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The native token of the Yearn Finance ecosystem has plummeted by 40% overnight, which led to certain speculations within the community of a potential exit scam. Yearn Finance is among the most popular and prominent DeFi players, and it just recently hinted about an upcoming launch of its platform’s newest version, which questions the exit scam rumors. YFI’s price was on a massive roll for the past seven days or so. It was a week ago when the asset traded at around $9,000...

2022 was not a great year for decentralized finance (DeFi). The industry saw implosion in itself thanks to the unsustainable high yields that eventually caused the model to collapse. But DeFi is far from dead. A similar sentiment was echoed by prominent Web3 developer Andre Cronje, who said he does not believe that high yields are “long gone” and that DeFi is seeing almost “zero growth.” DeFi Will Still Simply be DeFi At present, the real yields for ETH, USDT, DAI, and USDC...

SEBA Bank, a FINMA licenced Swiss Bank providing a seamless, secure and easy-to-use bridge between digital and traditional assets, today announced that with a total of nine crypto currencies, SEBA Bank is expanding its comprehensive offering into DeFi. With these new tokens, SEBA Bank is continuously expanding its offering, and is entering into the DeFi world, supporting the tokens of the most important DeFi protocols available on the market. SEBA Bank´s clients will be able to...

Yearn Finance (YFI) and Cover Protocol (COVER) announced today that the merger process between both, initiated last November, will come to an end. The breakup between both has resulted in a big hit for the price of COVER.Yearn Finance Breaks up With Cover ProtocolIn November 2020, Yearn Finance’s founder and arguably one of the most influential figures in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) announced that they will join forces with the market coverage provider Cover Protocol.Today,...

Altseason is booming. Data from the popular monitoring resource Coin Market Cap shows that the total capitalization of all alternative cryptocurrencies currently stands just shy of $600 billion. This has reduced Bitcoin’s market dominance to 60%.With this said, we’ve selected five altcoins to keep a close look at in the following week.Yearn Finance (YFI)YFI needs no introduction. It’s the governance token for the Yearn Finance ecosystem, and it’s one that definitely made history....

Yearn Finance, one of DeFi’s landmark projects and also the first coin to truly flip Bitcoin’s price on multiple occasions, managed to surge above $52K earlier today before correcting slightly to where it’s currently trading.Yearn Finance is undoubtedly one of the benchmark projects for the space of decentralized finance (DeFi).YFI, the ecosystem’s native token, was initially supposed to be nothing but a governance token that has absolutely no face value. In fact, Andre Cronje, the creator of...

After yet another all-time high painted just at the $49,000 price tag, bitcoin retraced slightly. Most altcoins also went up in the past 24 hours, and the total market cap painted a new record as well above $1.460 trillion. Interestingly enough, YFI has managed to surpass BTC in terms of dollar value.Bitcoin’s Latest ATH At Nearly $49KBTC is having a compelling week as it exploded by about $7,000 on Monday following news that Tesla had purchased $1.5 billion in January. It went for a new...

Following the recent attack on the Yearn.Finance protocol, major U.S. dollar stablecoin company Tether froze $1.7 million worth of USDT stolen from the platform. Meanwhile, Bitfinex disclosed that it had made the last loan repayment to Tether.Tether Freeze Raises Centralization ConcernsTether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced the news of the USDT freeze via his Twitter handle on Friday (Feb. 5, 2021). The company’s action would subsequently prevent the hacker from spending the stolen funds.....

Andre Cronje, the brain behind the popular DeFi protocol Yearn Finance and the most expensive cryptocurrency YFI, has unveiled yet another DeFi protocol called Deriswap.Obsessed With Capital EfficiencyThe project focuses on capital efficiency, an aspect of DeFi that Cronje said he is obsessed with. The YFI creator is set to change the current segmented liquidity, which only allows users to choose one of Swaps (Uniswap, Sushiswap, Bancor, etc.), Options (Deribit, Hegic, Opyn, etc.), and Loans...

It’s an all-around green day in crypto land. Bitcoin price has surged beyond $18,000, closing the gap with its previous all-time high of $20,000. ETH just rocketed past $500 for the first time in two years.But apart from the usual cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens are sitting on gains as a majority of them exploded in valuations over the past couple of days.Top 100 DeFi Coins Register Explosive Weekly GainsA bull market pulls every asset out of the bearish rut. The same is...