DeFi


Pananalapi

Jane Street Dives Into DeFi With $25M USDC Loan

The Wall Street trading firm made its first DeFi investment last month, backing decentralized lending protocol Bastion.

Wall Street trading firm Jane Street takes $25 million USDC loan. (aditya1702/Unsplash)

Pananalapi

OpenSea and Circle Back $6M Raise for DAO Platform Syndicate

Nearly 1,200 investment clubs have launched on Syndicate since the platform went live at the end of January.

An illustration of Syndicate's early backers (Syndicate)

Patakaran

SEC to Add Staff as It Ramps Up Anti-Crypto Scam Efforts

The U.S. securities regulator plans to hire another 20 people to police coin offerings, non-fungible tokens and decentralized finance.

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Pananalapi

DeFi Lender Rari Capital/Fei Loses $80M in Hack

Fei Protocol, which late last year merged with Rari, announced a $10 million bounty should the funds be returned.

Inverse Finance developers paused borrowing functions for users and said they were investigating the incident. (Shutterstock)

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Morgan Stanley: Over 100 Crypto Assets Added Last Week

A note published by investment bank Morgan Stanley highlighted that despite the recent fall in cryptocurrency prices, 100 new digital assets were created on decentralized finance (DeFi) exchanges over the past week. “The Hash” group discusses the significance of this statement, noting the abundance of new tokens built on top of layer 1 chains like Ethereum.

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Merkado

Morgan Stanley Says Over 100 Crypto Assets Were Created in Past Week, Mainly on DeFi Exchanges

Despite a fall in crypto prices, the creation of digital assets is still high, the bank’s analysts said.

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Pananalapi

Argent Raises $40M to Make Crypto Wallets Easier to Use

The company's non-custodial wallet lets users take control without needing to remember a complicated seed phrase.

Argent mobile app (Argent)

Tech

How Deus Finance Was Exploited for $13.4M on Fantom

The attack, which used a flash loan, was the second in two months.

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Pananalapi

DeFi Trading Platform Hashflow Introduces Bridgeless Cross-Chain Swaps

The platform will enable native-to-native swaps, without slippage or pesky cross-chain bridges.

The Open Intents Framework is a new initiative created by Ethereum ecosystem leaders to simplify and standardize cross-chain token transfers.  (Akinori UEMURA/Unsplash)

Opinyon

Here Is How to Improve DeFi Governance Using Ideas from Computational Voting Theory

The decentralized finance ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. It's time governance caught up.

Ballot box (Alexander Fox/PlaNet Fox via Pixabay)