Synthetic assets get real: Competition for scalability, new markets heats up
Two new synthetic asset and derivatives platforms look to take a slice of Synthetix’s pie. Synthetic assets, one of the most promising use cases for decentralized finance (DeFi), is becoming an increasingly competitive landscape as two new projects aim to bring scalability and new markets to traders. On Friday, decentralized derivatives exchange Injective Protocol began a push into synthetic assets with the launch of a 24/7 synthetic gold market on their Solstice layer-2 testnet. “It's fairly interesting to explore gold for the first commodity futures on Injective because Bitcoin and Gold....
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Synthetic assets are different DeFi platform tokens that digitally represent real-life derivatives like futures and options. They are created via smart contracts on a distributed and globally accessible blockchain network. Horizon Protocol Horizon Protocol is a DeFi platform for creating on-chain synthetic assets (zAssets) based on real-life financial assets. The protocol is a fork from the liquidity derivatives protocol, Synthetix. Therefore, instead of reinventing the wheel, Horizon improves the interoperability, scalability, speed, and affordability of on-chain derivatives trading. It....
Synthetic crypto assets offer vast potential to shake up the crypto and traditional financial markets, but what’s behind the current growth? Amid all the excitement of crypto’s biggest bull run in history, some assets have been outperforming even the current high-performing market. In particular, Synthetix (SNX) has been on an epic tear, leading the growth of the whole niche. The news of a Coinbase listing in December helped account for some of this. However, at the time of writing, SNX has increased by over 225% since mid-December, currently trading above $16.7 and cementing its position....
A THORChain synth is unique: Backed by 50% of the underlying asset and 50% of RUNE instead of 100% of the actual asset. THORChain (RUNE) has appreciated nearly 41% in the past seven days, according to the data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro, and its recent price action is even leading the entire crypto market in the first quarter of 2021. Its mainnet launch, which was originally slated last year, is one of the main factors that led to its recent price surge. But, the other factor that provided added momentum is the integration of synthetic assets to its network. Why was this such a huge....
Sky high gas prices may make synths more costly than the real thing. Decentralized finance protocol Kwenta has launched a series of synthetic tokens for popular stocks — but current gas prices could make trading them more expensive than buying the real thing.In a blog post on April 23, derivatives trading protocol Kwenta —an Ethereum dApp which is powered by Synthetix — announced the listing of various synths that track the prices of stocks from the top five tech firms known by the acronym FAANG. These comprise Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. Tesla was already available and....
It won’t be easy to bring DeFi to be on par with traditional finance, but tokenization can help it along, says Liquefy’s CEO. Nonfungible tokens could become a bridge to connect the legacy financial system to the emerging fintech world in the near future. During a recent interview, Adrian Lai, CEO of Liquefy — an investment firm and an incubator for decentralized finance platforms — told Cointelegraph China that synthetic assets, NFTs and digital securities are redefining the way capital markets operate. Lai especially believes that the value of synthetic assets could give each individual....