KuCoin Futures has enabled BCH & BSV perpetual swaps with up to 50x leverage. As part of the listing campaign users are offered to start BCH and BSV futures trading with 0 trading fee till July 29.
Kava (KAVA) is now available on Upbit KRW and BTC markets. A DeFi startup based on Cosmos SDK has launched its lending platform recently with BNB as first collateral and USDX stable coin.
YearnFinance (YFI) will get listed on Poloniex on July 21. YFI wallets are open now and users can begin depositing and posting limit orders for YFI/USDT.
The total value locked(TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and protocols has crossed $3B USD. $1B USD TVL has been reached in February this year while $2B milestone was crossed in the beginning of July 2020. Data based on DeFi Pulse website.
COTI (COTI) will add liquidity to the network through partnership with Simplex. Users are now able to purchase COTI directly with a credit card, debit card, or a bank transfer. A direct Fiat On-Ramp solution will be used in COTI’s whitelabel solution for enterprises that serve mass audiences.
Frontier (FRONT) has enabled BNB staking and minting USDX through integration with Trust Wallet. Frontier has unique feature such as Wallet Composability which enables users to connect multiple Mobile Wallets with Frontier and access Native DeFi Apps without having to use dApp browsers.
Now users can stake BNB, and mint USDX by connecting Trust Wallet with Frontier without having to import private keys or Seed phrases. Earlier Frontier has shared a teaser with upcoming launch of the native token of the application - $FRONT.
Orion Protocol has won KuCoin community coin vote and will get listed on KuCoin. Orion Protocol (ORN) has competed with Kleros (PNK) in DeFi session for the listing on the platform. Listing details TBA.
Hive (HIVE) is now available on Upbit KRW market. A hard fork of Steem had a premiere listing in March this year. The token price is up 23% since Upbit announcement.
Swingby (SWINGBY) will have a premiere listing on BitMax on July 24th, 10:00 a.m. EDT. Users will be able to participate in Swingby auction one day earlier on July 23, 9:00 a.m. EDT. 8M SWINGBY (out of 1B total supply of SWINGBY) will be available for sale. The token will enter the market with 30M SWINGBY($750k) initial circulating supply.
Ankr has partnered with Meter and will offer users the ability to deploy Meter nodes. Ankr will also be playing a key role in Meter infrastructure by hosting foundational nodes for the network. Meter is a Layer 1 DeFi project whose low-volatility token, MTR, has a value that is pegged to 10 kWh of electricity, a resource whose price has historically been more stable than any fiat currency. MTRG is an utility/governance token of the project. Meter has closed recently its public sale on Gate exchange.
KuCoin announced new token sale: Bitbns (BNS) on July 30. BNS is the native token of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India. Bitbns has completed small pre-public sale in March this year. Participation requirements and token sale details of the new KuCoin Spotlight offering to be announced later.
KuCoin will have community coin vote on July 20: Orion Protocol (ORN) vs Kleros (PNK) will compete in DeFi session for the listing on KuCoin. The number of votes each user receives will be determined by their 2-day average (automatic snapshots) KCS holdings from: 00:00 on July 18 to 10:00 on July 20 (UTC+8). New users will receive one extra vote. All participants that voted for the winning coin will share a reward pool of 20K USDT.
YearnFinance (YFI), an aggregator of interest-earning DeFi opportunities has introduced its governance token YFI. According to the recently blog post “it has 0 financial value. There is no pre-mine, there is no sale, no you cannot buy it, no, it won’t be on uniswap”. Despite this the token is already tradable on Uniswap and other decentralized trading platforms as of today. Users can earn YFI by providing liquidity to one of the Yearn platforms.
mStable (MTA) has closed its messy auction Mesa platform and is already tradable on several Decentralized Exchanges and also on Bilaxy and Poloniex. According to the recent blog post the team planned to sell 2.66M MTA. No other stats are available at the moment. Final Auction price: $1.81 Current price: $2.9
HOPR (HOPR) has closed $1M USD private sale round ahead of the public sale. Binance Labs, Focus Labs, Spark Digital Capital, Caballeros Capital, AU21 Capital, and Synaitken are among investors.
The Swiss company is building a free, open source network-level blockchain protocol that protects metadata privacy for every type of data exchange.