2020-4-21 21:20 |
It’s been a crazy past 24 hours for users of decentralized finance, also known as “DeFi. ” Over this time, devious Ethereum users managed to steal over $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from two separate protocols. origin »
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The Trump family stands to earn $540 million from a DeFi project, World Liberty Financial, sparking debate over its risks and potential. The post Donald Trump Family Eyes $540 Million Payout From New DeFi Venture: Reports appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-9-7 16:37 | |
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MetaMask monthly active users (MAUs) currently stand at over 30 million, a near 2X surge from around 19 million recorded in September 2023. This uptick could be a huge positive indicator of growing activity around non-custodial activities, including decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) minting.
2024-2-22 04:00 | |
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Leading centralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap is currently running a voting process on its latest proposal that wants to know if the UNI governance should allocate 1-1. 5 million UNI, worth $26 million – $40 million at the current price, to fund a policy operation to defend the protocol and DeFi from legal and regulatory threats.
2021-5-28 15:37 | |
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Cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) yield farming platform bEarn Fi fell victim to an exploit in its smart contract on Sunday, allowing a malicious user to siphon $10. 85 million worth of Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoins from one of its vaults.
2021-5-18 01:00 | |
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A new venture arm by the Huobi Group will deploy $100 million into early-stage blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects over a three-year period, it said in a release shared with CryptoSlate.
2021-5-13 12:04 | |
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In an April 28 blog post, the platform formally known as Matic stated that it’s launched a $150 million fund. Its goal is to make decentralized finance (DeFi) more accessible and cost-effective to onboard the next million users.
2021-4-29 08:19 | |
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The research firm CipherTrace assessed losses of DeFi protocols as a result of malicious actions in 2020. Almost $100 million was stolen from DeFi protocols, and the entire crypto industry lost $468 million due to attacks.
2020-11-16 14:09 | |
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Coinspeaker DForce DeFi Protocol Breached, $25 Million in BTC and ETH LostDForce DeFi Protocol was recently hacked and up to $25 million of customers’ crypto in Bitcoin and Ethereum was lost due to an entirely-known exploit that exists on an ETH token.
2020-4-21 17:05 | |
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dForce’s money market arm, LendfMe, was drained of $25 million in a known smart contract exploit. The incident comes less than a week after a $1.5 million raise. Market Eviscerates...The post dForce Drained of $25 Million in DeFi Smart Contract Exploit appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-4-20 23:19 | |
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The non-custodial trading platform on Ethereum, dYdX is the eight-biggest platform with $24. 6 million locked in total value. This decentralized finance (DeFi) platform has seen immense growth in the past year, having originated more than a billion dollar.
2020-4-19 20:55 | |
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dForce, Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has secured $1. 5 million in its seed funding round led by several venture capital firms including Multicoin Capital, Huobi Capital, and others.
2020-4-16 23:00 | |
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An organization providing a non-custodial Bitcoin loan platform has joined up with some of the blockchain industry’s biggest names to raise funds to build a native decentralized finance (DeFi) solution for Bitcoin.
2020-4-15 18:15 | |
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In summary: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has blossomed in the last year as more projects utilize the Ethereum blockchain due to its smart-contract capabilities. Currently, there is over 2. 7 Million ETH locked up in DeFi DApps.
2020-4-14 13:08 | |
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Coinbase has announced on Wednesday that it has put $1. 1 million USDC into the Uniswap and PoolTogether Ethereum DeFi Applications (DApps). The investment is from the USDC Bootstrap Fund that was launched with $2 million in initial funding by Coinbase in September last year.
2020-4-2 23:51 | |
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Coinbase has put $1.1 million in USDC into the pools powering two of the more popular DeFi applications on Ethereum: Uniswap and PoolTogether.
2020-4-2 19:00 | |
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DeversiFi burned $20 million worth of its governance token to drive DEX adoption following centralized exchange failures
2020-3-31 17:22 | |
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The total amount of Ethereum (ETH) locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms plunged by more than $600 million since February 16. It coincided with a 57 percent drop in the price of ETH from $280 to $120.
2020-3-24 15:00 | |
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In mid-February, the total value locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) was around $1. 2 billion. That number is now around $500 million. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been all the rage in the past few months.
