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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.
Here Comes the Open Lending Era
Open lending grew from a fringe use-case to a burgeoning engine powering the next phase of the digital economy, says the CIO of Bicameral Ventures.
Camila Russo on Building The Defiant and the Future of DeFi
The Defiant is required reading about DeFi these days. How did "one more Bloomberg journalist" become a successful media entrepreneur and influencer?
Polkadot-Based DeFi Insurance App Raises $1.95M Led by KR1
Tidal will use the Polkadot blockchain to allow users to insure a set of DeFi applications against smart-contract failure or breaches.
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dumps to $21.9K; ETH 2.0 Affected Ether Locked in DeFi
Bitcoin dipped Monday as some liquidations took hold while Ethereum 2.0 dynamics have influenced the amount of ether locked in DeFi.
Uniswap Is the Number One Gas Guzzler on Ethereum
Decentralized exchange Uniswap burns through more gas than any other application on Ethereum.
Decentralized Stock Trading Launching on DeFi Platform Injective Protocol
The tokenized stock offerings initially include Airbnb, Amazon and Google.
Warp Finance Says It Recovered 75% of the $7.76M Funds Taken in Flash Loan Attack
The recovered funds should be distributed sometime late Sunday night.
First Mover: Bitcoin Rally Stalls as 'DeFi Summer' Proves Endless
This year's explosion in decentralized finance, or DeFi, highlighted just how much innovation was happening in digital-asset markets, beyond bitcoin.
Warp Finance Suffers Possible $8M Flash Loan Attack
The scheme has become common in the fast-growing DeFi sector.
Compound's New Blockchain Readies DeFi for Central Bank Digital Currencies
"We want to announce the designs for a blockchain that can scale Compound over the next century," Compound founder Robert Leshner told CoinDesk.
