DeFiprime #22

What happens in the DeFi space in June 2020

New DeFi Products

PieDAO
The PieDAO is a decentralized organization dedicated to bringing market accessibility and economic empowerment through Pie Protocol

Matcha

Matcha is a crypto trading platform with smart order routing powered by 0x. Matcha aggregates liquidity from multiple sources, including 0x, Kyber, Uniswap, Oasis, Curve, and others.

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🆕 We are bootstrapping a new community forum Alpha DeFi focused on discussions around early and not audited DeFi products. Feel free to chime in.

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For the rest of this year, Aave is a sponsor of our monthly newsletter 🙏

Aave is an open-source and non-custodial protocol for money market creation on Ethereum. Originally launched with the Aave Market, it now supports a Uniswap Market and enables users and developers to earn interest and leverage their assets. Aave also pioneered Flash Loans, the first uncollateralized loan option in DeFi, and an innovative building block for developers.

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Interviews with DeFi projects

• Matic Network - We speak with Sandeep Nailwal about how L2 Scaling works on Matic and why Matic Network is an ideal platform for DeFi DApps.

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Governance tokens is a 🔥 topic this summer in DeFi

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Image of the month

Look at the tallest column compared to Gold.

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Noteworthy Links

This month was tightly packed with great content and news in DeFi space.

• 📚How to short ETH via Derivatives within DeFi? - Margin/Futures & Options: A review of all DeFi platforms

• 📚A Comparison of Decentralized Options Platforms

• 🔉How to Decentralize a Crypto Project Without Harming Security

• Say Hello to the New DeversiFi - powered by StarkWare!

• 🤔Less-known Facts about DeFiprime

• DeFi's Invisible Asymptotes

• 1inch introduces Chi Gastoken

• mStable Now Live on Mainnet + mStable’s Protocol Token

• DeFi Is Helping Ether Outpace Bitcoin This Year

• How much do you need to get started with DeFi?

• 🔥Analysis of EIP-1559

• Evaluating Ethereum L2 Scaling Solutions: A Comparison Framework

• Flashloans comparison: Aave vs dYdX vs Uniswap

• 📺Debate: Synthetic Assets Explained

• The Compound Protocol Belongs to the Community

• State of Stablecoins - Q2 2020

• "Liquidity Mining" Bubble Will Eclipse The ICO Craze

• 🔉Why COMP 5xed on Day 1 and What This Means for a DeFi Bull Market

• 🔥Inside Yield Farming: A Beginner's Guide to the Latest Craze in DeFi

• Why I am shorting $COMP now (and how to short it)

• 📚An Introduction To Automated Market Makers

• new BZRX token model built on top of Balancer and farming

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Meme of the month

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Random cool things from defiprime

• DEXs Trading Volume Dashboard - some cool stats built with Dune Analytics

• July lending experiment update - we testing defi stablecoins lending products for almost a year.

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Upcoming DeFi Events

• MoneyHacks 2020 - 31 Jul 2020 - Online

• DeFi Conference 2020: The Rise of Decentralized Finance - 05 Aug 2020 - Online

• PBWSummit - 09 Dec 2020 - Paris, FR

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