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Basel Committee Proposes Differentiating Regulation of Crypto Assets Based on Risks to Banks
12.6.2021
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed dividing crypto assets into two groups and regulating them based on their market, liquidity, credit, and operational risks to banks. Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, will be subject to “a new conservative prudential treatment.”...
BarterTrade V2 Launches With Advanced Social Trading, Auto KYC and Institutional Grade Liquidity
11.6.2021
BarterTrade, is a cryptocurrency trading ecosystem that upgraded to more advanced V2 on 6th May, 2021, implementing significant benefits and new features for traders. Understanding crypto traders’ needs is a key ingredient of the relaunch, which includes features such as a 0% trading...
Polygon & Hip Protocol Announce a $200k Liquidity Program
9.6.2021
Despite the ongoing fluctuations experienced by the crypto sector, Polygon keeps on expanding its market reach. Now, the stacking solution is joining hands with the Hop Protocol. The collaboration will see Polygon (previously Matic Network) releasing a $200,000 liquidity program. It will also...
Members of East Africa Community Explore Potential Use of CBDC for Alternative Regional Payment System
9.6.2021
Six East African states are reportedly set to explore the possibility of using central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as an alternative to their shared payment system. The six countries, which are all members of the East Africa Community (EAC) trading bloc, are hoping this alternative will create...
21shares to Launch Bitcoin ETP for Institutional Investors in the UK
8.6.2021
Switzerland-based 21shares announced it’s going to offer its crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) to institutional investors in Britain. The platform said the aim is to provide U.K. investors with exposure to bitcoin without the need to deal with crypto custody and security. New Bitcoin...
0x launches DEX liquidity API on Polygon
31.5.2021
Polygon’s decentralized finance footprint continues to grow, with 0x releasing a version of its decentralized exchange liquidity aggregator API on the “Ethereum scaler.”
As market slumps, Ren bolsters DeFi liquidity via Fantom, Polygon integrations
30.5.2021
The integrations could bring new assets to popular DeFi platforms amid a market-wide pullback
The future of digital asset liquidity: Centralized or decentralized?
29.5.2021
DeFi solutions, and the decentralized liquidity they protect, are the only way forward for the cryptocurrency space
BSC Defi Protocol Burgerswap Loses $7.2 Million from a Flash Loan Attack
29.5.2021
Another Binance Smart Chain project has been hit with a flash loan attack according to a post mortem written by the Burgerswap team. The project’s official Twitter account said at around 3 a.m. on Friday, Burgerswap suffered from a flash loan attack with the hackers stealing $7.2 million...
VCs back Balancer with $24.25M investment
27.5.2021
Investors are backing the Balancer protocol with greater conviction. Could this be a sign that market hype surrounding DeFi is ramping up again?
Fed’s Daily Tapering Increases by 23%- Tuesday’s Reverse Repo Removes $432 Billion from Market
25.5.2021
Since well before the onset of Covid-19, the U.S. Federal Reserve had initiated monetary easing policies and from then on, the M1 Money Stock supply skyrocketed to levels never-before-seen in history. This weekend reports disclosed that the Fed has started to taper quantitative easing (QE) when...
Flash Loan Attacks Drain 2 Binance Smart Chain Defi Projects for $6 Million
25.5.2021
There have been two back-to-back flash loan attacks in a short period of time stemming from two unique Binance Smart Chain decentralized finance (defi) projects. Last Wednesday, the yield-farming platform Pancakebunny lost close to $3 million in a flash loan attack according to reports....
DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP) Launches Decentralized Tools Dashboard
24.5.2021
Yield Farming protocol DYP has launched its long-awaited DYP Tools. DYP Tools V1 is a decentralized tools dashboard built with features that will increase the use cases for DYP Token and the entire DeFi ecosystem. The tool dashboard serves as a liquidity locker for any DeFi project and protects...
Fed Begins to Taper QE- US Central Bank Removes $351 Billion in Liquidity via Reverse Repos
22.5.2021
After pumping extreme amounts of liquidity into markets, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems to be tapering back monetary easing policy via reverse repos (RRP). Following this week’s published minutes report from the Fed’s April monetary policy meeting, it seemed as though members of...
Kenya Based Technology Firm Switches to Pancakeswap, Cites High Gas Fees on Uniswap
17.5.2021
In its bid to help users avoid high gas fees on Uniswap, a Kenya-based fintech firm, UTU, recently launched a liquidity pool on the decentralized exchange (dex), Pancakeswap. This launch enables prospective UTU coin buyers to acquire the token “with low fees and fast confirmation...
1inch Network increases liquidity sources by expanding to Polygon
13.5.2021
Polygon, formerly known as Matic, offers 1inch Network more capabilities, including higher throughput and access to large liquidity pools
UniLend Joins Hands with Genesis Shards to Expand Liquidity
13.5.2021
Hailed as a powerful blockchain-infused network leveraging a combination of spot trading and money market services, UniLend Finance has entered into a strong partnership with Genesis Shards, a popular DeFi solution. The integration will facilitate the pre-IDO projects on Genesis Shards to gain...
Funding Roundup: Fresh Capital Aims to Advance Blockchain Product and Service Capabilities
13.5.2021
Beyond expanding the reach of blockchains’ functionality, projects are striving to improve upon existing technologies with their capital injections to build a more safe, secure, and seamless user experience that will drive the next generation of products and services. Moma Protocol Receives...
Raze Launches Liquidity Mining Program, Staking to Incentivize Users
12.5.2021
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Raze Network, the first Polkadot-based cross-chain privacy protocol, announced its public distribution sale on Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool to make Raze tokens accessible in a fair, linear...
Kava Launches Kava Swap Liquidity Hub Project
11.5.2021
Kava Labs has announced its new project that will offer its financial Services and DeFi apps under the new liquidity hub based on the cross-blockchain utility. The new project dubbed Kava Swap will offer the services of aggregating the capital, which can then further be deployed across...