Tagged: defi

June 2, 2021 @ 7:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sovryn, a protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi) on Bitcoin, has introduced Sovrython, which is a virtual or online conference and hackathon that is scheduled to take place from June 4 to July 18, 2021. There will be $250,000 in bounties and another $250,000 in post-hackathon… Read More

June 2, 2021 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency market has really been tested during the past few weeks following “a cascade of negative news,” the Coin Metrics team notes in its latest report. The resulting crypto market price crash has also been “a big test” for stablecoins, which are becoming a… Read More

June 2, 2021 @ 1:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Current, a leading US-based Fintech firm serving Americans who are working to “create a better future for themselves,” recently revealed that it had teamed up with Acala, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform developed on the Polkadot blockchain network. The partnership, which is reportedly the first… Read More

May 30, 2021 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ChainSafe has reportedly received a development grant to natively integrate Chainlink (LINK) into the Cosmos software development kit (SDK). As previously reported, the Chainlink Community Grant Program offers financial resources to the development teams and researchers creating a “more functional, accessible, and socially impactful” Chainlink… Read More

May 30, 2021 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Shruti Appiah, Senior Product Manager at IOHK, an organization focused on the ongoing development of Cardano (ADA) and various other initiatives, notes that when she logs into her stock trading apps to acquire exchange-traded funds (ETFs), she may face issues like the platform not being… Read More

May 28, 2021 @ 8:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vesper Finance, a U.S.-based DeFi ecosystem and growth engine for crypto assets, announced on Thursday it has teamed up with Gauntlet to maximize efficiency and minimize risk through automated collateral management. Vesper reported through the partnership Gauntlet will deliver optimization of Vesper strategies that use on-chain… Read More

May 26, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Digital payments platform Wirex announced on Wednesday it has listed five new DeFi coins, which are AAVE, LINK, MKR, UNI, and YFI. According to Wirex, the addition of the coins will build on the 9 cryptos and 9 traditional currencies that the platform currently offers. … Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university in Philadelphia, has released a report titled, “DeFi Beyond the Hype – The Emerging World of Decentralized Finance.” The extensive report, which has been… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YIELD App, which provides a convenient way to invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) using crypto-assets or traditional currencies (regardless of your financial or tech expertise), has teamed up with DeFi insurance protocol Steady State. As noted in an update from YIELD App, they’re looking forward… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adam Turman, Developer Support Engineer at Kava Labs, which is focused on “democratizing” financial services and making them more accessible to “anyone, anywhere” across the globe, notes that when Hard Money Market V2 was introduced on April 8, 2021, Binance USD (BUSD) had been the… Read More

May 23, 2021 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

InsurAce, a DeFi insurance protocol, is introducing multi-chain insurance services on its Ethereum dApp (app.insurace.io), in order to offer insurance coverage to protocols and blockchain platforms like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Huobi Eco Chain (HECO), Solana, Polygon, and Fantom. As mentioned in the announcement,… Read More

May 22, 2021 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology (ONT), a high-throughput and high-performance blockchain platform for decentralized, digital ID solutions, reports that it has successfully integrated with OKExChain. OKExChain is a set of open-source public chain projects implemented by digital asset firm OKEx. The chain has managed to achieve high performance and… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator PlasmaFinance has introduced what it claims to be an “industry-first” Limit Order functionality for its native DeFi (decentralized or non-custodial) (DEX), PlasmaSwap, which lets users make swaps at “precise” price points, thus enabling “safer, stress-free DeFi trading.” As mentioned in a… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SlowMist, which focuses on blockchain ecosystem security, and has served major digital asset firms such as Huobi, OKEx, Binance, imToken (with around 1,000 commercial customers), has conducted an analysis on the recent PancakeBunny hack. SlowMist Zone had reported that PancakeBunny, the decentralized finance (DeFi) revenue… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies, Inc., which aims to transform financial services by leveraging the power of blockchain tech, has finalized a $200 million Series D round at a $3.2 billion valuation. 10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital have reportedly co-led the investment round. They’ve been joined by… Read More

May 19, 2021 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of decentralized insurance protocol, InsurAce have partnered with Dora Factory,  in order to offer one of the industry’s first IDO (Initial DEX Offering) insurance products on PentaLaunch, an IDO platform that’s reportedly owned by Dora Factory. As mentioned in a release shared with… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

James Wang, an experienced crypto analyst who says that Ethereum (ETH) could be the “last investment of your life,” points out that the world’s largest smart contract platform isn’t merely a cryptocurrency. Wang explains that Ethereum is a complete software platform with a rapidly increasing… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken notes in a blog post that Ethereum (ETH) remains a “driving force” behind cryptocurrency innovation. The team at Kraken points out that during the past year, Ethereum has played host to an “explosion” in digital art and “created a multi-billion dollar… Read More

May 16, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

High-performance, high-throughput blockchain developer Ontology (ONT) has published its Weekly Report, ending May 11, 2021. Ontology, which develops digital ID solutions and various other distributed ledger tech (DLT) applications, notes that ONTO and bloXroute announced a partnership to offer ETH “front-running” protection for wallet users… Read More

May 14, 2021 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banxa, an established payment service provider (PSP) for the crypto-asset sector, has reportedly integrated its crypto-to-fiat gateway with Bancor, a liquidity protocol enabling automated cross-chain swaps and liquidity provision to various digital tokens. Through this latest integration, Bancor users will have the option to buy… Read More