2020-8-20 19:42 |
High-performance, decentralized blockchain protocol IOST (IOST) is going “All in DeFi” with its $6 million DeFi Incentive Program 2. 0, bringing the DeFi-focused Noah Oracle Fund’s total valuation to $7 million. origin »
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Millions are attracted by the Cardano network with the appearance of DeFi products
2022-2-27 18:34 | |
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The launch of the $300 million ‘Viridis Fund’ will be allocating $200 mln for liquidity — the fundamental driver of DeFi and DApp adoption, and $5 mln each for integration of oracle networks and to build bridges from Ethereum and other chains.
2021-9-10 16:51 | |
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While a Harvard Law student-led initiative called the “Defi Education Fund” is facing blowback for receiving $20 million worth of Uniswap’s (UNI) tokens and dumping half of it over-the-counter, some witty DeFi enthusiasts are openly mocking the whole ordeal.
2021-7-15 16:00 | |
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Over the weekend, another DeFi protocol was exploited for about 2600 ETH, worth more than $10 million. Rari Capital, whose first product is focused on delivering the highest yield, was attacked on Saturday.
2021-5-11 22:06 | |
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In such early stages, it is difficult to determine whether DeFi (which stands for Decentralised Finance) is another buzzword or the start of a truly revolutionary financial change. In 2019, $40 million worth of assets were locked up in DeFi projects according to Finance Magnates.
2021-5-5 15:11 | |
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The Feb. 22 crypto market flash-crash liquidated more than $24 million worth of DeFi loans. with Compound users representing more than half of the margin calls.
2021-2-23 08:16 | |
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A report this weekend claimed that DeFi has reached a million users, but the emerging financial vertical has a long road to travel towards widespread success.
2020-12-8 03:44 | |
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MakerDao, Ethereum's largest DeFi, has facilitated the minting of over 4 million Dai stablecoins based on its newly added synthetic Bitcoin, wBTC. This transaction was initiated by Nexo, a crypto lending platform, on May 20.
2020-5-22 22:36 | |
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Crypto lender Nexo minted $4 million in dai on MakerDAO using synthetic bitcoin token WBTC as collateral. Here's why that matters.
2020-5-21 22:55 | |
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The amount of Ether locked in decentralized applications (DeFI) has been on a constant decline since hitting the peak at 3. 2 million ETH in February. In the past three months, the amount of ETH locked dropped almost 19% and over 7% in less than a week.
2020-5-17 20:50 | |
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The amount of BTC wrapped on Ethereum continues to grow. It now stands at $22. 5 million, more than twice the BTC on Lightning Network. Decentralized finance (also known as ‘DeFi’) is a growing part of the Ethereum ecosystem.
2020-5-16 11:15 | |
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On May 7, the decentralized finance (defi) startup General Protocols revealed the team has raised over $1 million from investors. The creators of General Protocols have introduced innovative projects on the Bitcoin Cash network such as Anyhedge, and have also participated in helping forward the Bitcoin Cash Node (BCHN) project and Flipstarter.
2020-5-8 00:34 | |
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Andreessen Horowitz, one of the better known Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm, has raised $515 million, overshooting their target of $450 million. “Payment blockchains are picking up where Bitcoin left.
2020-5-2 18:57 | |
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Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, dForce was hacked last week but the startup promised to make users whole again. The platform announced that it has fully compensated the victims through the funds that the hacker returned.
2020-4-29 16:34 | |
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The attacker responsible for the $25 million theft from DeFi protocol, dForce, has returned all of the funds. There has been no explanation for the change of heart, but it is suspected that a lack of thoroughness in covering up his tracks led the attacker to return the funds, in order to avoid further investigation.
2020-4-21 11:56 | |
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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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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.
2020-4-21 21:20 | |
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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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Coinspeaker IOST Token Surges after Unveiling Integration with AWS The adoption of AWS has been described by IOST as a move to help grow the Web 3.0 world. IOST Token Surges after Unveiling Integration with AWS
The IOST Foundation, the organization behind the IOST blockchain, a gas-efficient proof-of-believability-powered smart contract platform, announced today together with venture capital institutions and ecosystem partners, the launch of a new $100 million USD incentive fund for EVM developers, aiming to incubate projects and propel the growth of IOST’s multi-chain ecosystem.
IOST (IOST), a pioneering decentralized, high-throughput smart contract platform announced its partnership with an innovative staking service platform MyCointainer. The post IOST Partners Innovative Staking Service MyCointainer for Extra Bonuses appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Kinki University and the IOST Foundation will hold a two-day hackathon from August 26 and 27. Associate Professor, Masamitsu Moriyama, Faculty of Science and Engineering, will be in charge of the event to allow students worldwide to experience product development using blockchain technology with NoCode.
The basic technology behind IOST–an enterprise-grade, high throughput blockchain–supersedes 37 high-profile competitors, including EOS and Ethereum, per the latest ranking from the Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) shows.
2021 has been nothing short of a spectacular year for the cryptocurrency industry. However, its been even better for IOST (IOST) as the leading decentralized, high-throughput smart contracts platform made giant strides in terms of innovation, partnerships, and awareness among the masses.
CryptoNinjas » IOST teams with Apron Network to build multi-chain architecture IOST, an enterprise blockchain platform, has announced a new strategic partnership with Apron Network, a decentralized platform that provides infrastructure services for DApp developers, users, and operators.