Deals • February 28, 2023, 9:00AM EST A regulated decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for institutions, Hashnote, launched after a $5 million incubation with early stage blockchain investor Cumberla...
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SEC charges Avraham Eisenberg for $116 million Mango Markets exploit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Avraham Eisenberg, who is known as Mango Avi, with orchestrating an attack on Mango Markets and draining $116 million from the crypto trading platfo...
Ethereum Remains Dominant Amidst Major Impacts to DeFi Ecosystem
December 9, 2022, 8:23PM EST • 9 min read Quick Take Ethereum continues to be the largest DeFi ecosystem by far, and has consequently endured significant impacts from the collapse of FTX and Alameda T...
Is It Time For Investors To Move On?
The crypto winter has been hair raising for investors in decentralized finance protocols, exchanges … [+] and other products. Is it “buy low”, or “bye-bye” to DeFi? (Phot...
Is There Anyway To Calm Crypto Investors Down?
FTX is known as the “Lehman Moment” in the crypto industry. (Photo Illustration by Michael M. … [+] Santiago/Getty Images) Getty Images The blowup of the politically connected, virtu...
DeFi advocates push back against FTX-backed crypto bill
Decentralized finance advocates are scrambling to slow the passage of a digital asset regulation bill until next year, teeing up a struggle between some of crypto’s largest players, with Washington la...
EU Commission seeks automated Ethereum DeFi monitoring
The European Commission released a bid to study the possibilities of monitoring decentralized finance through “embedded supervision” last week. Stemming from the Commission’s Directorate-General dedi...
Strengthening Protocol Features and Community Building
October 3, 2022, 10:28AM EDT • 11 min read Quick Take This DeFi governance roundup piece covers Aave, ApeCoin, Balancer, BitDAO, Frax Finance, Lido, Stargate Finance, SushiSwap and Uniswap. The main t...
Is Anyone Really Using It?
Dai logo displayed on a phone screen and representation of cryptocurrencies are seen in this … [+] illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on June 10, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto ...
Streamlining Operations and Recent Controversy
September 2, 2022, 1:12PM EDT • 10 min read Quick Take This DeFi governance roundup piece covers Aave, ApeCoin, Balancer, Fei Protocol, Olympus DAO and Optimism. The proposals covered continue to focu...
A Focus on Protocol Growth
August 17, 2022, 9:38AM EDT • 15 min read Quick Take Market conditions have stabilized, but the total value locked in DeFi is still significantly lower than its peak in late 2021. The main theme acros...
How The DeFi Space Has Become A Massive Breeding Ground For Crypto Ponzi Schemes
A large number of recent Ponzi schemes have used decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure to defraud their customers. This article explores the DeFi ecosystem and how fraudsters are able to exploit...
Following The Money To A Network Of OTC Providers
With a continuous lack of precise regulation for Crypto brokers in Russian, hundreds of Russian and … [+] Belarusian Over-The-Counter (OTC) pawnshop-like providers that operate in a gray zone al...
With Russia War On The Brain, Could Congress Levy A Kill Shot To DeFi?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., talks with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley … [+] ahead of the State of the Union address on March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Win McNamee, Poo...