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Evolution of the U.S. Dollar

To understand the potential future of currencies, and how the adoption of cryptocurrencies might go, we thought it might be worth looking back on what the dollar means - and has meant - and how we’ve understood its worth.

Last Week in DeFi - Aug. 24th, 2020

Welcome to the first edition of Last Week In DeFi a newsletter recapping the most important events from the DeFi industry last week.

What is Piping?

Piping (also known as pool pipes) is a DeFi trading strategy. The strategy encourages the seamless rebalancing of liquidity across different liquidity pools.

What does Pooling mean?

The action taken by a token holder to lend his or her tokens to a liquidity pool. In exchange for market making and/or trading fees.

What is Multipooling?

Multipooling is a DeFi investment strategy. That encourages the spread of liquidity across multiple liquidity pools.

What are Liquidity Pools?

Liquidity Pools are the trading component of a decentralized exchange. Like order books, they are the matching engine, but they also function as market makers. Their role is to increase market liquidity between market participants.

What is Curve.fi?

Curve.fi is a decentralized protocol for exchanging stablecoins. The decentralized protocol offer traders low fees and low slippage. Unlike traditional exchanges that match buyers and sellers, the protocol uses liquidity pools similar to Uniswap.

What is Yield Farming?

Yield Farming is the process of putting crypto assets to work in order to generate the largest possible return on those assets. Crypto assets can be lent to a DeFi application to earn interest or yield.

What is Defi?

DeFi - short for Decentralized Finance, is a term that refers to financial applications (aka. DApps) built on top of a public blockchain. These applications facilitate the exchange, swapping, borrowing, and lending of crypto tokens.

August 2020 Crypto Investor List

We know how hard it is as a startup to find an investor. So we complied a list of all known crypto investors. If you would like to know the names of the key partners, investment range, and stage.

DEFI Wallet Landscape

A breakdown of all the latest crypto wallets in use.