2020-9-13 20:00 |
Hong Kong-based crypto exchange and wallet provider Crypto dot com announced its new DeFi Swap service for all users, as per an announcement today. The post Crypto.com launches CRO-centric DeFi Swap as competition builds up appeared first on CryptoSlate. origin »
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Large VC funds are increasingly backing crypto startups spanning DeFi, DePIN, AI and payments.
2025-3-7 20:05 | |
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A recent vulnerability in the Bedrock DeFi smart contract led to the loss of approximately $1.7 million, adding to the growing list of crypto exploits in 2024. The issue stemmed from a flaw in the contract’s mint function, which mistakenly cast staked Ethereum (ETH) into the same quantity of uniBTC, […]
2024-10-1 13:50 | |
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SEC Chair Gensler's proposal could extend exchange definitions to include DeFi and crypto platforms, raising compliance concerns. The post Gensler’s exchange rule proposal sparks concerns for DeFi and crypto platforms appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2024-9-27 23:36 | |
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As a difficult 2022 fades into the rear-view mirror, anybody investing in a crypto-related financial product today will still need to choose between CeFi and DeFi - or some combination of the two. Here Finoa’s Marius Smith evaluates the pros and cons of both, and the roles they are currently playing in the evolution of the crypto finance sector.
2023-1-26 14:00 | |
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Easing monetary policies, the decline of inflation, the change in Bitcoin's mining difficulty, and growing confidence in DeFi are factors that point to a renewed surge for crypto prices.
2022-9-8 20:12 | |
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The mercurial “Godfather of DeFi” is now pivoting to compliant crypto after abruptly quitting decentralized finance in early March.
2022-4-20 21:47 | |
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Never a dull day in crypto: in February, dozens of DeFi projects were rug pulled with millions of investors' money stolen. What does this mean? And how do you avoid this sort of scam?
2022-2-22 12:36 | |
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The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) opened up an enormous opportunity for crypto enthusiasts and novices. Despite the advancements of this decentralized crypto niche, there is still a lack of DeFi applications and platforms that provide the entire DeFi services spectrum in one place, including DEX, Yield Farming, NFTs, crypto wallet, and other services. AnchorSwap […]
2021-12-14 20:24 | |
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As Bitcoin oscillated just under the $60K zone and major altcoins seemed to be stuck in consolidation, the DeFi space and a number of other DeFi tokens have attracted the market’s gaze. Capital inflThe post Moving against the tide, Curve and Crypto.
2021-11-19 17:00 | |
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They say “If you want to steal money, don’t rob a bank, open one,” and this has been an increasingly popular stunt recently pulled by crypto scammers as the crypto and DeFi ecosystems continue to bloom.
2021-11-8 23:57 | |
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DeFi, an integral part of the crypto industry, is on its way to change the financial world as we know it. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of myths and misconceptions around, which are contributing to dragging its mass adoption.
2021-10-14 11:00 | |
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As the crypto industry continues to evolve, the DeFi revolution has caught everyone’s attention due to its potential to offer to empower financial instruments for all. O3 Swap, the latest project by one of the popular crypto wallet solutions providers O3 Labs takes DeFi to the next level with its cross-chain aggregation protocol. So, What’s […]
2021-5-8 14:37 | |
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European start-up Savix. org has announced a new mission to redefine crypto adoption and investments. Notably, the program dubbed ‘Easy Crypto for Everyone’ is meant to demystify the Defi ecosystem and in turn, make it easily accessible to anyone.
2021-3-20 10:27 | |
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DeFi and crypto have weathered the storm, looking poised for a fiery 2021.
2021-3-18 16:33 | |
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Crypto. com has listed Kava as a supported currency onto its platform. In doing so, the team brings this popular DeFi asset to its Visa debit card. As one of the few 2017 ICOs to deliver on the initial promise, Crypto.
2021-3-15 10:07 | |
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There’s no doubt that DeFi is on a roll in the crypto domain. And it’s all thanks to smart contracts. They extended the crypto usability, and now we can make various transactions without third parties involved.
2020-12-17 13:23 | |
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An overview of several leading crypto lending platforms and the yields they offer. DeFi Crypto Lenders - Who Offers the Highest Yield for Depositors?
