimum purchase amount of $50.

Tether usage is picking up pace in DeFi as Aave reports over 10% of its assets locked are in USDT, after a slow start that saw its competitor USDC gain adoption.

Electric Capital partner Ken Deeter proposed the Guarded Launch of a DeFi project.

Let’s take a look at some of the possible use cases for crypto and blockchain in the forthcoming years and decades. Surely though, there is much more to come.

Ren has launched the RenVM, facilitating tokenized Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Zcash for use on the Ethereum ecosystem.

Swiss DeFi startup Eidoo partners with principal member of Visa Europe to issue a new Visa crypto debit card.

Chainlink’s decentralized price oracles will be used as an "anchor" by the forthcoming derivatives exchange Digitex Futures to protect traders against slippage.

Tyler Winklevoss believes that stablecoins will not truly emerge until Wall Street embraces the DeFi sector.

An EOS DeFi project wants to make use of the blockchain’s smart contract upgrade features, enlisting the help of Binance, Eosfinex and others to oversee the process.

Blockchain intelligence firm asserts that stablecoins are not a replacement of the dollar, instead they present a censorship resistance alternative to fiat.

DeFi projects seem to be well known in the cryptocurrency circles surveyed by CoinGecko, but usage is somewhat lackluster, especially for lending protocols.