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Crypto Long & Short: DeFi and Traditional Finance Are Forming an Unlikely Friendship
13.4.2020
Many believe DeFi is the future of finance, unleashing efficiencies and creating a more transparent framework. Others find the idea terrifying
Celsius Lowers Loan Minimum and Introduces Gold on Gold Interest
13.4.2020
Celsius Network has lowered its minimum loan requirements and soon will introduce interest paid out in gold
DeFi Drives Dapp Volume Growth Amid 75% Crash in Casino Activity
9.4.2020
The rise of DeFi protocols sustained growth in total quarterly DApp volume despite roughly 75% declines in casino activity
Bitcoin Cash ‘Halved,’ DeFi Gets a Boost, and Bisq Halts Trading
8.4.2020
Miners are exiting the Bitcoin Cash blockchain while Tezos looks to add a bridge to bitcoin's liquidity. Here's the story
How DeFi Dinner Bonds Can Help Restaurants During Crisis – DeFi Dad
8.4.2020
Travis Blane (aka DeFi Dad) explains how digital gift certificates ("Dinner Bonds") can help get money to restaurants
CoinDesk Quarterly Review, Q1 2020
8.4.2020
March 12 changed how investors look at crypto markets and assets, shook out some participants and left others unmoved. The CoinDesk Quarterly Review is a Q1 analysis of how the narrative has changed for crypto blue-chips like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which assets outperformed, and how the participants...
Chicago DeFi Alliance Launches to Save Decentralized Finance
8.4.2020
Major U.S. brokerage TD Ameritrade backs the Chicago DeFi Alliance, a new initiative aiming to support DeFi development in compliance with trading regulations
Chicago’s Trading Firms Look to DeFi With New ‘Alliance’
8.4.2020
DeFi may actually grow during the coronavirus crisis. TD Ameritrade, Cumberland, CMT Digital, DV Trading and Jump Trading are hoping to facilitate
Wrapped Bitcoin Aims to Kickstart DeFi on Tezos Blockchain
8.4.2020
Bitcoin Association Switzerland is partnering with the Tezos Foundation and others to create tzBTC, a bitcoin-pegged token meant to power DeFi applications on Tezos
What Makes DeFi Decentralized? Rune Christensen on Centralized Collateral and Decentralizing Make
7.4.2020
Crypto projects often struggle to balance decentralization with pragmatism, and Maker and its founder Rune Christensen are no exception
CoinGecko CEO: ‘Hard for CoinMarketCap to Stay Neutral’
7.4.2020
The recent acquisition of CoinMarketCap by Binance has some in the crypto community speaking out, including CoinGecko CEO Bobby Ong
Most of China’s DLT Firms That Closed in 2019 Were Scams or Poorly Planned
7.4.2020
Market research firm EqualOcean suggest that most Chinese blockchain firms that closed in 2019 lacked in business model or were crypto scams
Rune Christensen: ‘Our Job Is to Support Whatever the Maker Community Decides’
6.4.2020
Why did the Maker Foundation maintain such radio silence during Black Thursday governance? Rune Christensen explains
April Fools, Celebrity Scams, & Manipulated Markets: Bad Crypto News of the Week
4.4.2020
Check the bad crypto news of the past week
Will DeFi Matter in a Post-Coronavirus World? Feat. Matt Luongo
3.4.2020
Keep Project founder Matt Luongo discusses launching a bridge between bitcoin and ethereum as well as what the world looks like for BTC and DeFi after COVID-19
Anyhedge to Launch Blockchain-Enforced Synthetic Derivatives for Bitcoin Cash
2.4.2020
Developers from the organization General Protocols have announced the launch of a synthetic derivatives platform built on Bitcoin Cash. The project Anyhedge aims to be the first decentralized finance (defi) protocol on any branch of Bitcoin and the platform will launch in cooperation with...
Makers of Keep Protocol Raise $7.7M to Bring Trustless BTC to DeFi
2.4.2020
Thesis has closed a $7.7 million deal by selling its KEEP tokens to some of crypto’s top investors. Its TBTC project could get more bitcoin into DeFi
Coinbase Invests $1 Million in DeFi Projects UniSwap and PoolTogether
2.4.2020
$1.1 million in USDC has been invested directly in two DeFi applications via Coinbase’s USDC Bootstrap Fund
Insight on Liquidity from DeFi Protocols
2.4.2020
The decentralized finance industry requires decentralized liquidity in order to prove itself as a successful financial instrument for the future
A Crypto Venture Fund Bought the Most Tokens at MakerDAO’s Debt Auction
1.4.2020
Crypto venture fund Paradigm Capital won the winning bids in the MakerDAO debt auction, but the users remain uncompensated