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In this report, we look at how the Layer 2 ecosystem is shaping up and dive into the varying rollup solutions...

Axie floor prices increased from 0.03 ETH to around ~0.066 ETH, and MEO 2 Axie prices rose from 0.084...flat throughout the month while Mystic 1 Axie floor price grew from 5.5 ETH to 9.99 ETH and Mystic 2...With the Axie community thriving like never before, economic growth rivaling even the largest DeFi applications...

...and then encourage liquidity providers to move over from the main pool to the layer 2 equivalent....Ideally a user executing a swap on the ETH-USDC pool on Unipig (Uniswap fork on the Optimism layer 2)...Ideally as a user, regardless of whether interacting with the ETH-USDC pool on layer 1 or on layer 2,...

Aggregators will connect to all of these protocols to enhance the UX of DeFi....The protocol’s gas token, CHI, helped users save over $2 million in gas costs....For certain DeFi blue chips, Sushiswap has deeper liquidity than Uniswap....Since going live in July 2020, Matcha has facilitated over $2 billion of trading volume.

PLAY also connects users to the broader ecosystem, including DeFi applications, crypto-enabled webshops...Their DeFi offering is basic but functional....The token briefly ran 50% ($2-$3) in the weeks leading up to release before continuing to chart a seemingly...

Part 2 – Applications In Part 1 we have overviewed Anoma’s intents and seen how they compare to Ethereum-style...“Part 2: WTF are intent-based apps?”...has 2 sections; First, we take a look at some existing intent-based apps across various verticals that...It has 2 modes of operation; fast and slow.

...mathematical demonstration of the sub-optimality of the 1p1v system in provisioning public goods, see page...

...mathematical demonstration of the sub-optimality of the 1p1v system in provisioning public goods, see page...

In 2020, the worlds of decentralized finance and NFTs collided dramatically as the DeFi Summer drove...As the DeFi boom subsided towards the end of summer, the NFT space began to see its highest volumes since...On the one hand, DeFi can provide a dramatic expansion of utility, functionality, and access to more...

DeFi Summer Four years ago, DeFi “Blue-Chips” such as lending protocol AAVE and derivatives protocol...For those of us who remember when AAVE was “ETHLend”, the notion of “DeFi” did not yet exist, and the...Our first rule: The protocol must have been deployed in the past 2 years, or since June of 2021.

...the basics of Polkadot’s mechanics while highlighting a few stand-out projects that are helping build DeFi...

Market Update With L1 szn taking hold of crypto markets, DeFi coins have fallen out of favor over the...into an index for Solana and Ethereum DeFi tokens....its outperforming individual DeFi tokens in light of SOL’s stellar rally....fit relative to all other sectors of DeFi....DeFi money markets are as strong as they ever have been.

Despite the prevailing market conditions, Binance facilitated $3 trillion of perp volume in May and $2...that perpetual futures are incredibly important for crypto — and now they’re making their way into DeFi...Earlier this year, we published a deep dive into DeFi perpetuals.

In 2020, the worlds of decentralized finance and NFTs collided dramatically as the DeFi Summer drove...As the DeFi boom subsided towards the end of summer, the NFT space began to see its highest volumes since...On the one hand, DeFi can provide a dramatic expansion of utility, functionality, and access to more...

Bitcoin DeFi and the Opportunity for Zetachain DeFi was the first large-scale success of Ethereum’s smart...Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has lending apps, exchanges, derivatives, and more....Bitcoin-focused DeFi is tiny compared to most ecosystems – let alone Ethereum....However, Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has actual user demand.

Teller is a credit risk protocol that uses bank/CeFi data to enable undercollateralized loans on DeFi...Unsecured lending is perhaps the least penetrated vertical in all of DeFi....Aave and Compound, the top DeFi debt markets, facilitate trustless loans....With Teller, users can enjoy the composability of DeFi and the efficiency of TradFi.

The Year Ahead for Crypto 2025 – Full Series: AI+DePIN DeFi Gaming Infrastructure Markets Consumer DeFi...Gen 2 cards often have interesting features that differentiate themselves from vanilla gen 2 cards....Gnosis Pay Safe has 2 custom modules, a roles module and a delay module....Tether and Circle) and (2) stablecoin distributors (i.e., apps).

Introduction Undercollateralized lending accounts for an underwhelming portion of DeFi lending activity...However, unsecured lending is one of the best ways to unlock capital efficiency in DeFi, and various...The State of DeFi’s Unsecured Money Markets It has been a tough year for crypto tokens as a whole, and...DeFi money markets have not been spared.