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Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $57 Billion, Securing Over $20 Billion in 3 Months
21.1.2024
Data from defillama.com reveals that over the past 93 days, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) protocols escalated from $37.46 billion on Oct. 20, 2023, to the present $57.74 billion. Notably, 57.3% of the total value in defi is anchored in the Ethereum blockchain, while...
Can CoinDepo Service Compete with Binance Simple Earn and Nexo Earn?
20.1.2024
CoinDepo emerged as one of the latest and most promising additions to the decentralized finance sector. Can it compete with established champions such as Binance Simple Earn and Nexo Earn Interest products? It absolutely can, but let’s see how. CoinDepo is a newer provider of decentralized...
Moonwell’s Bold $2.3M Plan to Counter Frax Hack Debt Sparks Controversy
19.1.2024
Moonwell, a decentralized finance (DeFi) borrowing and lending protocol, is facing controversy over its proposal to use $2.3 million worth of digital asset collateral to offset bad debt from Frax Finance (FRAX) pools due to a hack nearly two years ago. In a plebiscite held on December 31, 2023...
dYdX Overtakes Uniswap as Daily Trading Volumes Hit $757 Million
18.1.2024
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform dYdX market has moved past Uniswap as the largest decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) by trading volumes. Recent data from crypto analytics firm Cointelegraph shows an increase in the trading volume of dYdX v4 over Uniswap’s v3 in the last 24 hours....
Ethereum Staking Platform Kiln Raises $17 Million in Funding Round Led by 1kx
18.1.2024
Paris-based Ethereum staking infrastructure provider Kiln has closed a $17 million funding round to expand its institutional-grade offering internationally. The funding will also support more decentralized finance (DeFi) reward models. The funding round was led by 1kx. Several prominent investors...
Crypto Market Capitalization Surged 108% Despite Trading Volumes Plunging 31.6%: CoinGecko
17.1.2024
The crypto market recorded massive growth in several areas wiping out losses of the bear market with its market capitalization going up 108% to approximately $869 billion. A new market report released by CoinGecko shows industry performances across different quarters highlighting key metrics that...
Nigerian Crypto Startup Reveals Closure of $2.3 Million Strategic Funding Round
17.1.2024
The Nigerian crypto startup revealed on Jan. 16 that the firm had closed a $2.3 million strategic fund to finance the acquisition of operating licenses from different African regulators. Canza Finance said it hopes the new licenses and the defi platform will help it achieve its goal of lowering...
Study: Venture Capital Investments in Top Ten Web3 Projects Were 70% Lower in 2023
16.1.2024
In 2023, the top ten Web3 projects collectively raised $1.78 billion in funding, a figure which is 70% lower than the $5.87 billion raised in the previous year, the findings of a new study have shown. The findings also show that Web3 projects were able to attract $9 billion in capital with...
Tokenized Real-World Assets: An Appealing Portfolio Diversification Strategy for Modern Investors – Zaid Ismail
15.1.2024
Despite recently garnering much of the world’s attention, traditional exchange-traded funds (ETFs), including spot bitcoin ETFs, are still inferior to tokenized real-world assets (RWA), according to Zaid Ismail, the COO at the future-proof blockchain Mintlayer. The Appeal of Tokenized Real-World...
Federal Reserve’s Rate Cut Could Spark Institutional Interest in DeFi and Stablecoins, Fidelity Predicts
15.1.2024
The United States Federal Reserve’s potential interest rate cut could reignite major institutional interest in decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoins, according to asset manager Fidelity. In their recently released 2024 Digital Assets Look Ahead report, Fidelity suggests that this...
Balaji Srinivasan Equates Bitcoin ETF Move to Reversal of FDR’s Historic Gold Seizure
11.1.2024
The sanctioning of U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) heralds a transformative shift from a century-long dominance of centralized monetary systems to the emerging realm of decentralized finance, as opined by Balaji Srinivasan, a distinguished figure in technology and the crypto...
Liquidity Pool Comprising PayPal’s PYUSD Stablecoin on Curve Locks $135 Million in Value
10.1.2024
Source: iQoncept/Adobe A liquidity pool comprising PayPal’s dollar-backed stablecoin PYUSD on Curve has locked $135 million in total value, an indication that the stablecoin is gaining traction in decentralized finance (DeFi). The new liquidity pool, known as the FRAXPYUSD pool, went live...
Defi Can Strengthen the United States’ Leadership in Tech and Financial Services, CFTC Report Says
9.1.2024
Decentralized finance projects and their respective ecosystems potentially offer both promising opportunities and risks to the U.S. financial system, a Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) study has found. The CFTC study report recommends conducting a gap analysis against current...
CFTC Committee Recommends Enhanced Understanding and Regulation of DeFi
9.1.2024
CFTC building. Source: Adobe / JHVEPhoto The Technology Advisory Committee of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken a significant step in addressing the challenges posed by decentralized finance (DeFi) by voting to submit a report urging the government and industry...
Tunisian Universities’ Hackathons to Boost Understanding of Distributed Ledger Technology
9.1.2024
Two Tunisian universities working in collaboration with the blockchain company Dar Blockchain and the Hashgraph Association are set to hold three-day hackathons. Hackathon participants are set to learn how decentralized finance (defi) can help revolutionize and make financial services widely...
DeFi Identity Should Be Focus of U.S. Policymakers, CFTC Says
9.1.2024
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants U.S. policymakers to evaluate options for regulating the issue of identity information in decentralized finance, a report published Monday said
Gamma Heist — Over $3M in Digital Assets Drained, 1,000 ETH Moved to Tornado Cash
6.1.2024
On Jan. 4, the decentralized finance protocol Gamma Strategies was a victim of a hacking attack which saw criminals make off with digital assets worth over $3 million. To pre-empt further attacks, Gamma Strategies said it has shut off all deposits on any of its “public-facing vaults.”...
South Korean Tokenization Startup Chooses Klaytn Over Ethereum for Gold NFTs
5.1.2024
The Klaytn Foundation, an organization devoted to expanding the Klaytn ecosystem, announced that Creder, one of its governance council members, will launch a tokenized gold offering called Gold Pegged Coin (GPC) in January. Creder will also launch Goldstation, a decentralized finance platform...
Defi Platform Radiant Capital Loses Digital Assets Worth $4.5 Million After Flash Loan Attack
4.1.2024
Radiant Capital, a decentralized finance (defi) platform, confirmed on Jan. 3, 2023, that it fell victim to an attack which saw the “protocol accruing bad debt in the WETH market, totaling about 1.3% of total protocol TVL” or $4.5 million. Radiant Capital has urged the hackers...
Solana-Based Jupiter to Distribute 1 Billion JUP Tokens in Upcoming Airdrop
3.1.2024
Source: Adobe / Vladimir Kazakov Jupiter, a decentralized trading aggregator built on the Solana blockchain, has announced plans to conduct the airdrop of its JUP token in late January. According to Meow, the pseudonymous founder of the protocol, the surge in decentralized finance (DeFi) activity...