To the DeFi community,
This week, Balancer announced a new integration with Aave, allowing unused liquidity from trading pools to be locked in Aave to earn additional Yield. Boosted pools will increase capital efficiency, and connections to other lending protocols will be rolled out over time to LPs additional options.
Aave Boosted Pools deposits @BalancerLabs liquidity into @AaveAave Protocol to capture higher yield and making more capital efficient DeFi, congrats @fcmartinelli and the team π» https://t.co/1H2aZFXpx0
β stani.newt (π»,π»ββοΈ,π¦.π¦) (@StaniKulechov) December 15, 2021
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Optimism, the Ethereum L2 scaling solution first employed by Uniswap has deprecated their developer whitelist, allowing a wide swathe of new talent to start experimenting with and deploying contracts on Optimism. While still controlled by a group of developers, Optimism has plans to become fully decentralized in the future.
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The whitelist is officially gone and anyone can deploy to Optimism!https://t.co/XFCL7yKh8n
β Optimism (@optimismPBC) December 16, 2021
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Perpetual Protocol announced new liquidity mining rewards for LPs on Perp v2 on Optimism. The program is retroactive to all LPs who have provided liquidity since the launch of Perp v2 with total weekly rewards starting at 10,000 PERP.
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π―https://t.co/OPPSU3hHmK pic.twitter.com/aTDG0nYtIBβ Perpetual Protocol | V2 Is Live! (@perpprotocol) December 16, 2021
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And Coinbase announced new ways to access DeFi for retail users β outside of the US. Coinbase will allow users in more than 70 countries to opt-in to the program, where DAI held on Coinbase is routed to the Compound protocol to earn variable interest. Coinbase will also cover transaction fees for users, leading to potentially substantial savings for market participants below whale size.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/rleshner/status/1469015685439410187
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Although we focus on the positives and the builders here, DeFi can and has been a messy space since coming into the spotlight just a bit less than two years ago. Itβs an industry that requires constant new learning, challenging of preconceptions and open-mindedness about what the future might hold. It has also brought the opportunities and challenges of a world with crypto into focus for policymakers and financial professionals in a way nothing else could.
Some notable US policymakers have become increasingly vocal in opposition to seemingly the very idea of DeFi, and the BIS recently released a scathing take that questions many of the fundamental tenets of the nascent industry.
But unlike much of what we see being developed in DeFi, this is not a new phenomenon. In the early days of the internet, policymakers were similarly suspicious, often pushing for levels of control well beyond reason simply for lack of understanding of an emergent technology β there was a…
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