How DAOs, NFTs and DeFi are Disrupting Hollywood

Hollywood has long been governed by outsized institutions; from the Golden Age studios to today’s streaming giants, they’ve acted as the gatekeepers to Tinseltown.  But in the last few yea...

Ukraine, DeFi, and here’s what’s next for ‘scale-targeting’ Stellar and XLM

XRP and Stellar’s XLM are both among the market’s top 40 cryptocurrencies – and rival siblings too. The link between them is technologist Jed McCaleb, who founded Ripple and then left to co-found the ...

EverRise Director Jenn Duong on Developing Secure dApps and the Issues Facing the DeFi Space – Coinotizia

EverRise is a blockchain technology company that offers bridging and security solutions across blockchains through an ecosystem of decentralized applications. Through their innovative security focused...

Profit in a Crypto Winter: Stablecoins, Altcoins & DeFi

It’s been a rocky few weeks for the crypto market. Since Bitcoin rallied to an all-time high above $69,000 in November, it’s slumped by almost 50%, dragging other lower cap coins along with it. Variou...

Value Locked in Defi Slips 10% in 4 Days, Ethereum TVL Dominates at 58% – Coinotizia

Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a ...

Yearn.Finance (YFI) DeFi Was Vulnerable to Flash Loan Attack; Are Funds SAFU?

Vladislav Sopov Yearn.Finance (YFI), a top-league DeFi ecosystem and one of the most overhyped protocols of 2020 DeFi Summer, shared the attack design against its architecture (now fixed) Contents USD...

Are Users Pivoting to DeFi Trading? A Closer Look Into CEX Vs. DEX Numbers

Bitcoin started out as a technological experiment more than a decade ago. Since then, the global financial markets have undergone a tremendous shift. At the center of the digital currency revolution i...

DeFi flashes early revival signs as retail and institutional inflows trickle in

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has had a rough go so far in 2022, and data from Messari shows the top ten-ranked DeFi assets currently down between 10% to 50% since the start of the year. Top ten DeFi t...

Defi TVL Jumps 12% Since Mid-December, Close to $25B in Bridges, Convex Gains on Curve’s Dominance – Coinotizia

The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has risen 4% during the first four days of the new year from $245 billion on January 1, to $255.84 billion three days later. While the defi...

Flare Boosts DeFi Offerings with Ola Partnership

Flare is expanding its presence in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector with its latest partnership with Ola Finance. Ola Finance is a firm that provides programmable lending products customized to...

The Leading Cross-Chain Oracle in DeFi » NullTX

DeFi’s emergence highlighted the true capabilities of blockchain technology and showcased its utility in finance. With DeFi seeing a surge in growth, as more and more organizations and projects levera...

DeFi hack: DEGO Finance loses over $10M, urges exchanges to stop all deposits

Another day, yet another exploit in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space gets reported. DeFi has been one of the fastest-growing segments in the crypto space this year. The space also garnered the i...

Kirobo CEO Asaf Naim Explains How Building a Safety Net for DeFi Users Will Make It Bigger Than Ever – Interview Bitcoin News

Kirobo is a decentralized application developer building out a suite of services focused on DeFi security and usability. With a $5 million investment from Digimax in 2021, Kirobo works to make decentr...

Flare Expands Its DeFi Offering With Ola Finance Partnership

London, United Kingdom, 10th February, 2022, In support of its growing DeFi ecosystem, Flare has announced a recent partnership with Ola Finance, a platform offering customized lending networks. Ola p...

Why DeFi Is the Future of the Financial Market and How To Earn on It

Amid the financial market digitalization, analytics recorded active growth of the DeFi industry. Projects in the decentralised finance segment became a breath of fresh air in the world, vexed with the...

The History & Future of DeFi Lending

Lending has become a core pillar of DeFi and even helped put decentralized finance on the map. The initial protocols supporting this concept have solidified their position in the industry, although ne...

