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Compound Gets Ready to Deploy Decentralized Oracle
10.8.2020
Open Price Feed could be a big step forward for Compound
The Brave New World of Generating Yield Returns from Crypto Lending
7.8.2020
Ryan Anderson is the Head of Trading at Wave Financial Group, a Los Angeles and London based investment management company that provides institutional digital asset fund products. Before joining Wave Financial Group in 2019 Ryan was a research associate at Bridgewater Securities and trader...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Trudges Past $11.7K as DeFi Lending Rates Gyrate
5.8.2020
Bitcoin’s price is trending up. Meanwhile, interest rates for lending crypto in DeFi are still unpredictable
Genesis Reports Q2 Crypto Loans Spiked 118% to $1.4 Billion Amid Rising Yield Farming Interest
5.8.2020
Genesis Capital said Tuesday that its total number of loans outstanding more than doubled to $1.4 billion for the second quarter to June, up from $649 million three months earlier. The crypto lender, which targets institutional investors and wealthy individuals, added over $2.2 billion in...
Genesis’ Crypto Lending Rebounds in 2Q; Firm Acknowledges Unsecured Loans
4.8.2020
Genesis’ crypto lending arm came back strong in 2Q after a rocky 1Q. Separately, executives acknowledged the firm makes some uncollateralized loans
Total Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $4 Billion, ETH Up Over 70% Last 30-Days
3.8.2020
Statistics show that the decentralized finance (defi) economy has grown massively this year as the total value locked (TVL) in defi recently surpassed $4 billion. Between dex platforms, derivatives, stablecoins, lending, and non-fungible asset creation the second quarter of 2020 has propelled...
Stimulus Is Failing: Global Banks to Break Support Levels, US Dollar Plummets to 2-Year Low
31.7.2020
Central banks worldwide have injected further stimulus into the economy, as European Union (EU) leaders recently approved a $2.1 trillion budget, the Bank of England boosted stimulus injections in mid-June, and the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it would keep lending until the end...
Coincheck Revenues Down, Operator Launches Crypto Lending in US
30.7.2020
Coincheck, one of Japan’s leading crypto exchanges, has reported that its revenues are down by over a third on last year’s figures – although its operator has launched crypto lending services in the United States.
Per a financial report from its operator the Monex Group, Coincheck said that...
Zero Collateral: $138 Million in Defi Flash Loans Issued in 24 Hours
30.7.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) realm continues to heat up with concepts like yield farming, but another scheme called defi flash loans has also grown exponential. On Monday, the noncustodial lending protocol Aave issued $138 million in loans with zero collateral. Since the last week of June, defi...
Cake DeFi: A One-Stop Shop for Generating Yield
29.7.2020
Cake DeFi, a platform that allows users to generate cash flow through pooled masternode staking and options lending, has created a platform with a clean user interface that allows anyone from the novice to the time-starved investor, to start earning interest on their cryptocurrency with a couple...
Monex's US Subsidiary TradeStation to Launch Crypto Lending Service
29.7.2020
U.S. online brokerage TradeStation will soon launch its own cryptocurrency lending service
Aave Ascends Market Rankings as Flash Loans Explode
29.7.2020
Aave is climbing the DeFi and market cap rankings as its flash loans see daily volume exceeding $100 million
What Crypto Lender Celsius Isn’t Telling Its Depositors
28.7.2020
Like all lending, the crypto kind carries risk. Celsius may be taking more of it than depositors, who have loaned it more than $1 billion, fully realize
Mainframe's Latest Blockchain Protocol Acquisition to Enable DeFi Bond System
28.7.2020
Mainframe plans to integrate Sablier’s money streaming technology into a fixed-rate lending protocol and create tokenized debt markets akin to digital bonds
Israel’s Stock Exchange Launches Blockchain Platform for Securities Lending
28.7.2020
The new blockchain platform can facilitate peer-to-peer trading and allow the securities lending market to reach its full potential, the exchange said
Silvergate’s Bitcoin-Backed Lending Product Grew 80% in the Last Quarter
27.7.2020
Silvergate Bank continued to add a steady drip of crypto customers in Q2 but its issuance of bitcoin-collateralized loans is what stood out
Maker's Value Locked Breaches $1B Ceiling, but There's a Caveat
27.7.2020
MakerDAO posts records in value locked as yield farmers create new Dai and Ether rallies
Plutus Capital Unveils DeFi Lending App With Efficient Features
20.7.2020
Plutus Capital, a renowned financial and stock advisory firm has announced the news about the launch of a potential decentralized DeFi app offering the highest interest rates to the investors. The app has been designed to give the best-in-class financial tools to the users who strive to have full...
Report: Investors Are Dumping Compound Token as Soon as It Gets Listed
17.7.2020
A report from Flipside Crypto contends that investors are dumping Compound tokens as soon as it gets listed on exchanges with the majority of the supply held by speculators
Teller Raises $1M in Seed Funding to Bring Credit Scores to DeFi
17.7.2020
Lending startup Teller has raised $1 million in a seed funding round led by Framework Ventures to create a credit score protocol for DeFi