​​ETHEREUM DEFI ECOSYSTEM

Ethereum DeFi ecosystem consists of almost 200 projects so far according to defiprime.com

We have prepared infographics showing the breakdown of categories:

DeFi Infrastructure & Dev Tooling - 37 projects
Assets Management Tools - 30 projects
Analytics - 26 projects
Decentralized exchanges on Ethereum - 22 projects
Decentralized Lending on Ethereum - 13 projects
Asset Tokenization - 12 projects
KYC & Identity - 11 projects
Payments - 11 projects
Marketplaces - 9 projects
Stablecoins - 9 projects
Margin Trading on Ethereum - 5 projects
Derivatives - 4 projects
Ethereum-based DAO Platforms - 3 projects
Decentralized Insurance Platforms - 3 projects
Prediction Markets - 3 projects

DeFi is definitely one of the most popular trends in crypto in 2019 but we believe that it is just a start and DeFi will boom in 2020. We anticipate hundreds of new protocols and services to appear in 2020, while the amount of ETH locked in DeFi will continue to raise. Ethereum has already established itself as the most prominent platform for decentralized finance, but we definitely see that platforms like EOS, Wanchain, etc are entering the race.

​​❗️Dear community, CryptoDiffer will hold an AMA with BetProtocol on the 19th of December at 2:00 PM UTC in the CryptoDiffer Telegram Chat!

10 best questions will be rewarded $10 each!
(Questions from previous AMAs are strictly forbidden and people will be disqualified from participating in the reward distribution.)

CHAT 🗣 https://t.me/joinchat/Brbs51k5cWoRBKtsgmb6Ew

​​Rivex has released a Community Quest Guide! Round one will begin tomorrow, December 19th at 2:00 PM UTC
👉 medium.com/@RiveXOfficial/rivex-community-quest-guide-f5d6cad69848

​​Fantom Call to the validators for OPERA MAINNET

Fantom wants to help all of the community members who are interested in running a genesis validator node on the next Lachesis-based mainnet.

👉 https://t.me/fantomfoundation/517

​​Cubiex V1.0 platform including payments was officially released and is live!

Cubiex has successfully implemented additional token functionality in terms of Cash-ins / Cash-outs as well as donations to livestreamers. Transaction speeds of 1second per cash-in / cash-out to the platform and to Binance Chain have been achieved! CBIX BEP2 tokens grant users access to the Cubiex Power Loyalty Points program.

👉 medium.com/@CubiexeSports/cubiex-v1-0-platform-release-including-payments-7d1587e5d1c4

​​VOLUMES AND TRAFFIC OF MAJOR DECENTRALISED EXCHANGES, NOVEMBER VS OCTOBER COMPARISON

The exchanges are sorted by Volume. Kyber Network remains to be the leader in terms of volume. Uniswap took 2nd spot and surpassed 0x in November.

IDEX remains to be the DEX with the biggest web traffic.

​​❗️Dear community, CryptoDiffer will hold an AMA with BetProtocol in 1 hour at 2:00 PM UTC in the CryptoDiffer Telegram Chat!

10 best questions will be rewarded $10 each!
(Questions from previous AMAs are strictly forbidden and people will be disqualified from participating in the reward distribution.)

CHAT 🗣 https://t.me/joinchat/Brbs51k5cWoRBKtsgmb6Ew

​​Highlights on “Tokenizing Real World Assets the FinNexus Way” Part 1

Tokenization provides benefits to both the originators of real world assets and their investors. It offers the potential for a more transparent, efficient and equal financial world. These stakeholders enjoy four basic benefits that are derived from tokenizing real world assets: Enhanced Liquidity, Better Market Transparency, Fractional Ownership, and Lower Barriers and Costs.

👉 https://medium.com/finnexus/tokenizing-real-world-assets-the-finnexus-way-part-1-why-tokenize-2f2559af1187

​​Fantom has released the launch instructions for their Opera Mainnet which will allow validator nodes to join the pre-net, so that they can be part of the genesis validator set upon launch. Fantom-based XAR Network has also relaunched its website and new explainer articles to go with it.

👉 https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/opera-and-xar-network-update-b865ab98a2bc

​​⁠❗️Dear community, CryptoDiffer will hold an AMA with BitMax on the 20th of December at 9:00 AM UTC in the CryptoDiffer Telegram Chat!

The rewards pool is $100 USDT for the 5 best questions.
(Questions from previous AMAs are strictly forbidden and people will be disqualified from participating in the reward distribution.)

In addition, 5 lucky winners will receive $20 USDT each filling up this form up to AMA starts!
👉https://forms.gle/YwGxcvFxFnnNmaLg9

CHAT 🗣 https://t.me/joinchat/Brbs51k5cWoRBKtsgmb6Ew

​​VOLUMES AND TRAFFIC OF MAJOR CENTRALISED EXCHANGES, NOVEMBER VS OCTOBER COMPARISON

We can observe the volume decline in November on all exchanges. By traffic, leaders are Bilaxy (+51%), Coineal (+33%), ZB (+31%) and MXC (+10%). Hope in December situation will change in a positive way ;D

​​❗️Dear community, CryptoDiffer will hold an AMA with BitMax in 4 hours 30 minutes at 2:00 PM UTC in the CryptoDiffer Telegram Chat!

