DeFi

Rune Christensen, a longtime climate activist, wants public good codified as a “central purpose and value of MakerDAO.”

Smaller cryptoassets largely act as high-beta alternatives to ether and their prices have been positively correlated with ETH performance in recent weeks

The new spin on a stablecoin will liquidate its least collateralized holders if it depegs from a cost of living index

In support of bitcoin NFT project Ordinals, Luxor Mining and crypto developer Udi Wertheimer mined the largest-ever bitcoin block

Governance vote creates defense fund intending to alleviate costs for Maker participants exposed to “novel legal risks”

Following the Shanghai Upgrade, the Ethereum blockchain could potentially welcome a new cohort of stakers

Trading some of ENS DAO’s ether will help generate $15.8 million USDC for the protocol at current prices

A global online hackathon, sponsored by Toyota, aims to produce “intra-company DAO support tools” for the auto giant

An uptick in blockchain deployment proposals on the DEX could be attributed to a shift around Uniswap’s commercial usage provisions

The new product is a tokenized basket of ETH staking providers’ ether derivatives including Lido, Rocket Pool and StakeWise — but not Coinbase

Almost a year after Aave V3 was implemented on some chains, the protocol will finally vote on activating its largest market: Ethereum Mainnet

Early liquidity providers will have until late April to claim rewards — or forfeit them

Sei recently secured an additional $20 million in ecosystem funding from crypto asset trading platform MEXC

The growing number of validators points to “increasing confidence, positive market sentiment, and conviction in the Ethereum ecosystem as a whole,” the chief marketing officer at Blocknative told Blockworks

Optimism and Arbitrum are reaping the benefits of cheaper, faster transactions

A flurry of trader activity and speculation of layer-2 projects have seen their associated tokens posting gains to start the year

TVL is far from the only indicator of the health of a DeFi protocol

From a push for real-world asset adoption to a continued focus on ZK rollups, here’s what you may be able to expect in the DeFi space in 2023

Many Solana unicorn projects are transitioning to multichain futures, but founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal haven’t lost hope yet

From Axie to Wintermute, 2022 was the biggest year yet for crypto hacks

Ankr says it’s requesting background checks for staff after trillions of crypto tokens were illicitly minted by a rogue former employee

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research was funding token wrapper Ren Protocol right up until FTX went bankrupt last month

A string of defaults on DeFi lender Maple Finance has triggered a sea of changes to how the protocol handles bad loans

ThorChain teams up with Trust Wallet to capture millions of potential new DeFi users

Archblock and Adapt3r want to bring conservative cryptoassets to institutional investors