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Decentralized finance is growing up: How DeFi is becoming ‘NewFi’
24.7.2024
Traditional institutional giants like BlackRock, which has $10.6 trillion under management, have entered the cryptocurrency space
Decentralized Finance TVL Recovers to $100B After July Lows
22.7.2024
Between June 19 and July 19, within a 30-day period, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) dropped below the $100 billion mark, hitting a low of $86.3 billion on July 7, 2024. Over the past three days, however, the TVL has managed to stay above the $100 billion threshold....
New crypto users shouldn’t ‘rush into DeFi’ — Security firms
24.4.2024
Hacken’s Luciano Ciattaglia said that new crypto users should not immediately jump into decentralized finance or decentralized exchanges
Velar Launches Dharma AMM to Propel Bitcoin Into the Decentralized Finance Spotlight
19.3.2024
On Tuesday, the bitcoin liquidity protocol Velar unveiled Dharma, an automated market maker (AMM) designed to enhance decentralized finance liquidity within the Bitcoin realm. The inaugural version of Velar’s Dharma is set to function on the Bitcoin layer two (L2) Stacks, featuring an initial...
Arbitrum and Robinhood Partnership Ushers in New Era for Decentralized Finance Swaps
1.3.2024
Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum has partnered up with trading app giant Robinhood to announce a new token swap integration in Robinhood’s self-custody wallet. The companies made the joint announcement yesterday at the ETHDenver conference. The new integration lets Robinhood Wallet users...
Tron 2024: A look ahead at the future of decentralized finance
9.2.2024
Much of the rising popularity of Tron has been due to the introduction of DeFi into its blockchain space, which exploded the crypto market in 2020. Ever since Tron was launched, it has undergone a meticulous process to ensure security measures and proper testing to protect client funds...
IOSCO Publishes Policy Recommendations for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
20.12.2023
Source: Adobe / BeNeDak The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), which sets standards for securities market regulation globally, has issued policy recommendations for the supervision of decentralized finance (DeFi). On December 19, IOSCO unveiled nine policy recommendations...
10 Decentralized Finance Protocols Rule Over 52% of the WBTC in Circulation
23.10.2023
Over the span of ten months, since mid-December 2022, the cryptocurrency known as wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) experienced a reduction of nearly 23,000 coins from its circulation. Today, WBTC has 79,839 distinct wallet holders. Notably, a hefty 73.76% of these tokens are concentrated within the top...
Decentralized finance yet to pose ‘meaningful risk’ to stability — EU regulator
12.10.2023
The European Securities and Markets Authority argued that DeFi was still too small to pose any sizeable risks to overall financial stability, but should be monitored
Decentralized finance needs alternatives to blockchain
18.9.2023
Critics often overlook the inconvenient fact that “decentralized” blockchains in fact depend on centralized points of failure that have the potential to corrupt entire ecosystems
Defining Oracles: Enablers of the Decentralized Finance World
13.9.2023
Oracles are entities that enable various functions in blockchain structures by providing access to legacy or offchain information systems, acting as data ports for decentralized finance applications. These oracles act as information providers for tasks that require either the posting of data...
Decentralized Finance Sector Consolidates as $44B TVL Fails to Break $50B Barrier
18.7.2023
As of July 17, 2023, the decentralized finance (defi) sector has been witnessing a great deal of consolidation with total value locked (TVL) figures standing at $44.19 billion. Throughout most of the year in 2023, except for a brief period of seven days in April, the TVL in defi has consistently...
DeepBook Brings Centralized-Style Orders for Decentralized Finance on Sui Network
12.7.2023
Layer-1 blockchain Sui announced the release of DeepBook, a decentralized central limit order book (CLOB) that will support all applications built on the network
Berlin: The Center for Decentralized Finance – and Techno Music
27.6.2023
When the tech hub of Europe meets a society that prizes financial autonomy, the result is a crypto community that practices the very decentralization it preaches. Case in point: Blockchain Week Berlin, the flagship annual conference of the No. 10 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023, is...
Atomic Wallet Hack: Decentralized Finance Wallet Breached, Millions Lost in Attack
4.6.2023
On June 3, 2023, numerous sources revealed details about an attack on Atomic Wallet that resulted in significant financial losses for many victims. The Atomic Wallet team announced they are looking into the issue, while onchain investigators like Zachxbt have also been digging deeper, searching...
The role of central limit order book DEXs in decentralized finance
16.5.2023
A look at the role of central limit order book DEXs in DeFi
S&P Global Puts Decentralized Finance at the Forefront with New DeFi Director Hire – Crypto Going Mainstream?
4.4.2023
S&P Global is on the hunt for a DeFi director to oversee its expansion into the rapidly evolving decentralized finance sector.
According to a Monday job posting on LinkedIn, the giant financial information and analytics company is hiring for a DeFi director to spearhead its expansion into...
Decentralized finance to be examined at inaugural CFTC tech advisory meeting
2.3.2023
A panel at an upcoming advisory meeting for the financial regulator will “explore issues in decentralized finance.”
Bank of America: Innovation to Expand Decentralized Finance Functionality Over Time
9.2.2023
Developer activity and adoption is the key to success, the report said
Sberbank Set to Launch Decentralized Finance Platform Based on Ethereum
3.2.2023
A recent report details that Russia’s largest financial institution, Sberbank, plans to launch a decentralized finance (defi) platform in May. Konstantin Klimenko, product director of Sberbank’s blockchain laboratory, said that open testing will begin in March. Sberbank’s Defi...