Tag Archives: Decentralized Exchange

Bitcoin has shown immense resilience this year. While the overall rally hasn’t been smooth sailing per se, it holds significance as it came against the backdrop of the banking scandal. This essentially represented a shift in investor sentiment shifted toward viewing Bitcoin as a hedge against banks. According to the latest report by the market tracking platform CoinGecko, spot trading volume across the top 10 crypto exchanges was recorded to be at $2.8 trillion for 2023 Q1,...

Last week’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the subsequent contagion appeared to have worked in favor of the decentralized exchanges as trading activity soared to levels not seen since November 2022. According to the latest data from DeFiLlama, the daily trading volume on decentralized exchanges was up by an astonishing 255.36% over the past week and is inching closer to $60 billion, a level last seen four months ago. The figure reached almost $25 billion on March...

Hayden Adams, the Uniswap creator, was just a 23-year-old native of the suburbs of New York in 2017 when he was laid off from his role as an engineer at Siemens. Adams began by writing an application from scratch, and his friend built a sleek new interface for Uniswap on top of what he describes as an “incredibly shitty” React codebase. Fast forward five years, and Uniswap has still managed to retain its position as a DEX leader. Uniswap’s Continued Dominance According to...

Raydium – a Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) – was hacked for over $2 million on Friday.  According to Raydium, the hacker appears to have taken control of the exchange’s admin address to carry out the attack.  Over $2 Million Lost Raydium acknowledged the hack over Twitter, noting that investigations were still ongoing.  It provided a link to the attacker’s account, which appears to hold $1.45 million worth of Solana-based tokens at writing time. Solscan shows that...

0x Labs – a San Francisco based decentralized exchange infrastructure provider – recently closed a Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Greylock Partners. The firm raised $70 million in total, with added help from Pantera, Jump Capital, OpenSea, and famous American actor/ musician Jared Leto. 0x’s valuation remains undisclosed, but it raised $24 million from its ZRX token sale back in 2017, and $15 million in a Series A led by Pantera capital last year. The...

1inch Network – a protocol that unites decentralized projects – launched a spot price aggregator to extract data for assets traded on DEXs on the blockchain. The tool provides a liquidity-weighted average of token spot prices. To avoid issues within transactions, 1inch recommended using it off-chain. 1inch’s Newest Instrument In a recent document seen by CryptoPotato, 1inch explained that the spot price aggregator aims to solve information-related tasks. Such include the...

The Cardano community and the rest of the crypto industry were excited when smart contracts were enabled on the network following its Alonzo upgrade last year. However, there have been some minor issues since then. SundaeSwap Goes Live on Cardano Four months later, the first Cardano-based decentralized app (dApp), SundaeSwap, launched its mainnet on January 20 after a series of private and public testing. The decentralized exchange (DEX) allows users to trade, stake, and lend...

The DeFi sector has seen a massive amount of money flowing onto its ecosystem this 2021 alone. So much that trading activity on large decentralized exchanges (DEXs) has increased by over 500% – outpacing trading volumes on popular centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs), according to a new report from analytics firm Chaynalysis. 2021 Is The Year Of Decentralized Finance The report highlighted the fierce competition amongst centralized exchanges this year, with traders seeking the...

Square – and Twitter – CEO Jack Dorsey is not just satisfied with saying he loves Bitcoin. He is doing everything he can to realize his dream of making BTC the global currency of the internet. In Mid July, Dorsey announced the launch of TBD, a new business aimed at facilitating the creation of decentralized financial services. Today he finally revealed that the division will be in charge of developing a decentralized exchange (DEX). We’ve determined @TDB54566975’s direction:...

Was ist DeFi – Kurze Übersicht Decentralized Finance, kurz DeFi, bilden herkömmliche Finanzprodukte mit Hilfe von Smart Contracts auf verschiednen Blockchains ab. DeFi bietet im Gegensatz zur Bitcoin HODL Mentalität, neue und vielfältige Möglichkeiten seine Coins einzusetzen. In 2019 und 2020 steigt die Zahl der Anwendungen und Nutzer insbesondere bei Ethereum stark an, doch Binance Smart Chain (BSC) und Tron (TRX) verzeichnen starkes Wachstum. Erfolgreichsten Projekte sind auf Ethereum...