Weekly Thoughts — Feb 14 2021
Below is a quick round up of interesting news from this week in the crypto space.
Charged Particles Launches
The NFT market continues to grow, and now the Charged Particles project has officially launched. This is a unique project attempting to combine DeFi primitives with NFT’s; a clever approach to helping provide price discovery to NFT’s. What will you charge your particle with?
Instadapp DeFi Smart Layer
Instadapp is looking to bring a much needed step-up in UX for the DeFi system. By aggregating cornerstone DeFi protocols in one platform users have a one-stop-shop for their DeFi needs. Go check out Saypien’s newsletter on this topic, and subscribe to the newsletter while you’re at it (maybe even go have a chat with him in his office)!
Ribbon Finance Launches
Ribbon Finance is open for business (proceed with caution as they note their smart contracts have not yet been audited)! The general focus of the project is on “structured” products within DeFi, while currently their first product allows “users [to] long ETH volatility.”
Bankless Podcast — SotN #34 with Polygon
Go check out the Bankless Podcast with the Polygon crew (formerly known as matic). You’ll quickly get educated on the “Ethereum Internet of Blockchains”. There’s tons of good links in the show notes. Need some more NFT action? Go get you fill of these ghostly creatures!
