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Following what appears to be the actions of a single whale, the price of ETH skyrocketed to just under $450 according to the Uniswap v2 ETH/USDC price ticker in late trading on August 10. This represented an increase upwards of 15%.The trade involved a series of swaps totaling almost $18 million in USDT to purchase just over 40,000 ETH. Within a couple of hours, the price of Ethereum had returned to its range-bound channel at around $395.ETH/USD Chart, Uniswap V2. Source: UniswapRealt...

The DeFi boom continues with full force as the total value locked approaches $5 billion. Interestingly enough, a relatively young cryptocurrency has turned into the poster child of yield farming – YFI, the governance token of yearn.finance.Launched just a few weeks ago, YFI is currently the second-most expensive token on the market, valued upwards of $6,000. Its growth rate is nothing short of impressive, and community members are already wondering if it would be able to catch up and even...

Demand for stablecoins has surged this year, mainly on the back of the DeFi sector, which has seen countless crypto earning opportunities arise. MakerDAO’s stablecoin, Dai, has just reached a milestone $400 million supply following the minting of a further $10 million.This 10 million DAI mint brings the total DAI supply to over 400 million ? https://t.co/5yH4a464B8— Anthony Sassano | sassal.eth ?‍? (@sassal0x) August 10, 2020Surging Dai DemandSince the beginning of July, Dai market...

One of the most widely used decentralized exchange Uniswap has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Uniswap’s market share has been growing rapidly in the past several months, and the team behind it indicated that they will utilize the funds for the third version of the platform.Uniswap Raises $11MIn April 2019, the DEX raised $1.8 million in a seed round. Over a year later, a filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...

Ampleforth (AMPL) is one of the projects in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space that took the community by a storm, despite being on the market for over a year.Over the past couple of months, AMPL managed to become arguably one of the most widely-discussed protocols, largely because of its quick exponential growth.Now, however, the team has taken an essential step towards providing its users with further incentives to provide liquidity to its pools and receive attractive yields.Ampleforth...

A few hours ago, the Opyn DeFi platform discovered a vulnerability in one of its ETH Put contracts, which enabled an attacker to make off with $371,000 worth of crypto assets.The Ethereum based decentralized insurance platform allows users to protect themselves from risks they may face in decentralized finance markets. It operates with an options protocol that allows DeFi users to create put and call options.In simple terms, a put option is a contract that gives an investor the right, but not...

The ongoing decentralized finance (DeFi) boom has pushed the popular cryptocurrency exchange Huobi to establish a DeFi-oriented platform. Dubbed Huobi DeFi Labs, it aims to enhance the company’s operations in the sector and will be led by a Wall Street veteran – Sharlyn Wu.Huobi DeFi Labs EstablishedAccording to the announcement from earlier today, the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange has decided to take a more active role in the expanding DeFi field. The establishment of the Huobi...

If 2017 was the year where initial coin offerings (ICOs) went parabolic, then 2020 is perhaps the year where products within the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) are all the rage.With the emergence of numerous propositions, such as flash loans, where people can borrow money without having to post collateral as long as they repay it within the same block, tech-savvy enthusiasts are using these possibilities to arbitrage for substantial profits.What Are DeFi Flash Loans?DeFi has brought...

The veteran US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is looking into adding 19 new digital assets onto its platform. Interestingly, the majority of the coins are representatives of the ongoing DeFi trend.Coinbase Considers 19 New CoinsThe largest digital asset exchange based in the US announced yesterday that it’s currently evaluating 19 new additions to its platform. Those are Ampleforth, Band Protocol, Balancer, Blockstack, Curve, Fetch.ai, Flexacoin, Helium, Hedera, Hashgraph, Kava,...

This week was nothing short of exciting in the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin definitely woke up from its slumber and made a few aggressive moves upwards. Altcoins felt the pain as most of them decreased in value as the king of crypto took its toll. In seven short days, Bitcoin went from around $9,600 to $11,400, charting gains upwards of just shy of 20%. Earlier on Monday, the cryptocurrency catalyzed its performance, jumping from $9,800 to $11,200. After that, it...