Decentralized exchange dYdX (DYDX) has discontinued its new $25 deposit promo citing “overwhelming demand,” and denied claims that the DEX now required users’ verification. Due to extremely overwhelming demand of the $25 deposit bonus promotion, we are ending the campaign, effective immediately. Thank you to the many thousands of new users that onboarded to dYdX…
“Decentralized” exchange dYdX suffers outage
While crypto enthusiasts would want the world to believe that projects in the space, especially those in decentralized finance (DeFi) have little to no use for centralized intermediaries, the recent outage of one of Amazon’s server in US-East-1 region has again brought the question “how decentralized are decentralized finance projects?” to the fore again. dYdX…
Report: America, not Asia, is leading in DeFi usage and DEX activity
‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Robert Kiyosaki Says Cryptocurrency Could Outlast Fiat This post was last updated on November 25th, 2019 at 04:24 amRobert Kiyosaki, the author of one of the top personal finance books of all time, stated that cryptocurrencies, gold, and silver, will triumph over an impending economic crash — the likes of…
DeFi tokens SUSHI, SNX, UNI emerge as winners after China’s crypto crackdown
A little over a week ago, China renewed its hostilities towards the crypto industry as it declared all crypto transactions within its jurisdiction “illegal.” This new regulation, while it has had some negative impacts on the price of the leading digital asset, Bitcoin, alongside other cryptocurrencies in the market, the winners in the current shakedown…
DeFi protocol run by ex-Coinbase dev just did $3.6 billion in daily trading volume
dYdX (DYDX), a decentralized derivatives exchange that runs on Ethereum (ETH), has surpassed Coinbase’s volume for the first time, executing over $3.6 billion in trades in a 24-hour period. The protocol’s success came in the midst of Beijing stepping up its clampdown on crypto, which spurred the recent interest in decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and other…