2022-9-8 18:00 |
A flash loan attack launched against New Free DAO (NFD) has drained $1.25 million from the protocol and caused its token price to crash by 99%. The post New Free DAO crashes 99% after $1.25M flash loan attack appeared first on CryptoSlate. origin »
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BlockFi CEO Zac Prince said the loan would bolster the firms balance sheet and platform strength. BlockFi Accepts Credit From FTX BlockFi has partnered with FTX for a new line...
2022-6-21 17:38 | |
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The miner partially paid down a credit line from Galaxy Digital while inking new equipment financing from NYDIG.
2022-6-18 19:50 | |
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TrustToken, the firm behind top unsecured lending protocol TrueFi, has launched its first independently-managed lending portfolio, the firm said on Monday. The new loan portfolio will be managed by debt financing fintech startup Cauris Finance, via TrustToken’s TrueFi protocol.
2022-5-10 01:26 | |
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SmartCredit. io ventures into the world of credit lines, staking, and bonus rewards through its decentralized finance loan marketplace. Furthermore, the platform now supports various new collaterals and assets and has enabled fiat on- and off-ramps.
2022-5-6 10:15 | |
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Today, the team of DeFi platform FlashLoans, announced the launch of its new app that enables users without knowledge of Solidity to execute a flash loan and profit from arbitrage opportunities. The DeFi tool aims to ensure market discrepancies and premiums paid for certain tokens on digital asset exchanges are eliminated.
2022-3-17 21:17 | |
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Binance’s new payment affiliate Bifinity will provide a $36 million convertible loan to the Nasdaq-listed digital asset firm Eqonex.
2022-3-8 16:58 | |
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January 31, 2022, Tallinn: CoinLoan, a trailblazer in crypto-backed lending, has unveiled a new feature — instant partial loan repayments. Customers borrowing against crypto assets can pay off their loans with flexible amounts and without additional fees.
2022-1-31 14:21 | |
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FlashLoans. com is a new DeFi tool that allows people to create and perform Flash Loan-backed trades. Flash loans are a new uncollateralized loan product in DeFi. This is an easy-to-use platform that enables people to build and execute Flash loan-backed trades through a simple yet powerful User Interface.
2022-1-4 12:39 | |
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Cardano hopes to kickstart DeFi in Africa next year with new offerings. Charles Hoskinson believes it will help liberate Africans from oppressive banking institutions. Cardano has had a growing presence in the African continent with deals in Ethiopia and Tanzania.
2021-12-30 12:38 | |
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Growth Ecosystem, a primary DeFi cross-chain farming protocol, has finally launched on Avalanche, one of the world’s fastest-growing blockchain ecosystems. The Growth Ecosystem launched on November 13, with a revolutionary new hybrid bridge system for its incentives token, $WHEAT, as well as a self-repaying loan feature for its overcollateralized stable coin, $MOR on Avalanche.
2021-11-18 19:35 | |
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Coinbase users can now borrow up to $1 million in cash using their Bitcoin as collateral, this information was revealed via the crypto exchange’s official Twitter handle. The post New Coinbase feature allows Bitcoin as collateral for up to $1 million cash loan appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-11-4 19:00 | |
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PeckShield reported through a tweet of the new hack on Cream Finance. The blockchain security company said a flash loan attack on the decentralized finance lending and borrowing protocol. #FlashLoanAlert https://t.
2021-8-31 01:00 | |
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New loan originations at Genesis increased over 60% to hit an ATH of $25 billion in Q2, and while utilization of BTC loans sees compression, “the market is currently flush with investors looking for yield.
2021-8-5 20:56 | |
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Since the start of the crypto boom, the movement of Decentralized Finance projects have increased. New DeFi projects are popping up on different blockchains. From tokens to protocols, it seems that when you blink, you miss a project.
2021-5-19 00:19 | |
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An ICO fraudster spent more than $7 million in fraudulently obtained COVID relief on luxury personal expenses, including a Rolex, a luxury apartment and a new Mercedes.
2021-4-21 08:14 | |
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On April 6, bZx announced that it was launching yield farming on Binance Smart Chain to reward its new BGOV tokens to liquidity providers. In a tweet on April 19, the flash loan protocol posted an update on progress from farming its new governance tokens on BSC.
2021-4-19 08:21 | |
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On March 26, the VeryNifty decentralized NFT trading protocol announced a novel new feature on its NFT20 trading platform — flash loans. It should be noted that VeryNifty is not the same as the social NFT platform Nifty’s, VeryNifty acknowledged the rapid growth of NFT utility.
