The wave of decentralized finance applications that launched in 2020 owed a great debt to the smart contract platform Ethereum, where traders busily pushed DeFi volumes into the billions. Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dApps) were the biggest success story of the year, at least if you discount Bitcoin’s stratospheric push towards $30k. Open finance protocols such as those related to lending, staking, and saving reiterated the raison d’être for cryptocurrencies, providing users with a trustless means […]
