Balancer (BAL) hits an all-time high as DeFi projects trial new solutions
Protocol integrations, gas fee reimbursements and a bump in DeFi activity back Balancer’s rally to a new all-time high. Decentralized finance (DeFi) was the driving force behind the growth in the cryptocurrency market in early 2021 but lately, the sector has taken a back seat to nonfungible tokens as famous artists and legacy auction houses have been jumping into the NFT ring. A break from the spotlight has allowed some of the more popular DeFi projects like Balancer (BAL) to regroup and plan out the next steps for their protocols as they work towards creating a more interoperable and....
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On Wednesday, the programmable liquidity platform Balancer Protocol announced the project has partnered with the Wallstreetbets defi project Wsbdapp. The announcement details that the two projects will collaborate in order to launch Wsbdapp’s exchange-traded portfolios (ETPs) on Balancer V2. Balancer Protocol and Wallstreetbets’ Defi Project Partner to Launch Exchange-Traded Portfolios Last week, Bitcoin.com News reported on the newly launched Wsbdapp decentralized finance (defi) platform hosted on the website wsbdapp.com. The application’s creators claim to be the....
Interoperability-focused projects that offer cross-chain bridges and lucrative liquidity mining pools are seeing an influx of funds right as DeFi’s TVL hit a new all-time high. Altcoins and DeFi tokens have been on a tear for the last two weeks and as the end of August approaches many projects are seeing their tokens reach for new all-time highs.Data shows that a majority of the top-10 DeFi tokens gained more than 20% in the past 30-days, with projects like Bancor (BNT) and THORChain (RUNE) seeing gains in excess of 115%. Top-10 DeFi assets by price. Source: MessariHere’s a look at some....
There are currently 38 projects deployed on the Ethereum layer-2 network. More are expected as attention shifts to scalability. Automated market maker and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has officially deployed on Optimism, the highly touted Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, in a move designed to enhance user functionality by increasing scalability and reducing fees. Balancer’s Optimism deployment was carried out in conjunction with Beethoven X, a decentralized investment platform on the Fantom Network that forked from Balancer v2. Together, both teams are said to have....
Multiple projects came out with powerful new ideas all at once. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's weekly DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.The end of January saw a string of interesting announcements from projects building innovative products that may well push DeFi forward. And more price gains of course.To briefly touch on the market side of things, this does feel like a much quieter rally than three years ago. Most things are going up, with some DeFi projects being particularly lucky, but it’s nowhere close to the insane gains we saw early in 2018.....
Balancer, a prominent decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity protocol, finds itself in the spotlight following an alarming exploit driven by a critical vulnerability discovered in its v2 pools just last week. The incident has sent shockwaves throughout the DeFi community, shedding light on the persistent challenges faced by platforms operating in this rapidly evolving landscape. The […]