2021-3-26 08:50 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has repaid the remaining balance of $550 million of the outstanding loan to Tether, which was the center of allegations of fraud made by the New York Attorney General (NYAG).
2021-2-6 17:48 | |
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Australia-based company Helio Lending recently announced that it had expanded into San Francisco through a new U. S. office. The company also announced that it had expanded its book of partners to include more crypto loan providers and yield generating platforms.
2021-1-27 19:31 | |
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Australian based company Helio Lending recently announced that it had expanded into San Francisco through a new U. S. office. The company also announced that it had expanded its book of partners to include more crypto loan providers and yield generating platforms.
2021-1-28 19:29 | |
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Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has finalized a loan to purchase 5,400 units of MicroBT's mining equipment, which will increase the firm’s capacity to mine Bitcoin by 475 petahashes per second (PH/s), The post Canadian firm Hut 8 finalizes $11.
2021-1-22 17:00 | |
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The NYAG has said Tether and Bitfinex have been cooperating in its inquiry, which is expected to progress more quickly once the documents are provided.
2020-12-11 12:10 | |
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wemloSM, an innovative fintech company that provides third-party mortgage loan processing services has launched ATHENASM, the new technology logic and intelligence behind the wemlo platform....
2020-11-24 13:37 | |
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“Do you really know flash loans,” is what the hacker of yet another decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol has to say to the yield aggregating pool, Value DeFi. This cheeky message has been in response to Value DeFi’s tweet just a day before the hack claiming it has flash loan attack prevention.
2020-11-16 16:46 | |
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Crypto lender Genesis provided $5. 2 billion in new loans in the third quarter of 2020, more than double its previous record of $2. 2 billion in the preceding quarter. Issued to corporate borrowers such as hedge funds and trading firms, the loans are mainly denominated in bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH), and cash.
2020-11-1 12:30 | |
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Blockchain firm Ripple, which has recently threatened to leave the United States if the regulatory climate does not improve, has launched a new XRP-based loan product dubbed “Line of Credit”. The product is currently in beta and will let On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) customers access working capital loans to conduct cross-border transactions using Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency. […]
2020-10-10 19:04 | |
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A New York judge ordered Bitfinex and Tether to turn over financial documents to the New York Attorney General's office, but left the timing to the parties to coordinate.
2020-9-18 22:44 | |
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The New York Attorney General's Office is insisting that Tether and Bitfinex provide financial documents relating to the nearly $1 billion loan. New York prosecutors accused both companies of concealing losses.
2020-9-19 20:20 | |
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The New York Attorney General's office wants Tether and Bitfinex to immediately turn over documents detailing a $900 million line of credit.
2020-9-9 05:10 | |
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Coinbase and Square become the latest platforms to venture into the ever-growing crypto lending space. Coinbase revealed a new loan feature that would enable users to borrow cash with Bitcoin as collateral.
2020-8-13 17:00 | |
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Aave Protocol’s newest product, credit delegation, allows users to take collateral-free loans using DeFi. This service has the potential to disrupt the $300 billion P2P lending market. However, unlike Aave’s money...
2020-7-9 12:50 | |
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On May 6, investors of the TON blockchain platform received a new offer from the team of Pavel Durov. US non-residents are invited to arrange their investment in TON as a loan at 53% per annum.
2020-5-12 17:48 | |
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Genesis Global Trading has reported a 100% jump in new loan originations in the first quarter. The cryptocurrency lender and trading platform added a record $2 billion in new loans in the three months leading to March 2020, up $1 billion from the previous quarter.
2020-5-1 23:51 | |
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The minimum loan request with Celsius Network went down to $1,000 as a result of the new coronavirus’ effects on the market. Furthermore, the loaning platform is looking to introduce the gold on gold paid out interest.
2020-4-14 20:46 | |
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OKEx made a step into the DeFi world and launched its new consumer to consumer (C2C) loan feature that aims to match the demand and supply of idle capital transparently and openly. The times when crypto exchanges were scrambling to have listings of the most active tokens are long gone. Nowadays, the competition takes place […]
2020-3-20 22:39 | |
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Market makers and proprietary traders are taking out more crypto loans after the second-largest price drop in bitcoin created a new, more volatile market.
2020-3-18 21:48 | |
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The recent $5.6 million injection of capital into New York-based AlphaPoint came from bridge financing, a short-term business loan, the company confirmed to CoinDesk. But AlphaPoint would not say who made the loan or its terms.