2020-3-20 11:15 | |
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Black Thursday had been one of the worst days for the crypto community that recorded the violent sell-off across the market. But not only did the prices crash severely, for Ethereum it also resulted in Network congestion, a rise in fees, increased gas price, and liquidation issues with decentralized finance (DeFi) products. As per cryptanalysis firm […]
2020-3-19 20:58 | |
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Binance has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange WazirX to create a “Blockchain for India” fund worth $50 million. The fund plans on investing upwards of $100,000 in startups working on fiat-to-digital gateways, payment, and remittance solutions, DeFi, and trading platforms, the Economic Times reported.
2020-3-18 22:38 | |
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The MakerDAO community has just approved the onboarding of USDC during its ongoing liquidity crisis. This situation was brought about by a $4. 5 million discrepancy that arose in the past week when ETH saw its price plummet amid the bear market.
2020-3-17 19:58 | |
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Coinspeaker Is 2020 the Year for Ethereum?At the beginning of 2019 around $1.92 million of ETH was locked into DeFi, by the end of the year, this had risen to almost $3 million in Ethereum.Is 2020 the Year for Ethereum?
2020-3-18 18:27 | |
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MakerDAO (MKR), an Ethereum-powered lending ecosystem has announced that it will carry out an MKR governance token auction in two days, to off-set the $4 million bad debt in its ecosystem brought about by the massive crash in the price of ether (ETH), reports TheBlock on March 12, 2020.
2020-3-14 22:00 | |
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Spearheaded by Fred Ehrsam, the co-founder of Coinbase, Paradigm led Argent’s $12 million Series A funding, together with Index Ventures and Robert Leshner, the founder of Compound. Ever since it was founded back in December 2017, Argent raised $16 million in funding.
2020-3-10 22:46 | |
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London-based smart wallet startup Argent has raised $12 million in a Series A led by Sequoia Capital-backed fund, Paradigm
2020-3-10 16:13 | |
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DeFi player Synthetix reportedly suffered market manipulation attacks on its platform late last year. The incident emphasizes the need for better oracles and infrastructure around decentralized finance.
2020-3-5 23:14 | |
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The Ethereum price dropped by 15 percent against the USD from $278 to $210 within a span of four days. The abrupt drop in the price of ETH led to the liquidation of $3 million worth of loans on decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms.
2020-2-28 11:34 | |
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Synthetix, one of the largest DeFi protocols, has announced an initiative that provides an additional reward to good actors for providing liquidity to the ecosystem and assuming risk. Two million...The post Synthetix to Reward Risk-Bearing Stakers in New Upgrade appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-26 09:59 | |
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1inch Exchange, the leading DEX aggregator in DeFi, accused bZx of withholding information on a bug that put $2.5 million of user funds at risk. bZx hit back, claiming they...The post DeFi Project Claims bZx Witheld Info Tied to Exploit appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-22 18:41 | |
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bZx, a DeFi lending protocol, was hit with a series of exploits. The attacks resulted in the loss of 3,581 ETH worth nearly $1 million. A series of unfortunate events On Feb. 14, the bZx team was alerted about a suspicious transaction that allowed the perpetrator to net a whopping $300,000 in profits.
2020-2-19 18:07 | |
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The Hong Kong-based firm offering crypto finance services Amber Group has managed to raise $28 million in Series A round of funding. The main investors were Pantera Capital, Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Fenbushi Capital and Blockchain.
2020-2-15 21:38 | |
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The value of funds locked in DeFi apps has quadrupled from $276 million 12 months ago to over one billion dollars, according to website DeFi Pulse.
2020-2-13 14:00 | |
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The “no-loss lottery” concept pioneered by PoolTogether has gained significant traction in recent months. With a fresh $1M equity injection and a new USDC pool coming to the protocol, PoolTogether...The post DeFi’s First “No-Loss Lottery” Raises $1 Million as Interest Accrues appeared first on Cryptocurrency News.
2020-2-5 09:41 | |
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PoolTogether is announcing a $1.05 million investment round as it adds a USDC pool to its DeFi-powered "no-loss lottery."
2020-2-4 18:00 | |
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The defi market has hit an all-time high as the total value locked up in decentralized finance has surged past $850 million. A flurry of new applications, privacy proposals, wallets, DEXs, and protocols is extending the limits of what defi is capable of.
2020-1-30 10:00 | |
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Decentralized Finance or DeFi for short is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the crypto industry. After a massive upswing in 2019, 2020 is promising to be another great year. Already the total value in USD locked in DeFi has surpassed $800 million.
