DeFi


Finance

Curv Partners With MetaMask to Help Institutions Custody DeFi Assets

Curv is teaming up with MetaMask to allow institutions to invest in DeFi protocols while having institutional-grade custody options.

The Curv team, with CEO Itay Malinger at center right.

Finance

YIELD Raises $4.9M in Bid to Simplify DeFi

YIELD sets out to simplify the process of investing in DeFi products.

YIELD's app

Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Recovers to $18.2K While Market Dynamics Juice DeFi Total Locked

Bitcoin fell below $18,000 Wednesday while DeFi closing in on $15 billion locked may have more to do with price than actual cryptocurrency parked there.

CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Videos

Hayden Adams-King of the DeFi Degens: Most Influential 2020

After Hayden Adams was laid off from his junior engineering position at Siemens and living at home with his parents for a stint, a career opportunity came knocking at Adams' door and Uniswap, the permissionless token exchange built on the Ethereum blockchain, was born.

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Markets

Huobi's HUSD Stablecoin to Run on Nervos Blockchain

China's Nervos picks Huobi's HUSD as the first available stablecoin on its blockchain amid a DeFi boom in China.

The Nervos team

Videos

RAC on DeFi and Yield Farming: ‘These Days It Feels Like a Full-Time Job’

RAC, the Grammy Award-winning artist and part-time yield farmer says that “these days it feels more like a full-time job.” RAC joins CoinDesk senior markets reporter Daniel Cawrey to discuss a day in the life of a musician turned yield farmer during lockdowns, the end of DeFi and the future of NFTs.

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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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Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Briefly Slips Below $19,000; ETH Locked in DeFi Crosses Over 7M

A bit of bitcoin price dumping occurred Monday while some investors dove back into DeFi with their ether.

CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Markets

Bequant, Global Digital Finance Look to Create Best Practices for DeFi

A working group wants to create some best practices for decentralized finance in an effort to improve adoption while warding off potential regulations.

U.S. dollars

Tech

Terra Brings 24-Hour Trading to Synthetic Versions of Stocks Like TSLA and AAPL

The creators of the stablecoin platform Terra are launching Mirror Protocol, a way to mint crypto assets that mimic U.S. stocks.

A crypto mirror to U.S. stocks.