DeFi

Amid the Dubai Expo 2020, many crypto and blockchain events are being held in Dubai right now. From now till the end of 2021, the series of events keep coming. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), especially Dubai, is known for its friendly position in the crypto and blockchain spaces. Dubai has rapidly become a city…

Billionaire investor George Soros’ family office, Soros Fund Management, has invested in Bitcoin, according to Soros Fund CEO/CIO Dawn Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick told Bloomberg in an interview on Tuesday that, “From our perspective again, we own some coins, not a lot, and the coins themselves are less interesting than the use cases of DeFi and things…

On October 14-15, 2021, Dubai, one of the largest cities in the UAE and a new regional blockchain hub, will host the World of WEB3 Summit, the largest blockchain event in the Middle East. According to a press release, the WOW Summit will become a connection place for thousands of blockchain leaders, developers, crypto traders,…

Layer-two protocols have seen 330% growth this year in terms of active addresses. One such protocol, Polygon, has briefly surpassed Ethereum, the network for which it is a scaling solution. Many of these new users may be engaged due to the upcoming mobile gaming app Arc8. Polygon, a layer 2 aggregator, has encountered an immense…

Developers are flocking to the platform’s blockchain, but nimbler rivals are emerging, Richard Waters writes on FT. Is Ethereum the future of the internet? Interest in the Ethereum blockchain has soared over the past year, as developers have turned to it to create a wave of decentralized finance projects, known as DeFi, and unique digital…

Chainanalysis has attempted to measure the adoption of decentralized finance worldwide and issued the Global DeFi Adoption Index, where compiled statistics show an 880% increase in the usage of DeFi. However, crypto is not so close to becoming mainstream as some developed markets become reluctant on the crypto market. Instead of using the usual metrics…