Solana (SOL) hits new highs as DApps, DeFi and stablecoins join the network

Solana price is pushing toward new highs as an increasing number of DApps, DeFi projects and stablecoins build platforms on the network.

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Telcoin founder Claude Eguienta on the DeFi culture and stablecoins in 2021!

The decentralized finance (DeFi) market has surged massively in the past year, with the launches of Uniswap, Compound, Yearn Finance, and others attracting thousands of users and billions of dollars in mid-2020.

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Telcoin founder Claude Eguienta on the DeFi culture and stablecoins in 2021

The decentralized finance (DeFi) market has surged massively in the past year, with the launches of Uniswap, Compound, Yearn Finance, and others attracting thousands of users and billions of dollars in mid-2020.

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How Accurate is Fat Pig Signals With DeFi Tokens – An Overview

The ICO craze of 2017/18, the rise of smart contracts in 2018, the growing influence of stablecoins in 2019 — Fat Pig Signals stood steady through all of these milestone events in the then barely a decade-long history of the crypto space.

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New FATF Guidance Applies Regulatory Standards to Decentralized Exchanges, Defi and NFTs

On March 19, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published draft guidance on the risk-based approach to virtual assets. The newly updated guidance now applies anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules to stablecoins, decentralized finance (defi), and non-fungible token (NFT) assets.

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Top 10 Crypto Lending Platforms

In this article, we will cover top 10 crypto lending platforms Digital assets have unlocked the gates to a realm of surreal prospects. While the blockchain persistently keeps us in awe of cryptocurrencies, we’ve seen innovations of all kinds – from stablecoins to full blown DeFi projects.

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Smoothy Finance Launches Gas Saving DeFi Stablecoin Swaps

Smoothy will also be launching a yield farming incentive and airdrop on March 9 to celebrate the occasion. First launched in September 2020, Smoothy addresses the problem of stablecoin swapping. Its new version upgrade will offer a single pool that can accommodate over twenty different stablecoins.

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DeFi Market Showing First Sign of Exhaustion; Funds Moving Into Bitcoin, Ethereum & Stablecoins

This week, the decentralized finance (DeFi) saw the very first signs of exhaustion as the market experienced a dip. Today, the likes of FNX (-40%), UMX (-25%), MTA (-16. 23%), HOT (-13. 14%), PERP (-12%), CREAM (-9.

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In the Age of Ethereum, What Comes Next?

DeFi. NFTs. Stablecoins. Smart contracts. Ethereum is home to some of the biggest innovations in crypto. Community insider Danny Ryan joins us to discuss the network's big future.

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ETH Futures Contracts Launch Reveals Investor Interest in DeFi and Stablecoins

The world’s leading derivatives marketplace CME Global Group launched Ethereum futures contracts on February 8 right on schedule as announced via an earlier notice on its website. Each Ethereum futures contract represents 50ETH and CME registered 388 Ethereum contracts (19,400 ETH) by the end of the first day of trading. Digital savings and lending platform […]

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Celsius Raises the Ante with Self-Insurance

Celsius, the DeFi/CeFi combination enabling peer-to-peer and peer-to-business lending, has increased its annual percentage yield (APY) for stablecoin users. Celsius users will now earn 12. 5 percent yearly on all stablecoins deposited on the platform.

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Here’s what CoinGecko’s Bobby Ong thinks about stablecoins, exchanges, and DeFi in 2021

The team at CoinGecko is kinda like the DeFi market: They built in seclusion for a large part of the product’s initial days and then exploded onto the crypto scene in 2018-19—bootstrapping their way forward instead of taking on obscene amounts of money.

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Visa reaffirms commitment to crypto payments & fiat on-ramps

The payments giant is bullish on stablecoins, but may be overlooking the potential of DeFi

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How sustainable are DeFi projects?

Stablecoins were adding $100M in market capitalization nearly every day back in June 2020. When expressed in big picture terms, the cumulative market capitalization rose from $9.4B in June 2020 to $35The post How sustainable are DeFi projects? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Galaxy, Coinbase Bet $25M on DeFi Using Terra Stablecoins

The backing will help Terraform Labs build more apps on its Tendermint-based blockchain.

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Arbitraging DeFi Whales Exploit Saddle Finance on Launch Day

DeFi protocol Saddle Finance was launched on Jan. 20, with the aim of alleviating the problematic spread between stablecoins and wrapped or tokenized crypto assets. Within a few hours of going live, however, whales had taken advantage of the new protocol by arbitraging for huge profits.

