DeFi

DeFi, short for decentralized finance, represents a shift in the financial sector by leveraging blockchain technology, primarily Ethereum, to eliminate traditional financial intermediaries. It enables various financial applications, from simple transactions to complex contracts, through smart contracts that execute automatically under specific conditions. Key DeFi applications include decentralized exchanges (DEXs), stablecoins, lending platforms, and prediction markets. DeFi offers financial services like loans and interest-earning opportunities without traditional identity verification, relying instead on collateral, usually in cryptocurrency. This innovative sector promises increased accessibility and efficiency but comes with risks, such as market volatility and unregulated projects.


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SEBA Bank Exec on Launching Program for Clients to Earn Yield With Crypto

Digital asset platform SEBA Bank has introduced a product that will let clients earn a yield on their crypto holdings. Institutions can generate rewards from proof-of-stake protocols such as Polkadot, Tezos and Cardano, with other networks to be added over time. Urs Bernegger, Co-Head of Trading and Investment Solutions at SEBA Bank, discusses the launch, the role of Europe in DeFi, and his crypto markets assessment.

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With $8.5M in Funding, Can Strips Finance Make DeFi Derivatives Click?

Strips Finance has raised $8.5 million to launch a new derivatives platform in November that will initially enable interest rate swaps (IRSs) via automated market makers (AMMs), the decentralized exchanges over which much of DeFi is transacted. CEO Ming Wu shares insights into the launch as part of the latest effort to overcome the ecosystem-wide reluctance in DeFi to embrace more complex financial instruments.

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Bitcoin Futures Market Suggests Huobi a Loser in China Crackdown

Bitcoin’s move to $50,000 has revived bullish sentiment, lifting futures premiums on most major cryptocurrency exchanges, which are often seen as a gauge of speculative interest. Though on the Huobi exchange, historically skewed toward Chinese customers, the premium hasn’t budged, potentially due to its decision to suspend services to China-based clients.

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George Soros' Family Office Owns Bitcoin

Billionaire investor George Soros' family office, Soros Fund Management, has invested in bitcoin but clarified "the coins themselves are less interesting than the use cases of DeFi." "The Hash" group discusses the implications for the Soros brand getting into crypto and whether this could be bullish for the blockchain industry at large.

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UC Berkeley Ranks Third in CoinDesk’s Top Universities for Blockchain in 2021

UC Berkeley is offering its first-ever massive open online course (MOOC) on DeFi. The school has ranked third in CoinDesk's 2021 list of top universities for blockchain. Dawn Song, one of the course leaders and CEO of Oasis Labs, shares insights into the course offering and the importance of DeFi education.

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CoinDesk Releases Q3 Bitcoin and Blockchain Industry Report Highlighting Scalability

CoinDesk Research has published its latest quarterly report for Q3 2021, outlining the trends driving the digital asset markets, focusing on Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi and more.

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Grandes atividades institucionais e DeFi dominam a Índia Cripto: Chainalysis

O grupo de pesquisa de blockchain acredita que o país poderá em breve se tornar um centro regional para investimentos relacionados a criptomoedas.

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E-CNY Chat Wallet to Launch, Korean Illegal Crypto Transactions Surge

China giants team up to offer e-CNY wallet in a chat application. Korea sees a surge in the amount of virtual assets used in illegal foreign transactions. DeFi protocol Compound’s technical woes continue. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Compound Founder Begs Users to Return $90M Funds Mistakenly Given Away

DeFi staking protocol Compound erroneously paid out approximately $90 million in liquidity mining rewards following an update to one of its smart contracts. The founder is now pleading to users to return the tokens and issuing a few potential threats.

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Société Générale Applies for $20M MakerDAO Loan Using Bond Token Collateral

In a proposal Thursday on MakerDAO's governance forums, French multinational banking giant Société Générale (SocGen) applied for the DeFi lending platform to accept on-chain bond tokens issued by the bank as collateral for a stablecoin DAI loan for up to $20 million. "The Hash" panel discusses the historic step towards institutional adoption of DeFi.

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