Acala was victorious in Polkadot’s first parachain auction, Iota announced its staking network and Uniswap liquidity providers lose money — all coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter. Read on to discover why almost half of the liquidity providers on Uniswap v3 are losing…
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While the blockchain network Solana’s native token has skyrocketed in value this week jumping 31.4%, the Solana-based perpetual swap platform Drift Protocol announced it raised $3.8 million from strategic investors. At the same time, Drift announced the launch of its alpha mainnet after several months of “grind, hard work, debugging, building security guardrails.”
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The Solana ecosystem continues its development in DeFi. Step Finance, a Solana-native decentralized finance protocol, announced the completion of a private token sale for $2 million, which will help build and develop its platform. The round, disclosed on Tuesday, saw participation from notable Solana backers including Alameda Research, the hedge fund known for launching and…
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The investment will reportedly allow Reef to implement more cross-chain integrations with Serum and Raydium on Solana. After investing in travel app Maps.me and decentralized finance protocol Oxygen, Alameda Research will be putting $20 million into Reef Finance, the Polkadot-based DeFi platform. According to Reef Finance, Alameda Research will be purchasing $20 million worth of…
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FTX exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is worth an estimated $10 billion according to a New York Magazineinterview. Alameda Research and FTX exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried has amassed a fortune, mostly via crypto assets over the past few years according to New York Magazine. SBF, as he is known in crypto circles, spoke to the publication…
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A travel and mapping application with 140 million users worldwide has raised $50 million to integrate decentralized finance protocols into its platform. Leading offline mapping application Maps.me has conducted a $50 million seed funding round to embed decentralized finance tools onto its platform. The funding round for “Maps.me 2.0” was led by Sam Bankman-Fried of…
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