Welcome to Bacon, Eggs, and DeFi #053. Here's a recap of yesterday's DeFi news!
DEXes:
Integral increased trading fees for its stablecoin pairs (USDC/USDT, DAI/USDC, and DAI/USDT) from 2bps to 15bps.
Matcha released v2 with new features, including a fiat on-ramp with MoonPay, support for Polygon, and Matcha OTC.
Integral will be moving its token generation event to June 11.
Lending:
Rari Capital users can now borrow USDC using PcUSDC from PoolTogether as collateral.
Asset Management:
BadgerDAO is partnering with Polygon to increase BTC adoption on the network, starting with launching an ibBTC/WBTC Sushiswap pool on June 7.
Derivatives:
dYdX launched a UMA/USD Perpetuals Market with up to 10x leverage.
Ribbon Finance’s first governance proposal (RGP-1) passed, changing the feeRecipient address to the vault address. More than 360 addresses participated in the governance vote.
MCDEX v3 launched to Arbitrum developer mainnet.
dYdX shared a dashboard of some of its Layer 2 metrics.
Insurance/Security:
Sherlock raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round from investors, including IDEO CoLab Ventures, A.Capital Ventures, and Scalar Capital.
Other:
Maven 11 Capital announced it raised €40 million for its second fund, which will focus on DeFi and Web3. The total target size of the fund will be €50 to €75 million.
RenVM integrated Avalanche as its third chain. The initial assets supported will be BTC, ZEC, BCH, and DOGE.
Impossible Finance raised $7 million from over 125 investors, including True Ventures, CMS Holdings, and Alameda Research.
Okcoin integrated Polygon, allowing users to withdraw select assets to Polygon.
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