Tagged: decentralized finance

March 13, 2020 @ 6:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, a leading Ethereum (ETH)-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) credit facility, is reportedly planning to conduct a MKR governance token auction within two days from now. This marks the first time that this type of event will take place in Maker’s history. The MKR auction, called… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Framework Ventures, a tech investment firm that focuses on decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions, revealed on March 10, 2020, that it has invested $400,000 in Futureswap, a decentralized (or non-custodial) futures exchange. Framework Ventures has also invested $500,000 in Commonwealth Labs, the creator of Edgeware, which… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Ltd., a blockchain-powered platform that powers USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin by market cap, and Aave Protocol, an open-source and non-custodial protocol, are working cooperatively in order to promote the wider adoption of USDT in the evolving decentralized finance (DeFi) industry. USDT is used… Read More

February 27, 2020 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Compound, an open finance solution provider, has launched a new project that aims to decentralize the governance process for its non-custodial lending protocol and platform. The lending solutions’ developers noted that the platform’s governance token, COMP, will let its holders suggest, discuss, and make changes… Read More

February 20, 2020 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin marketplace, revealed that it processed more than $1.6 billion worth of global trading volume last year. India’s digital assets industry has been experiencing major challenges as the nation’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, has prohibited local banks… Read More

February 8, 2020 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Compound, a decentralized Ethereum-based lending protocol that forms part of the nearly $1 billion (at current valuations) DeFi ecosystem, had commissioned a stress test, which now reveals that the platform will be able to scale its total borrowed ETH value by 10x… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly $1 billion is now locked up into the evolving decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, according to data site DeFi Pulse. The site tracks major Ethereum-based lending protocols including Maker, a projected managed by the Maker Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the MakerDAO initiative, which… Read More

September 28, 2019 @ 1:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Fintech firm Ripple is reportedly planning to develop decentralized finance (DeFi) products based on XRP, the world’s third-largest digital currency by market capitalization. Ripple has acquired the Logos Network, a decentralized payments platform. The American Fintech’s investment arm, Xpring, is planning to hire… Read More

September 27, 2019 @ 2:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Kazemian, an Iranian-American software engineer who is a co-founder of Everipedia, a for-profit wiki-based online encyclopedia, and founder of Frax (Decentral Bank), a new stablecoin which will be a decentralized currency pegged 1-to-1 to the US dollar.  Kazemian recently shared his views and insights… Read More