Tagged: defi

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

March 2, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founder and CEO Leo Mizuhara and Cumberland Labs are pleased to announce the launch of Hashnote, the first fully regulated, institutional-grade investment management platform for DeFi. Hashnote is “backed with US$5mn of investment from Cumberland Labs, an early-stage blockchain incubator launched by the partners of… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Floki is now officially partnered with one of the biggest lending protocols on the BNB chain, Venus Protocol. Venus claims it is “the leading lending and borrowing protocol on the BNB chain as well as the second biggest DeFi protocol on the chain after top… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HashKey DX Co., Ltd. (Headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, CEO: Andy Dan) has signed an exclusive domestic distribution agreement with CertiK (Headquartered in New York, USA,Co-Founder: Prof. Ronghui Gu and Prof. Zhong Shao) in order “to bring blockchain-specific security solutions to the Japanese market.” Blockchain technology… Read More

February 25, 2023 @ 10:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swarm, the regulated blockchain platform, announces the launch of a public investment offering for Apple, Tesla, and two US Treasury Bond ETFs on decentralized finance (DeFi). The “fully” asset-backed tokens are “available on the Polygon blockchain for both retail and institutional investors, with no minimum… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report on the financial stability risks of Decentralised Finance (DeFi). DeFi is commonly “used to describe services in crypto-asset markets that aim to replicate some functions of the traditional financial system in a supposedly decentralized manner – though… Read More

February 16, 2023 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Obligate, formerly known as FQX, is a Switzerland-based company that provides a blockchain-based bond platform. The Obligate platform is designed to streamline the debt issuance process and make it more accessible to businesses of all sizes. The platform provides a secure and transparent way of… Read More

February 12, 2023 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently connected with Mike Taormina, Alluvial’s Co-Founder Chief Operating Officer. As COO of Alluvial, he works with industry professionals to build Liquid Collective, an enterprise-grade liquid staking standard. Alluvial is the software development company supporting the implementation of the Liquid Collective protocol. Alluvial… Read More

February 5, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Dr. Torsten Stüber, Co-Founder and CTO at Berlin-based Pendulum, an initiative focused on traditional finance infrastructure blockchain solutions, which is “the missing link between fiat and DeFi.” Pendulum is an open-source blockchain built on the “proven” Parity Substrate framework, establishing… Read More

January 30, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Money laundering is “crucial” to all financially motivated crime because it’s what enables criminals “to access the funds they generate from their activities,” the team at Chainalysis explains. Otherwise, why commit the crimes in the first place? The same is true in cryptocurrency. The goal… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astroport, which claims to be one of the most “popular” decentralized exchanges, launched its beta on the Injective testnet. Injective is described as a fast blockchain built for finance. As the “first” smart contracts platform optimized for building decentralized finance applications, dApps such as Astroport… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset Reality, the end-to-end solution for digital asset recovery, has raised $4.91 million in a seed round led by Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm “known for its early entry into decentralized finance (DeFi).” The investment round also “saw participation from TechStars; The Fund (who… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marinade Finance, Solana’s No.1 protocol by total value locked (TVL), has announced a major drive “to increase staking of SOL on the blockchain as the protocol aims to increase Solana’s decentralization and grow liquidity throughout its decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.” Launching February 1, Marinade’s Open… Read More

January 26, 2023 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Injective, a blockchain specifically designed for building financial applications, announced a new $150 million ecosystem initiative “to further accelerate the adoption of interoperable infrastructure and DeFi.” Injective claims  it is the first fully decentralized smart contracts platform “optimized for building finance applications.” Injective was “created… Read More

January 25, 2023 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized finance (DeFi) builds on distributed ledger technologies (DLT) “to offer services such as trading, lending and investing without using a traditional centralized intermediary,” according to finding shared by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The fact that DeFi components can be programmed “may open… Read More

January 22, 2023 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PARSIQ has launched its “blazing” fast Tsunami API on Arbitrum One. The Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution has already “attracted a strong community of users and developers — with Tsunami API, builders can access instant real-time and historical data providing advanced querying functionality and vital monitoring… Read More

January 22, 2023 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, has fallen from a high of nearly $70,000, which it reached in late 2022, to just over $20,000 at the time of writing. Meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest crypto-asset by market cap and the largest smart contract platform, has… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to be the longest-standing DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original, decentralized stablecoin, announces Societe Generale-FORGE, a subsidiary of French multinational investment bank Societe Generale, has “completed an initial DAI drawdown from the MakerDAO protocol of 7 million DAI. SG-FORGE… Read More

January 11, 2023 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new report from SlowMist takes a close look at the major events in the blockchain industry that took place in 2022. The report from SlowMist provides an overview of the security status of each area within the industry and delves into “common attack techniques.”… Read More

January 11, 2023 @ 6:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Coinmetrics has released the State of DeFi Tokens in 2023 Report. Authored by Matías Andrade and Kyle Waters, the Coinmetrics report reveals that decentralized finance (DeFi) is “a rapidly growing application of blockchain technology that aims to provide financial services, such as… Read More