Decentralized Finance

Largest Hack in Crypto History? $600M in Crypto Potentially Stolen From DeFi Platform Poly Network
Largest Hack in Crypto History? $600M in Crypto Potentially Stolen From DeFi Platform Poly Network
Cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network was attacked on Tuesday, with the alleged hacker draining roughly $600 million in crypto. This figure would plac...
Largest Hack in Crypto History? $600M in Crypto Potentially Stolen From DeFi Platform Poly Network

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Ethereum and DeFi, Not Bitcoin, Boosting Genesis' Lending
Despite a bearish market, Genesis’ second quarter was the firm’s largest quarter to date in terms of originations.
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Sense Finance Raises $5.2M to Bring Yield Trading to DeFi
Dragonfly Capital led the funding round with participation including Robot Ventures and Bain Capital.
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Here's the Video Uniswap Didn't Want You See About Its Plans to Expand Into Consumer Finance
Here’s the Video Uniswap Didn’t Want You See About Its Plans to Expand Into Consumer Finance
Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange by volume, is in talks with well-known fintech companies like Robinhood and PayPal to ​expand into consumer finance and provide dec...
Here's the Video Uniswap Didn't Want You See About Its Plans to Expand Into Consumer Finance

DeFi Crackdown: Uniswap Labs Limits Access to Some Tokens
DeFi Crackdown: Uniswap Labs Limits Access to Some Tokens
Software development studio Uniswap Labs said Friday it is restricting access to some tokens, including tokenized stocks and derivatives on the protocol interface that it supp...
DeFi Crackdown: Uniswap Labs Limits Access to Some Tokens

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Crypto News Roundup for July 21, 2021
With the crypto markets rebounding into the green and a look at the existential challenges blockchain technology presents to traditional finance, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is b...
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EQIFI CEO: Biggest Challenge for Stablecoins Is 'Loss of Faith'
EQIFI CEO: Biggest Challenge for Stablecoins Is ‘Loss of Faith’
Responding to El Salvador potentially issuing its own stablecoins, Brad Yasar, CEO of EQIFI, a decentralized protocol for pooled lending and borrowing, says the biggest risk o...
EQIFI CEO: Biggest Challenge for Stablecoins Is 'Loss of Faith'

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Grayscale Unveils DeFi Fund Linked to New CoinDesk Index
The new fund joins a growing number of offerings seeking to help investors easily bet on growth in decentralized finance (DeFi).
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Square to Create New Bitcoin Platform for Decentralized Financial Services
Square to Create New Bitcoin Platform for Decentralized Financial Services
Payments services firm Square will open a new business focused on creating an “open developer platform” to make it easier to provide non-custodial, decentralized financial ser...
Square to Create New Bitcoin Platform for Decentralized Financial Services

TradeStation Exec: Paradigm Shift in Labor Market Could Have Contributed to ShapeShift's Shutdown
TradeStation Exec: Paradigm Shift in Labor Market Could Have Contributed to ShapeShift’s Shutdown
James Putra, TradeStation Head of Innovation Labs, discusses crypto leader ShapeShift decentralizing its corporate governance as signaling a paradigm shift to mobile labor for...
TradeStation Exec: Paradigm Shift in Labor Market Could Have Contributed to ShapeShift's Shutdown