2020-11-30 04:01 | |
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There are many segments of the crypto industry that do not respect the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem of Ethereum. The post ShapeShift CEO: DeFi, not Bitcoin, is the “most cypherpunk thing” in crypto appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-10-15 06:00 | |
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The DeFi sector of the crypto/blockchain industry has been around for years now, but it wasn’t until 2020 that it actually started attracting major attention. In the years past, crypto users focused on things like ICOs and IEOs, as getting the money through get-rich-quick schemes was at the height of its popularity. With everyone looking […]
2020-10-10 22:17 | |
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The decentralized finance (DeFi) crypto market has dominated both charts and headlines in the past few months, with some heralding the nascent, yet billion-dollar, crypto sub-sector as the next frontier for attracting capital and retail participants.
2020-9-29 14:00 | |
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DeFi is all the rage in today's crypto world, and no one wants to be left behind, especially cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the past few months, we saw these exchanges rushing to DeFi space – in the fastest ever listing of these tokens, a complete U-turn from the past few years when crypto projects had to […] The post Crypto Exchange Gemini Makes an Aggressive Move, Adds 15 Hot DeFi Tokens first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-9-27 16:33 | |
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Huobi's new crypto saving product is a less risky version of DeFi for crypto newbies.
2020-9-9 16:58 | |
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Binance's new "DeFi Index Futures" show the push by centralized crypto exchanges to cash in on this year's frenzy in so-called decentralized finance.
2020-8-26 16:43 | |
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The DeFi sector’s growth trajectory isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, as demand for the crypto assets relating to this sector is still quite high. The post DeFi mania continues as crypto exchange FTX launches “Uniswap Index” appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-8-26 16:00 | |
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There’s no denying that DeFi is the hottest trend in crypto, bar-none. This sub-set of decentralized finance-focused altcoins have been on fire as of late, beating out Bitcoin and other top crypto assets by a large margin.
2020-8-21 20:00 | |
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As in 2017, Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) was the craze in the crypto industry, in 2020, it’s decentralized finance (DeFi) that is rocking the world of crypto enthusiasts. This year, DeFi has grown at a fast pace, with a record $3.
2020-7-24 20:33 | |
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The DeFi craze is showing no signs of cooling off, and each week a new crypto token is on fire as a result. The industry’s hottest token currently, is LEND, a DeFi protocol for lending and borrowing crypto assets.
2020-7-17 20:00 | |
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Anchorage president Diogo Monica discusses the challenges faced by crypto custodians as DeFi protocols demand increasingly complex on-chain activities
2020-4-29 15:18 | |
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The young bankers Hayek promised are here and they are building a new financial system that automatically operates just by code without any human involvement. From the ashes of the... The post Crypto’s Person of the Year: DeFi appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-12-30 19:45 | |
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The CEO of Ren protocol, Taiyang Zhang, recently announced the launch of yet another DeFi liquidity solution for the crypto ecosystem. Keeper DAO looks to offer many of the same services of traditional underwriting services but will instead focus on non-custodial crypto markets.
2019-12-28 21:06 | |
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Nexo is one of the most successful crypto lenders on the market and has developed the BCH lending service in collaboration with Bitcoin.com. By making BCH-backed loans available on their platform, it enables BCH holders to take loans against their assets instead of having to sell when needing liquidity. This increases the utility of the […]
2019-12-16 21:19 | |
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If you’ve perused Crypto Twitter at all over the past few months, you’ve likely heard the term “decentralized finance” or “DeFi” tossed around in relation to Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain by the market capitalization of its cryptocurrency.
2019-12-14 12:44 | |
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The primary pull of decentralized crypto assets is financial freedom from the flawed banking system. Bitcoin is one step but without greater adoption it is still just a speculative vehicle. DeFi and decentralized protocols based on banking are another and they’re gaining traction fast.
2019-12-14 08:00 | |
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The future of finance is evolving and Ethereum based DeFi is at the forefront of it. This year has seen explosive growth in decentralized finance despite bearish crypto asset performance. 2020 is set to be even bigger with bold predictions of where DeFi will go next.
2019-12-13 08:00 | |
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DeFi, short for decentralized finance, has started to get the attention of some of the biggest companies in crypto. At the Coinbase Winter 2019 hackathon, the company’s product manager Jacob Horne described DeFi as an opportunity that could change how individuals interact with markets.
2019-12-13 00:19 | |
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It has been another miserable week for Ethereum as prices continue to erode. Further declines today have left the world’s second largest crypto asset in danger of hitting a nine month low. Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets are in an opposing trend with continued growth in the sector.
2019-12-12 08:00 | |
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Lending and borrowing crypto, a subset of DeFi applications, has quickly boomed into an almost billion-dollar industry. But does it pose a threat to Proof of Stake networks? The DeFi landscape includes lending protocols, security tokens, derivatives, and exchanges, and threatens to usurp traditional financial models into trustless protocols that leverage decentralized networks.
