Liquidity


Learn

What Are Liquidity Pools?

The term refers to a collection of tokens or digital assets locked in a smart contract that provide essential liquidity to decentralized exchanges.

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Opinion

Luna's Collapse Shows DeFi's Dire Need for Technical, Regulatory Controls

Liquidity aggregators could help manage market participants get through Black Swan events.

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Finance

Money Market Platform Burrow Raises $5M to Launch on NEAR

Burrow is a non-custodial liquidity pool platform similar to Aave and Compound.

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Tech

Understanding the Technology Behind Decentralized Exchanges

A deeper dive into liquidity pools, automated market makers, yield farming and other aspects of DEXs. This is the third part of a continuing series on understanding DeFi.

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Videos

E-CNY App Downloaded 16 Million Times, Kazakhstan Outages Hit Miners

E-CNY app sees 16 million downloads. Miners hit by continuing Kazakh internet outages. Unlocking liquidity in private markets. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Markets

Fitch Says Germany's ‘Spezialfonds’ Investing in Crypto Face Liquidity Risk

A law passed earlier this year allows Spezialfonds, open only to institutional investors, to invest up to 20% of assets in cryptocurrencies.

Frankfurt, Germany

Markets

Disruption in Tether's Value Could Be Crypto Equivalent of 'Breaking the Buck': Former CFTC Chairman

Timothy Massad compared the hypothetical occurrence to the collapse in NAV of the Reserve Primary Fund in September 2008.

Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC

Markets

Bitcoin Liquidity 'Likely to Remain Resilient' After Volatility Shock, JPMorgan Says

JPMorgan expects bitcoin liquidity should recover, though it may take a few days as market conditions stabilize.

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Finance

Lightspeed, Pantera Join $20M Raise for Crypto Market Maker Wintermute

The Series B will fund a push into Asia and the launch of a derivatives business.

The Wintermute team

Markets

Crypto Buyers Face 'Possible Limitations' on eToro This Weekend

The company cited issues relating to poor liquidity in the face of heightened demand.

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