Forget Ethereum, DeFi Is Being Built on Bitcoin

Ethereum is the top dog when it comes to DeFi. Other decentralized finance tokens are built on its blockchain and require ETH gas fees to transact. This also could be why the top-ranked altcoin is held up a lot better than the rest of the DeFi space, which has fallen on average 60% across the […]

In the last year, decentralized finance (DeFi) has gone from being a relatively unexplored crypto niche to a bustling industry filled with a diverse array of protocols and tools that offer new services and opportunities to users.  As it stands, the vast majority of DeFi applications are built on the Ethereum blockchain, due to its popularity among decentralized application (dApp) developers and significant pre-existing user-base. However, this sudden growth of DeFi on Ethereum has pushed […]

Since gaining prominence in recent times, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been marauded with some sort of technical problem especially as it utilizes Ethereum blockchain that only does about 25-40 transactions per second. Most, if not all current DeFi aggregators and DEX platforms are built atop the Ethereum blockchain, it’s easier to deploy contracts on the Ethereum blockchain than in any known blockchain and it’s quite cheap to do too.  However this comes with a cost, […]

This is an interesting thought experiment. Is the current Ethereum unforkable? Do all the Decentralized Finance products and instruments built on top of it make an Ethereum fork an instrument of the past? Also, in the rare case of a hard fork, do the backers of the stablecoins DeFi depends on hold too much power? […]

A wave of decentralized finance (DeFi) products, mostly built on Ethereum, has some wondering if Bitcoin could benefit from the ecosystem.