Larry Cermak, VP of research at The Block, and Igor Igamberdiev, director of research and data at The Block, recap the most significant trends of 2021 (BTC mining, L1s, NFTs,[…]
Tag: DEX
Square’s TBD Is Working on ‘Decentralize Exchange for Fiat’
August 30, 2021 / Unchained Daily / Laura Shin Daily Bits ✍️✍️✍️ Avanti, a Wyoming-based digital bank, applied to become to Federal[…]
On-Chain Analytics Show ETH Accumulation Is Greater Than That of BTC
NFTs are the talk of the metaverse, EIP 1559 just went live, and DeFi stats are rebounding. On Unchained, Fredrik Haga, cofounder and CEO at Dune Analytics, along with Richard[…]
Why ShapeShift’s Erik Voorhees Thinks Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism Is Bullshit
ShapeShift recently announced an intent to decentralize — a move that would transition the one-time centralized exchange to a full-on DAO. Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of ShapeShift, comes onto[…]
Why Decentralized Trading Has 10Xed in a Few Months
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, and Dan Robinson, research partner at Paradigm, discuss the explosion in decentralized exchange activity on automated market makers from $1 billion earlier this[…]
The Most Forkable DeFi Protocols on Ethereum
Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital reads from his essay on how defensible each of the major DeFi protocols on Ethereum are, and what that says about Ethereum’s defensibility. He evaluates[…]
How to Trade on Crypto Exchanges Without Fear of Hacks
Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen and Boston University computer science professor, describes how the protocol enables people to trade on crypto exchanges without making their coins vulnerable to exchange hacks,[…]
How Uniswap Quickly Became One of the Most Popular Dexes
Hayden Adams, founder of the new decentralized exchange Uniswap, discusses how Uniswap differs from a traditional exchange based on order books, how market the contract determines the price of the[…]
How Binance Could Become the First Decentralized Autonomous Corporation
Tushar Jain and Kyle Samani, managing partners of Multicoin Capital, discuss Binance, Binance Chain and BNB token, and why they believe Binance will become the first centralized company to successfully[…]
Shapeshift’s About-Face: Why Now? – Ep.036
Katherine Wu, director of business development and community at Messari, talks about the news that everyone on crypto Twitter was discussing this week: Shapeshift’s decision to require customer accounts. The[…]