There is a reason centralized exchanges have dominated despite being antithetical to crypto’s core tenets. The following opinion editorial was written by Bitcoin.com CEO Dennis Jarvis. The gross misma...
Tag: DeFi
Top 5 DeFi Tokens to Watch Out This Week
Rocket Pool ranked third among the top gainers, according to CoinMarketCap. UNI and LINK exhibit similar trading patterns over the past week. LDO makes higher highs early in the week but loses momentu...
Aptos APT Reaches New ATH Amid Rising DeFi Activities
Layer 1 blockchain network Aptos’ native token APT reached a new all-time high of $14.18 during the early trading hours of Jan. 22 after surging by over 200% since the beginning of 2023. According to ...
DeFi TVL flat-lines below $50b even as bitcoin prices soar
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols continues to flat-line below $50b, adding less than $10b since December 2022, statistics on Jan. 22 reveal. DeFi and crypto price...
DeFi should complement TradFi, not attack it: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. Following FTX’s demis...
Synthetix (SNX) up 13% to Lead DeFi Push, What is Driving Growth?
Synthetix (SNX) is seeing a massive growth push today after soaring by 13.06% in the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Trading at a price of $2.40, the token has now inched to 31.1%...
Algorand’s new announcement raises hopes of move to DeFi… Details inside
Algorand embraced a new self-custody exchange as part of a deeper focus on DeFi. ALGO bulls regained control, but the stakes remained high as directional uncertainty crept in. Algorand [ALGO] revealed...
Lancelot Labs Emerges From Stealth And Unveils First Institutional SAFT Tracker Built For Defi
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lancelot Labs, an investment infrastructure startup, emerges from stealth, announcing the first and only institutional SAFT tracker to help crypto funds automatically tra...
The Bank for International Settlements Introduces the DeFi Stack Reference
In a recent working paper, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) examined the inner workings of decentralised finance (DeFi) and created the DeFi stack reference (DSR) model to highlight the ca...
DeFi Project 1inch Network Launches Hardware Wallet
Popular decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch Network is expanding its ecosystem of products and projects with the launch of its own multi-coin hardware wallet. Supported by a grant from the 1...
DeFi problems and opportunities in 2023: Market Talks
On this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Grant Shears, founder of Blocmates — an educational and consultancy company that aims to create crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and ...
Brett Harrison raises $5 million for DeFi company aimed at institutions: Bloomberg
Former FTX.US president Brett Harrison has raised $5 million from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures to build out his latest venture: Architect. The new firm—which Harris...
Snowfall Protocol as DeFi will lead on the next bull run
SPONSORED POST* The competition between crypto projects has risen. All existing and newly launched tokens are putting their best foot forward to get on the top. Well Known projects like Binance (BNB) ...
Why Smart Contract Exploits Should Not Discourage DeFi Adoption? – Cryptopolitan
Blockchain technology, and specifically decentralized finance (DeFi) built on top of it, is rapidly revolutionizing the financial industry. Funds lost in smart contract exploits in 2020: $215M Funds l...
Innovative auto trading ecosystem MYST kickstarts new DeFi era
MYST, the rising auto trading ecosystem, is making waves with its innovative approach. MYST stands for Multi-Strategy, Yield-Optimized Systematic Trading. The crypto bot trading and dApp, as the name...
Alameda liquidators don’t know DeFi
Blockchain data shows that Alameda Research liquidators did not take the necessary steps to preserve the capital of the bankrupt venture capital firm, wasting millions of dollars worth of money that c...
DeFi should complement TradFi, not attack it: Ava Labs CEO
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is on its way from becoming a small niche within the financial industry to something traditional finance (TradFi) is trying to incorporate. In an interview with Cointeleg...
DeFi and TradFi should integrate and spur more innovation
Decentralised finance, or DeFi, is quickly gaining traction as a new way to access financial services. However, some experts argue that the DeFi movement should not be viewed as a direct attack on tra...
EX-RIPPLE EXECUTIVE DISPELS RUMORS OF POSSIBLE XRP CONFISCATION BY THE GOVERNMENT, SOLANA SEES INCREASE IN DAILY ACTIVE USERS FOLLOWING IMPROVED DEFI AND NFT ACTIVITY IN THE NETWORK, SNOWFALL PROTOCOL CONTINUES BULLISH RALLY; SNW PRICE TICKS $0.19
Along with the overall recovery in the crypto ecosystem, improved fundamentals and positive news have been key price drivers this week. Solana (SOL) and XRP have particularly done well. But not as wel...
Defi Crypto Fund Raised $40 Million – Trustnodes
The Gadze Finance USD Market Neutral Crypto Yield Fund has raised $39.9 million from 70 investors since it launched in October 2021 according to a filing. The fund started out with $25 million, growin...
The Future of DeFi: Uniswap, Polkadot, and Orbeon Protocol
SPONSORED POST* The future of DeFi looks bright, with Uniswap (UNI), Polkadot (DOT), and Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) leading the way. Orbeon Protocol (ORBN), in particular, is expected to revolutionize cro...
Lido, the new king of DeFi? As per this development, the answer is…
Lido protocol showed significant growth in TVL and APR. Despite improvements, concerns about sustainability remained. The Lido [LDO] protocol made massive improvements in its performance over the last...
DeFi Bounty Platform Immunefi Bans Generative AI Bug Reports
Smart contract bug bounty platform Immunefi banned 15 people for allegedly submitting bug reports created by the generative artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. The whitehat hacker bounty platform in...
Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem explained
Besides wBTC, Stacks and Rootstock, BadgerDAO, RenVM and Liquid Network promote various use cases of Bitcoin DeFi. BadgerDAO A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called BadgerDAO makes it pos...
Smart Contract Tokens, Defi Economy See Strong Growth, Market Capitalization Swells by $78 Million in 30 Days – Defi Bitcoin News
Smart contract tokens and the decentralized finance economy have been on a tear during the last month, gaining against the U.S. dollar. The market capitalization of the smart contract platform token e...
Risks Associated with CBDC Integration into DeFi Ecosystems – Cryptopolitan
Alden Baldwin Journalist, Writer, Editor, Researcher, and Strategic Media Manager: With over 10 years of experience in the digital, print and public relations industries, he has been working with the ...
71% of Total Value Locked Evaporates in 12 Months – Defi Bitcoin News
Decentralized finance (defi) has continued to remain deeply ingrained in the cryptocurrency economy as the ecosystem provides users with a non-custodial way to exchange digital assets, lend cryptocurr...
DeFi Begins Recovery As TVL Exceeds $45 Billion
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has always been the most evolving sector in the Web3 space. With new innovations and protocols popping up in the DeFi industry, the ecosystem total value locked (TVL) cont...
5 Best DeFi Tokens To Watch Out This Week
DeFi tokens are a collection of cryptocurrencies that are native to automated, decentralized platforms that use smart contracts. Decentralized finance is the term used to describe initiatives that see...
DeFi might have bright future in 2023 while NFTs need to prove their value, experts say
Since the start of 2022, the crypto markets have gone down from the $3 trillion mark — which was recorded in November 2021 — to $2.2 trillion in January last year, to roughly $800 billion at the start...
DeFi TVL Tops $50 Billion For the First Time in Ten Weeks
Decentralized finance (DeFi) collateral has been increasing since the beginning of the year. The move has mirrored the crypto market rally as confidence slowly returns. The dollar amount of collateral...