DeFi


Markets

Warp Finance Suffers Possible $8M Flash Loan Attack

The scheme has become common in the fast-growing DeFi sector.

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Finance

Compound's New Blockchain Readies DeFi for Central Bank Digital Currencies

"We want to announce the designs for a blockchain that can scale Compound over the next century," Compound founder Robert Leshner told CoinDesk.

Compound is scaling its ambitions.

Policy

CFTC's Latest Crypto Primer Highlights DeFi, Governance

Decentralized finance and crypto governance are among a growing list of topics the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is watching in the digital asset space, it said in a new primer.

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Finance

DeFi Startup Brings Corporate Lending Terms to Miners, Traders and Market Makers

Maple Finance is a new firm out of Australia releasing a token-governed platform for institutional lending.

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Finance

OKCoin Debuts CeFi-DeFi Mashup With Portal for Stablecoin Deposits

OKCoin is allowing users to invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications through its site without paying gas fees.

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Finance

Foxconn's Jack Lee Join 8-Figure Round for 'Open Finance' Project Findora

The round, said to be in the in the "tens of millions," was led by cryptocurrency venture capital firm Polychain Capital.

Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee

Tech

DeFi on Bitcoin Gets a Boost as Sovryn Launches on RSK Sidechain

Sovryn is launching a lending and derivatives market on the RSK Bitcoin sidechain in a bid to promote DeFi on Bitcoin.

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Tech

Secret Network Launches Bridge to Bring Transactional Privacy to Ethereum

The bridge will also give users access to Secret DeFi, privacy-preserving decentralized finance apps built on the Secret Network.

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Finance

How Israeli VCs Are Doubling Down on DeFi Startups

The three co-founders of Collider Ventures agree Israel’s vibrant crypto industry waned, yet didn’t fizzle, throughout 2020.

Collider Ventures co-founders Avishay Ovadia, Adam Benayoun and Ofer Rotem.

Videos

Former DragonFly Managing Partner Joins Huobi To Help “Tens of Millions” DeFi Investment

Alex Pack from DragonFly will Join Huobi to help invest tens of millions of dollars in decentralized finance, as the firm behind the top centralized exchange pushes forward its ambition in both DeFi and the market in the West.

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