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2 Feb 2021 6 minute read 3 comments DrBreakThru
There’s no doubt that yield farming is one of the hottest use cases for DeFi as it enables users to earn a passive income by putting their idle cryptoassets to work in high-yielding farming opportunities. As such, a myriad of automated yield-farming...
1 Feb 2021 7 minute read 4 comments DrBreakThru
When it comes to DeFi lending protocols Aave and Compound are the de facto market leaders. They, along with MakerDAO, are the largest protocols in DeFi in terms of their “total value locked” (TVL), otherwise known as “assets under management” (AUM)....
27 Jan 2021 4 minute read 0 comments DrBreakThru
In December 2019, Perpetual Protocol – a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for trading derivatives for every asset via a Virtual Automated Market Maker (vAMM) – was created by Yenwen Feng and Shao-Kang Lee. Some months later in August 2020,...
19 Jan 2021 5 minute read 12 comments DrBreakThru
On August 31, 2020, Harvest Finance (FARM) – an automated yield farming protocol that puts users’ idle crypto assets to work in high-yielding farming opportunities – opened for deposits on the Ethereum mainnet. Harvest couldn’t have launched at a be...
8 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments DrBreakThru
A lot of things have happened in the Loopring ecosystem in 2020. Here’s the top of the top: 27 Feb 2020 - Launch of the Loopring.io Exchange Loopring.io Beta1 exchange interface Loopring launched their first publicly accessible zkRollup exchange, “B...
4 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments DrBreakThru
1 Nov 2020 - Launch of Saffron Finance Saffron.Finance website homepage Saffron Finance – a cryptoasset derivatives protocol that allows users to earn interest through liquidity mining and diversify risk and returns via tranches – launched on the Et...
4 Dec 2020 5 minute read 0 comments DrBreakThru
On December 2, 2020, Loopring (LRC) – a zkRollup-powered decentralized exchange and payment protocol – launched its AMM based on their improved Ethereum zkRollup implementation Loopring 3.6. The launch of Loopring’s layer 2 Automated Market Maker (A...
30 Nov 2020 5 minute read 4 comments DrBreakThru
On November 2, 2018, Uniswap (UNI) – a protocol for the automated exchange of ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum – was publicly announced and deployed to the Ethereum mainnet: The launch of Uniswap was perhaps the most important event to happen on Ethereum i...
26 Nov 2020 7 minute read 3 comments DrBreakThru
On November 23, 2020, the minimum staking requirement of 524,288 ETH for ETH 2.0 has been met! This marks a significant milestone for Ethereum as it gives ETH 2.0 the green light to launch on December 1, 2020 – a moment Ethereans have been waiting f...
25 Nov 2020 6 minute read 4 comments DrBreakThru
On September 4, 2017, the groundbreaking Chainlink whitepaper co-written by Steve Ellis, Ari Juels, and Sergey Nazarov was released into the wild. About 2 years later, On May 30, 2019, Chainlink (LINK) – a decentralized oracle network that reliably...
