Nominal vs Adjusted TVL With the DeFi sector driving the current boom in the crypto industry, TVL has become an almost iconic metric. News headlines glisten with awe-inspiring numbers: $4B, $6B, $7B. It feels like every week there is a new milestone or record broken. The metric is used to highlight the growth in…

Curve — the leading DeFi dapp The DeFi ecosystem has gathered a lot of attention recently due to the increase in its Total Value Locked (TVL) metric. However, given TVL measures both the change in locked token value and the change in the value of these tokens compared to USD, we need to be more nuanced…

Aave is the DeFi dapp with a TVL of $1.5 billion Although launched as a simple saving-and-loans dapp, things are changing quickly for open source money protocol Aave. Now firmly installed as a fundamental component of Ethereum’s DeFi stack, Aave’s liquidity pools and interest-bearing aTokens are being used by other developers in new and novel ways. Most obviously, the protocol has…

TRON is expanding its DeFi category A fact sometimes forgotten in the madness of Ethereum’s current DeFi bull run is that all this activity is underpinned by automatic market maker exchanges such as Uniswap. Launched back in mid-2019, with version 2.0 coming in May 2020, Uniswap provides a simple interface for users looking to trade tokens…

Understanding risk is fundamental to human existence. Not just the ability for individuals to be able to imagine the consequences of actions yet to be undertaken, the concept of risk is incredibly significant for wider society too. As we’re currently finding out in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, thinking through ‘what happens if…?’ enables us to…

All the hottest news from the world of decentralized applications. We end June in the context of record-breaking DeFi market cap and volume figures becoming the norm and It is essential to look at the major stories affecting the dapp (decentralized application) sector in regards to user activity and value created. Adoption news Its been a strong month for cryptocurrency adoption with…

The forming unsustainable bubble in DeFi may have negative effects on the industry Despite being a young industry, crypto has already seen a number of hype cycles. The rise and fall of asset prices during the ICO, and then the brief but exciting period of IEO days, brought a lot of attention to blockchain-based projects. …

COMP token nears $1 billion USD market capitalization. What’s next for DeFi? Last week DappRadar reported on huge volume surges being observed in the DEX and DeFi space. In the main, those spikes can be attributed to liquidity pouring into the decentralized finance sector through the addition of the Compound governance token COMP. The Compound protocol allows anyone to supply or borrow…

Year on year trading volume up by 170%, traders count up 19%. As already stated in the recent DappRadar DEX’s trading volume report, Decentralized exchanges (DEX) are becoming more and more important to the decentralized world as they represent an important component within Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem. One such DEX showing an impressive performance is 0x. 0x is a protocol built on Ethereum…