Welcome to the 34th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This week’s issue covers events between March 14th and March 21st, 2021.
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🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
- The social tokens platform Roll was exploited on March 14th, with $5.7M stolen.
- Bank of America has stated that they see DeFi as, “Potentially more disruptive than Bitcoin.”
- Morgan Stanley has become the first big US bank to offer wealthy clients access to funds for Bitcoin.
- Unmarshal has raised $2.6M from industry heavyweights to build a multi-chain data indexing protocol.
- Speaking of funding, Vegas has closed a $5M raise, with investment from Arrington Capital, Cumberland DRW, and Coinbase Ventures.
- Also, Tally, a startup in DeFi, has raised $1.5M to boost On-Chain Governance.
- Maple Finance has also funded $1.4M for its DeFi lending platform.
- Syndicate has raised $1M for a crypto-investing social network.
- Finally, Volmex has secured funding, in an effort to bring tokenized volatility to Ethereum.
- Also, DeFiance Capital has joined the Bancor protocol as strategic advisors.
- Ethermine has added front-running software to offset EIP 1559 losses of revenue.
- Binance has listed PERP, or perpetual protocol, in the innovation zone on March 19th, at 8 AM UTC.
- Fuse protocol, made by Rari Capital, went live on March 18th.
- The LAO has created the new Neptune DAO focused on providing DeFi on Ethereum and other blockchains with liquidity.
- Recently, the number of total DeFi users recently surged to a 1.6M mark, and many protocols now have hundreds of daily active users.
- bZx Torque and Fulcrum went live on Binance Smart Chain.
- Aave’s AMM market was released on the 16th of March.
💱 DEX Report
- DexGuru has announced its launch on BSC.
- SushiSwap has launched on Avalanche, which brings another DEX to Avalanche’s growing ecosystem DeFi.
💵 State of the Stablecoins
- Terraform Labs has activated Anchor, a DeFi protocol, which promises 20% returns, along with the firm stating that it will help its stablecoin, UST, overtake DAI.
💎 NFT News
- Bounce has recently raised a funding round from Coinbase Ventures, Pantera, and Blockchain capital to build a NFT auction house.
- Hackers have reportedly targeted NFT marketplace Nifty’s giveaway users.
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