We’re excited to announce the launch of xToken Lending on Arbitrum — powered by the leading oracle solution, Chainlink. Accurate and decentralized sources of price information, like Chainlink oracles, are at the core of building a functional and secure lending protocol, including on L2 networks like Arbitrum. Beyond our lending…

With our second edition of the xLetter we will cover protocol updates, deliver a little alpha, deliberate on futarchy and DeFi 2.0, and, finally, pass around some very good vibes. If you make it to the end, you won’t be disappointed. If you want to keep tabs on xToken or…

As a result of coming across @ConstitutionDAO and going down the Constitution rabbit-hole, I found myself reading Federalist Paper 39 for the first time, written by James Madison, probably The Founding’s greatest pure political theorist & architect in my opinion. I think FP 39 is particularly illuminating given our (US)…

This is the first edition of the “xLetter”, a semi-frequent update about xToken and the greater DeFi & DeGov ecosystem. The purpose of this letter is to give a periodic update on the project and to offer some insight into how developments in the larger ecosystem factor into our outlook. …

The xToken community has picked the winner of the #xtkproductiveasset meme contest! We received 74 (mostly!) high quality submissions, but unfortunately only two could win. The xToken team picked the top two internally and the winner was chosen via a community vote in our discord. The…

China has finally put the hammer down on its native mining operations, causing bitcoin’s hash-rate to crash and flee to friendlier regions around the world. We’ve heard many different flavors of pseudo bans come out of China over the years but mining seemed to flourish in China without interruption. …

El Salvador has leapt into the international spotlight by being the first country to establish a positive multi-layered bitcoin strategy. The meat of the emerging strategy gives bitcoin status as legal tender within El Salvador. The government is looking to make bitcoin easier to use throughout the country in a…

In the latest update of Edge we added support for Fantom (FTM), a young but maturing blockchain that uses a unique consensus mechanism and has a budding ecosystem of DeFi applications. …

Widely scoffed at before, Bitcoin and the greater crypto ecosystem recently surpassed a market capitalization of two trillion dollars making up considerable fractions of the currency and precious metal markets. …