DeFi & DAO Updates 📰🚀 #61: February 7th

DeFi Soars, and so do ETH Fees!

Small plug: Elias Ahonen was featured in ‘Suomen Kuvalehti’, perhaps the most respected Finnish magazine. He also published a Cointelegraph article:

• EU politician reveals her conversion to crypto — Eva Kaili

📺 News & Articles

• DeFi Season? LINK, AAVE, ZRX and COMP Hit Record Price Highs, Outperforming Bitcoin

• Ethereum Transaction Fees Hit Record Highs as Ether, DeFi Coins Soar

• Collateralized Debt Obligations Make Their Way Into DeFi Lending

• Gamified yield farming with nonfungible tokens

• From r/WSB to Numerai Signals

• SET Labs: Introducing The Asset Manager Suite

• Blockfolio launches zero-fee crypto trading on its app

• Kenetic co-founder purchases .NFT domain extension for $84K

• Yearn Finance Votes to Inflate YFI Token Supply by 20%

• Opyn closes $6.7mm funding round led by Paradigm

• 0x Labs, infrastructure provider for decentralized exchanges, raises $15 million Series A

🤹Tweets of the Week

Qiao Wang @QwQiao

People sometimes ask me what my vision of DeFi is. This is a very tough question. DeFi is very messy with thousands of experiments happening. But high level, I think DeFi will go through 2 phases:

0x_Infinitum @CryptoMessiah

Wtf is @Keeper_DAO and why could it potentially be the biggest thing in #DeFi. $Rook A Thread:

Goldfinch @goldfinch_fi

We're thrilled to announce Goldfinch! Goldfinch is a decentralized credit platform that empowers anyone to be a lender, not just banks:

medium.comIntroducing Goldfinch: Crypto Loans Without CollateralWe are excited to announce Goldfinch, a protocol building one of the biggest missing pieces of DeFi: loans without collateral. We believe this is the crucial step that finally opens crypto lending to…

Danial @d4bbasi

@0xProject is the most misunderstood, underestimated project in all of DeFi. Its story is one of confusion, misinformation, and FUD. I'm starting w/ @matchaxyz because as @MessariCrypto points out "value accrues to the aggregators." (link below), but there's much more. 1/ $ZRX

🤖🤣On the lighter side..

Elon Musk @elonmusk

So … it’s finally come to this …