DeFi


Tech

Bitcoiners Are Building a Sidechain Version of Ethereum's MakerDAO

The bitcoin community may soon have its own version of ethereum’s flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.

Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar image via IOVLabs

Tech

Developer Flags Big-Money Loophole for Stealing All the ETH in MakerDAO

An ethereum developer has flagged an attack on MakerDAO that could turn $20 million of MKR into $300 million of ETH.

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Tech

Decentralized Liquidity Is the Backbone of DeFi

How decentralized liquidity venues govern the health of DeFi.

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Markets

Placeholder Leads $2 Million Seed Round for DeFi Services Provider Zerion

DeFi services provider Zerion has raised $2 million from Placeholder, Blockchain and others to build out its team.

Team image via Zerion

Tech

Algorand 2.0's New Non-Turing-Complete Smart Contracts Are a Feature, Not a Bug

Thursday's Algorand 2.0 upgrade adds decentralized finance (DeFi) features and smart contracts to the $108 million blockchain.

Algorand founder Silvio Micali

Finance

DAI Is Moving Beyond Ether, But DeFi Isn't Decentralized Just Yet

MakerDAO may be diversifying the assets it works with, but it has a long way to go to decentralize the power to make key decisions.

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Tech

DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raises $25 Million Series A Led by A16z

It's one of the largest venture capital investments in a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup to date.

Compound founder Robert Leshner

Markets

Bithumb Wants User-Created DEXs With Its New Blockchain Ecosystem

Bithumb Global is launching an "exchange-as-a-service" platform through its new namesake blockchain platform.

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Markets

Lending Protocol Founders to Launch 'Neo-Bank' Offering Interest on USDC

The founders of Nuo are launching Juno, which will offer a smart-contract wallet with 5.5 percent interest on USDC in a bid to attract retail users.

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Markets

InstaDApp DeFi Site Raises $2.4 Million From Prominent Crypto Investors

The fourth-largest dapp in DeFi, InstaDApp, is now backed by Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase Ventures and others.

Instadapp co-founders Sowmay Jain and Samyak Jain in a photo from 2019.