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It's the surprise of recent months in decentralised finance (DeFi). Deployed on Ethereum in June 2021, Pendle has found success by riding the wave of point-based airdrops (EtherFi, EigenLayer, Mode, etc.) Its total embedded value (TVL) rose from around $250 million to $6.7 billion at its peak
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On the occasion of our "Season" dedicated this week to Bitcoin, we chose to talk to Sankha Banerjee, Chief Protocol Economist at Babylon, who proposes to introduce staking as well as restaking on Bitcoin. Read - Staking: opportunities and future innovations (Report) The value proposition is similar to
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Every week, The Big Whale publishes a "Season" on a protocol or ecosystem. For this new Season, we've decided to take a look at one of the biggest protocols since it's Ethereum!! Launched just over ten years ago, Ethereum is now the leading programmable
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We're not idle on the Ledger front. A month after starting to deliver its first Stax - with more than a year's delay, the world leader in digital asset custody has just presented a brand new product this Friday at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville (USA)
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As The Big Whale devotes its "season" this week to interoperability, we chose to talk to Marc Tillement, director of the Pyth Data Association, a central entity in the development of the Pyth network, which specialises in on-chain data management. "Beyond the transmission of tokens from one
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Following on from our season devoted to restaking (read our survey), we chose to talk to one of the most important entrepreneurs in this niche. In the space of just a few months, EtherFi has managed to attract more than $6 billion in value tied up in its protocol, which
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Often treated with disdain, memecoins have nonetheless been an unavoidable trend in the crypto ecosystem for some months now. Some very serious asset managers, such as Franklin Templeton or VanEck, have even ventured to publish a note on the subject for their investors. Not really based on solid fundamentals, apart
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The Big Whale: Behind every project, there are entrepreneurs and a story. What is the story behind Bolero? William Bailey: This will probably make you laugh, but before I worked in Web3, I worked in artificial intelligence. This was before the success of ChatGPT and the madness that followed! I
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The Big Whale: You've just announced the launch of Cube3. How did the project come about? Valentin Demé: The idea dates back a little over a year and to discussions we had with the team and members of the ecosystem. We thought it would be a good idea
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Since 2019 and your departure from Ledger's operational management, we've seen a bit less of you. What are you up to? A lot of things! I support entrepreneurs as a business angel and I also have more personal activities. I look after my estate in Vierzon,
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Better than ever (laughs)! Once again, there are the much-talked-about markets that are the surface, and then there are all the projects that are being built and developed beneath that surface 🐳. It's the latter that we're betting on. In the last three months alone, we'
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The Big Whale: Argentina is one of the countries with the most dynamic crypto ecosystem. How do you explain this? Camila Crescimbeni: We have very well-known developers, so there are a lot of crypto projects being created in Argentina. The ecosystem is dynamic. But you have to bear in mind