Insurance


Finance

DeFi Insurance Platform Tidal Finance Goes Live on Polygon

Launch partners include StaFi, Xend Finance, Marlin, EasyFi and bZx.

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Markets

Insurer Pingan Issues Digital Yuan COVID-19 Policies for Medical Staff: Report

Purchasers who pay for their coronavirus coverage with e-CNY can receive discounts.

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Finance

Crypto Insurance Platform Coincover Raises $9.2M as Big Firms Seek Safety

The Series A round led by Element Ventures included DRW Venture Capital and Susquehanna Private Equity Investments.

Funding

Tech

DeFi Insurance Upstart Risk Harbor Goes Live With $3.25M in Seed Funding

Risk Harbor uses on-chain rules and smart contracts to automate payouts for insurance claims.

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Markets

6 Insurers Initiate New Cryptocurrency Investment Positions: Report

Insurance firms have been increasing their interest in crypto investments since December.

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Finance

DeFi Risk Assessor Sherlock Raises $1.5M in Pre-Seed Funding

The fundraising was led by IDEO CoLab Ventures, with participation from A.Capital Ventures, Scalar Capital and DeFi Alliance.

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Finance

Opium, UMA to Launch Decentralized Insurance for SpaceX Flights

Opium is to offer a DeFi derivatives contract allowing users to hedge against the risk of a failed SpaceX launch.

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Videos

You Can Soon Pay for Car Insurance With Bitcoin

There's now one more thing you will be able to buy with bitcoin: car insurance. San Francisco-based insurance startup Metromile wants to be the first to allow customers to pay with bitcoin, as well as be paid for insurance claims with bitcoin. Dan Preston of Metromile joins "First Mover" to discuss how Metromile works.

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Finance

Auto Insurer to Allow Policyholders to Send, Receive Payments in Bitcoin

San Francisco-based Metromile will purchase $10 million worth of bitcoin to offer policyholders an option for payment of claims.

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Tech

Insurance Alternative Nexus Mutual Follows DeFi Activity to Polkadot, Cosmos, Binance Smart Chain

The Ethereum-based platform for covering losses from DeFi hacks and other flubs is expanding to other chains.

Nexus Mutual is expanding its coverage options.