Several interesting top DeFi updates took place in the third week of August alone. To keep our readers informed, we have compiled ten of the top DeFi updates of that week, such as Polygon Network now in Africa and Solv Protocol being supported by the DeFi Alliance. Below is our full list of the top DeFi updates for the third week of August.
1 – Balancer Launches MetaStable Pools
Balancer Labs launched several new metastable pools in a bid to improve pool liquidity. Furthermore, Balancer also announced a strategic partnership with Lido. Balancer Labs’ metastable pools is aimed at the interest-bearing asset market. Therefore, helping to boost capital efficiency.
We’re excited to support liquidity for wETH/wstETH and increase liquidity pools for the ETH staking community through our launch of MetaStable Pools and partnership with @LidoFinance
Check out some use cases for MetaStable Pools ??https://t.co/RfezCFaAr6
— Balancer Labs (@BalancerLabs) August 18, 2021
2 – Chainlink Partners With ZUZ Protocol
Popular DeFi on-chain oracle platform Chainlink has strategically partnered with NFT network ZUZ Protocol. The partnership will help provide Zeus NFTs with top-notch, reliable, and accurate price calculations.
NFT network @zUzProtocol is using #Chainlink Keepers to trigger on-chain calculations around the ETH price of their #NFTs, which are then referenced against the Chainlink ETH/USD Price Feed to estimate monthly USD staking rewards for users.
— Chainlink – Official Channel (@chainlink) August 16, 2021
3 – Polygon Network Now in Africa
Popular DeFi network Polygon (formerly Matic) strategically partnered with Quidax Global. This partnership marks a significant move by Polygon into the African crypto space.
Quidax will operate a self-service token listing platform on Polygon, therefore simplifying the token listing process.
?? @QuidaxGlobal is integrating with @0xPolygon!
?? Quidax will launch a token self-service listing on #Polygon which will ease out the process of listing tokens. This will boost the blockchain ecosystem & will definitely increase developer adoption!
?? https://t.co/kGLU2kRr0Q pic.twitter.com/mu4OVmK1O5
— Polygon Ecosystem Updates (@0xPolygonTech) August 16, 2021
4 – Coin 98 (C98) Now Supports IDIA
Coin98 Wallet has announced support for IDIA (BEP20 and ERC-20) tokens. Both tokens are the major governance token for the Impossible Finance launchpad.
Now, interested persons can store and receive IDA tokens on the Coin98 Wallet.
Coin98 Wallet supports $IDIA (BEP20 & ERC20), the core governance and access token for the @impossiblefi Launchpad.
Now users can receive, store and trade $IDA natively on Coin98 Wallet.$IDIA Contract: 0x0b15ddf19d47e6a86a56148fb4afffc6929bcb89 pic.twitter.com/zK2V7ArEXK
— Coin98 Wallet (@coin98_wallet) August 18, 2021
5 – Bankless DAO Partners With UMA Protocol
The popular decentralized platform focused on helping the world go bankless, known as Bankless DAO, has strategically partnered with UMA Protocol. The partnership provides smart contracts with the requirements needed to combat regulatory risks associated with DAO and the DeFi space.
Bankless DAO and @UMAprotocol have developed a new use-case for smart contracts, able to face regulatory risk of DAOs and DeFi by engaging and incentivizing groups of jurists with different legal backgrounds.https://t.co/5m6ZD9d7aV#gobankless
— Bankless DAO ?? (@banklessDAO) August 18, 2021
6 – Alpha Finance Beta Launchpad Is Live
Alpha Finance’s first-ever launchpad Beta Finance is now live. In line with this, Beta Fiance has disclosed plans to distribute 50 million BETA tokens as a reward to early network participants. This means borrowers and lenders on the Beta Finance platform since its launch will be receiving BETA tokens as rewards.
The reward will be distributed after the Beta Finance initial lock-up period of 90 days. After the lock-up period, half of the rewards (25 million BETA tokens) will be released to stakers. The other half will subsequently be released in batches.
1/6 @Beta_Finance, the first Alpha Launchpad project, is now LIVE alongside the start of the $BETA lock-up period for $ALPHA stakers!
What an exciting day for both #Alpha and #Beta communities!?? pic.twitter.com/5SNWENNRhS
— Alpha Finance Lab (@AlphaFinanceLab) August 18, 2021
7 – EPNS Partners With Idle Finance
Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) has strategically partnered with Idle Finance. Thanks to the partnership, Idle Finance users will have unrestricted access to goverance notifications.
1/??The list of DAO collaborations grow! We're excited to announce that we're working with @idlefinance to bring their users Governance notifications.
??Read more about the collaboration! ?https://t.co/Hu44P9Ppad
— Ethereum Push Notification Service | EPNS (@epnsproject) August 17, 2021
8 – ZebPay Adds Support for PUSH Tokens
India’s top cryptocurrency exchange, ZebPay, has announced support for PUSH tokens. Now, interested persons can trade PUSH tokens with trading pairs PUSH/INR and PUSH/USDT. Also, ZebPay boasts of an over three million global user base.
India’s ???? leading crypto exchange @zebpay has listed $PUSH!
ZebPay has a huge following in India with over 3Million traders worldwide.$PUSH trading via PUSH/INR and PUSH/USDT pair is now LIVE ??
Happy trading?? https://t.co/MtGjcyK3kh pic.twitter.com/djLucFKL54
— Ethereum Push Notification Service | EPNS (@epnsproject) August 19, 2021
9 – Band Protocol Partners With Beta Finance
Alpha Finance first-ever launchpad project Beta Finance has announced a strategic partnership with Band Protocol. The recently launched platform will employ Band Protocol’s top-notch, reliable, and secure price feeds.
1/ ?? @Beta_Finance, a permissionless money market for lending, borrowing and short-selling crypto-assets, has officially launched on the Ethereum Mainnet with the integration of Band Protocol oracles to secure over $170M TVL. https://t.co/Epldl27PTU
— Band Protocol (@BandProtocol) August 20, 2021
10 – Solv Protocol Now a Member of the DeFi Alliance
Solv Protocol joins the popular accelerator program from DeFi Alliance. The protocol joins several other top-notch platforms like Synthetix, DoDo, Kyber, DyDx, etc. for the six-week program duration.
The DeFi Alliance has supported more than 50 DeFi startups, providing them with the ability to obtain liquidity as well as build important connections with top players in the blockchain and crypto space.
We're ecstatic ?? to stand alongside our #DefiAlliance Cohort 5 members, @OlympusDAO @APWineFinance @MangataFinance @VisorFinance @QilinProtocol @port_finance @yieldswap @synthetify & take #DeFi to new heights together! ??
More details here below! ??https://t.co/NUtoeut23d
— Solv Protocol (@SolvProtocol) August 20, 2021
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