William M. Peaster

Things move fast in decentralized finance. And top DeFi yield aggregator project Yearn moves even faster. Indeed, while the successful start of Ethereum 2.0 captured the majority of attention this week because it bodes...

The cryptoeconomy has turned bullish again for the first time in years, and that warming has come just in time for the 2020 holiday shopping season to arrive in full force. As such, crypto-centric gifts are sure to be...

On Thursday, November 26th, the price of the Dai stablecoin (ordinarily ~$1 USD) exploded up to $1.30 on Coinbase as traders tried to snag up funds en masse to pay back, and thus keep afloat, their DeFi lending...

At the start of the week, Blockonomi surveyed some of the decentralized finance arena’s top yield aggregator projects, including Yearn and Pickle Finance. These projects aim to bring DeFi users attractive returns via...

You put your money in, and the protocol you put it in automatically (and permissionlessly, with no trusted intermediaries) gets to work in fetching you attractive returns via that investment. This is the promise of...

Created and operated by the Winklevoss brothers, Gemini is one of the top cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S. The New York-based exchange has made a name for itself to date in serving as a user-friendly and very secure...

Axie Infinity, an Ethereum game where you collect, breed, and battle digital pets, has been taking the blockchain gaming world by storm this year. Indeed, not only has Axie Infinity become the biggest and most popular...

The bitcoin price breached $16,000 USD for the first time in years. PayPal just opened up cryptocurrency services to all its U.S. customers. The Ethereum ecosystem has been on fire this year and the Eth2 evolution is...

Cryptocurrency exchange powerhouse Binance has always taken something of an “all of the above” approach to cryptoeconomy ventures. This dynamic led to the company developing Binance Smart Chain (BSC), a blockchain...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been among the biggest stars of the Ethereum ecosystem this year. That said, while these NFTs are totally different from fungible ERC-20 tokens (like Dai, LINK, etc.), the cryptoeconomy...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down the infamous Silk Road darknet marketplace back in 2013, yet the saga — which has been intricately linked with bitcoin (BTC) since it was the platform’s currency of...

This year was an explosive one for the cryptoeconomy, and the star of the show so far has easily been Ethereum and its blooming DeFi and NFT arenas. That’s interesting, seeing as how in 2019 folks had no shortage of...

In recent years, Ethereum development studio ConsenSys has made it one of its foremost goals to formally bring central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects into the fold of Ethereum’s ecosystem. Now, the mission’s...

Popular decentralized lending protocol Aave has grown at a rapid pace amid 2020’s DeFi boom, in large part thanks to excellent execution and stewardship from the Aave team in recent months. Yet this ramping up has...

Finance isn’t just the realm of big banks and suit and tie types. Money touches almost every aspect of all of our lives. That’s the big promise of decentralized app networks like Ethereum. It gives anyone anywhere...

Mainstream payments powerhouse PayPal announced this week it was on the verge of launching cryptocurrency wallet and payments services, with plans to eventually bring these features to Venmo, the company’s mobile...

The rising cryptoeconomy, and Ethereum in particular lately, is showing how assets in the future will be digital, and in extension, extremely liquid. Accordingly, it’s fair to say that while we’re already seeing...