2019-12-9 22:25 | |
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BlockFi, the New Jersey-based DeFi company, has launched a crypto trading platform. The startup’s suite of financial services products now includes BlockFi Trading. BlockFi Trading will roll out trading between its three supported digital assets, the Gemini dollar, Bitcoin, and Ether, before presumably expanding to include a larger number of crypto assets.
2019-12-6 17:00 | |
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Leading DeFi platform Eidoo has integrated with Instant SEPA, enabling every European… The post Eidoo Platform Launches Instant SEPA for Instant Crypto Purchases with Euros appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-4 18:18 | |
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Crypto markets may end the year battered and bruised, down 50% from their 2019 highs, but decentralized finance continues to grow as another record has been hit this week. Ethereum investing is moving on to another level and there are no signs of bearish influences in that ecosystem.
2019-11-29 08:00 | |
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DeFi Boom Becomes Dangerous as CDPs Trigger Memories of CDOs DeFi has become a flagship use case for blockchain technology. By offering asset management, borrowing, lending, and remittance services without intermediary parties, DeFi is moving to shake up the traditional financial services industry.
2019-11-28 00:28 | |
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According to IntoTheBlock, 99. 99 percent of Ethereum addresses are at a loss or break-even after ETH’s weeks-long decline, a rally that has seen the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization shed more than 23 percent in USD terms since the start of the month.
2019-11-25 07:42 | |
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Alex Mashinsky is a successful entrepreneur best known for inventing VOIP which enables 1B people to talk over the internet for free. VOIP disrupted the Telecom companies and now Alex wants to disrupt the banks with Money Over IP.
2019-11-25 02:45 | |
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It has been a grim end to the week for Ethereum. The world’s number two crypto asset has held up resiliently for most of this month while Bitcoin has been eroded. That resilience ended a few hours ago when ETH prices collapsed by 9 percent.
2019-11-22 08:24 | |
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Decentralized finance and gaming are often mentioned as the two most dominant use cases for public chain dApps. While previously thought to be close, new data suggests DeFi volume had been significantly underreported.
2019-11-20 22:25 | |
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Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. The past seven days were rather painful for Bitcoin (BTC), with the leading cryptocurrency tumbling by some 4% according to Coin360. Altcoins have posted similar losses.
2019-11-16 22:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Crypto Lending DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raises $25 Million Led by Andreessen HorowitzCompound Finance said that it will be using the new funds to further "decentralize" its automated protocol while expanding its services and making them accessible to ordinary people.
2019-11-15 11:52 | |
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A San Francisco-based decentralized finance protocol called Compound was recently able to raise $25 million USD in its latest Series A investment round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and venture capital funds such as Polychain Capital, Paradigm and Bain Capital Ventures also participated.
2019-11-14 22:37 | |
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Returns from holding funds in DeFi schemes remain lower in comparison to taking a risk by “hodling” crypto coins outright.
2019-11-14 13:18 | |
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Decentralized finance protocol Compound is marching ahead with plans to tap into its competitor Morpho with the launch of new lending vaults on Polygon. The new vaults went live on March 13 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time. It comes after…
IP defied the broader market downturn following its recent listing on Kraken, supported by ongoing ecosystem developments. Story (IP) rallied nearly 16% to an intraday high of $5.6 on March 11, afternoon Asian time, flipping out of the bearish trend…
Texas state lawmakers have introduced a second Bitcoin reserve bill that would allow the state Comptroller to invest up to $250 million in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. On March 11, a document on the Texas state government site reveals another…
A clause in Utah’s Blockchain and Digital Innovation Amendments bill, which would establish a Bitcoin reserve, was dropped right before the final Senate vote. Referred to as House Bill 230, Utah’s State Senate passed the bill with a 19-7-3 vote…
Falcon Finance, a cutting-edge synthetic dollar protocol, has taken a major step forward in safeguarding user assets by integrating Fireblocks Off Exchange. Unlike conventional systems that rely on centralized clearing parties, Fireblocks Off Exchange uses secure, shared wallets powered by Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology.
Web3 security firm GoPlus Security has launched an investigation after its token dropped 60% in a single day, noting that it wasn’t informed about the the listing beforehand. GoPlus Security (GPS), a web3 firm that says it’s working on the…
After experiencing a downtrend over the past three months, the Avalanche community now anticipates a potential bullish reversal for AVAX, driven by ecosystem developments and increasing adoption. In a recent X post, trader Marzell told his 37.6k followers that AVAX…