The acquisition of Lawnmower comes at a time when CoinDesk has been expanding their research division, this will only help to enhance that strategy; Ryan Selkis, CoinDesk's managing director said, "The tools and expertise the Lawnmower team has built over the past two years will accelerate the growth of our new research division, and add critical depth to our product team."; Lawnmower first launched in April of 2015 with their micro-investment application for bitcoin's retail investor, from there they built out a research and analysis team to produce insight into digital currencies; "We're thoroughly excited to come onboard and help shape the future of digital currency," said Pieter Gorsira, co-founder and CEO of Lawnmower. Source
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CoinDesk has created a list of the top 5 analysts and top 5 traders; CoinDesk considered Twitter followers, published analysis, charts produced, industry experience, incumbent financial industry experience and votes from the Blockchain Q3 Sentiment survey. Source
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on public blockchains is one of the most interesting and quickly growing technological innovations in financial services;...