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8/4/2023
16 : 14
This Week In DeFi – Aug 4
This week, drama surrounds Curve's CRV, Coinbase's Base mainnet becomes a roller coaster and the IRS says staking rewards are taxable as soon as they're received.
7/28/2023
19 : 54
This Week In DeFi – July 28
This week, Eco launches its Beam wallet with "cash-like" payments, Flashbots obtains unicorn status, Binance lists the new FDUSD stablecoin with zero fees, and MakerDAO votes for an 8% DSR.
7/21/2023
19 : 14
This Week In DeFi – July 22
This week, Uniswap announces its own DeFi aggregator, Synthetix dives into perpetuals contracts, Chainlink launches its interoperability protocol, and Aave finally launches its GHO stablecoin.
7/16/2023
13 : 24
This Week In DeFi – July 14
This week, Linea launches on mainnet in alpha, Aave votes to launch GHO, more funds go missing from Multichain, and Eclipse hires former Uniswap and dYdX business head Vijay Chetty.
7/7/2023
14 : 55
This Week In DeFi – July 7
This week, IDEX announces it's going to L2, Ethereum considers an anti-exploit standard ERC-7265, Abracadabra DAO looks at a centralized legal structure, and Balancer proposes a new staking system.
6/30/2023
14 : 55
This Week In DeFi – June 30
This week, TUSD briefly loses its peg, Maple Finance launches a direct lending arm, ZKSync developers launch the ZK Stack, and dYdX announces a date for its Cosmos testnet.
6/23/2023
14 : 6
This Week In DeFi – June 23
This week, BNB Chain launches an OP-based L2, Polygon proposes transitioning from PoS to zkEVM, Ethereum looks at increasing validator ETH limits, and Curve Finance votes to add WETH as collateral.
6/20/2023
5 : 45
This Week In DeFi – June 16
This week, Tether encounters a mild de-pegging situation, Uniswap teases v4, Frax announces its own Layer-2 and a large CRV-collateralized loan scares the market.
6/12/2023
2 : 17
This Week In DeFi – June 9
This week, the SEC takes action against Coinbase's staking service, Curve adds stETH as collateral for crvUSD, ENS announces .box domains, and Atomic Wallet is hacked for $35M+.
6/2/2023
14 : 44
This Week In DeFi – June 1
This week, MakerDAO looks to raise the DSR to 3.3%, the Tornado Cash hacker returns control of the protocol, Magic raises $52M for its wallet infrastructure and Multichain's CEO goes missing 👀
5/26/2023
16 : 46
This Week In DeFi – May 26
This week, Multichain experiences unexplained disruptions, Coinbase's Base outlines its path to Mainnet, Tornado Cash governance is exploited, and tokenized securities are trending.
5/19/2023
16 : 25
This Week In DeFi – May 19
This week, memecoins move to the Dogecoin chain, Uniswap expands to Polkadot, Hourglass launches trading for "time-bound tokens" and Ribbon Finance launches options trading for popular
5/12/2023
17 : 4
This Week In DeFi – May 12
This week, a Uniswap clone launches on Bitcoin, trading volume on Uniswap itself exceeds that of Coinbase yet again, MakerDAO launches a new lending platform, and BlockFi can return $300M to customers
5/5/2023
16 : 34
This Week In DeFi – May 5
This week, Curve launches its crvUSD stablecoin, the Sui mainnet goes live, Ethereum gas fees reach 1-year highs, and Coinbase discontinues its borrow program.
4/28/2023
16 : 24
This Week In DeFi – April 28
This week, Binance launches a liquid staking token, Ethereum DEX unique users near 2-year highs, users seek an airdrop for LayerZero and Solana wallet Phantom expands to Ethereum & Polygon.
4/21/2023
16 : 54
This Week In DeFi – April 21
This week, net ETH staking briefly turns positive, PancakeSwap looks to go deflationary, Agility quintuples its TVL, and a16z launches an OP client.
4/19/2023
6 : 14
This Week In DeFi – April 14
This week, Shapella goes live on Ethereum, Uniswap's iOS app is approved by Apple, Maple Finance opens a pool for US Treasuries, and SushiSwap suffers a $3.4M exploit.
4/7/2023
16 : 45
This Week In DeFi – April 7
This week, LayerZero achieves a $3B valuation, PancakeSwap launches V3 on Ethereum and BNB Chain, S&P Global is hiring for DeFi and Unbound will issue a stablecoin against Uniswap LP tokens.
3/31/2023
15 : 44
This Week In DeFi – March 31
This week, Polygon Labs and Consensys each launch zkEVM scaling networks, the Euler Finance hacker returns $100M+, and dYdX is moving to Cosmos.
3/24/2023
16 : 14
This Week In DeFi – March 24
This week, Arbitrum's $ARB goes live, Celsius custody will return 72.5% of assets, Coinbase gets a warning from the SEC and DRPC launches decentralized RPCs for Ethereum.