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Finance Redefined: Celsius raises $400M, and Rari’s 7.5K% yields, Oct. 11—15
16.10.2021
Lending firm Celsius raised $400 million, Rari Capital exceeded $1 billion in TVL, and North America witnessed surging crypto volume — all included in this week’s Finance Redefined
Swiss Bank Seba Now Lets Customers Earn Yield on Crypto Holdings
13.10.2021
A FINMA-licensed Swiss bank, Seba, has launched a program enabling clients to earn yield on their crypto holdings. In addition, the bank will “provide support for centralized lending and borrowing services, enabling investors to generate yield by lending bitcoin and ethereum directly with...
Celo to Be Fastest EVM Chain by End of 2022, Co-Founder Says
12.10.2021
nths, according to Celo co-founder Marek Olszewski.The platform, focused on making decentralized finance (DeFi) more accessible on mobile devices, has high ambitions for a newly
Total Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $200 Billion — Fantom, Avalanche, Harmony, Arbitrum TVLs Swell
12.10.2021
Decentralized finance (defi) has swelled quite a bit this year and on October 5, the total value locked (TVL) in defi protocols crossed the $200 billion mark. Since January 1, the defi TVL across various blockchains has risen almost 855% from $21.4 billion to today’s $204 billion. Total...
Showdown: Shiba Inu Challenges Dogecoin for Meme Coin Dominance
12.10.2021
works, with SHIB worth USD 15.3bn and DOGE worth just under USD 30bn. The two meme coins, ranked 10 and 11 on CoinGecko’s ranking of the most valuable cryptoassets, have already surpassed many widely used decentralized finance (
SEC Commissioner: True Decentralized Projects Pose a Challenge to Crypto Regulation
11.10.2021
A commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says that true decentralized projects pose a challenge to crypto regulation. Noting that “decentralized finance carries within itself inherently some ability to self regulate,” the commissioner said, “we need...
Talent Giant Creative Artists Agency Inks Deal With Pseudonymous NFT Whale 0xb1
10.10.2021
On October 8, the leading California-based talent agency Creative Artists Agency announced it has inked a deal with the infamous non-fungible token (NFT) asset collector known as “0xb1.” The influential talent agency aims to help the pseudonymous 0xb1 monetize the vast NFT collection...
Genesis CEO Michael Moro Thinks Mistakes Keep Institutions Away From Defi
9.10.2021
CEO of trading firm Genesis, Michael Moro, stated that according to his views the decentralized finance (defi) space is still too risky for institutions to step in. Moro explained that there have been some important mistakes made by high-profile defi protocols that are putting customers’...
Finance Redefined: MakerDAO goes green and BoA bullish on DeFi, Oct. 1–8
8.10.2021
Mirror opens decentralized blogging to the public, a Bank of America report is bullish on DeFi, and MakerDAO considers climate initiatives
The Financial System Is In 'An Age of Disruption,' BIS Official Admits
7.10.2021
tion Hub.Speaking at the Geneva Conference on the World Economy in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday, Cœuré said that “cryptocurrencies, the rapid rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), and
Total Value Locked Across Multiple Defi Chains Nears $200 Billion — Ethereum’s TVL Dominance 69%
5.10.2021
While the crypto economy has seen a decent uptick in performance during the first week of October, a number of decentralized finance (defi) tokens have seen tremendous gains. Furthermore, the total value locked in defi has risen to $195 billion, jumping more than 14% over the last two weeks from...
Kevin O’Leary: ‘My Crypto Exposure Is Greater Than Gold for the First Time Ever’
5.10.2021
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has revealed that he has more crypto exposure than gold for the first time. He hopes to increase his crypto allocation to 7% in the next few months, emphasizing: “I don’t see a situation where crypto’s ever going...
The Founder of Wallstreetbets Jaime Rogozinski Discusses Defi, NFTs, and Crypto Regulation
3.10.2021
In 2021, the subreddit forum r/wallstreetbets, also known as Wallstreetbets (WSB) became an extremely popular forum after the members played a major role in the Gamestop short squeeze escapade. In recent times, the founder of WSB, Jaime Rogozinski has been behind a new decentralized finance project...
Third-Largest Bank in France Societe Generale Proposes Use of Defi Protocol Makerdao
1.10.2021
French multinational investment bank and financial services company, Societe Generale, has proposed to leverage the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Makerdao. The proposal dubbed “Security Tokens Refinancing” was published on October 1 to Makerdao’s forums and...
Cardano to Invest $100 Million to Fund Decentralized Finance Projects
29.9.2021
Emurgo, the financial arm of leading cryptocurrency project Cardano, has announced it will invest $100 million in the development of decentralized finance-based products for the ecosystem. The company will spin two subsidiaries for this task, with one being fully dedicated to incentivizing...
UNI, SUSHI, MKR, Defi Tokens See 24 Hour Double-Digit Gains, Defi TVL Jumps 6% in 2 Weeks
26.9.2021
While a number of popular crypto-assets like bitcoin have been consolidating, decentralized finance (defi) tokens have captured significant gains during the last 24 hours. A few defi crypto assets have seen double-digit gains and the leader of the pack is Uniswap which has jumped 20.9% in the last...
DeFi and Web 3.0: Unleashing creative juices with decentralized finance
26.9.2021
The creator economy is one of the most rapidly developing industries, and decentralized technologies have a chance to unlock its full potential
DeFi gaming: A catalyst to mainstream adoption of decentralized finance
25.9.2021
Gaming is on track to boost the adoption of DeFi platforms. Here is a look at the latest developments that are pushing the play-to-earn business model
Avalanche Defi Platform Vee Finance Attacked — $35 Million in ETH, BTC Siphoned
21.9.2021
On September 21, 2021, an Avalanche-based decentralized finance (defi) platform Vee Finance announced that it suffered from an incident that siphoned 8,804 ether and 213 bitcoin out of the system. The team has suspended the defi platform contracts and stressed that the stablecoins have not been...
Vee Finance Reports an USD 36M Exploit, VEE Takes a Dive
21.9.2021
el="noopener noreferrer" href="https://veefi.medium.com/vee-finance-accident-announcement-5e75ff197da6">per which the Avalanche (AVAX)-based decentralized finance (