Tag Archives: Decentralized Exchange

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...

The use of decentralized exchanges has been increasing over the years. With cryptocurrencies making their way into the business world, activity in this sector is skyrocketing.Unlike a centralized exchange, a DEX (Decentralized exchange) has no central entity responsible for its operation. Instead, traders rely on a smart contract and the whole platform runs on the blockchain —generally Ethereum.This makes them slower and inefficient, but traders gladly embrace this temporary issue because,...

By employing its recently-launched multi-chain solution for exporting data to new blockchains, the decentralized exchange IDEX has launched a Binance Smart Chain trading infrastructure. As a result, the platform will onboard new assets and reduce trade settlement costs sharply.IDEX Joins Binance Smart ChainLaunched last year, the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchain works in parallel with Binance Chain to support smart contracts functionality. The latest integration to BSC comes on behalf of...

The parabolic increase of GME stocks prompted by retail investors and a Reddit group has caught everyone’s attention, including Nasdaq’s CEO Adena Friedman.She mentioned that the giant exchange could look into potentially halting certain stocks from trading if there’s an increased social media chatter.Nasdaq To Halt Stock Trading On Certain Occasions?CryptoPotato reported earlier that retail investors participating in a Reddit group with over two million subscribers worked against Wall Street...

Decentralized finance exploded in popularity this year and especially during and after the summer. Apart from numerous DeFi-oriented protocols, the cryptocurrency space saw the emergence of multiple new decentralized exchanges. The sharp increase in demand led to rapid project developments and impressive volume growth. However, the speed compromised user security on some occasions. Consequently, the cryptocurrency exchange analytics resource CER decided to compile a report on...