Liquidity Protocols News & Updates (Nov-Dec)

5 min readJan 7, 2022

With the market as it is. A good option is to look for robust platforms, that keep growing, building and execute for the community.

Liquidity protocols are essential for DeFi. Liquidity is needed and these protocols helps by optimizing it, being bridging, wrapping, routing…

And as you can see, they’re good builders! Attracting Billions on Volume and TVL

Check the announcements and what they’ve been up to lately.

Ren $REN

Lido DAO $LDO

Popsicle $ICE

0x $ZRX

1inch $1INCH

Orion $ORN

REN

A year in review / Development Update

Ren Development Update

It’s been another monumental year for Ren, and in tradition for the final post, we will recap some of the major…

link.medium.com

Host-2-Host, A New Era

Host 2 Host is Live

A New Era for RenVM

medium.com

Bridge 25 assets to 7 blockchains

Roadmap

The Future of Ren

Ren Labs

medium.com

VarenX x Ren

VarenX Integrates RenVM

We are excited to announce the very first multi-chain swapping dApp powered by RenVM! Varen X is a cross-chain…

link.medium.com

LIDO

Year on review

stLUNA

stLuna: The Next Generation of Liquid Staking on Terra | Lido

Lido makes an upgrade of bLuna on Terra. The upgrade aims to increase Terra’s liquid staking utility and…

blog.lido.fi

stSOL and it’s integrations

Referral program to Solana

Bringing The Lido Referral Program to Solana

We are excited to announce the expansion of Lido’s referral program to the Solana network! The goals of the Lido…

blog.lido.fi

stMATIC alpha

18% of ETH is staked on Lido

Makerdao integrates stETH

MakerDAO Integrates Lido’s stETH as Collateral Asset | Lido Finance

MakerDAO, the founding DAO behind the decentralised Dai stablecoin, has successfully integrated Lido’s wstETH token as…

blog.lido.fi

Lido to use Chainlink price feed

Lido Adopts stETH/USD Chainlink Price Feed to Expand stETH Adoption

Lido is excited to announce that we are now sponsoring the first in a series of Chainlink Price Feeds to enable DeFi…

blog.lido.fi

Raise the caps

Bug Bounty enhancement

Lido Bug Bounty: Enhancing Lido Bug Bounty Terms

As staked assets under Lido continue to grow, and as we expand the number of supported staking networks beyond…

blog.lido.fi

ORION Protocol

Year in Review

Orion Protocol: 2021 in Review

Main Net live $83m Daily Transactional Volume ATH Orion Pool live 50+ new assets APRs up to ~155% 14,073,683 ORN TVL…

blog.orionprotocol.io

7,5% of Supply burned (~$45M)

7,368,745 ORN (~$45m) to be permanently removed from supply

7,368,745 ORN (~$45m) to be permanently removed from supply Earlier this month, Orion Protocol announced the beginning…

blog.orionprotocol.io

Orion x Moonpay

Orion Terminal brings fiat to DeFi via MoonPay

Orion Protocol, the decentralized gateway to the crypto market, becomes the first decentralized aggregator to enable…

blog.orionprotocol.io

Towards decentralization

Orion: a community-led Protocol

Orion Protocol begins its transition towards becoming a DAO by introducing protocol governance - enabling ORN holders…

blog.orionprotocol.io

Development

Orion Development Updates

December 10th The last few weeks have revealed several strategies put in place by Orion Protocol from ORN…

blog.orionprotocol.io

Orion Protocol Dev AMA 12/03

Hi everyone and welcome to the second Development AMA on our YouTube channel. I'm Timothea, I'm the CMO of Orion…

blog.orionprotocol.io

CEX & DEX

Depositless Trading

CEX liquidity + DEX functionality. Depositless Trading on Orion Terminal is . Learn more below. To celebrate this…

blog.orionprotocol.io

IDOs to Orion x Poolz

Orion x Poolz: Bringing IDOs to Orion Terminal

Orion Protocol has joined forces with leading launchpad Poolz to provide democratic and guaranteed access to IDOs (no…

blog.orionprotocol.io

POPSICLE Finance

Farming Update

Popsicle Farming Update

It's been an exciting couple of months with the re-launch of Sorbetto Fragola, and the new governance/forum process! We…

link.medium.com

Popsicle on Polygon Network

Sorbetto Fragola is going Multichain!

