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Bitwala, Europe’s leading payment service provider and bitcoin (BTC) bank headquartered in Berlin, has announced that it’s now supporting ether (ETH), the second-largest distributed ledger technology (DLT) based virtual currency by market cap. With the move, Bitwala customers will now be able to buy and sell ether (ETH) right from
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Despite the ongoing hype surrounding the growth and popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications last year, gaming and gambling remain the most popular use cases for blockchain apps. According to blockchain analytics site Dapp.com, there are approximately four times as many users for both gaming and gambling decentralized applications (dapps) than
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Varun is co-founder and CEO of Juno, a neo bank that provides users a high yield account for savings. Prior to Juno, he co-founded
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A former MakerDAO contributor and Carnegie Mellon alumnus has committed 10,000 MKR — valued at just under $4.3 million at press time — to his alma mater to develop a research program for decentralized applications.Who is giving what for what?Nikolai Mushegian announced the donation in a Jan. 1 post
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On today’s holiday episode, we’ll define and demystify the blockchain term “DeFi.” Source
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Katherine Wu was a founding team member at Messari before moving into a VC role at Notation Capital, but is perhaps best known in crypto for her epic annotations of key regulatory enforcement actions. In this end of year interview with The Breakdown, Katherine argues that decentralized finance is the
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Sometimes things are clear, and to both Camila Russo (write of The Defiant newsletter) and David Hoffman (co-host of the Crypto POV podcast), it couldn’t be clearer that the essential narrative of 2019 was the rise of DeFi as a true market force. In individual interviews as part of The
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Lou Kerner is an advisory board member at Blockchain Coinvestors, co-founder of CryptoOracle, and partner at Chameleon as well as Flight Ventures.MakerDAO started minting
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Kyber Network, the ethereum-based protocol focused on aggregating liquidity and facilitating swaps for ERC-20 tokens, is about to launch a major upgrade.Planned to go live in Q2 2020, the Katalyst upgrade is a major upgrade to the Kyber protocol to better meet the liquidity needs of the decentralized finance (DeFi)
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Second, the DeFi community should create products and services for a greater share of the population. Trading and arbitrage platforms are useful for day-traders and hedge funds, but the people who need DeFi the most are not looking to actively trade crypto assets. DeFi projects must rediscover the original purpose
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