DeFi

In a space as competitive and as nascent as the crypto-verse, hopes of top coins flippening one another aren’t uncommon. However, the Ethereum flipping Bitcoin narrative seems as old as time, at least in crypto terms. In fact, the narrative gathered more steam after Ethereum’s London hard fork. Of late, however, a new thesis hasContinue reading “Here’s the ‘how’ and ‘why not’ of Ethereum ‘flipping’ Bitcoin in the long term”

October has been a pretty good month so far for most coins in the crypto-space. It has, however, been quite brutal to Avalanche. Since 3 October, this altcoin has shed more than 30% of its value. After mostly registering long red candles on its price chart since the aforementioned date, AVAX was finally seen tradingContinue reading “Avalanche: Why long traders, bullish investors are at the crossroads for now”

By giving HODLers a wide range of options to earn high returns, yield farming has taken Decentralized Finance by storm. DeFi hasn’t only instigated noteworthy rallies in the prices of reward tokens. Instead, it has also managed to facilitate the influx of a whole new set of people into the crypto-ecosystem. While some major DeFiContinue reading “Fantom & YFI – Can yield farming sustain their respective rallies”

The growing concerns around climate change are urgent, to say the least and they need real solutions. Rune Christensen, founder of MakerDAO addressed this issue recently. He has been advocating for MakerDAO to solve the problem of climate change. In the latest edition of the Bankless podcast, Christensen highlighted different aspects of the said issue,Continue reading “MakerDAO founder proposes purpose-driven DAO to address climate change issues”

Cross-chain bridges have the potential not only to bring multiple blockchains to users, but also to revolutionize NFT markets and DeFi as a whole. The ETH<>SOL token bridge supported by Wormhole is one example, of how popular chains are now interacting with each other. What’s more, another network joined the club recently: the Binance SmartContinue reading “Binance Smart Chain joins Ethereum-Solana ‘bridge party’ on Wormhole”

Ethereum has a bunch of different protocols and L2 solutions operating for different purposes. So there is always some sort of competition going on within the network. This one-on-one competition was shattered with the arrival of Arbitrum as it skyrocketed within a few days. But now it looks like its old competition Optimism is backContinue reading “The impact of Ethereum L2 solution, Optimism’s upgrade, on Arbitrum”

Polygon is well-known particularly when it comes to DeFi. The network has been performing well as a Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum and has continued improving on that front. So with millions of users on their hands, why is the Polygon development team coming up with an increased gas fees structure? And can it beContinue reading “Polygon’s gas fee hike will have this impact on MATIC’s prices”

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Dawn Fitzpatrick, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Soros Fund Management commented that Bitcoin was now “mainstream.” She stated, “I’m not sure Bitcoin is only viewed as an inflation hedge here…this has gone mainstream.” As Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are being viewed from the lens of mass adoption, crypto companiesContinue reading “Can China’s crypto crackdown benefit the ‘entire DeFi ecosystem’”

Not all the alts of the market have been able to relish the ripple-effect of the recent pumps of Bitcoin and Ethereum. SOL and SRM have quite evidently been two such alts. After shedding 8% and 14% in the past 7-days, both Solana and Serum have had a pretty rough week. Well, right before this, bothContinue reading “Investors need to know this about the short and long term growth of Solana, Serum”