Popsicle is landing on Polygon!

popsiclefinance.medium.com

Governance

State of the Popsicle Governance Update!

Dear Isvikingers, we would like to give you an update on the governance of Popsicle Finance together with a team…

popsiclefinance.medium.com

Sorbetto Feedback & Stats

13 Days of Eating Sorbetto Fragola

It has now been 13 days since we have been slurping the fees of UniV3. Let’s take a look at the past days, and also…

popsiclefinance.medium.com

Hack Repayment

Hack Repayment Update!

Dear Isvikingers, We are excited to announce that we have distributed the ICE repayment from the hack! Yes, you are now…

popsiclefinance.medium.com

100k Just-In-Time Liquidity (JIT) MEV attack

Rumors

1INCH

2021 Recap

$175M Series B round by: Jane Street, VanEck, Fenbushi Capital, Alameda Research, Celsius, Nexo, Tribe Capital and Gemini Frontier Fund.

The 1inch Network closes a $175 mln Series B round

The funding will be spent on facilitating an entry to the DeFi space for traditional financial institutions, building…

blog.1inch.io

Burned ETH

How 1inch ensures the security of users’ funds

In this article, we’ll explain how 1inch protects users’ assets against any security breaches regardless of the…

blog.1inch.io

The road to Decentralization

$600k on Grants

The 1inch Router v4 is rolled out

Thanks to the improvements, users will be able to make swaps with the 1inch Router v4 5.4% cheaper on average than the…

blog.1inch.io

1inch DeFi Racer starts off!

With the launch of this game, the 1inch Network begins the exploration of Web 3 tools, such as GameFi, play-to-earn and…

blog.1inch.io

0x Protocol

Governance

0x Governance Update #1

Welcome to the first-ever 0x governance update where we will share highlights, metrics, and news about 0x governance…

blog.0x.org

0x Limit Orders goes multichain (ETH, MATIC, BSC)

0x Limit Orders Go Multi-Chain

0x Limit Orders, which were previously only available on Ethereum, are now available on Polygon and BSC See the…

blog.0x.org

0x x Celo

0x API is now available on Celo

The 0x API is designed to make it easy for DeFi developers to tap into DEX liquidity in a fast, reliable, and easy to…

blog.0x.org

0x + Celo expand partnership to allocate $4.5M in joint funding to the 0x DAO

As a founding partner of Celo's DeFi for the People, we're thrilled to announce that in addition to recently launching…

blog.0x.org

Ecosystem Updates

0x Ecosystem 🪐 Update #15

Welcome to the 0x ecosystem update where we share highlights, network insights, and news from across the growing 0x…

blog.0x.org

Alpha

Polygon Wallet Swap powered by 0x API

Interview w/ DappRadar

0x Ecosystem 🪐 Spotlight: DappRadar

Welcome to the #0xecosystem 🪐 spotlight series, where we highlight some of the exciting and novel projects built on…

blog.0x.org

Interview w/ Matcha

0x Ecosystem 🪐 Spotlight: Matcha

Welcome to the 0x ecosystem 🪐 spotlight series, where we highlight exciting and novel projects built on 0x. Next up is…

blog.0x.org

Liquidity Protocols News & Updates (Nov-Dec)

REN

Ren Development Update

It’s been another monumental year for Ren, and in tradition for the final post, we will recap some of the major…

Host 2 Host is Live

A New Era for RenVM

The Future of Ren

Ren Labs

VarenX Integrates RenVM

We are excited to announce the very first multi-chain swapping dApp powered by RenVM! Varen X is a cross-chain…

LIDO

stLuna: The Next Generation of Liquid Staking on Terra | Lido

Lido makes an upgrade of bLuna on Terra. The upgrade aims to increase Terra’s liquid staking utility and…

Bringing The Lido Referral Program to Solana

We are excited to announce the expansion of Lido’s referral program to the Solana network! The goals of the Lido…