The rewards pool is $100 USDT for the 5 best questions.
(Questions from previous AMAs are strictly forbidden and people will be disqualified from participating in the reward distribution.)

In addition, 5 lucky winners will receive $20 USDT each filling up this form before the AMA starts!
👉https://forms.gle/YwGxcvFxFnnNmaLg9

CHAT 🗣 https://t.me/joinchat/Brbs51k5cWoRBKtsgmb6Ew

​​KuCoin has selected Verasity (VRA) as the third project for KuCoin Selection!

Verasity (VRA) will be listed on Kucoin if both the token amount (100,000,000 VRA) and the number of people depositing the token (500) reach the required amount until the 26th of December, 10AM UTC. During this period all qualified users will get daily revenue after they have deposited VRA on KuCoin. VRA revenue during these 6 days will be calculated at 24% per year.

👉 https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-introducing-vra-on-kucoin-selection

​​Matic Network has announced collaboration with Incognito!

Through the use of decentralized sidechains, Matic brings speed and Incognito brings privacy. Matic holders will now be able to send, receive, and store their Matic tokens with 100% confidentiality.

👉 incognito.org/blog/incognito_privacy_mode_for_matic

BetProtocol AMA Recap

👉 cryptodiffer.com/news/bet-protocol-ama-recap

​​The biggest partnerships of 2019 and their effect on the price of the tokens

Partnership with the major real-world company is a very popular narrative in crypto. Such partnerships legitimize blockchain startups in the eyes of potential investors and drive the price of the token up.

We prepared a digest of the biggest partnerships in 2019. We picked up the partnerships that we found relevant and might miss something. If you think that we missed some partnership feel free to write us in the chat or comment on the twitter post, we will make a part 2:)

Partnerships are sorted by the price spikes:

▪️On the 6th of September, the Spanish soccer team, Atlético de Madrid has partnered with the Socios powered by Chiliz to launch a fan token ecosystem. Chiliz was listed on the Binance the same day. The price of CHZ has surged almost 80% after both announcements were up.

▪️On the 13th of June, Google Cloud announced that they will Integrate Chainlink Oracles in Analytics Data Warehouse With ETH DApp Support. The price of LINK went up by almost 70%.

▪️On the 13th of December, AMD partnered with Ultra. The price of UOS increased by almost 60%.

▪️On the 4th of March, Solve Сare announced the integration with Lyft. The price of SOLVE has surged by 53%.

▪️On the 4th of December, Enjin announced the collaboration with Microsoft on Azure Heroes, a pilot blockchain-based recognition program. The price of ENJ has surged by 53%.

▪️On the 25th of June, Walmart China announced a partnership with VeChain and PwC on the Blockchain Food Safety Platform. The price of VET has surged by 40%.

​​The rise of Decentralized Lending Protocols in 2019

The infographic represents the volume of loans originated and repaid on Decentralized Lending Protocols in 2019 by months. Data is provided by https://loanscan.io/

In November, over $131 million of loans were originated through open finance (decentralized finance) protocols such as MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX, up more than 600% comparing to the December volume.

The repayments graph stands for the volume repaid back through the protocols. All the platforms experienced the biggest repayment volume in November as well.

​​STATE OF THE DAPPS

The infographic presents month to month number of total and new DApps on the major DApp platforms: Ethereum, EOS, Tron, Steem, Klaytn, NEO, POA, XDai, Loom, Gochain, OST.

November was the month with the smallest amount of new DApps in 2019.
In November, leaders in terms of new DApps were the biggest DApp platforms Ethereum, Tron, and EOS. Interestingly that 4th place in the list took Klaytn with 9 new DApps, just 1 new Dapp less than EOS had in November.

The data was provided by State of the DApps, dapp.com, and dapp.review

​​Fantom, Xar network, and COTI, to collaborate on creating a payment solution for Fantom-based networks, and to make collateral stable debt tokens (CSDT) usable in daily life
👉 https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/building-payment-rails-for-fantom-based-networks-with-coti-9dce2a2919c1

​​The State of Crypto M&As

We took a look at the recent report by tokendata.io. Here are the most interesting takeaways:
▪️350 acquisitions have taken place since 2013, representing $4B of value
▪️The most active Acquirers are exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, Binance
▪️M&A activity is volatile and shows signs of positive correlation with cryptocurrency prices
▪️Acquihires (talent) and technology-focused acquisitions have been the most common
strategic type
▪️There have been clear signs of exchanges using M&A to meet different countries' regulatory requirements.