Greater risk, greater reward? When it comes to USDC deposits, customers might prefer lower risk, lower reward.
The USDC-powered savings product could be "shockingly big" for getting fintechs into DeFi, said Compound's Robert Leshner.
“I think it’s inevitable that there is an expansion beyond just Ethereum,” Compound Finance founder Robert Leshner told CoinDesk.
The three-month high liquidation volume comes as Ethereum fees in dollar terms set a new record mark of $29 per basic transaction.
Bitcoin breaks out, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sets up a bitcoin node and Bank of England warns on negative rates. Meanwhile, it's DeFi that's mooning.
Bitcoin and ether may be pulling back from their all-time highs but alternative cryptos are starting to see action.
"TVL isn't the best indicator when ETH and all other crypto is green for weeks," one observer said of DeFi's recent growth.
"We want to announce the designs for a blockchain that can scale Compound over the next century," Compound founder Robert Leshner told CoinDesk.
Compound's governance token, COMP, fell below $100 early Tuesday. The DeFi token kicked off the yield farming craze way back in June.
Braintrust, a tech talent marketplace that will essentially be owned by the IT freelancers and companies using it, has raised an $18 million strategic growth round.
MakerDAO has voted to add support for a trio of new tokens for the decentralized finance (DeFi) loans that generate DAI stablecoins.
Fintech enabler Plaid is quietly working with at least two decentralized finance (DeFi) startups.
Huobi has launched a new consortium with MakerDAO and Compound to promote decentralized finance.
Greenfield One, an early-stage venture capital firm, just published a comprehensive new resource on the topic of blockchain governance.
MakerDAO's Rune Christensen, Compound's Robert Leshner and Uniswap's Hayden Adams discussed the state of the $3.8 billion DeFi market.