2020-1-18 18:02 | |
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2019’s decentralized finance (DeFi) boom that has led to more than $785 million being locked in crypto assets is giving accountants serious headaches. Antoine Scalie, the CEO of accounting startup Cryptio says complex assets and transactions make it for the accounting to be more difficult.
2020-1-18 00:33 | |
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Decentralized Finance [DeFi] protocols have been gaining popularity with the returns they have been churning out for the users who have locked in Ethereum [ETH] on the platform. This growth of the proThe post Ethereum locked in DeFi hits an all-time-high with TVL amounting to $813.7 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-18 00:30 | |
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DeFi protocols are proving their value after providing profit-making opportunities during diverse market conditions. Building Financial Utility In the first half of 2019, as the cryptocurrency market started to rise from multi-year lows, DeFi got its first taste of a bull market as loans on Maker hit an all-time high of $505 million.
2020-1-16 11:14 | |
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Given the burgeoning DeFi ecosystem, Tezos Capital CEO Jonas Lamis is launching StakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that will decide on which blockchains to stake for. Booming DeFi Market the Inspiration Behind StakerDAO According to DeFi Pulse, around $700 million is locked inside DeFi smart contracts.
2020-1-9 18:42 | |
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Close to 3% of ethereum’s entire supply is now locked in decentralized financial applications (DeFi). That threshold of 3 million eth has just been crossed for the first time, with... The post Three Million ETH Now Locked in DeFi For the First Time Ever appeared first on Trustnodes.
2020-1-6 20:42 | |
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A former MakerDAO contributor has committed $4 million in MKR to Carnegie Mellon toward the university’s already-significant work within decentralized finance
2020-1-3 19:54 | |
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Maker Foundation Sells $27.5 million MKR to Dragonfly Capital and Paradigm, driving DeFi adoption in Asia
2019-12-19 16:35 | |
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Ethereum’s blockchain network has been on a fundamental uptrend with more Decentralized Finance (DeFi) launching within its ecosystem. The network is now hitting record highs of 2. 7 million ETH; this activity is however not reflecting on the price of its native coin.
2019-12-4 00:07 | |
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DeFi services provider Zerion has raised $2 million from Placeholder, Blockchain and others to build out its team.
2019-12-3 20:11 | |
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The amount of assets locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) has grown by more than 10x since last year, from $50 million to now $700 million, an all time high. That’s... The post DeFi Nears One Billion Dollars appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-11-30 18:19 | |
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Decentralized Finance [DeFi] has seen enormous growth in terms of products and platforms providing services, over the past few months. The charts reflect growth potential for Ethereum as it set a new The post Ethereum's total value locked in DeFi reaches ATH of 4.4 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-25 21:00 | |
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2.7 million Ether are currently locked in decentralized finance applications, a new record
2019-11-25 16:16 | |
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Thursday's Algorand 2.0 upgrade adds decentralized finance (DeFi) features and smart contracts to the $108 million blockchain.
2019-11-22 07:15 | |
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The Ethereum price latest market slump has placed Wall Street veteran Tom Lee’s ambitious $1. 3 billion in ETH treasury bet under severe pressure, as whales and institutional funds begin to retreat from the world’s second-largest crypto asset.
Balancer, one of the most established decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols with more than $700 million in total value locked (TVL), appears to have suffered a serious exploit, adding fresh stress to an industry still grappling with security concerns.
In another blow to the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, Bunni DEX, a Uniswap V4-based decentralized exchange, has announced its permanent shutdown following an $8. 4 million exploit that crippled its operations.
The latest cryptocurrency investment of a US legislator, who bought Ethereum (ETH) when its price dropped below $3,000, is generating headlines. Representative Michael Collins has reportedly taken advantage of the dip by purchasing between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of Ethereum.
Analysts said that two of the biggest cryptocurrencies in the world are riding on the waves of positive sentiments as the exchange-traded funds of Bitcoin and Ethereum reached record highs. The pro-cryptocurrency stance of US President-elect Donald Trump continues to fuel the positive outlook, propelling BTC and ETH to attain unprecedented levels. Related Reading: Operation […]
On Monday, the State of Michigan revealed substantial investments in cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for Bitcoin and Ethereum in a 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
For years, Ethereum has established itself as the second-best competitor to Bitcoin regarding technology, innovation, and use cases. If many consider Bitcoin as ‘digital gold,’ Ethereum would be ‘digital silver.