Welcome to Bacon, Eggs, and DeFi #099. Here's a recap of the past two days of DeFi news!
DEXes:
Curve v2 factory pools are now live.
Sushiswap reenabled limit orders on Polygon and Avalanche.
1inch launched on Avalanche and Gnosis Chain.
Lending:
Aave v3 will be launching on Arbitrum and Optimism.
Maple Finance acquired Avari, an uncollateralized lending protocol on Solana.
Notional will be depreciating support for v1 at the end of January.
Derivatives:
Tracer DAO launched an AAVE/USD market with up to 3x leverage.
Bridges:
XY Finance announced it will complete a retroactive airdrop based on transaction volume.
Other:
Secret Network raised $400 million ($225 million for an ecosystem fund and $175 million for an accelerator pool) from DeFiance Capital, Alameda Research, and CoinFund.
Dune Analytics is launching a weekly podcast called The Weekly Wizard.
Upcoming/New Projects:
Alkimiya Protocol (FYI announced in June of 2021)
📚Reading List:
Fundraising Rounds:
Decentralized betting protocol Azuro raised a $3.5 million seed round from Ethereal Ventures, DeFi Alliance, and Delphi Digital.
Folks Finance, a borrowing/lending protocol on Algorand, raised $3 million in its seed round from Borderless Capital, Jump Crypto, and ParaFi Capital.
Job Opportunities:
Research Engineer (Security) at Paradigm
Intern at The Blockcrunch Podcast
Solidity Blockchain Engineer at Tesseract Finance
Junior Dev and Community/Social Lead at Union Protocol
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Stay tuned for the next edition of Bacon, Eggs, and DeFi!
- Austin (@1A1zP1)