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šŸ“ˆ dYdX Now Accounts for More Than All Other DEX Trading Combined

Sep 29, 2021
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Hello Defiers! Here’s what we are covering today,

News
  • dYdX Now Accounts for More Than All Other DEX Trading Combined

  • Startup Icon AngelList Embraces DeFi by Opening Site to USDC

Video
  • Tutorial: Beat the DROPS with Barnbridge's SMART Alpha

Links
  • Kraken to Pay $1.25M Fine After Settling Charges With CFTC: CoinDesk

  • ERC 4337: account abstraction without Ethereum protocol changes: Vitalik Buterin

  • AVATAR ROYALE! Cool Cats vs. Pudgy Penguins vs. BAYC| Top Signal: Bankless

  • Another Ethereum mining pool forced to close due to China crackdown: CoinTelegraph

  • A proposal has been created to add @FireblocksHQ as a whitelister on Aave Arc": Aave

  • The Index Coop has entered the Metaverse - realm of infinite possibilities, defying the laws of our world: MetaFactory


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  • Balancer, one of the leading DeFi automated market makers (AMM) for multiple tokens. Dive into their pools atĀ this link.

  • Kraken, consistently rated the best and most secure cryptocurrency exchange, which can get you from fiat to DeFi

  • Aave, an open-source and non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.Ā 

  • The DeFi Pulse Index, by Index CoopĀ -Ā DPI is the easiest way to capture the upside of DeFi with the benefit of diversification.Ā  Buy DPIĀ todayĀ onĀ yourĀ favorite DEX.


DeFi Exchanges

šŸ“ˆ dYdX Now Accounts for More Than All Other DEX Trading Combined

Non-custodial exchange dYdX has climbed to the top of the DEX rankings by trading volume, beating out Uniswap, for the first time.

More than $9BĀ  has been exchanged on the trading platform in the last 24 hours, according to data provider CoinMarketCap. Uniswap’s V3 lands in second at $1.2B, the only other DEX to trade above one billion in the past day, and lags dYdX even when adding the almost $280,000 that was traded on Uniswap V2.

All other 104 DEXs listed on CoinMarketCap have traded a total of $5.4B in the past day, or about half of dYdX’s volume.

The a16z-backed DEX founded in 2017 by ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer Antonio Juliano, is also beating Coinbase, the largest centralized US crypto exchange, which has traded over $3B in the past 24 hours.Ā 

šŸ‘‰READ THE FULL STORY IN THE DEFIANT.IOĀ šŸ‘ˆ


Byte

šŸ˜‡ Startup Icon AngelList Embraces DeFi by Opening Site to USDC

NEWS Add AngelList to the ever-lengthening list of mainstream tech outfits going crypto. On Tuesday it started letting investors use USDC-enabled funds on its site.Ā 

UTILITY It’s a significant move. For the last decade, AngelList’s online bulletin board for angel investors and job-seekers has made it a valuable utility in the U.S. startup scene by playing matchmaker between angel investors and entrepreneurs. Users can apply for more than 130K jobs in its site, and its venture fund has deployed more than $1B alongside leading VCs.

STABLECOIN Now by enabling limited partners (LPs) to use USDC, the dollar-pegged stablecoin that runs on the Ethereum blockchain, AngelList is acknowledging that startup founders and investors are increasingly opting to use DeFi to do business.Ā 

OPTION ā€œThe process is really simple,ā€ said AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli during the keynote of the company’s AngelList Confidential conference. ā€œIn the closing flow there will just be an option, rather than ACH or wire, there’ll be USDC.ā€Ā 

šŸ‘‰READ THE FULL STORY IN THE DEFIANT.IOĀ šŸ‘ˆ


Video

šŸ“ŗ Tutorial: Beat the DROPS with Barnbridge's SMART Alpha


Links

šŸ”— Kraken to Pay $1.25M Fine After Settling Charges With CFTC: CoinDesk

Kraken will pay $1.25 million to settle charges with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that it offered illegal margined digital asset transaction services and did not register as a futures commodity merchant (FCM) with the regulatory agency.

šŸ”— ERC 4337: account abstraction without Ethereum protocol changes: Vitalik Buterin

Account abstraction has for a long time been a dream of the Ethereum developer community. Instead of EVM code just being used to implement the logic of applications, it would also be used to implement the verification logic (nonces, signatures…) of individual users’ wallets. This would open the door for creativity in wallet designs that could provide some important features:

šŸ”— AVATAR ROYALE! Cool Cats vs. Pudgy Penguins vs. BAYC| Top Signal: Bankless

Join us on this SHOWDOWN episode of Top Signal, where top tier profile pic avatar reps come and shill their squad!

šŸ”— Another Ethereum mining pool forced to close due to China crackdown: CoinTelegraph

BeePool, the fourth-largest Ether (ETH) mining pool, is closing amid China’s crypto crackdown. The China-based Ether mining pool announced on Tuesday it would suspend operations ā€œin response to the latest regulatory policies.ā€

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September 28th 2021

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September 28th 2021

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