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Recap: DeFi Week of Oct. 12 🦄
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Recap: DeFi Week of Oct. 12 🦄

Oct 18, 2020
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Recap: DeFi Week of Oct. 12 🦄
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Hello Defiers! Hope you’re having a great weekend.

Summing up this past week: Filecoin launched on mainnet after three years of development, with the FIL’s fully diluted market cap ballooning to over $200B. Coinbase Wallet is testing Optimism’s scaling solution, while Synthetix moved to phase two of its own trial of the network and prediction market Polymarket also moved to Layer 2. Uniswap’s decentralized governance kicked off with a proposal from Dharma, while competing AMM Bancor’s upgrade promised to reduce impermanent loss. Aave raised $25M, while boardroom raised $2.2M from venture investors.

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🙌 Together with Zerion, a simple interface to access and use decentralized finance,  Perpetual Protocol, which provides decentralized perpetual contracts for any asset, and HackAtom V, a two-week virtual hackathon organized by Cosmos.


Interview

"Fintech Can Be a 1.5 Bridge Into 2.0 DeFi:" 11:FS Co-Founder Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor has the rare quality of being very knowledgeable about decentralized finance but also about fintech. He is the co-founder at fintech consultancy firm, 11:FS, and he previously led blockchain research at Barclays. He also leads the excellent newsletter Fintech Brain Food.  Simon points to a world where fintech and defi start to converge. All the capital and users in the traditional finance will have to bridged into crypto at some point and that bridge can be fintech.

🎙Listen to the interview in this week’s podcast episode here:


Friday

Dives

Filecoin Early Investors Closer to Cashing Out: FIL jumped to as high as $114 in the hours after it was listed, according to Coingecko. That’s about 100 times higher than what early VCs and accredited investors were able to buy three years ago. On Thursday the clock for the day to cash out started ticking, as early investors have 6-month to 3-year vesting periods.

Bytes

Rally Launches RLY Token with Delegated Vault Mining: Rally has released its native governance token RLY to become a backbone for creators to issue their own tokens.

Lido Enters the ETH2 Staking Conversation: Lido wants to make it easier to stake ETH during the initial phase of Ethereum’s biggest-ever overhaul.

Prediction Markets Platform Polymarket Joins Layer 2: Rising prediction market Polymarket has taken their talents to Layer 2 to offer free trades with instant execution, credit card support and email logins.


Wednesday

Dives

Coinbase on Layer 2 is Latest in Ethereum’s Scaling Boom: There’s been an explosion of Ethereum scaling developments this past week, with the latest and arguably biggest one announced yesterday: Coinbase Wallet is integrating with Optimism’s Optimistic Rollup testnet.

Bytes

Bancor Aims to Eliminate Impermanent Loss With Upgrade: Bancor has unveiled the next step in their new AMM design. The 2.1 release introduces an elastic BNT supply, used to cover impermanent loss for LPs through a mechanism called Liquidity Protection.

Links

Boardroom Raises $2.2M for Blockchain Governance Toolset: CoinDesk


Tuesday

Dives

Blue Kirby Signs Off as Anon Coins Sink: Here’s the fable of Blue Kirby, the anonymous, video-game based character, who rode the explosive rise of the most popular DeFi token to the top and crashed back to earth along with it. 

Bytes

Uniswap Governance Kicks Off: Uniswap’s first UNI governance proposal is now live for voting thanks to the mobile wallet Dharma.

RAC Breaks SuperRare Primary Sale Record: Grammy-winning musician RAC set a record for the highest primary sale price on an NFT sold through SuperRare over the weekend.

Links

Aave Raises $25 Million to Bring DeFi to Institutions: Decrypt

Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust Granted SEC Reporting Company Status: CoinDesk


💜Community Love💜

Thanking all the amazing Defiers for the support and love this week (and always)!

