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Opinion

Crypto Is Now a Non-negotiable for Traditional Banks

Simple “engagement” isn’t enough. Banks need to start experimenting with tokenization and blockchain-powered settlement, or risk getting left behind, says Sygnum Bank’s Lucas Schweiger.

(Jo photo/Unsplash)

Finance

Ledn First-Quarter Loans Top Record $690M as Lending Market Snaps Back

The majority of loans were issued to institutional market makers following U.S. approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds.

Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)

Opinion

DeFi Fumbled Its Post-FTX Advantage in 2023, but There’s Still Hope for 2024

Major factors indicate that this could be a breakout year for decentralized infrastructure, SynFutures CEO Rachel Lin writes.

Decentralized finance activity is starting to pick up. (Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash)

Markets

Investment Adviser Two Prime Sees $2B in Demand for Bitcoin-Backed Loans

"We have seen about $2 billion in demand for bitcoin-secured loans since we started offering them in September," Two Prime's Alexander Blume said.

Debt, money, deadline (geralt/Pixabay)

Videos

Ankex CEO Michael Moro: We'll Look to Enter the U.S. 'When it Makes Sense'

Non-custodial hybrid exchange Ankex moved from alpha to beta testing this week. Ankex CEO Michael Moro shares insights into the platform striking a balance between CeFi and DeFi, his regulatory outlook and current demand.

Recent Videos

Finance

Crypto Liquidity Network Paradigm Leans Into DeFi With StarkWare

The Paradex decentralized perpetuals platform is backed by StarkWare's new appchain technology.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Policy

UK Tax Authority Proposes Changes to Treatment of DeFi Lending, Staking

The proposal, now open for public consultation, will also apply to crypto lending and staking through intermediaries, the authority said.

(Chris Lawton/Unsplash)

Finance

CeFi Exchanges Helped Mass Crypto Adoption; DeFi Will Further It

Centralized exchanges will continue to serve as a first step into crypto but decentralized exchanges will further the future of financial systems, panelists say at Consensus.

Sidney Powell, Salman Banaei and Nathan Cha at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Opinion

2023 Should Be the Year of On-Chain User Security

If crypto does not get its house in order, regulators will do it for them.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Opinion

FTX and Crypto Bust Show Capitalism’s Limits

Investors have been led astray by misleading signals from the market. It enticed them to go "all in" on centralized exchanges rather than focusing on real-world use cases for tokenized value exchange.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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