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Value Held by Blockchain Oracles Slides 61% in 7 Months, Chainlink Dominates by 45%
10.10.2022
While the crypto economy has shed significant value, losing more than $2 trillion since the highs recorded at the end of 2021, a great deal of value was erased from smart contract platform tokens and decentralized finance (defi) protocols. One sector of the defi ecosystem that’s recorded...
Fed Chair Powell Sees ‘Real Need’ for More Appropriate Defi Regulation Citing ‘Very Significant Structural Issues’
28.9.2022
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says decentralized finance (defi) has “very significant structural issues,” emphasizing a “real need” for more appropriate regulation of the defi ecosystem. Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Defi Regulation Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome...
Kittynomica Overtakes Shiba Inu and Near Protocol in Popularity As It Seeks to Catalyze the DeFi ecosystem, One Innovation At A Time
8.9.2022
DeFi is the latest buzzword in the world financial services ecosystem and catalyzes how investors approach personal finance. Based on blockchain technology, the key USP of DeFi protocols is the way they eliminate third-party institutions’ roles like brokerage firms or central banks. What follows...
Master of Anons: How a Crypto Developer Faked a DeFi Ecosystem
4.8.2022
The Macalinao brothers used a web of bogus identities to create the illusion of a dev community, juicing value on the Saber protocol and Solana blockchain. Now they're moving to Aptos
Value Locked in Defi Stalls Before Reaching the $100 Billion Mark, Cross-Chain Bridge Statistics Crater
2.8.2022
During the last few weeks, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has come awfully close to reaching the $100 billion mark again, but it fell short this week. Today, the value locked across the defi ecosystem is $86.22 billion as the TVL has lost 3.34% during the past...
Defi TVL and Smart Contract Platform Tokens Swell in Value With ETH, ETC Leading the Pack
22.7.2022
The top smart contract platform tokens by market capitalization and the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) have swelled significantly in value during the last few days. Since the value locked in defi reached a 2022 low of $70 billion on June 19, the defi ecosystem’s...
Value Locked in Defi Jumped 7% in 5 Days — Harmony’s Horizon Bridge Siphoned for $100M
25.6.2022
While crypto prices have seen some healing during the last few days, the total value locked (TVL) across the entire decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has also improved. The TVL in defi has seen an increase of 7.19% since June 20, and the defi protocol Makerdao’s TVL dominates by 10.37%...
Trust in Decentralized Finance Rattled After $100 Billion Left the Defi Economy
15.5.2022
The effect of Terra’s demise continues to shine a light on the fragility surrounding the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem. Things have changed a great deal following Terra’s aftermath, as the total value locked (TVL) in defi has plummeted from $231 billion to today’s...
Fireblocks expands institutional access to Terra's DeFi ecosystem
26.4.2022
Investors in the Fireblocks' Early Access Program put up close to $250 million into the Terra DeFi ecosystem within the first 72 hours of its integration going live
The many layers of crypto staking in the DeFi ecosystem
20.4.2022
The term staking receives many meanings in crypto, each of them presents its own set of opportunities and challenges
WePiggy to Partner with CLV to Build a Cross-Chain DeFi Ecosystem
29.3.2022
The WePiggy lending protocol has formed a strategic collaboration along with CLV. Both parties will collaborate to explore technology integration possibilities and develop a cross-chain DeFi ecosystem. Clover is a cross-chain and decentralized application infrastructure with a single point...
BTC Proxy Announces Strategic Partnership With Blockchain․com to Expand Bitcoin DeFi Ecosystem
16.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. BTC Proxy, the Bitcoin Liquidity Protocol on Polygon, has entered into a strategic partnership with Blockchain.com, one of the world’s largest crypto platforms and an early pioneer of key Bitcoin infrastructure. As part of the partnership, Blockchain.com will add BTC Liquidity...
Alium Finance Will Give Away 380,000 ALM Tokens in Honor of Listing on the MEXC Exchange
22.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. DeFi ecosystem Alium Finance, which combines a native multi-chain decentralized exchange and NFT marketplace, announced a massive airdrop in honor of listing on the MEXC cryptocurrency exchange. In order to participate in the free token giveaway, MX token holders must stake coins...
Mettalex and S&P Global Platts Launch Industrial-Grade Commodity Price Data Feeds Within the DeFi Ecosystem
28.1.2022
Mettalex, a decentralized commodities derivatives exchange on Fetch.ai, has partnered with S&P Global Platts, a press release on January 24 reveals. S&P Global Platts and Mettalex Join Hands for better Efficiency and Flexibility S&P Global Platts has a global presence as a provider...
Crypto Fest 2021 Explores the Growing NFT and DeFi Ecosystem and the Future Ahead
15.11.2021
Bitcoin Events hosted its highly anticipated 3rd edition of the Crypto Fest on October 29, 2021. The event was hosted virtually for the 2nd consecutive year, due to COVID-19 and South Africa’s lockdown regulations. The jam-packed day attracted 1649 attendees from 79 countries and featured...
NFT-based Fixed Lending Protocol Pledge Backed by Stanford Alumni Announces Successful Fundraise
18.9.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Pledge Finance is launching a cross-chain decentralized finance ecosystem, purpose-built for the financial sector following a successful private round in which it raised more than $3 million. Hong Kong – Pledge Finance, an algorithm-driven, multi-chain decentralized finance...
Avalanche Foundation raises $230M to support DeFi ecosystem
16.9.2021
The smart contracts platform has made substantial progress within the DeFi space since its launch last year
ABEYCHAIN Launches Decentralized Exchange XSWAP
25.8.2021
ABEY Foundation, the organization that oversees the activities of multi-layer blockchain protocol ABEYCHAIN has revealed the launch of XSWAP: its native decentralized exchange. This development is expected to herald the beginning of innovations with the ABEYCHAIN DeFi ecosystem. XSWAP: Built...
BENQI and Avalanche Launch $3M Liquidity Mining Initiative to Accelerate DeFi Growth
11.8.2021
PRESS RELEASE. BENQI, an algorithmic liquidity market protocol, and the Avalanche Foundation are collaborating on a joint liquidity mining program to celebrate the launch of the BENQI protocol on the 19th of August and the next phase of growth within Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem. $3MM of AVAX...
Binance Smart Chain Dethroning Ethereum as Backbone of Defi Ecosystem
28.7.2021
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The blockchain ecosystem witnessed explosive growth in 2020, thanks to the surging popularity of DeFi and NFTs. The growth has amplified the limitations...