Opyn is a capital efficient DeFi options protocol that allows users to buy, sell, and create options on ERC20s. DeFi users and products rely on Opyn’s smart contracts and interface to hedge themselves against DeFi risks or take positions on different cryptocurrencies.…

This is Jam Session No. 1. We'll be exploring the long term viability of NFTs as artist/creator communities, what we can learn from Hollywood and major platforms like Beats and the bright future of play-to-earn.

This is going to be FIRE!

NFT GIVEAWAY
…

Chiefess of the Defiant, Camila Russo assembles the chief voices of the biggest lending protocols in town from Compound, Aave, MakerDao and CREAM Finance for...

Subscribe to our newsletter for free to stay smart about the fastest-changing corner of crypto and finance: https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/

In this week's episode, we interview Raoul Pal, who retired from the hedge fund world at 36 years old and has run…

Welcome back to another Monday quick take, and wow, 6 green candles on bitcoin in a row? Been a minute since we saw that but hey everyone’s bullish again, up only feels good doesn’t it?

Our sponsor
https://nexo.io/?utm_source=thedefiant&utm_medium=fixed…

Trading is now live on Karura Swap, the First Decentralized Exchange in the Polkadot & Kusama Ecosystem. Karura Swap has opened trading for the KSM/KAR pair, which currently has $3,410,992.00 in Total Value Locked thanks to Karura Swap’s “Bootstrap” mechanism.…

"Trident was first developed with the core focus of capital efficiency and cryptocurrency volatility protection using powerful, yet intuitive and easy-to-use, tools to provide DeFi with its new protocol standard. Our goal was to reinvent the wheel, without…

If your twitter timeline was spammed with the CryptoPunk bot in the past few days, you might be wondering. Here’s what’s going on. A single anonymous buyer bought 88 CryptoPunks for $5.5M in a matter of minutes. Which is the same amount another anon paid…

So, you’ve seen the punks headlines and you think to yourself, I fancy a piece of that but then you realise they’re very expensive. But then you see ducks and dogs and apes and lizards and boom the rabbithole opens up and things get very confusing. But fear…

The Defiant and DeFi Watch co-host a pop-up event focusing on DeFi transparency with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, crypto attorney Gabriel Shapiro, CEO of Compound Labs Robert Leshner, The Defiant founder Camila Russo and DeFi Watch founder Chris Blec.…

Alchemy NFT just announced a funding round from the likes of Mark Cuban who clearly sees opportunity in an API layer for NFTs. Rather than pump out derivative after derivative, Alchemy allows users to create stackable layers of value that have use cases in…

During the big NFT surge of the past spring, the hype was around 1/1's. Exclusive sales from named artists brought the muggles scrambling for any way they could to access platform 9 and three quarters. But didn't that all feel all so very web2. There was…

It’s a Monday, ETH made its way into the 3 thousands. Feels good to be back. EIP 1559’s been active for 5 days now and so far we’ve burnt 16,602.65 ETH which is the equivalent of 48.749.531,06 United States Dollar. And by the time i’ve said that we’ve already…

Welcome to another tuesday tutorial, this is actually the second of a two part series looking at how to navigate the weird and wonderful world of PFP collectibles and how to go about buying, selling, identifying promising projects and creating an identity…

In the ever booming world of NFT’s, we wanted to take a bit of a retrospective look at the last 2 months because at the start of this period, Robin did something a little spicy. 8 weeks ago, Robin gifted a BAYC to all 3 of his production team to see how they…

There’s a new collectible in PFP town and it’s taking over crypto twitter, but it’s actually gone beyond profile pics. Some are getting tattoos of it, beeple’s made an everyday piece on it, even NY times is talking about them using a word they've never used…

Mercurial Finance is building the liquidity platform for stable assets on Solana. As the DeFi ecosystem on Solana grows, there will be many different variants of collateralized, wrapped, and synthetic assets in the space. Their most immediate objective is…

reNFT is a rental protocol, enabling lending and borrowing of NFTs.

Our sponsors
Balancer:
https://balancer.fi/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtubead&utm_campaign=thedefiant
https://app.balancer.fi/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtubead&utm_campaign=thedefiant…

SuperRare, the influential NFT art platform, is taking a big step forward in its plan to progressively decentralize with the launch of its RARE token.

Last week, we conducted our BAYC evaluation 3 months after our crew was gifted them by Robin. But, here's the thing, in this ever expanding space of crypto capital and hoddling there is a growing consensus that a "gifting culture" is fundamental to this moral…