Automated Market Makers (AMM): Facilitating Trades in DeFi
An automated market maker is a model that offers liquidity in decentralized finance. It facilitates automated trading of cryptocurrencies through liquidity pools instead of traditional order books.
DeFi Will Be the Foundation of Crypto’s Next Cycle: Pantera Capital
Pantera Capital – a blockchain-focused institutional asset manager – has released a report reviewing the state of the blockchain industry in 2022, and what to expect on the technological and adoption front going forward.
Will MakerDAO Find Savior in YFI As MKR Declines
After its proposal in November to deploy $100 USD Coin [USDC] into the Yearn Finance [YFI] DeFi protocol, MakerDAO [MKR] finally approved it. Details from the poll showed that 71.56% of the MKR community voted in favor of the proposition, while 28.44% preferred to say no to the “Yearn to earn Yield” proposal.
DeFi Protocol GNS Sees Growth in Trading Fees – Will Users Make a Beeline for It
Gains Network [GNS], a decentralized perpetuals exchange, was making rapid strides in the DeFi ecosystem. According to a post by Wu Blockchain on 24 January, Gains Network touched a cumulative transaction volume of more than $1 billion over the past week, recording a jump of around 78%.
VC Firm Pantera's 2023 Crypto Forecast Says the Future Is DeFi
Crypto-focused venture capital firm Pantera Capital, which has about $3.8 billion in assets under management, has summed up its 2023 forecast and the future is decentralized finance (DeFi).
MakerDAO Approves Deployment of $100M USDC on DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance
Decentralized finance (DeFi) giant MakerDAO’s community approved Monday a proposal to deploy up to $100 million USD Coin (USDC) from its reserve on DeFi protocol Yearn Finance, where the deposited stablecoin will earn a yield.
Sei Network, With $70M in Ecosystem Funding, Looks East
After securing a total of $70 million in ecosystem funding in just eight months since its inception, Cosmos based DeFi Layer 1 blockchain — Sei — is looking to expand into Asia in the year ahead.
Coingecko 2022 Annual Crypto Industry Report
Our comprehensive 2022 Annual Crypto Industry Report covers everything from the crypto market landscape to analyzing Bitcoin and Ethereum, deep diving into the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem and reviewing the Centralized Exchanges (CEX) and Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) performance. The key highlights have been summarized below, but be sure to dig into the full 49 slides below.
DeFi Total Value Locked Experienced Its First Yearly Decline in 2022
The total value locked (TVL) on decentralized finance protocols fell 24.7% last quarter to $74.3 billion, marking the second-largest quarterly decline for the novel financial services industry, behind only the quarter that saw the Terra ecosystem collapse.
DeFi Problems and Opportunities in 2023. Market Talks
Join us as we discuss decentralized finance, how it performed in 2022, and what its potential is in 2023. Hosting the show will be Cointelegraph’s head of markets, Ray Salmond, with special guest Grant Shears.
