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Bitdao Collects $230 Million in Private Capital From Investors
17.6.2021
As the decentralized finance movement proves its staying power and resilience, one of the world’s largest decentralized autonomous organizations, Bitdao, has concluded a private fundraising round to promote mass adoption of open finance. DAO to Allocate Capital Towards Improving Defi...
Travala launches decentralized home-sharing service — will it be the next Airbnb?
16.6.2021
The site claims to repair "the broken relationship between hosts and guests created by existing centralized home-sharing platforms."
Defi Derivatives Exchange Dydx Raises $65 Million – Project Plans to ‘Launch a Mobile Application’
16.6.2021
The decentralized exchange (dex) Dydx announced the organization has raised $65 million in a Series C funding round led by Paradigm. The Dydx announcement notes that the additional capital will be leveraged to “significantly improve liquidity” on the dex platform “through...
Billionaire Mark Cuban Commends Defi Economy Dubbing It the ‘Next Great Growth Engine’
15.6.2021
On June 13, the billionaire investor and co-host of the television series Shark Tank, Mark Cuban, explained his fascination with decentralized finance (defi) in an editorial published to his blog. Cuban details that many defi organizations are different because they are not corporate entities...
Former PayPal employees launch decentralized cross-border payment network on Algorand
15.6.2021
“Fueling cross-border transactions with regulated stablecoins to represent fiat on-chain has never been done before,” said Borderless Capital CEO David Garcia
DeFi Projects Continue Flocking to Layer 2 Solution Polygon
15.6.2021
Polygon’s cheaper transaction costs and faster block time have driven increased adoption by a number of major projects
Crypto Cyberthreats Spike This Year With Russia Hit the Hardest, Report Reveals
14.6.2021
Cyberthreats related to cryptocurrencies have increased with rising demand for the digital assets, a study has concluded. Russia, Thailand and Peru are the most affected countries by malicious attacks designed to exploit the heightened interest in decentralized money, the authors point out. Booming...
Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Speaks Publicly for the First Time Since 2013
13.6.2021
At the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, attendees listened to the first phone interview with the Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht from the depths of the maximum-security prison in Tucson, Arizona. During the interview, Ulbricht spoke about bitcoin and how the decentralized crypto asset...
DAOs, DeFi and Dollars: the Bold New World of Decentralized Entities
11.6.2021
In this week’s episode, we explore how developers and investors are working through the complex process of bridging the human and legal needs of the outside world with these complex, decentralized systems run by blockchains, automated smart contracts, “multisig” tokenized collateral agreements
Financial Giant State Street Launches Digital Finance Division – Unit’s Focus Aimed at Crypto and Defi
11.6.2021
On Thursday, the Boston-based financial services and bank holding company State Street Corporation announced the launch of a division dedicated to cryptocurrencies, the digital economy, and decentralized finance (defi). State Street Invokes New Division Dedicated to Crypto, Blockchain, and Defi...
OVR Using Chainlink to Connect the Metaverse to Real World Data and Events
10.6.2021
OVR.ai is announcing a live and ongoing integration with Chainlink, the marketing-leading decentralized oracle network that provides smart contracts with secure and reliable off-chain data and computation. The current integration involves the use of Chainlink Verifiable Randomness Function (VRF)...
Pomp sparks debate: Has Bitcoin DeFi project Sovryn really overtaken Uniswap v3 by TVL?
10.6.2021
Analysts are arguing whether the RSK-based Bitcoin money market, Sovryn, has a TVL of $52 million ... or $2 billion
Curve Finance’s new release positions project for AMM takeover
9.6.2021
ETH, WBTC, and USDT trading pairs are live on Ethereum, and more trading pairs are expected to be added to the platform in the coming weeks
Is a new decentralized internet, or Web 3.0, possible?
9.6.2021
A paradigm shift that will transform the digital economy: It is the internet itself that offers the services, not a few private operators
Amazon Job Listing Seeks Blockchain Lead – Internet Giant Looks to Create ‘Business Use Cases Across Defi’
8.6.2021
Amazon is looking for a blockchain expert, according to a job posting published on the company’s employment portal. The firm wants someone who is “passionate about blockchain and decentralized networks” and someone who can build innovative “business use cases” across...
SOLANAX: FASTEST Decentralized Exchange Built on Solana Blockchain
8.6.2021
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
The Bunker of Global Decentralized Finance
Solanax is a new DeFi protocol built on top of the Solana network that will catapult Decentralized Finances to unprecedented performance levels. As a decentralized...
Cardano-Based Decentralized Exchange Hosting its IEO on ExMarkets
8.6.2021
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The crypto project ADAX is having its Initial Exchange Offering on the 11th of June. The IEO is set to take place on ExMarkets’ IEO launchpad. ExMarkets is a well-known crypto crowdfunding platform and is used...
Polkadot’s Parachain Vision Materializes Following Successful Kusama Auction
8.6.2021
After months of hype around the launch, the first Kusama parachain auction went off without a hitch. The now active parachain has already begun successfully processing transactions, paving the way for future slot auctions. Kusama’s First Functional Parachain Goes Live The anticipation...
World Economic Forum releases policy toolkit for DeFi regulations
8.6.2021
The WEF’s policy toolkit for decentralized finance seeks to promote, fair, efficient and enforceable regulations for the emerging digital asset marketplace
Take Back the Internet With Crypto: Pocketnet Offers 4 Free Live Educational Sessions
8.6.2021
The Internet was once a bastion of freedom and was hoped to bring economic power to everyday people. These days a few centralized platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon dominate the online world, deciding what we can and cannot say, while keeping all the value for themselves. In an upcoming...