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Ham to Improve on Yam With Latest DeFi Experiment

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Time Stamp: August 18, 2020 1:13 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The Yam yield farming frenzy that took DeFi by storm last week highlighted a number of elements that could have been improved with the launch. A new offering called Ham aims to right the wrongs and improve on Yam with a truly community-driven project. There were several flaws with the Yam launch, but the ultimate reason was that it had to be rescued by whales. This pretty much negates any progress made on the path to becoming a truly democratic and community-governed monetary system. A migration plan proposed late last

Yam Finance Proposes Migration Plan After Rebase Failure Fiasco

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Time Stamp: August 14, 2020 3:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Fresh from the failure of an attempted rebasing, Yam Finance is looking to engineer a migration to a new version of the protocol. Despite the initial hype that greeted its launch as the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) sensation, the project soon ran into trouble. A bug discovered in the rebasing contract meant inflation in YAM token minting. Yam Rescue, Take Two: Migration Yam Finance announced the proposal for the migration via a blog post on its Medium page on Friday. According to the statement issued, the move, if approved, will

Is Chainlink Poised for a Sell Off After Reaching New ATH?

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Time Stamp: August 14, 2020 12:39 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Chainlink rallied another 4% today, maintaining its place as the fifth largest crypto asset by market cap — but are investors starting to become skittish? According to on-chain analytics resource Santiment, Chainlink (LINK) investors may be “becoming increasingly uncertain in its prolonged rally.” Santiment reported that though there weren’t “many bearish indicators or signs of an impending top” for LINK as of last week, that may no longer be the case.The number of LINK deposits into crypto exchanges reached an all-time high (ATH) of 8.2 million, the same day the token

Five Hours to Failure: The ‘Save Yam’ Proposal Is Falling Short

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Time Stamp: August 12, 2020 10:43 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The future of the Yam Finance yield farming protocol hangs in the balance as it awaits token deposits for a governance vote that could save the project.With less than five hours to go, Yam is only a third of the way towards the 160,000 tokens required.A code bug discovered earlier today in one of Yam Finance’s smart contracts sent the hottest thing in DeFi into a tailspin as it scrambles to find a fix through its decentralized governance system.The project posted an update outlining the issues and making a plea to

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 5:54 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are