BlockVenture

Had a blast talking all things @API3DAO with our university partners. Thanks to @rybodium, @VcuBlockchain, @oregonblock, and IECC for joining! #governancedelegates

For our first BlockVenture Podcast, we sat down with @gane5h, the CEO of @Covalent_HQ. We had a great chat ahead of their @CoinList sale Thursday - take a listen! youtube.com/watch?v=lB6ixJY9…

If you missed the event, check out The Future of DeFi panel we hosted with @Graham_Tonkin from @stakerdao, @EdanYago from @SovrynBTC, @cole0x from @linkpadvc, and Bobby from @yaxis_project youtube.com/watch?v=WrScWstr…

The Integral Protocol has created a new family of AMMs - the orderbook AMM (OB-AMM), which effectively can mirror the orderbook of a CEX (like Binance) in a curve form and provide 3x the depth & liquidity, with reduced gas fees. And they’re doing this through an AMM design! (5/9)

$IDEX is a clearly undervalued project in this DeFi market.

Although volumes have been higher on exchanges, $IDEX has been holding its own in other metrics, with thousands of active traders, 200+ assets listed, and is launching with a state of the art optimized optimistic rollups solution (O2R) This CAN scale - now

.@ICO_Analytics had a tweet the other day that caught our attention.. Feat this chart. Takeaway - although volumes have been higher on exchanges like @UniswapProtocol or @BalancerLabs… site visits & unique traders are another proxy for usage.

Chart - Losses to liquidity providers due to price variation

Although they have a simple UX.. AMMs like @UniswapProtocol have high fees (many basic transactions cost upwards of $10) - and as they get more popular - ETH prices and gas will continue to rise. Here’s an example from yesterday trading from $WETH -> $YAM