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Saddle Finance Aims to Reduce DeFi Token Trading Slippage

The latest DeFi offering to hit the burgeoning financial market is Saddle which is an automated market maker for trading ‘pegged value’ assets with minimal slippage. It hopes to alleviate the problematic spread between stablecoins and wrapped or tokenized crypto assets.

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RAMP DeFi Leads The Liquid Staking Race, Opening Ethereum-Based DeFi to Staked Liquidity From Other Blockchains

Participation in the DeFi and staking ecosystems has seen explosive growth over the last year, with the combined sectors currently accounting for over $50 billion in value. DeFi growth was predominantly fueled by the breakthrough success of Ethereum-based projects such as Aave, Compound, and Uniswap, utilizing ERC20 stablecoins like USDC and Dai to generate yield. […]

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US Comptroller of Currency Warms Up to DeFi Banks

When the U. S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that money transfers could be settled in stablecoins, it was met with a lukewarm response. While the move was pro-digital currency, it did not support the beloved decentralization explicitly.

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xSigma DeFi Offers Lucrative Rewards for Liquidity Providers, Whitepaper Released

xSigma is an upcoming stablecoin DEX protocol developed by the first DeFi project backed by a NASDAQ-listed company. In order to attract liquidity providers to supply their stablecoins to the decentralized exchange, the protocol will feature a lucrative rewards system for liquidity mining.

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 Fei Protocol’s Take on Stablecoins

Fei Protocol – a new decentralized & scalable stablecoin platform – has come out of stealth mode and revealed it’s […] The post  Fei Protocol’s Take on Stablecoins appeared first on DeFi Rate.

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Hermez Adds USDT to Layer 2 Ethereum as ZK-Rollups Take Off

Layer 2 Stablecoins Layer 2 solutions seem to be all the rage these days. The popularity of DeFi and Uniswap has clogged the Ethereum network to unmanageable heights, and fees are getting under peoples’ skin.

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Here’s why stablecoins like USDC going ‘legal’ is bullish for DeFi

A landmark announcement for USDC.

The post Here’s why stablecoins like USDC going ‘legal’ is bullish for DeFi appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Did Tether dominate the stablecoin market again? Here's the stablecoin report for 2020

Despite a tumultuous 2020, stablecoins not only managed to stay ahead, but showed considerable growth and industry penetration. From a COVID-induced black swan event to an explosion in DeFi to BitcoinThe post Did Tether dominate the stablecoin market again? Here's the stablecoin report for 2020 appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin-focused DeFi project with almost $500m in TVL to launch rebase token

Aside from algorithmic stablecoins, BadgerDAO has been one of the most widely talked about Ethereum DeFi projects over the past few weeks. The post Bitcoin-focused DeFi project with almost $500m in TVL to launch rebase token appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Bitcoin, stablecoins and DeFi: 2020’s top-performing crypto assets

2020 may have been filled with challenges, but Bitcoin, stablecoins and DeFi protocols are the clear top performing crypto assets for the year.

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DeFi Growth Branches Beyond Ethereum

Decentralized finance growth has exploded in the last two quarters of 2020 but it has not all been driven by Ethereum according to recent research. Wrapped versions of Bitcoin and stablecoins have been a huge driver of total value locked across DeFi protocols this year.

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DeFi Warp Protocol Losses $7.7 Million in a Flash Loan Attack

Lending protocol, Warp was exploited with a complex flash loan attack for $7. 7 million worth of stablecoins. Hacken Club audited the project. The attack on Thursday allowed the hacker to borrow more than their collateral value resulting in a loss of stablecoin lender funds.

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Warp Finance loses $7.7 million in flash loan Defi hack

Decentralized platform Warp Finance has suffered a major hack, as the newly launched company loses $7. 7million worth of DAI and USDC stablecoins. The hacker withdrew the said amount from the platform using a flash credit scheme.

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New Stable Act Could Derail DeFi by Affecting $1 Trillion in Stablecoins

The decentralized finance ecosystem is growing quickly and is starting to attract attention from regulatory bodies. A new act in the US could spell danger for stablecoins and the entire industry.

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Matic Network Integrates Chainlink’s Decentralized Oracles And VRF for Growing DeFi Demand

Matic Network became the second native blockchain to integrate Chainlink’s decentralized price oracles after Ethereum. At launch, Chainlink will offer trusted price feeds on five cryptocurrencies against the dollar, including MATIC/USD, ETH/USD, and three stablecoins (USDT/USD, DAI/USD, and USDC/USD).

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Cheese Bank's multi-million dollar hack explained by security firm

Nefarious parties are using flashloans in conjunction with stablecoins to steal DeFi funds from platforms.