Twitter avatar for @GregJeanmartGrégoire Jeanmart | greg.jeanmart.eth @GregJeanmart
If you are excited like me about both #DeFi and #FinTech, the last @DefiantNews podcast with @sytaylor is a must-listen. Bridging modern FinTech platforms (open-banking, bank-as-a-Service) to DeFi could be big and bring crypto to mainstream.
“Fintech Can Be a 1.5 Bridge Into 2.0 DeFi:” 11:FS Co-Founder Simon Taylor by The Defiant • A podcast on AnchorI interviewed Simon Taylor. Simon has the rare quality of being very knowledgeable about decentralized finance but also about fintech. He is the co-founder at fintech consultancy firm, 11:FS, and he previously led blockchain research at Barclays. He also leads the excellent newsletter Fintech Brain …anchor.fm

October 13th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @JagtapperMDPranav M. Jagtap, MD @JagtapperMD
This conversation was high yield 👏🏽 https://t.co/sRm2gt9Qzu

The Defiant @DefiantNews

Fintech meets DeFi this week 💥 "Capital and users are in the old world of finance. If DeFi is 2.0 tech, fintech becomes a 1.5 tech bridge." "Yield isn't the most exciting thing in DeFi; it's direct custody, tokenization of everything and money legos." says @sytaylor of @11FS.

October 13th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @rezoshmRaphael ꙳(Rezo) 👾🌶️🦩 | ₿R Capital @rezoshm
As always. @DefiantNews either writes, or shares the best of the best.
thedefiant.substack.com/p/nfts-should-… TL;DR to follow below:NFTs Should Be Experiences, Not Just Products: IDEO CoLab’s Ian LeeEverything in the real world is about to be tokenized.thedefiant.substack.com

October 14th 2020

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“@coinbase is the second major centralized exchange after @bitfinex to announce plans to take part of their transactions off the @ethereum main chain.” —@DefiantNews in @decryptmedia
Coinbase on Layer 2 is Latest in Ethereum Scaling Boom - DecryptThere’s been lots of Ethereum scaling news lately, with the biggest being that Coinbase Wallet is integrating with Optimism’s Optimistic Rollup testnet. Here’s a run down.decrypt.co

October 15th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @BancorBancor @Bancor
“Bancor v2.1 introduces elastic $BNT supply to cover impermanent loss for LPs through a mechanism called Liquidity Protection. In addition to receiving swap fees, the longer LPs stay in the pool the more protection they get.” @Cooopahtroopa @DefiantNews:
thedefiant.substack.com/p/scale-apaloo…
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October 16th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @PolymarketHQPolymarket @PolymarketHQ
"While prediction markets have historically struggled to aggregate volume, it's worth giving credence to Polymarket for having found it even without yield farming incentives or a native governance token." thank you for the kind words! @CamiRusso @Cooopahtroopa @DefiantNews

Camila Russo @CamiRusso

In today's Defiant: 🤑@Filecoin early investors had chance to make 100x 🚀@rally_io launches $RLY 🎉@lidofinance enters ETH2 party ⚖️@PolymarketHQ moves to L2 💅@bloqinc wants to simplify DeFi investment Read 👇 https://t.co/9F3AgUxhk3

October 16th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @federiconitidiFederico Nitidi @federiconitidi
Defi is on 🔥 Plus @CamiRusso Defiant newsletter is my favorite daily digest, recommended! https://t.co/Vw0s0cDzsV

Camila Russo @CamiRusso

here's one steep curve: Total unique addresses in DeFi just crossed 600k 👩‍🎤👨‍🌾👨‍🎨👨‍🚀👩‍⚕️👨‍⚖️👩‍✈️🧟‍♀️🧞‍♀️🧚‍♂️🙇‍♂️🧜‍♂️💃👯👲🦸‍♀️🕺 h/t @richardchen39 @DuneAnalytics https://t.co/1KX4BZnqac

October 15th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @Brad_LaurieBrad Laurie @Brad_Laurie
This is 100% my #crypto tweet of the week by @CamiRusso. This is the kind of open, real & transparent commentary we NEED in this space. 🔥👏🙏

Camila Russo @CamiRusso

@Brad_Laurie @DefiantNews @TheBlock__ @BanklessHQ I think it's a huge conflict of interest if media companies have investments in the first place (if those investments are in the industries they cover). Not ideal if they do, and so even more important that that info is disclosed.

October 15th 2020

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The Defiant is a daily newsletter focusing on decentralized finance, a new financial system that’s being built on top of open blockchains. The space is evolving at breakneck speed and revolutionizing tech and money. Sign up to learn more and keep up on the latest, most interesting developments. Subscribers get full access at $10/month or $100/year, while free signups get only part of the content.

About the founder and editor: Camila Russo is the author of The Infinite Machine, the first book on the history of Ethereum, and was previously a Bloomberg News markets reporter based in New York, Madrid and Buenos Aires. She has extensively covered crypto and finance, and now is diving into DeFi, the intersection of the two.

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