Today in DeFi - FutureSwap V2, ShapeShift Token, and More

FutureSwap V2

Futureswap Exchange @futureswapx

Futureswap v2 is live. 10x leverage, live pricing, and FST rewards medium.com/futureswap/ann… #futureswap #DeFi

medium.comAnnouncing Futureswap V2 - On-chain perpetuals with live pricingFutureswap aims to create a perpetuals trading experience that improves on what centralized futures exchanges offer. Very little of the ~$100 billion in daily perpetuals volume is currently being…

Futureswap - an on chain perpetual contract trading platform, is now live with V2.

V2 features “live pricing, more performant trading, and higher capital efficiency.”

It also introduces FST, a non-transferable governance token.

Shapeshift FOX Token

ShapeShift 🦊 @ShapeShift_io

The #ShapeShift Platform allows you to trade without commission or spread thanks to our loyalty token #FOX. Sign up for 100 FOX & start trading for free: bit.ly/2QohIyJ #BTC #LTC @Ledger

ShapeShift is introducing the FOX token, a utility token which lets users trade for free on the platform.
According to Coindesk, ShapeShift is also planning to shift to a full DEX model, aggregating liquidity. This will allow it to drop its current KYC model.

uGAS Live

Yam Finance @YamFinance

Getting rekt by high gas fees? Hedge your GAS spending with uGAS! Read below to learn how Degenerative Finance and uGAS can bring you gas savings.

uGAS, a speculative gas token, is live at degenerative.finance.

“uGAS is a gas futures token that will settle at the end of each month at the 30-day median gas price. It's designed in a similar way to futures contracts on oil or gold. You can effectively buy or sell uGAS today and lock in future median gas price in Gwei now.”

Volmex

σ volmex.finance @volmexfinance

Today, we're excited announce that volmex.finance will leverage @optimismPBC to make the protocol cheaper and faster than ever before. Layer 2 technologies, like Optimism, will provide DeFi users a 100x+ improvement in user experience.

blog.volmex.financeScaling volmex.finance with Optimismvolmex.finance will leverage Optimism layer 2 technology.

Volmex, a volatilty index trading platform, will be scaling using Optimism.

AaveGotchi + Matic

Matic @maticnetwork

1/ 👻 We're excited to reveal that the @aavegotchi team has chosen Matic to power their DeFi-staked NFT ecosystem! DeFi + NFTs + DAOs x Matic 🚀 Integrating Matic will empower the Aavegotchi universe with an infrastructure that lets them flourish and thrive.

Aavegotchi will be scaling with Matic network. Note that while powered by Aave, Aavegotchi is technologically a separate project with different requirements, so this does not imply that Aave itself will or will not use Matic to scale.

Curve SynthSwap

Julien Bouteloup @bneiluj

And it opened a whole new world to us. Cross asset swaps using @CurveFinance and @synthetix_io 🚀

Curve Developer Julien Bouteloup has tweeted a sneak peak of a possible new cross-asset swap feature, powered by Synthetix.

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