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Lending protocols lead market recovery as Maker paves way for gains

After Bitcoin’s ATH of $69k on 10 November, not just the top coin, but the larger market has been somewhat mellow. However, even with the top two coins consolidating, there seemed to be some altcoins that presented double-digit gains as they rallied. Interestingly, the lending protocol landscape was one that seemed to be making the most headlines, with Maker leading the way with 8% gains.  The DeFi sector seemed to be paving the way for recovery with DeFi’s Total Value Locked increasing by 5.27% from last week, pushing the TVL

Trading Giant eToro Launches DeFi Portfolio

Multi-asset trading platform eToro has launched a portfolio offering clients exposure to decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.Sponsored Sponsored Announced on Sept 23, eToro’s “DeFiPortfolio” is an index-type investment comprised of 11 decentralized finance assets. These are Ethereum (ETH), Uniswap (UNI), Chainlink (LINK), Aave (AAVE), Compound (COMP), Yearn Finance (YFI), Decentraland (MANA), Polygon (MATIC), Algorand (ALGO), Basic Attention Token (BAT), and Maker (MKR).Sponsored Sponsored The new product offers an easy way to diversify and gain exposure to the decentralized finance ecosystem and automatically stay ahead of decentralized financial innovation through periodic rebalancing,

Surging Interest in ‘Yam’ Yield Farming — But Is It Too risky?

The latest craze in the DeFi sector is a new yield farming protocol called Yam which promises ‘equal opportunity’ staking with no premine, no founder shares, and a zero value token at launch.The experimental Yam Protocol is the talk of Crypto Twitter right now — with many excited about the big potential returns, while others worry about the risks. The recently launched project offers an elastic supply token, similar to Ampleforth, that can expand and contract depending on market conditions, with the aim of seeking eventual price stability and a peg

Rune Christensen: ‘Our Job Is to Support Whatever the Maker Community Decides’

As the dust begins to settle over MakerDAO’s Black Thursday incident, the team is now returning to a normal working pace. We took the opportunity to catch up with Rune Christensen, one of the original founders of the protocol, for a full recap of the situation and what it means for Maker (MKR). Christensen had been oddly quiet as the events were unfolding, never joining any forum discussion or issuing comments to the media — until now.MakerDAO provides users with stable DAI cryptocurrency in exchange for their volatile crypto holdings, and

Crypto Rating Council Reveals New Cryptocurrency Scores for Brave and Other Assets

The Crypto Rating Council (CRC) is changing up some of its scores. In fact, it’s adding three whole new ones on top of adjusting some previous ones as well.These three brand new scores are for Brave Browser’s Basic Attention Token (BAT), USDCoin (USDC), and IOTA (IOTA), a blog report from the council notes.Of course, these assets are “traded, transacted or supported in some capacity as a non-security by at least one CRC member’s U.S. business,” which is part of the criteria for listing them.Then, it changed the scores it has

A Crypto Venture Fund Bought the Most Tokens at MakerDAO’s Debt Auction

An auction to recapitalize MakerDAO (MKR) after the mid-March market turmoil successfully concluded on March 28, bringing in over $5 million worth of DAI. Crypto venture fund Paradigm Capital revealed in a March 31 tweet that it won approximately 68% of the auctioned tokens.The company had previously pledged to join a “backstop syndicate” and cover the entire system shortfall if necessary. Acting as a so-called “backstop,” the group would act as the buyer of last resort by purchasing the MKR tokens if their price fell to $100. (The auction’s starting