The DeFi Column
While DeFi has seen a huge success in 2020, it is not always easy to get your head around the subject, which is as vast as it is complex. In this column, we guide you through the world of DeFi, giving you top tips and highlighting the best DeFi projects. Soon all will become child's play!
Tue 01 Jun 2021 ▪ 19h11 ▪
10 min read ▪
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Felix Meyer
To paraphrase the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo: God only made water, but man made APWine. As you might have guessed, this article is not going to discuss viticulture in the traditional sense of the word. Instead, it will focus on DeFi, a sector that loves to pay tribute…
Fri 21 May 2021 ▪ 12h00 ▪
3 min read ▪
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William Proctor
Kimitachi to tsukutteku story: read on for the story of Project Senpai, built by a community of Japanese anime fans who want to mint NFTs of their favourite shows. Senpai, teach us about NFTs! The growing popularity of anime is driving a demand for NFTs based on this form of…
Fri 21 May 2021 ▪ 10h46 ▪
3 min read ▪
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William Proctor
If you are interested in projects in the decentralised finance (DeFi) space, you are probably aware that a good DeFi project uses lots of agricultural references. APWine is no exception to the rule. Do not be fooled by its name, though, as this project has nothing to do with a bottle…
Thu 20 May 2021 ▪ 13h38 ▪
4 min read ▪
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William Proctor
Yesterday night, the majority of Europeans were sleeping and dreaming of what they would cook up for breakfast this morning. Little did they know that a hacker was having a midnight snack on Pancake Bunny, one of the top projects on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Another DeFi flash loan…
Wed 19 May 2021 ▪ 11h00 ▪
4 min read ▪
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Maximilien Desbordes
For all the positive effects the DeFi industry’s spectacular growth has had on the financial ecosystem, it has also inevitably attracted the attention of cybercriminals, who are quickly turning it into a fertile hunting ground. This is the focus of a new report published by Ciphertrace entitled Cryptocurrency Crime…
Tue 18 May 2021 ▪ 15h46 ▪
4 min read ▪
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Adrien Stefanini
A victim of its own success, the crypto industry has become the site of high levels of criminal activity, tarnishing its image in the eyes of the public. Ransomware, fake giveaways, other dubious projects and even hacks are the most common types of criminal operations that leave individual users out…
Tue 11 May 2021 ▪ 17h40 ▪
2 min read ▪
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Nathan Combamines
If I were to say to you “DeFi, French, DEX aggregator”, what would you say in response? Paraswap, of course! After initially raising $2.7 million (~£2.2 million) from investors who saw the French startup’s potential, Paraswap does it again! Not once, but twice Launched in September 2019, the startup…
Wed 20 Jan 2021 ▪ 23h00 ▪
9 min read ▪
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Arnaud De Montbrial
Supercharger sounds like it has something to do with the energy transition, a topic we discussed recently on TheCoinTribune in an article about the WPO project. Today, our Supercharger topic will not take us to the world of electric vehicles, but to Crypto.com’s latest offer, which aims…
Wed 20 Jan 2021 ▪ 22h58 ▪
3 min read ▪
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Felix Meyer
Has Lightning Labs unearthed a gold mine for Lightning Network users? This new exchange system aims to improve the functioning of the network, while helping nodes under stress and, by paying back ‘good Samaritans’. Lightning Pool: a paid mutual aid Lightning Labs has announced the launch of a system…
Wed 20 Jan 2021 ▪ 22h53 ▪
3 min read ▪
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Greg Hansen
Bitcoin (BTC) wants to DeFeat Ethereum (ETH) on its own patch: will altcoins always be forced to kneel before the oldest crypto on the block? Bitcoin and DeFi have been watching each other from afar, each one, however, remaining on their own side. That being said, BTC could strengthen DeFi’s…
