Out of the lot, 2.49 million DYDX tokens — worth $5.36 million — will be allocated to the community treasury, which funds contributor grants, community initiatives and liquidity mining, among other programs. Decentralized exchange (DEX) platform dYdX will unlock $14.02 million worth of its native DYDK tokens to be allocated to its community treasury and rewards for…
ETH use in DeFi is down due to an uptick in staking, but rapid growth in LSDfi could be a bull market catalyst. Ether’s DeFi activity has declined in the bear market and the sector faces further competition from Ethereum’s annual staking reward of 4%, according to Glassnode analysts. However, a DeFi narrative is building…
Assistant Treasury Secretary Elizabeth Rosenberg said the Treasury was enhancing its regulatory regime and that DeFi should program in some compliance. The United States Treasury did a risk assessment of decentralized finance (DeFi) and found the sector lacking in several ways, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime Elizabeth Rosenberg reminded an audience…
Applications built on LayerZero’s cross-chain messaging protocol are gathering momentum primarily due to excitement over a potential airdrop. LayerZero is a communication method that facilitates cross-chain applications. Its low-level messaging capabilities enable the development of omni-chain functionalities on top of it, such as decentralized exchanges, money market protocols and numerous other DeFi applications that can…