DeFi

Short for decentralized finance, DeFi refers to peer-to-peer financial services that operate permissionlessly — check out major DeFi news, deep dives into DeFi protocols and guides on how to DeFi.

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The Ultimate Dummy's Guide to Passive Income with Staking

CoinMarketCap Alexandria explains all you need to know about making passive income by staking cryptocurrency.

By Ivan Cryptoslav

Will the Next Generation of Elon Musks and Jack Dorseys Operate DAOs?

Why would the next Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk or Mark Cuban start a DAO rather than a corporation?

By Will Kendall

'Impractical' to Move Russian Rubles into Crypto Because of Low Liquidity, IMF Concedes

Nonetheless, the institution says the crypto ecosystem could still be used to sidestep economic sanctions — especially if due diligence checks are inadequate, or anonymizing tools are used.

By Connor Sephton

Tech Deep Dives

What Is Avalanche? A Guide to Avalanche's Ecosystem

Avalanche promises high transactional throughput and sub-second finality; here's a look at the top decentralized apps in the Avalanche ecosystem.

By Hassan Shafiq

Ex-DeFi Developer Andre Cronje Breaks Silence and Says Crypto Regulation is 'Necessary'

Cronje claims a lot of crypto projects are being built by people who read Wikipedia articles on bonds and think to themselves "I can do this better."

By Connor Sephton

ICHI Drops More Than 90% in Liquidation Cascade

The ICHI governance token collapsed in value after cascading liquidations in the Rari Fuse Pool wiped out the pool's liquidity.

By Ivan Cryptoslav

A Guide to Decentralized Finance

Check out our DeFi guide, no matter if you're just a beginner, already trading or a real DeFi degen.

By Anupam Varshney

Experienced Crypto Investor Loses $1.7M in Hot Wallet Hack, and Reveals How It Happened

Arthur_0x said "I'm not sure how I can persuade most normal people to put a substantial part of their networth on-chain anymore" — and warns crypto users to stay vigilant.

By Connor Sephton

Ultra-low Fees on EVM-compatible Chains: Have It Held Up?

A look at the top EVM-compatible blockchains and whether transaction fees have remained low as promised.

By Daniel Phillips

Who Is Andre Cronje?

Alexandria by CoinmarketCap explores the past, present and future of Andre Cronje, one of the rockstar developers in DeFi that recently left the industry.

By Ivan Cryptoslav

Tech Deep Dives

Crypto Staking Guide 2022

It's 2022, and despite a lacklustre 2021 for DeFi, TVL continues to grow as stakers increase — but what exactly is staking, and how can you stake in the crypto markets?

By Werner Vermaak

Chainalysis Unveils Free Sanctions Screening Tools

The blockchain intelligence firm says the services are specifically designed to help decentralized exchanges, DeFi platforms, DAOs and DApp developers.

By Connor Sephton

How Much Are People Paying to Use Crypto

A look at how much fees people are paying to use different blockchains and decentralized applications like DEXes.

By Daniel Phillips

Renowned DeFi Developer Andre Cronje Quits Industry

Andre Cronje launched Yearn Finance and Keep3rV1, and had also played an instrumental role in the creation of countless other DeFi protocols — and token prices are now plunging.

By Connor Sephton

Tech Deep Dives

What Is Solidly Exchange? Features, Tokenomics and Price Prediction

CoinMarketCap Alexandria takes a deep dive into Solidly Exchange, the new DeFi AMM built on Fantom by star developer Andre Cronje.

By Ivan Cryptoslav

EIP-1559 Has Now Burned More Than $5 Billion in ETH

Ethereum EIP-1559 went live on Aug. 4, 2021, as part of an improvement proposal to upgrade the transaction fee system. It has since burned over 1.8M Ether so far.

By Daniel Phillips

Tech Deep Dives

What Is ParaState (STATE)? A Platform That Brings Ethereum DApps to Polkadot

ParaState plans to bring Ethereum smart contracts to Polkadot.

By Daniel Phillips

Crypto News, Feb. 4: Wormhole Bounces Back

Also today, Nintendo says it is interested in exploring NFTs and the metaverse... on one condition.

By Connor Sephton

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