Tagged: defi lending

July 22, 2023 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Radiant Capital, a lending and borrowing protocol built atop Binance Labs portfolio company, LayerZero Labs, and focused on “bridging fragmented liquidity across decentralized finance ecosystems.” This strategic funding round “emphasizes Binance Labs’… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to be the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original decentralized stablecoin, has announced that it has “completed the purchase of an additional $700 million worth of US treasuries, bringing the value of its total bond allocation to $1.202… 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

August 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The art and collectible markets are considerably more “liquidity-starved” when compared to the global equity, gold markets, and other assets. And this problem is even more prevalent in the NFT market, which is its early stages of development. It might take a long time to… Read More

October 25, 2020 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA DAO (distributed autonomous organization), a community-governed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to make staking, lending, and governance more accessible to traders and investors, has launched its first (transaction) validator in the Cosmos ecosystem. MANTRA DAO’s new validator node will allow users to earn… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 1:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lex Sokolin, the Global Fintech Co-Head and CMO at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum (ETH) development studio, recently noted that COMP tokens, which belong to major DeFi lending solution Compound, ballooned over 200%. As reported, decentralized finance protocol Compound saw a dramatic increase in lending dctivity… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new type of user reward scheme to distribute the Compound governance tokens (COMP) has led to a significant increase in the amount of value locked into the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Traders using Compound are now “farming” COMP tokens. Notably, the total value… Read More