Tagged: defi

August 25, 2025 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VanEck CEO Jan van Eck has referred to Ethereum “the Wall Street token,” signaling a potential shift in how traditional finance perceives the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency (and the largest smart contract platform in terms of overall adoption and market cap). This characterization underscores Ethereum’s growing… Read More

August 25, 2025 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SBI Group, one of Japan’s financial conglomerates with the USD equivalent of over $200 billion in total assets, and Chainlink, the so-called “industry-standard” oracle platform, announced a partnership focused on accelerating blockchain and digital asset adoption across global markets. Japan’s financial market and evolving digital… Read More

August 19, 2025 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance landscape is evolving and Aave, a key part of the DeFi ecosystem, is focused on its upcoming Aave V4 upgrade. Unveiled as a key milestone in Aave’s 2030 roadmap, Aave V4 introduces a  Hub and Spoke architecture, potentially reshaping how DeFi lending… Read More

August 17, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DeAgentAI, an AI infrastructure project on the Sui blockchain, has received a strategic investment from Momentum, a decentralized exchange (DEX) in the Sui ecosystem. Through this partnership, the two will jointly build and explore AI-powered DeFi solutions. Momentum has established itself as the TVL leader… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase has announced the relaunch of its Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund, aimed at enhancing liquidity for stablecoins like USDC and EURC across various DeFi protocols. Managed by Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), this initiative marks a renewed commitment to fostering an improved onchain financial system, building on… Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the startup management and financial regulation ecosystem, staying informed about policy changes and effective tools is vital for founders, investors, and financial professionals. Recent updates from Carta, a cap table management platform, highlight developments in anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

  YouHodler executives comment on recent movements in traditional and decentralized markets. “Global financial markets are currently undergoing a correction, with risk assets pulling back in response to rising geopolitical and economic uncertainty. The S&P 500 has edged lower following the announcement of new tariffs… Read More

August 5, 2025 @ 3:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink Labs has unveiled a key update with the launch of Chainlink Data Streams for U.S. equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a development poised to enhance tokenized real-world asset (RWA) markets. This offering reportedly delivers real-time, low-latency data, enabling decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to integrate… Read More

August 1, 2025 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Web3 ecosystem faced significant security challenges in July 2025, with SlowMist’s latest monthly security report revealing $147 million in losses across 13 major hacking incidents. Despite efforts to mitigate damages, with $42.48 million now reportedly recovered or frozen, the recent report from blockchain security… Read More

July 30, 2025 @ 1:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 30, 2025, Ethereum, the world’s largest programmable blockchain, marks its 10th year of existence—a milestone that underscores its impact on finance, technology, and decentralized systems. As highlighted in Nexo’s latest update, Ethereum’s journey from a visionary whitepaper to a global smart contract platform… Read More

July 21, 2025 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The second quarter of 2025 marked a pivotal period for Ethereum, as outlined in The ETH Report by the authors of The DeFi Report. During this period, the ETH price made a sharp recovery to over $3,600, outperforming Bitcoin considerably. Drawing on data from Dune… Read More

July 11, 2025 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced the acquisition of the leadership team from Opyn Markets, a decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives protocol. This acqui-hire, revealed on July 11, 2025, underscores Coinbase’s commitment to advancing its onchain markets infrastructure and accelerating the integration of decentralized financial systems into its platform…. Read More

July 10, 2025 @ 5:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has recently highlighted both the transformative potential of financial technology and the risks posed by unregulated financial activities. Through a keynote speech at BaFinTech 2025 and consumer warnings about unauthorized entities, BaFin underscores its dual role as a… Read More

July 4, 2025 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets exchange Gemini has taken a significant step toward merging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi) by launching a new batch of tokenized stocks for European Union investors. Announced on July 3, 2025, this release includes U.S. equities such as Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 6:57 pm By Nick Motz  |  

  Decentralized finance (DeFi) emerged to challenge the inefficiencies and oftentimes lack of inclusivity of traditional finance (TradFi). In its earliest form, DeFi prized innovation over accountability, often prioritizing yield mechanics untethered to real economic activity. That era is ending. Today, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs)… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 6:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a step toward bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi), Anchorage Digital has integrated the Uniswap Trading API into its institutional-grade self-custody wallet, Porto. This integration enables Anchorage Digital’s clients to access the Uniswap Protocol and UniswapX liquidity directly from the Porto web dashboard,… Read More

June 20, 2025 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos Labs, a start-up whose mission is to make on-chain products and DeFi markets more accessible, is announcing its launch. Paxos Labs enables partners to bring financial products to market and manage them at scale with “integrated risk management, liquidity optimization and seamless distribution.” Incubated… Read More

June 8, 2025 @ 4:55 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong will implement its new Stablecoins Ordinance on August 1, formalizing the city’s regulatory framework for stablecoin-related activities and introducing a licensing regime aimed at strengthening oversight of the fast-growing digital asset sector. The ordinance, which was officially gazetted on May 30, is a… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK noted that earlier this year, the U.S. Treasury Department made a groundbreaking decision to lift sanctions on Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency mixing service that had been a lightning rod for controversy since its sanctioning in 2022. Originally blacklisted by the Office of Foreign… Read More

June 6, 2025 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency market continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and leverage remains a critical component of its ecosystem. Galaxy Research’s Q1 2025 report, The State of Crypto Leverage, provides a comprehensive analysis of the shifting dynamics in crypto-collateralized lending, decentralized finance (DeFi), centralized finance… Read More