Tagged: defi

September 15, 2021 @ 3:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

X-Margin, a company applying privacy-preserving technology to credit and financial market risk, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round where Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group were major investors. Bixin Ventures, Miranda Ventures (Bybit), Gemini, Primitive Ventures and Kenetic Capital also… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HaloDAO is collaborating with YGG for “local” stablecoin support “for simpler cash out,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. HaloDAO, a stablecoin marketplace protocol, is working cooperatively with Yield Guild Games (YGG) to “enable YGG community members to support simpler cash outs in… Read More

September 11, 2021 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mogul Productions claims to be a “decentralized” platform working towards “democratizing” the film financing industry. In what they consider to be a new concept, Mogul aims to bring decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens or NFTs as the “focal point” for the traditional movie industry…. Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 12:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-based full-stack scaling solution bringing mass adoption to the Ethereum platform, announced Aragon Client, an Ethereum-based project focused on the creation and management of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), is now live on the Polygon PoS network. The growth of Web 3.0 communities has… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance (DeFi) apps available today are mainly deployed on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, where the complete transaction history and balances are public by default. Most blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms do not offer adequate privacy protection, which makes it rather difficult… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gamified decentralized finance platform DeFi Land has finalized its initial round of investing valued at $4.1 million, according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. Several investors have allocated funds to this initiative, the announcement revealed. The concept of gamifying investment action could potentially make… Read More

September 8, 2021 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Greengage Global Holding Ltd, a UK registered firm, which intends to serve as the very first digital merchant bank through its wholly owned Gibraltar subsidiary, Greengage & Co. Ltd, reveals that it has acquired another institutional investment, along with its £2.5 million investment from IOVLabs…. Read More

September 7, 2021 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Haobo Ma, the CEO and Founder at blockchain platform aelf – which is powered by Cloud computing. Ma talked about his approach to cryptocurrency investments and how he got involved in the space back in 2010, which was when he… Read More

September 7, 2021 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana-enabled venture platform SolRazr has introduced a decentralized developer ecosystem for the Solana blockchain, “comprising Launchpad, Accelerator, and Developer Tools,” according to an update shared with CI. As mentioned in a release, SolRazr is specifically designed to serve as the “de-facto” fundraising and developer platform… Read More

September 6, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cyclos, a newly developed Solana-powered DeFi project, has secured $2.1 million in capital (combined from a private and a public round). The proceeds will be directed towards developing the “first” concentrated liquidity AMM  (automated market maker) on Solana, which will enable several features “never seen… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Sameep Singhania, Founder and Director at Ginete Technologies and also the founding member at QuickSwap, which is described as a next-generation, layer-2 DEX (or non-custodial or decentralized exchange). Sameep told us that layer-2 blockchain solutions have gained massive popularity in recent… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kava Labs, an open-source and non-custodial developer of financial products and services for decentralized finance (DeFi), reveals that it has launched its latest platform project, Kava Swap. As mentioned in a release, Kava Swap is a cross-chain Autonomous Market Making (AMM) protocol specifically developed to… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A consortium of Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and initiatives have  announced DeFi for the People, a collaboration of international crypto-focused organizations united by a shared goal: bringing DeFi to the 6 billion mobile phone users across the globe. Developed on Celo, the project includes… Read More

August 30, 2021 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with James Wo, the Founder and CEO at Digital Financial Group, an investment company empowering Web 3.0 applications and blockchain or DLT -enabled platforms. Wo discussed the different products and services that his company supports. He also discussed the long-term impact that… Read More

August 30, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hats has secured $3.5 million in seed funding in order to create an “incentivized” cybersecurity network. Hats is now live with Liquity and Kleros bounty vaults, according to an update shared with CI. Hats is described as a “decentralized” cybersecurity incentive network “governed by its… Read More

August 28, 2021 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On Friday (August 27, 2021), the team at Sygnum banking platform celebrated their anniversary as a “regulated Swiss bank.” As mentioned in an update from Sygnum Bank: “Two years since we received our banking and securities dealer license, we now have significantly more than CHF… Read More

August 28, 2021 @ 8:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AllianceBlock, the chain-agnostic protocol, has today unveiled a new technical roadmap. It outlines the upcoming milestones that will bring AllianceBlock’s vision of bridging the gap between DeFi and traditional finance closer by remedying issues that exist in both spheres and linking the two worlds of… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 4:24 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CoinSwap Space, a decentralized exchange on the Binance Smart Chain, has integrated with Ramp, a move the two say will simplify DeFi activity. Ramp is a fiat onramp which does not require any proof of address to be uploaded by the customer.  This partnership will… Read More

August 26, 2021 @ 7:29 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yieldly, a decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem built on the Algorand blockchain, today announced partnerships with esports organizations BOOM esports and Fact Revolution. They will see the release of bespoke esports NFTs that users can win via staking. The partnerships will enable BOOM and Fact Revolution… Read More

August 26, 2021 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL Pay, a “decentralized” lending protocol that “puts credit in the hands of those who need it the most (users without capital), says that it aims to address the problems presented by uncollateralized borrowing through their “novel” design of “a decentralized network of banking nodes.”… Read More