Tagged: decentralized finance

June 12, 2023 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi has been suffering from a silent problem for years: a liquidity management gap. The lack of these services has caused a range of issues. It leads to increased price volatility, making executing trades at fair prices challenging and resulting in potential losses for traders…. Read More

June 10, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cronos Labs, a blockchain startup accelerator that focuses on decentralized finance, Web3 games, social applications, and on the development of the Cronos blockchain’s ecosystem, will collaborate with Google Cloud “to enhance its Accelerator Program and provide startups with resources to develop innovative AI-enabled Web3 applications… Read More

June 9, 2023 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MEV Capital Management Ltd. is launching a new digital asset hedge fund “MEV Capital Stablecoin High-Yield Fund SP”, a Cayman Islands fund that “encompasses on-chain operations to on the public Ethereum Blockchain (incl. ZK-related L2s).” The fund deploys and monitors trend-agnostic strategies “based on digital… Read More

June 5, 2023 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrencies, managing investments can be complex and time-consuming. However, structured products offer a solution by simplifying the investment process for individuals and providing them with opportunities to mitigate volatility and manage risks. To delve deeper into this topic, Crowdfund Insider… Read More

May 30, 2023 @ 3:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Cogito Protocol is pleased to share their exciting new collaboration with Unicorn Ventures, a “community-backed” venture capital fund focusing on decentralized finance, metaverse, and blockchain gaming. Together with their partner, they strive “to grow Cogito and their ecosystem’s adoption.” They share a… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

API3 is pleased to announce our latest partnership with Dovish, a perpetual swap protocol in the DeFi ecosystem. With a commitment to bringing smart money into DeFi, Dovish is “utilizing API3’s data feeds for their upcoming perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) launch on Polygon’s zkEVM.” After… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Symbiosis, a cross-chain liquidity protocol, announced the addition of Arbitrum Nova to its platform. This integration will “allow users to swap assets across 12+ chains.” Arbitrum Nova is a new chain that is designed to be more cost-effective and faster than Arbitrum One. It is… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has published a report providing a succinct outline of the global digital asset industry while outlining policy recommendations to regulate crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi). Similar to other reports, the ESRB views crypto as not systemically risky while noting… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RedStone, originator of the next-generation decentralized finance oracle platform, has announced an exclusive $350,000 angel investment round led by Web3 professionals including Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Naiwal, Alex Gluchovski and Emin Gün Sirer. The support from a host of Web3 pioneers “demonstrates the pronounced need for… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 7:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beanstalk, which claims to be the “pioneering” monetary experiment built to address the inefficiencies of hard money, announces a series of protocol improvements voted in by the DAO. With the upcoming series of Mayflower Updates, the protocol and its DAO are focused on the task… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to be the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original decentralized stablecoin, has announced the official launch date of Spark Protocol, a MakerDAO-centric decentralized application. Starting from May 9th, Spark Protocol will “serve as the underlying infrastructure for Spark… Read More

April 29, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Neon Foundation, the Neon EVM ecosystem accelerator, has entered into a strategic partnership with Pyth Network, a “next-generation” oracle “designed to publish high-fidelity financial market data at sub-second latency to multiple blockchains.” Pyth Network is now “available to all protocols built on Neon. This… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Giddy, the self-custody smart wallet that connects crypto holders to DeFi earning opportunities, has raised $6.9 million in a fresh round of funding. The capital raised from the investment round will be used “to further Giddy’s mission of bringing easy crypto DeFi adoption to the… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the world becomes more digitized, auction houses are turning towards decentralized technology to improve the auction process. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) technology is one such innovation that could transform the auction industry, bringing transparency, security, and accessibility to the table. With the rise of blockchain… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DFlow, a “decentralized” payment for order flow (PFOF) protocol that enables wallets and crypto trading applications to sell their flow to best-execution market makers via open and permissionless auctions, announced that it has successfully raised a $5.5 million funding round led by Framework Ventures, a… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move that should help lenders make better, more informed decisions on credit applications submitted using blockchain technology, TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has partnered with Spring Labs and Quadrata in order “to deliver off-chain credit scoring to DeFi and Web3 applications (internet applications based on… Read More

April 9, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at TwoX Protocol, which claims to be a decentralized finance protocol issuing yield generative stablecoin, is pleased to announce that TwoX protocol will be “launched on Arbitrum.” Their team have been “researching & discussing which infrastructure is great fit to deploy TwoX primarily since… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to be the longest-standing DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original, “decentralized” stablecoin, has announced the approval of the Maker Constitution. Succeeding in a Governance Poll on the MakerDAO forum, The Maker Constitution will gradually “change the operations of MakerDAO,… Read More

March 10, 2023 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Violet, the provider of privacy-protective compliance and identity infrastructure for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), announced the launch of Mauve, the compliant Decentralized Exchange (DEX) purpose-built “to offer the best of both DeFi and Traditional Finance (TradFi) to the crypto markets.” Backed by $15 million in funding… Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eric Parker, co-founder and CEO of Giddy, a provider of cryptocurrency wallets, recently shared his views and insights exclusively with Crowdfund Insider. Parker talked about the different opportunities that consumers may be willing to explore in the nascent DeFi space. He also touched on some… Read More