Whether you’re looking for a gentle introduction to the world of blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) or insights from the professionals building decentralized products and organizations, this list highlights our favorite podcasts for learning about…

Opyn, a hedging instrument for decentralized finance (DeFi) has closed a $2.16 million funding round led by Dragonfly Capital.

While we’ve seen a massive surge in the use of automated market makers, AMMs are often criticized for not being capital efficient.

#15: Look Up! Weekly

Today we’re excited to roll out HAL v1, which makes it easier and more fun to create automations thanks to the introduction of Recipes…

Fintech giant PayPal plans to roll out direct sales of cryptocurrency to its 325 million users, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Give someone a dollar, and they will help you for a day. Give them tokenised ownership, and they will be on your side for a lifetime.

Balancer Labs, the maker of an automated portfolio management tool, has confirmed with CoinDesk that it has begun distribution of its BAL token,

“DeFi yield farmers” - folks who measure yield as the amount of interest that’s grown atop underlying crypto assets like Dai, USDC, and USDT when put to use in DeFi platforms like Compound

The Balancer team has been heads down working to make this happen: we are thrilled to announce that the Balancer protocol governance token…

$BAL is live! 🔥 https://t.co/fVRiZbfioA #defi #ethereum /not financial advice 👇

VeradiVerdict - Issue #90

This is my attempt at figuring out the intrinsic value of the $COMP token. Please note that this is my personal opinion; Opium.team never…

Brief Update
On Sunday, June 21st, security researcher @samczsun privately disclosed two
vulnerabilities in the currently deployed contracts and lender agents.

Both vulnerabilities would've allowed a malicious borrower to unlock part/ all
of their  BTC collateral…

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DeFi tokens like LEND — the price of which has increased by 3900% since 2019 — rallied further this week, some to new all-time highs

MakerDAO, Uniswap, Synthetix and have been mimicked in a recent wave of phishing sites.

Incentive security and economic stability in DeFi: stablecoins, governance (e.g., COMP), DEXs, cross-chain assets, and more; a “manual”…