Finance Redefined: What can you do about those gas fees? Jan. 20–27

Finance Redefined: What can you do about those gas fees? Jan. 20–27

Fees are a DeFi user’s nightmare. How can you pay less? This is a repost of Finance Redefined's latest installment, where Cointelegraph unpacks the latest developments in DeFi. The newsletter is delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.DeFi was reasonably quiet in terms of major fundamental developments, instead letting prices do the talking. Many tokens rallied, both the popular and the almost forgotten. Save for a few hiccups due to Bitcoin’s shaky price action, we are still well into DeFi season.This price action, unfortunately, means that using DeFi is pretty much impossible. Ethereum....


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