In the past three weeks, two of the biggest names in DeFi – Andre Cronje and Daniele Sestagalli – have been hyping up crypto twitter on an upcoming collaboration project to be launched on Fantom.The name of the project was finally unveiled to be “Solid Swap” on a recent Frog Radio podcast, an automated market maker (AMM) decentralized exchange.How is Solid Swap … [Read more...] about Enter Fantom’s “Curve Wars”: How Andre Cronje and Daniele Sesta are changing liquidity provision
Andre
3x NBA champion Andre Iguodala becomes the latest athlete to receive salary in crypto
On Monday afternoon, Andre Iguodala, three-time NBA champion and the professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, announced via Twitter that he would be taking a portion of his estimated $2.647 million annual salary in Bitcoin (BTC). In addition, Iguodala added that he will give out $1 million worth in BTC to fans to increase the digital currency's adoption. … [Read more...] about 3x NBA champion Andre Iguodala becomes the latest athlete to receive salary in crypto
DeFi architect Andre Cronje said it’s time to give up on the inaccurate term “decentralized finance”
Andre Cronje, best known for creating the popular yield aggregator Yearn Finance (YFI), recently argued on Twitter that the DeFi sector should ditch the old buzzword and stop calling itself “decentralized”–in favour of a more accurate descriptive term.Although Cronje, who made a substantial contribution to the DeFi space, is ready to “retire” the coined term–not everyone agrees … [Read more...] about DeFi architect Andre Cronje said it’s time to give up on the inaccurate term “decentralized finance”
Most Influential 40: Andre Cronje
Andre Cronje is the architect behind decentralized finance giant Yearn. Introduced in 2020, with a “fair launch” said to have helped ignite that year’s “DeFi Summer,” Yearn continues to break new ground. This year saw mergers and acquisitions of protocols by other protocols become somewhat routine, with Yearn doing much of the expansion. Cronje, once a reluctant leader of the … [Read more...] about Most Influential 40: Andre Cronje