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Breaking: Akropolis Reportedly Hacked for $2M in DAI Stablecoins

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Akropolis has reportedly been hacked, with the attacker making off with $2 million in DAI tokens. Details of the Akropolis Hack Tweeting on Nov. 12, the project revealed: “We recently identified a hack executed across a body of smart contracts in the ‘savings pools’ that have been audited twice.

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TrustToken Taps Chainlink for On-Chain Proof of Reserves for TrueUSD Stablecoin

The transparency measure is meant to provide additional certainty for decentralized finance (DeFi) traders who often rely on asset-backed stablecoins.

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DAI's growth is crucial to DeFi, here's why

The stablecoins sector has been working behind the scenes and has been witnessing great growth in 2020. Even though Tether was at the top spot in terms of its supply, DAI and USDC were catching up.

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Genesis Reports Largest Ever Quarter, Q3 Driven by ETH, Stablecoins, & DeFi

Digital currency prime broker Genesis reported a record quarter third of 2020 with $4.5 billion in spot volume — up 285% from the same quarter in 2019, $1 billion in bilateral derivatives volume — which was driven by the BTC spot becoming more tightly coupled to risk assets in the broader macro and the embedded […] The post Genesis Reports Largest Ever Quarter, Q3 Driven by ETH, Stablecoins, & DeFi first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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DeFi Craze Drives Stablecoin Market Cap to $20 Billion

This year’s decentralized finance (DeFi) frenzy has driven such a demand for stablecoins that their combined market capitalization now exceeds $20 billion. This is more than any other cryptocurrency aside from Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Yield farming fuels 623% growth in DAI supply to nearly $1B

Demand for Ethereum-based stablecoins exploded during the third-quarter DeFi bubble, with Dai’s supply growing by more than 600% and USDC expanding 200%.

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Tether Still Dominates Stablecoins, but USDC and Dai Are Winning DeFi

USDC and DAI seem to have found their niche as the preferred stablecoins in decentralized trades.

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DeFi users deposit $100 million in stablecoins into Ethereum’s latest yield farm

It appears that even after a strong retracement, the decentralized finance (DeFi) space is far from dead. The post DeFi users deposit $100 million in stablecoins into Ethereum’s latest yield farm appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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CorionX Teams Up with Syscoin to Push Stablecoin Adoption

Coinspeaker CorionX Teams Up with Syscoin to Push Stablecoin AdoptionThe Corion Foundation, the non-profit behind CorionX, a platform that looks to usher in the next wave of adoption for stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and decentralized finance (DeFi), has now teamed up with the Syscoin Foundation to help address market interoperability issues and drive stablecoin adoption.

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Yield farming platform APY Finance locks $67 million in first hour

APY.Finance is the latest DeFi protocol to explode in popularity, locking more than $67 million of stablecoins in the first hour of launching its mining program.

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Rari Capital integrates Aave for Automated Yield Farming

Rari Capital – an automated yield aggregator – is teaming up with Aave to optimize lending yield on leading stablecoins. […] The post Rari Capital integrates Aave for Automated Yield Farming appeared first on DeFi Rate.

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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.

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Blockchain Bites: Crypto Tax Switcheroo, Stablecoin Confusion, the Post-Capitalist Plunge

Fintech giant Plaid has added support for two DeFi applications, the IRS wants to know about your crypto and stablecoins have passed the $20B milestone.

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Latest DeFi Flavor ‘Pickle’ Aims to Alleviate Stablecoin Volatility

New DeFi yield farming platforms have been coming thick and fast over the past month or so with new opportunities popping up almost every day. The latest offering garnering attention is Pickle Finance which aims to help mitigate the relative instability in stablecoins.

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DeFi bug results in loss of $8m in Ethereum, Chainlink, and stablecoins

Decentralized finance has undoubtedly grown exponentially over the past few months, with the value of DeFi coins and the value of cryptocurrency locked in these contracts simultaneously going parabolic.

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Yearn Finance Launches StableCredit while YFI Pumps from Coinbase Listing

DeFi giant Yearn Finance continues to grow and develop new products. Its latest offering is StableCredit, a new protocol for decentralized lending, stablecoins, and automated market makers. Meanwhile, its native YFI token got a huge boost from being listed on Coinbase Pro.

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BoE Governor Calls for Setting Global Standards for Stablecoins, Instead of Playing Catch Up

Stablecoins have been enjoying tremendous growth, and DeFi mania has only been pushing it further, so much so that these USD-pegged coins have been adding $100 million per day since mid-July. “DeFi yields/interest rates are clearly a vacuum sucking in a lot of stablecoins,” shared Coin Metrics co-founder Nic Carter.

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