How DeFi Is Expanding Beyond Ethereum in 2021
The launch of Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain marked a significant milestone at the end of 2020. Several years in development and subject to substantial delays, many were skeptical that it would even happen before the end of the year. Even now it’s launched, there’s still a long road ahead as the core developer team wrangle with the challenges of implementing a sharded blockchain. Furthermore, the events of 2021 only underscored just how badly scalability is […]
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Ethereum maintains the largest market share of the decentralized finance (DeFi) market. DeFi has boomed through 2021 and market crashes have not slowed down the space. DeFi protocols have seen a high rate of adoption among users. With networks like Solana and Cardano unveiling capabilities to enable them to compete with the top DeFi platform, […]
IOST price has increased by 650% in 2021, propelled by DeFi integrations, NFT functionality and staking support from major exchanges. Keeping up with the latest trends in cryptocurrency is a must for projects that want to stay relevant and continue to gain market share. The hype is currently swirling around decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) — and IOST is one protocol that has been capitalizing on these growing movements to help expand its community.Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that the price of IOST, the 78th-ranked digital asset by market....
Genesis Digital, a leading cryptocurrency trading, lending, and custody desk, released its Q2 reports, where it confirms what it calls the “emerging role” that Ethereum and defi have in the industry. The report also confirms that institutional interest in crypto is still rising despite the crash in prices the market experienced in Q2 2021. Genesis Confirms Ethereum and Defi Market Rise Genesis, a big cryptocurrency lending and trading desk, has confirmed that emergent currencies like Ethereum and defi tokens have taken a relevant part of the market, according to its Q2 2021....
Decentralized technologies’ insiders shared their views on DeFi and the role, achievements and challenges the space faced in 2021. Tristan Frizza of Zeta Markets:Tristan is the core contributor to Zeta Markets, an under-collateralized DeFi derivatives platform, providing liquid derivatives trading to individuals and institutions alike.“We’ve seen a Cambrian explosion in the DeFi ecosystem in 2021, with peak TVL approaching $300 billion vs the 2020 peak of $21 billion. This sounds like the growth surely has to slow. Yet, DeFi still represents just a fraction of CeFi trading volumes.At Zeta,....
A rapidly expanding DeFi ecosystem and a new low-cost bridge to the Ethereum network are just a few reasons why AVAX price is up 200% in August. Layer-one blockchain networks like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) form the foundation of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and enable smart contract functionality that has allowed the creation of new industries like decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFT).Avalanche (AVAX) is a relatively new layer-one solution that has recently seen a significant increase in price and adoption as the dominant smart-contract platform (Ethereum)....