Privacy is well understood to be a problem in the blockchain ecosystem, where, by default, everything is available on-chain for all the world to see. Many different projects are attempting to address this problem, using a wide variety of techniques. But, I would like to focus on one particular approach…

Permissionlessly Leverage or Yield Farm with Bitcoin — In partnership with UMA, we are introducing a BTC backed Yield Dollar (uUSD), along with a joint liquidity mining reward program. What is uUSD from UMA? uUSD is a “yield dollar.” The yield dollar model is described here and the first iteration UMA pursued was based on ETH, which resulted in over 10mm in minted…

The Ren and Loopring teams are excited to announce that the renBTC asset is now listed on Loopring.io, Ethereum’s zkRollup Exchange, trading against USDT. Further, this renBTC-USDT pair is being launched with a liquidity mining incentive campaign! Traders adding liquidity to this pair’s orderbook (placing resting limit orders) will automatically…

In partnership with Synthetix and Curve Finance, we are introducing a new incentivized liquidity pool for farming CRV, BAL, SNX, and REN. https://www.curve.fi/sbtc This pool consists of three BTC ERC20 variants; renBTC, WBTC, sBTC. Our goal is to create the most liquid Ethereum based BTC pool available to offer traders…

We are excited to announce the first native RenVM integration with Curve Finance! https://www.curve.fi/ren With Curve integrating RenVM via RenJS anyone can now use native BTC in Curve Finance, allowing the public to deposit and start earning trading fees on BTC immediately. This integration also facilitates the seamless movement between…

After years of work we are finally here. RenVM Mainnet is live! This marks the beginning of a cross-chain era for DeFi and we couldn’t be more excited for its impact on the digital asset ecosystem. For those who are unfamiliar, RenVM brings interoperability to DeFi. In simple terms, RenVM…

We are excited to finally announce the Ren Alliance! The Ren Alliance is a consortium of DeFi companies and/or projects that are helping secure, develop, and utilize RenVM. As you know, bringing cross-chain assets to Ethereum will expand the utility of DeFi by introducing larger collateral types into the ecosystem…

We’re introducing KeeperDAO, an on-chain liquidity underwriter for decentralized finance, built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Intro Decentralized finance (“DeFi”) has grown significantly over the last year with over $400m USD equivalent of Ether locked in smart contracts, facilitating the creation of non-custodial borrow/lend markets, margin trading exchanges and other…

Interoperability For DeFi Has Arrived — TL;DR Chaosnet is live and ready for everyone to use. Decentralized cross-chain interoperability for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and ZCash is here. 1. Understand the risks involved in Chaosnet because it is an unaudited pre-production environment. 2. Provide liquidity and swap cross-chain pairs on ChaosDEX: https://chaosdex.renproject.io/ 3. Run a Chaosnet Darknode and…