Tag: DeFi
Billionaire Tim Draper Sees Potential in DeFi and Backs New DAO
Tim Draper, the billionaire and Bitcoin bull who has backed Tesla, SpaceX and Coinbase, is making strikes into decentralized finance. He's now inv [...]
MakerDAO Provides USDC as DeFi Collateral Following ‘Black Thursday’ Chaos
MakerDAO has added a 3rd asset to its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, USD Coin (USDC), in response to the system’s flagship stablecoin, dai, [...]
Fireblocks to ‘Bridge the Hole’ Between Institutional Merchants and DeFi
Institutional digital asset safety platform Fireblocks has introduced an integration with decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Compound — [...]
MakerDAO’s Issues Are a Textbook Case of Governance Failure
Cathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a Founding Economist at Prysm Group, an financial advisory group, and was Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter. [...]
Thursday’s Market Insanity Strained Ethereum’s Killer App: DeFi
So many individuals have been making an attempt to make use of the Ethereum blockchain throughout Thursday’s market meltdown that many purposes mer [...]
As Ether Value Drop Pressures DeFi, Builders Stay Assured in its Success
Thursday’s market meltdown left MakerDAO (MKR) with a $5 million gap that the challenge is now scrambling to fill. As that is simply the most rece [...]
MakerDAO Money owed Develop as DeFi Chief Strikes to Stabilize Protocol
MakerDAO’s emergency shutdown choice – which was weighed by community members following the appearance of a $4 million debt bubble on the decentral [...]
DeFi Skepticism, Decentralization, Tax Outline London Blockchain Week
The ultimate stage of London Blockchain Week appeared to be the most recent sufferer to the coronavirus disaster. Lots of the occasions that had i [...]
DeFi Big MakerDAO Avoiding Shutdown within the Face of Tanking ETH — For Now
As Ether’s worth sees document losses, MakerDAO, the largest participant in decentralized finance (DeFi) on the Ethereum community, is taking a lo [...]
DeFi Chief MakerDAO Weighs Emergency Shutdown Following ETH Value Drop
A big drop within the worth of ether (ETH) is testing the feasibility of Ethereum's whole system of lending and borrowing.MakerDAO is the most impo [...]
Paradigm Labs Shuts Down, Says It Was ‘Too Early’ for DeFi Growth
Paradigm Labs is closing down after concluding that curiosity in decentralized finance (DeFi) got here too late within the firm's life cycle.Based [...]
DeFi Challenge Backed by Polychain and DragonFly Capital Shuts Down
Decentralized finance venture Paradigm Labs — backed by veteran crypto investors Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and Chapter One Ventures — [...]
When Will Bitcoin Be a part of the DeFi Revolution?
As of early February, greater than $1 billion U.S. {dollars} of belongings reside in decentralized finance protocols, generally referred to as DeF [...]
Tether Seems to Catch Up in DeFi With Aave Integration
Tether (USDT) is now accessible on Aave, a non-custodial lending platform previously often known as ETHLend. The highest stablecoin by market capi [...]
Lex Sokolin: We Do not Want Libra, We Want A New System
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is World Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software program firm. The next is cust [...]