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Why DeFi's Billion-Dollar Milestone Matters

The DeFi market hitting $1 billion in locked crypto is something even the most fervent ethereum skeptics would have a tough time dismissing as meaningless.

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Most of MakerDAO's Asset Value Is in Only a Few Addresses

Though the industry is growing rapidly, a very small portion of addresses hold the majority of assets being locked and borrowed in the DeFi space.

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Traders Turn to DeFi to Capitalize on Tuesday's Crypto Market Spike

Decentralized finance (DeFi) applications are popping off Tuesday, and the ETH price spike isn't the whole story.

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WisdomTree Mulls New Stablecoin as US Money Manager Drives Toward Crypto

WisdomTree, an asset manager specializing in exchange-traded funds, is vying to become one of the first established U.S. financial firms to offer clients digital assets, including a so-called stablecoin whose value is closely linked to the U.S. dollar.

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Finance

MakerDAO Pitches DeFi to the Masses at CES 2020

There's a "digital money" section on the show floor of this year's CES. MakerDAO's DAI is the only crypto with a booth.

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Should the Government Have a Say in Where You Can Invest?

NLW discusses forthcoming changes to US accredited investor laws and looks at a trend of DeFi companies looking to become more decentralized in 2020.

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Markets

Dragonfly Capital, Paradigm Buy $27.5M Stake in Governing MakerDAO's Future

Combined, the VCs have the second largest private stake in the MKR ecosystem.

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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.

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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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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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