Last night on the Monday night live airing of the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune, a contestant named Jeremy Kerbel introduced viewers to DeFi for the first time, while in the same breath mentioning Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole. Jeremy Kerbel is a managing director at OSL and the founder of Kerve…
Aave has announced integration with Ethereum’s sidechain Polygon. Aiming to provide alternatives for DeFi applications to be used by everyone, the implementation will allow users to leverage “nearly-free” transactions. With a “nascent ecosystem” composed of protocol such as Quickswap and Aavegotchi, Polygon is connected to Chainlink oracle service. Therefore, the information that will feed into…
AAVE was trading higher on Friday, continuing a rebound that followed a massive 45 percent price crash between October 15 and 21. The decentralized finance token rose by up to 9.87 percent to establish an intraday high above $40. Its latest upside move brought its total retracement up by circa 25 percent, leading analysts to…
The Ethereum-based peer-to-peer lending platform Aave has been in the spotlight of the cryptocurrency market after the 1,500% price increase it has enjoyed throughout the year. In July alone, LEND skyrocketed nearly 185% to reach a new yearly high of $0.38. This price level is just a few cents below its all-time high of $0.394…
Aave’s LEND token, along with its new token AAVE, has dropped heavily in the past 24 hours despite stagnation in the Bitcoin and Etheruem price. The coin currently trades down 15% over the past day, underperforming BTC’s mild -0.5% performance. The cryptocurrency’s drop comes in spite of Aave having fundamentals that are stronger than ever.…
As the decentralized finance sector explodes in value, a recent Messari report indicates that the so-called DeFi boom is likely to continue. Researcher Ryan Watkins wrote that a capital shift from “useless” cryptocurrency projects might help the DeFi tokens boom. Most of these dead projects are listed among the top-30 cryptocurrencies, stated Mr. Watkins. Some…
LEND, the native token of non-custodial lending platform Aave, fell almost 40 percent from its year-to-date top of $0.384. The plunge followed a steep 2,000 price rise that occurred amid a hype-oriented boom in the decentralized finance sector. Technical indicators, coupled with a rally in proof-of-work tokens, now suggest that the LEND downtrend may continue.…
The DeFi space rose to incredible heights all throughout 2020 but could have come to a roaring peak over the summer months. Assets like Yearn.Finance (YFI), Uniswap (UNI), or Aave (LEND) are all on the ropes, and related Ethereum-based decentralized finance tokens have fallen 60% across the board. But despite the drawdown already, one sharp-eyed…
HackMoney Hackathon, a 30-day virtual Aave hackathon organized by Ethereum developer group ETHGlobal, has announced its three winning projects—Learn&Earn, a gamified online learning platform, YieldHero, a suite for managing Aave, and MagicBet, a no-loss betting platform that enables users to stake DAI.Hacking Lending and Money Maker Protocol AaveOrganized by ETHGlobal, an organization focused on onboarding…
Top decentralized finance (DeFi) coins such as AAVE are outperforming over the past day. While Bitcoin and Ethereum are both up massively today, AAVE is up 18.5% in the past 24 hours alone. This performance makes it the best-performing digital asset in the top 100 by market capitalization. AAVE is now up by approximately 10%…