Aperture Raises $5.3M to Build A Cross-chain DeFi Investment Ecosystem with A Marketplace for Strategies

Aperture, a cross-chain DeFi investment ecosystem, has successfully closed $5.3 million in seed and strategic round sale led by ParaFi Capital, Arrington Capital, Costanoa Ventures, and Divergence Ven...

Can a neobank ever be built on DeFi rails?

Quick Take In the last decade, neobanks such as Monzo, Revolut and N26 have pioneered a mobile-first and branchless alternative to banking.  Now, as DeFi slowly makes its way to the mainstream, a new ...

Investment Platform Aperture Aiming to Be the AppStore of Defi

Defi became a $100 billion sector last year, propelled by the success of endless protocols devoted to lending, trading, savings and investment. Despite recent market choppiness, many crypto investors ...

Luna Foundation Proposes $450M Cash Injection to Boost Anchor DeFi Protocol Reserves

The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) proposed on Feb 8 to replenish the Anchor Protocol yield reserves by $450 million. The Foundation is stepping in to help the DeFi lending and borrowing protocol keep it...

Binance Listed DeFi Protocol DEGO Finance Hacked

Dego Finance, a recently launched decentralized finance (DeFi) project aims to refurbish the rationale and efficacy of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through an array of fun and clever applications.  Dego...

Almost $500 Million Has Been Lost To DeFi Exploits In First Two Months Of 2022

DeFi exploits have been the order of the day since the space began to gain prominence. For a relatively new space, this is not surprising that protocols have succumbed to exploits. However, the pace a...

Infinity Ventures Crypto Raises $70 Million Funding Seed to Empower web3 and DeFi Firms

Infinity Ventures Crypto, a Taipei-based Web 3 investor, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $70 million from investment firms, including Circle, Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Animoca Brands. I...

Fringe Finance Making the DeFi Space Inclusive by Simplifying Crypto Lending & Borrowing

The digital assets industry has been successful at attracting a record number of users within a short time. If we look at the numbers, we will see just how phenomenal the growth has been in the digita...

Hashstack Launches the Open Protocol Testnet, Bringing First Under-Collateralized Loans to DeFi

[PRESS RELEASE – Road Town, British Virgin Islands, 7th February 2022] Hashstack Finance is thrilled to announce the testnet debut of its Open protocol, the first-ever DeFi lending protocol to offer n...

Aleo Blockchain Raises $200M for Privacy-Minded DeFi

“Zero-knowledge execution,” or Zexe (pronounced “sexy” with a Z), is Aleo’s smart contracts-friendly evolution of ZKPs. It will see users execute off-chain transactions that pair with on-chain cryptog...

Hackers Steal $4.4 Million In Attack On DeFi Infrastructure Provider Meter

Another blockchain infrastructure platform has fallen victim to hackers, and it’s the third attack in recent weeks. This time Meter, the blockchain infrastructure, was attacked and saw more than $4.3 ...

DeFi Project Aave announces Launch of Decentralizeocial media platform on Polygon

TL: DR Breakdown DeFi lending protocol Aave has launched Lens Protocol, a decentralized social media platform built on the Polygon. The open-source “Web3, smart contracts-based social graph” platform ...

Vesting Contract for Polygon DeFi Protocol QiDAO Exploited for $13 Million

Polygon-based DeFi protocol QiDAO fell victim to an exploit of its Superfluid vesting contract on Tuesday, resulting in a loss of approximately $13 million. The QiDAO protocol allows users to borrow s...

DeFi Project Aave Launches Decentralized Social Media Platform on Polygon

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has announced the launch of Lens Protocol, a decentralized social media platform built on the Polygon blockchain. Named after lens culinaris, a plant that ha...

Hashstack´s Open Protocol Finally Brings Under Collateralized Loans To DeFi, Testnet Is Live Now

When people think of lending, it often involves a specific amount of funds to be used as collateral. For some reason, that amount is often far more considerable than the actual loan in decentralized f...

Meter loses $4.4 million in latest DeFi breach

TL; DR Breakdown Hackers steal $4.4 million from Meter token bridge The hackers used the Moonriver bridge Meter is refunding affected users The hacking issue in the crypto sector has become rampant as...