DeFi


Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slips to $30.8K While Investors Plow BTC Back Into DeFi

Its price fell Tuesday but the amount of BTC in DeFi is at its highest in over a month.

CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Finance

Galaxy, Coinbase Bet $25M on DeFi Using Terra Stablecoins

The backing will help Terraform Labs build more apps on its Tendermint-based blockchain.

Daniel Shin y Do Kwon, cofundadores de Terra. (Terraform Labs)

Markets

More Institutional Investors Are Buying Ether, Seeing It as a Store of Value

The ether rally appears to be more organic and driven from within the crypto industry.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

Tech

Collateralized Debt Obligations Make Their Way Into DeFi Lending

The future of finance apparently involves Wall Street’s ghosts.

Scene from "The Big Short"

Learn

How to Stay Safe in DeFi: Red Flags and Risks You Need to Know

Scams, exploits and fatal code errors are among the biggest risks associated with using DeFi platforms.

DeFi risk concept crocodile (Getty)

Markets

How Cultural Differences Drive User Adoption in DeFi

Despite being virtually identical products at launch, SushiSwap and Uniswap have taken divergent paths as they respond to users, says Multicoin's principal.

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Tech

'Let's Not Be Bitcoin': Yearn Finance Considers Minting $200M in New YFI Tokens

Turns out the "no inflation" meme may not be here to stay.

New money

Finance

Saddle Raises $4.3M for Slippage-Free DeFi Trading

Silicon Valley's Saddle is solving the stablecoin spread that currently dogs DeFi.

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Markets

Offline Travel App Maps.Me Raises $50M in Funding Round Led by Alameda Research

The funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet.

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Tech

Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix

A potential fix for Ethereum's costly congestion problems.

Members of the Synthetix team