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Justin Sun Ventures Into GameFi Projects With USD 300M TRON Arcade Fund
10.8.2021
Tron (TRX) and its partners said they have established a USD 300m fund called TRON Arcade, which will invest in and incubate GameFi projects over the next three years.
GameFi ('gaming' + 'DeFi') is described as the gamification of monetary mechanisms that make earning profits an "exciting...
LyraDAO Obtains $1m From SynthetixDAO
10.8.2021
LyraDAO finally announced securing a generous contribution of $1M from SynthetixDAO. Since the introduction of DAOs, along with NFT and DeFi projects, Synthetix has become a pioneer of DeFi by operating its multibillion-dollar protocol of deploying DAOs. Lyra is new to the industry of DAOs, and...
Curioinvest and Reef Finance Collab to Tokenize Real Assets
9.8.2021
On the 6th of August, 2021, Reef Finance made the headlines with their declaration of a partnership with CurioInvest to activate fractionalized non-fungible tokens of real-world assets into fungible ones and introduce them into the Reef Blockchain. True to its name, CurioInvest encourages one...
SEC Charges 'Defi' Lender, Governance Token Issuers Should Take Notice
6.8.2021
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Cayman Islands-registered DeFi Money Market (DMM) and its top executives, two Florida men, for unregistered sales of more than USD 30m of securities using smart contracts and "so-called "decentralized finance" (DeFi)...
EasyFi Network Collaborates With Cryption Network
6.8.2021
EasyFi Network has entered into a strategic partnership with Cryption Network to provide a host of innovative yield maximization opportunities to the users of DeFi applications. Cryption Network works on the development of user-friendly cryptocurrency products for regular retail investors. Through...
Analysis of the Popsicle Finance Hack
5.8.2021
Yesterday at 10:53 pm (UTC), a major hacking incident occurred in Popsicle Finance’s Sorbetto Fragola pool. The hackers drained out nearly 85% of this pool. But other pools like ICE farming contracts, ICE token contracts, and Nice Staking have not been affected by this incident. A total of $20.7...
Exploring the Technical Infrastructure for DeFi Price Protection – a Bumper Case Study
5.8.2021
Bumper Finance has announced their “God-mode for Crypto,” a DeFi price protection protocol that protects the prices of assets from any sudden market drops. At this time of unprecedented uncertainty, the innovative protocol promises to shore up faith for holders of crypto assets. It does this...
Reef Finance Announces Samecoin’s Listing on Reef Chain
4.8.2021
Reef Finance and Samecoin have recently announced their collaborated first stablecoin on the reef chain ecosystem. Due to the addition of Samecoin, it would be the first stablecoin on the blockchain for the Reef Chain ecosystem. Samecoin is a stablecoin protocol based on the decentralized framework...
Anchor Protocol Ventures a Partnership With Lido Finance
3.8.2021
Anchor has once again announced the partnership with Lido. The arrangement will be showcasing the launch of bETH (Wrapped stETH and bonded Ethereum on Terra). They have proposed bETH and stETH as an option for collateral on Anchor Protocol. The collateral will bring staking rewards outside...
SEC Boss Gensler Hints that He Could Seek to Regulate DeFi
3.8.2021
Garry Gensler. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Markets and Finance
The US Securities and Exchange Commission chief Gary Gensler will not be a “cheerleader” for crypto, a new interview has revealed – and indicated that after tightening regulations on crypto exchanges, he may well turn...
dYdX Protocol Partners With Hummingbot
2.8.2021
The platform of dYdX has entered into a partnership with Hummingbot to launch the much-awaited bounty hunt program. The Ethereum-based protocol for derivatives and short selling, dYdX, has joined hands with Hummingbot to distribute prizes worth $15,000 among the community members, creative hackers...
Unifi Protocol & ACryptoS to Offer Double Rewards to Users
30.7.2021
Announcing their strategic partnership, Unifi Protocol and ACryptoS have declared that both organizations are coming together to offer their users extended capabilities in addition to offering them attractive rewards for their participation. The first manifestation of this partnership will...
Ex-Bank of China Chief Issues DeFi Warning
29.7.2021
The former head of the commercial banking giant the state-owned Bank of China has sent out a warning about decentralized finance (DeFi) and cryptocurencies.
Per the 21st Century Business Herald, via East Money, Li Lihui, who was appointed President of the Bank of China in 2004, stated that...
DeFi Tokens To Consider Investing In
29.7.2021
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been one of the main driving forces of the current cryptocurrency bull run. While beginners want to buy bitcoin with credit card, more tech-savvy investors have turned to DeFi for some incredible returns. With that said, it’s not an easy ecosystem to navigate....
WePiggy Partners with PARSIQ
29.7.2021
The lending protocol platform of WePiggy announced a strategic partnership with PARSIQ, the next-generation platform for advanced Blockchain technology analytics. The two platforms of WePiggy and PARSIQ are looking forward to exploring new grounds for technology integrations for the development...
Tidal Finance Launches Mainnet for DeFi Insurance
28.7.2021
Tidal Finance finally made the most exciting announcement of launching the innovative mining program and mainnet for the coverage providers associated with the platform. The foremost multi-chain platform of DeFi insurance, Tidal Finance, was first launched at the Polygon Network. The platform...
Total Value Locked in DeFi is a 'Deceptively Complicated Metric'
28.7.2021
One of the most often used metrics in the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry, total value locked (TVL), is "a deceptively complicated metric hiding under a benign name," according to crypto intelligence firm Coin Metrics.
What this metric should be measuring is the total size of...
Reef Finance Introduces Hypersign to its Ecosystem
27.7.2021
Another feather was added to the crown of the ever-expanding ecosystem of Reef Finance, titled Reef Ecosystem when it welcomed Hypersign. This business enterprise specializes in providing solutions for decentralized identities (DID). Hypersign has become the latest name in the long list of solution...
Goldman Sachs DeFi ETF Prompts Confusion On What It Really Is
27.7.2021
The financial heavyweight Goldman Sachs is hoping to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks public firms, one way or another working in the blockchain-related sphere. The ETF would track an index but its composition (and the firm’s definition of DeFi) has seen much derision aimed its...
Crudeoil Finance & the Collective Form a Strategic Alliance
26.7.2021
In a partnership of strategic interest, Crudeoil finance has decided to come together with Collective to explore opportunities in the space of global marketing and customer growth. Crudeoil Finance has carved a place for itself in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space, thanks to its unique...