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Yield farming is a popular topic in the DeFi space for some time now. We know you may have many questions regarding yield farming – What is it? Why is it generating so much buzz?Let’s start with a simple statistic. In 2020, the DeFi space is so far growing at a rate of 150% in terms of total value locked (TVL) in dollars. In comparison, the crypto market capitalization has so far grown at a rate of only 37%.Many experts give credit to yield farming for the astounding growth of the DeFi space...

According to a recent publication, Chinese investors are using a lot of the ETH they buy on centralized exchanges to pursue DeFi opportunities.This essentially reduces liquidity, and exchanges are forced to limit or even suspend withdrawals.DeFi Growth In China Causes Issues For ExchangesThe DeFi craze exploded earlier this year. Projects began surfacing daily with new developments, promising high returns to lure investors into locking their cryptocurrency assets in their protocols.The total...

The total USD value locked in DeFi may have taken a hit after topping at $9.5 billion. But that hasn’t stopped the proliferation of tokenized Bitcoin tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.Data shows that the ‘BTC on Ethereum’ number has now gone up to a little over 72,000. That implies that around $750 million worth of Bitcoin is doing rounds on Ethereum.‘BTC on Ethereum’ Number Going up ExponentiallyAccording to data published by Elias Simos on the on-chain analytics platform, Dune Analytics,...

A few days after receiving control over the popular SushiSwap protocol, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried revealed his personal ideas regarding its future. Those included gradually reducing the total supply after efficiently executing the multi-sig wallet transition.The Backstory: Transferring Control Over SushiSwapThe drama started the past weekend when SushiSwap’s lead developer, going by the Twitter handle Chef Nomi, cashed out his SUSHI tokens and exchanged them for millions worth of ETH. The...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 965. Im heutigen Video geht’s um folgende Themen: Der Blockchain-Ausweis kommt, Exchanges leiden aufgrund von DeFi Boom in China & Binance startet eine neue DeFi – Yield Farming Plattform. 1.) Der Blockchain-Ausweis kommthttps://www.btc-echo.de/der-blockchain-ausweis-kommt/ 2.) Exchanges suffer as Chinese users chase DeFi gainshttps://cointelegraph.com/news/exchanges-suffer-as-chinese-users-chase-defi-gains...

Former hedge fund manager turned bitcoin and crypto investor Mike Novogratz appears to have predicted the recent bitcoin crash that’s affected the space. He said not too long ago in an interview that there was a “speculative frenzy” surrounding bitcoin that he thought was getting too out of hand.Mike Novogratz Warned Us About BTCOne of the big problems with bitcoin is that whenever it shows signs of spiking, people – largely new investors – want to get in on the action. This would be fine,...

Centralized exchanges are facing the harsh reality of losing out to DeFi protocols that don’t have as many costs involved with transacting. The only way to get back in the game is to launch their own DeFi products to lure customers back, and liquidity farming is the most popular activity in the industry at the moment.Huobi Hunting DeFiThe Singapore-based crypto exchange, Huobi Global, has just announced a DeFi liquidity mining campaign beginning today, September 7. The incentive is the first...

The cross-chain data oracle platform Band Protocol has published a statement refuting the claims that its Co-Founder and CTO Sorawit Suriyakarn is the creator of the SushiSwap protocol, despite arguments broached by the community.The Community Claims Suriyakarn Is Chef NomiIn the past few days, the lead developer of the popular SushiSwap protocol, standing behind the Twitter handle Chef Nomi, attracted lots of attention toward himself. He sold off all of his Sushi tokens to “stop caring about...

The events of the past days shook the DeFi space in a way that no other project did this year. The lead developer of the project dumped all of his token on the market, crashing SUSHI’s price by over 50%.After that, he transferred the control over the protocol to FTX’s CEO and the price bounced by almost 200%. It’s no doubt that these kinds of swings are likely to be only possible in the crypto field.However, the community also took it upon itself to largely criticize Binance for listing...

Sushiswap is all the rage within the cryptocurrency community right now. The protocol that’s intended to be a fork of Uniswap had all eyes turned to it as the lead developer dumped all of his tokens on the market, essentially crashing the price of its native SUSHI token by more than 50%.However, since then, the lead developer has transferred control over the protocol to the CEO of FTX, which was seen as a boost of confidence by the community. Consequently, the price surged.Sushiswap Lead Dev...