MakerDAO Integrates Lido’s stETH as Collateral Asset | Lido Finance

MakerDAO, the founding DAO behind the decentralised Dai stablecoin, has successfully integrated Lido’s wstETH token as…

Lido Adopts stETH/USD Chainlink Price Feed to Expand stETH Adoption

Lido is excited to announce that we are now sponsoring the first in a series of Chainlink Price Feeds to enable DeFi…

Lido Bug Bounty: Enhancing Lido Bug Bounty Terms

As staked assets under Lido continue to grow, and as we expand the number of supported staking networks beyond…

ORION Protocol

Orion Protocol: 2021 in Review

Main Net live $83m Daily Transactional Volume ATH Orion Pool live 50+ new assets APRs up to ~155% 14,073,683 ORN TVL…

7,368,745 ORN (~$45m) to be permanently removed from supply

7,368,745 ORN (~$45m) to be permanently removed from supply Earlier this month, Orion Protocol announced the beginning…

Orion Terminal brings fiat to DeFi via MoonPay

Orion Protocol, the decentralized gateway to the crypto market, becomes the first decentralized aggregator to enable…

Orion: a community-led Protocol

Orion Protocol begins its transition towards becoming a DAO by introducing protocol governance - enabling ORN holders…

Orion Development Updates

December 10th The last few weeks have revealed several strategies put in place by Orion Protocol from ORN…

Orion Protocol Dev AMA 12/03

Hi everyone and welcome to the second Development AMA on our YouTube channel. I'm Timothea, I'm the CMO of Orion…

Depositless Trading

CEX liquidity + DEX functionality. Depositless Trading on Orion Terminal is . Learn more below. To celebrate this…

Orion x Poolz: Bringing IDOs to Orion Terminal

Orion Protocol has joined forces with leading launchpad Poolz to provide democratic and guaranteed access to IDOs (no…

POPSICLE Finance

Popsicle Farming Update

It's been an exciting couple of months with the re-launch of Sorbetto Fragola, and the new governance/forum process! We…

Sorbetto Fragola is going Multichain!

Popsicle is landing on Polygon!

State of the Popsicle Governance Update!

Dear Isvikingers, we would like to give you an update on the governance of Popsicle Finance together with a team…

13 Days of Eating Sorbetto Fragola

It has now been 13 days since we have been slurping the fees of UniV3. Let’s take a look at the past days, and also…

Hack Repayment Update!

Dear Isvikingers, We are excited to announce that we have distributed the ICE repayment from the hack! Yes, you are now…

1INCH

The 1inch Network closes a $175 mln Series B round

The funding will be spent on facilitating an entry to the DeFi space for traditional financial institutions, building…

How 1inch ensures the security of users’ funds

In this article, we’ll explain how 1inch protects users’ assets against any security breaches regardless of the…

The 1inch Router v4 is rolled out

Thanks to the improvements, users will be able to make swaps with the 1inch Router v4 5.4% cheaper on average than the…

1inch DeFi Racer starts off!

With the launch of this game, the 1inch Network begins the exploration of Web 3 tools, such as GameFi, play-to-earn and…

0x Protocol

0x Governance Update #1

Welcome to the first-ever 0x governance update where we will share highlights, metrics, and news about 0x governance…

0x Limit Orders Go Multi-Chain

0x Limit Orders, which were previously only available on Ethereum, are now available on Polygon and BSC See the…

0x API is now available on Celo

The 0x API is designed to make it easy for DeFi developers to tap into DEX liquidity in a fast, reliable, and easy to…

0x + Celo expand partnership to allocate $4.5M in joint funding to the 0x DAO

As a founding partner of Celo's DeFi for the People, we're thrilled to announce that in addition to recently launching…

0x Ecosystem 🪐 Update #15

Welcome to the 0x ecosystem update where we share highlights, network insights, and news from across the growing 0x…

0x Ecosystem 🪐 Spotlight: DappRadar

Welcome to the #0xecosystem 🪐 spotlight series, where we highlight some of the exciting and novel projects built on…

0x Ecosystem 🪐 Spotlight: Matcha

Welcome to the 0x ecosystem 🪐 spotlight series, where we highlight exciting and novel projects built on 0x. Next up is…

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