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Part of Cointelegraph's Crypto Stories on YouTube, the series highlights the power of crypto to change the lives of people all over the world. The latest episode of Cointelegraph's Crypto Stories featured never-before-heard audio from an exclusive interview with Vitalik Buterin, recorded at a conference in Hong Kong in 2014. In this animated short, viewers can learn about the origin story of Ethereum (ETH), the world'd second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, straight from the founder himself.Back in 2011, while Buterin was a student at the University of Waterloo, he first....

DYdX volume tops Coinbase for the day, Cardano enables a new stablecoin, and a DeFi bounty hunter is highly rewarded — all coming to you this week in Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter.DYdX surpassed Coinbase in daily trading volume for the first time this week. Read on to discover why this was a seminal moment for the project’s founder.What you’re about to read is the concise version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments over the last week — released with more anticipation than a layer-two....

dYdX said that it is looking at full decentralization to offer its users advantages of DeFi that centralized services can’t. Ethereum Layer 2-based crypto derivatives trading platform dYdX has vowed to become “100% decentralized by EOY” via the protocol's V4 update. dYdX primarily offers perpetual contracts, which are derivatives products that borrow elements from both spot margin trading and futures trading but do not have an expiry date. At present only certain components of dYdX are decentralized, including its Ethereum smart contracts, governance and staking. However its “orderbook and....

Analytical data reveals that DeFi’s total value registered another dip, with the total value locked (TVL) falling below $50 billion at the time of writing. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.The last week’s headline was dominated by some of the biggest hacks in DeFi. This week is redemption time for many DeFi protocols that either averted an attempted hack or got a significant chunk of their stolen funds back.The BitBTC bridge reportedly had a bug....

DeFi space saw the resurgence of Andre Cronje nearly a month after his departure announcement while dYdX has pledged to go fully decentralized by the end of the year. The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was filled with ups and downs —mostly the latter— this week, with two very distinct hack attempts and a heartbreaking departure of a DeFi veteran. In this week’s newsletter, we will also look at derivative exchange dYdX’s plans to go fully decentralized by the end of the year. The price momentum of the DeFi tokens remained neutral, with several tokens registering a bullish surge.....