DeFi can surpass traditional finance, institutions need to embrace it now Definitely DeFi We imagine partnerships will emerge, and interoperability between traditional and decentralised financial companies will become the norm, says Rob Gaskell.
Redesigning the global financial infrastructure for the digital-age Since the ‘DeFi Summer’ of 2020, the DeFi market has grown by 40 times, with the Total Value Locked currently standing at $61B. Stablecoins, one of the major pillars of DeFi, almost quadrupled in the first half of 2021 to $112 billion. Novum Insights’ latest report Decentralized Finance: Re-designing the global financial infrastructure for the [...]
Current institutional approach to decentralised finance (DeFi) Rob Gaskell of Appold takes a detailed look at the effects of institutional interest in decentralised finance.
Re-DeFining finance raises: Launchpads! March 4, 2021 An insider's view of the industry with DeFi Dawg talks us through a host of launchpad solutions and evolutions.
The Future of DeFi February 23, 2021 DeFi exploded onto the scene in 2020 as the value locked in decentralized platforms climbed into the billions. Yield farming, flash loans, and automated market makers (AMMs) were a few of the hottest topics over the last year. But what does the future of DeFi hold? And will the next round of innovations take advantage [...]
DeFi Bursts onto the Finance Scene – What is it and why does it matter? February 4, 2021 DeFi was around in 2017 and was niche with a few people experimenting in 2019. Some had heard of it, but few people even understood what it was and its ramifications. The second half of 2020 was marked by a DeFi boom, and the total value locked in DeFi contracts surged 40x to $24 billion [...]
Issues on Ethereum and DeFi as an emerging market January 28, 2021 Ethereum, the second most popular crypto asset by market cap, has seen its growth halted by notorious scalability issues and high gas fees. However, Decentralised Finance (or DeFi) which is built on the Ethereum Network is a different story. It was only as recent as the summer of 2020 when DeFi started to gain widespread [...]
5 things you need to know about DeFi January 15, 2021 Towards the end of 2020, we witnessed an explosion in Decentralised Finance (DeFi) usage and awareness. These projects aim to decentralise the intermediary in financial transactions, moving away from the traditional rent-seeking finance model and toward stakeholder finance. Here’s what you need to know about this fast-growing industry. Open Innovation verse Walled Gardens DeFi networks [...]
Definitely DeFi December 10, 2020 2020 has been a year of spectacular growth in the decentralised finance (DeFi) arena. From retail crypto enthusiasts diving in head-first, to institutional investors cautiously dipping their toes in – the blockchain-powered space of DeFi is flourishing. Since the start of the year, the amount of money locked in DeFi protocols has skyrocketed by a [...]
YFI – Unite and conquer December 9, 2020 In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm based on multi-branched recursion. A divide-and-conquer algorithm works by recursively breaking down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly. In DeFi science, the Tony Stark of DeFi, Andre Cronje [...]