2020-3-7 00:15 | |
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Bitfinex has announced that it has repaid its sister company, Tether, USD $100 million of the $700 million it borrowed early last year. This controversial loan sparked rumors of insolvency, and an investigation from the New York State Attorney General.
2020-2-29 21:32 | |
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Andy talks with self-described ‘flash loans maximalist’ Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of the Aave Protocol. We explore the exotic and esoteric landscape of Decentralized Finance. Against the backdrop of the recent DeFi exploits, we discuss the new flash loan innovation that allows traders to take out a loan without collateral by paying back the loan in the same smart contract transaction.
2020-2-27 12:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency lending firm Genesis closed the fourth quarter of 2019 with a historic high in loan originations
2020-2-1 14:36 | |
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Coinspeaker Banks of China Give Elon Musk $1. 29 Billion for Shanghai Tesla PlantA new Tesla car plant will appear in Shanghai, and Tesla may use the loan money to repay 3. 5 billion yuan debt.
2019-12-28 16:32 | |
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released a new Schedule 1 for 2019 tax season, putting out the details on above the line deductions, health savings account contributions, and tax break for student loan interest.
2019-12-8 06:13 | |
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Sofi is a startup valued at over $4 billion which is focusing on providing millennials with student loan refinancing, personal loans, mortgages, and other wealth management and financial services.
2019-12-4 19:15 | |
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Careful not to rush too much with stimulus, the Chinese government nevertheless realizes that its behemoth economy is invariably slowing down. New loan interest rate cuts have been announced recently to encourage bank lending and borrowing in the private sector.
2019-12-1 17:30 | |
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The New York Fed added $104. 293 billion in a single day to financial markets on Thursday. The Federal Reserve had to loan banks the equivalent of 12,700,000 bitcoin last night to stabilize the financial system.
2019-11-15 16:58 | |
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The ongoing Bitfinex and Tether probe by New York’s Attorney General’s office, (NYAG) takes yet another turn as a New York judge rules against NYAG’s request for the defendants to search for and collect all documents and information on the $900 million USD loan made by Tether to Bitfinex. New York Judge Rules in Favor […]
2019-10-11 22:03 | |
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A New York judge has rejected the state attorney general's request to have Bitfinex and Tether compile documents about a loan during an ongoing appeal.
2019-10-10 17:26 | |
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Famed rapper Nasir Jones (“Nas”) made a poor choice in backing a revolutionary new financial services product that provides “earned wage access” to employees. A variety of earned wage access companies have popped up in recent years, but only one of them has a model that is worse than the payday loans it’s designed to […] The post Rapper Nas & the No-Good-Very-Bad Payday Loan Investment appeared first on CCN.com
2019-9-15 01:30 | |
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bZx Network introduces indefinite-term Ethereum loan app Torque - CryptoNinjas bZx Network, a decentralized margin lending protocol and liquidation oracle marketplace on the Ethereum blockchain, has announced the launch of Torque.
2019-9-4 16:15 | |
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Cybercriminals are using YouTube’s copyright strike system to coerce influencers into promoting SilentCryptoMiner, a crypto-mining Trojan. This highlights growing cybersecurity risks for content creators and their audiences.
Malicious actors stole roughly $9. 9 billion from the crypto ecosystem last year — the lowest amount since 2021, according to a recent Chainalysis report. The firm added that the figure is expected to rise to $12.
The FBI’s initiative to counter crypto investment fraud has helped thousands of victims avoid losing millions of dollars since its launch, according to a Feb. 13 press release. Dubbed Operation Level Up, the program proactively identifies individuals in the midst of being scammed and intervenes before they lose their money.
India has intensified efforts to curb crypto-related scams by collaborating with tech giants Google and Meta (formerly Facebook), according to the Ministry of Home Affairs’ 2024 annual report.
T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU) has frozen criminal assets valued at $100 million across five continents. Formed by Tether, TRON, and TRM Labs in August 2024, the group collaborates with law enforcement worldwide to disrupt organized schemes that rely on blockchain transactions.
The demand for fresh narratives in the crypto space has ignited a booming trend—AI-inspired memecoins. These tokens, blending artificial intelligence with the viral appeal of meme culture, have surged to a collective market capitalization of over $10 billion, as per Coingecko data.
Pig butchering scams led to $3. 6 billion in crypto losses in 2024, emerging as the most significant fraud scheme of the year, according to a report by web3 security firm Cyvers. The long-term fraud method, where victims are groomed over time to make substantial investments, outpaced other forms of crypto scams in 2024.