While price volatility remained a key factor, major DeFi tokens registered double digit loss over the past week as the DeFi TVL hovers near $50 billion mark. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of key decentralized finance (DeFi) insights, a newsletter crafted to bring you some of the major developments over the last week.…
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Traders expect Bitcoin to swoop below its swing low before the price flattens out and altcoins begin to recover. Bitcoin dropped 56.2% in the second quarter of 2022, according to crypto analytics platform Coinglass. That makes it Bitcoin’s worst quarter since the third quarter of 2011 when BTC price fell by 67%. A large part…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Mirror Trading International (MTI) and its operator with a $1.7 billion fraud involving bitcoin. This action is the regulator’s largest fraud scheme case involving the cryptocurrency. CFTC Takes Action Against MTI The CFTC announced Thursday that it has charged a “South African pool operator and CEO…
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Prices have been declining across the crypto market and with it has come to a lot of doubt on the part of investors. This is reflected in the deposit and withdrawal trends recorded across the various crypto exchanges. One of these has been the funding rates which had remained flat for the better part of…
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Police in South Korea investigating the deaths of a 10-year-old child named Cho Yu-na and both of her parents have announced that the family had made numerous bitcoin (BTC) investments, but denied there was any evidence of luna classic (LUNAC) investments. The bodies of the trio were found in an upturned car in waters off…
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The cryptocurrency exchange filed a notice of default to Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital earlier in the week, but promised it would continue operations. Cryptocurrency exchange Voyager Digital announced Friday that it was temporarily suspending trading, deposits, withdrawals and loyalty rewards. “The failure of a borrower, Three Arrows Capital, to repay a substantial loan from us…
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A new staking mechanism through RADAR token has been created that is set to minimize gas fees and support recurring APR across multiple blockchains. DappRadar and omnichain interoperability protocol LayerZero have launched a new token to enable cross-chain staking across multiple blockchains and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible networks — a move designed to minimize fees…
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Crypto Jebb and independent market analyst Scott Melker agree that the crypto market’s toughest days still lay ahead. Discussion of the state of the crypto market has been a dominant headline over the past few weeks as non-crypto native media excoriate Bitcoin (BTC) and DeFi investors for investing in assets with no fundamental value. At the…
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Coinbase, Three Arrows Capital and MicroStrategy headline the latest business news from the world of blockchain. Coinbase has long been considered an important bellwether of the cryptocurrency market. Last year, when the company was expanding its workforce, adding institutional clients and issuing stock, crypto prices were hitting record highs. Now, in the depths of crypto…
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Monstercat CEO Mike Darlington and Metalink founder Jake Udell chat with NFT Steez about the future of Web3 and music NFTs. According to Mike Darlington, the CEO of Monstercat, an electronic music platform, and Jake Udell, the founder of social NFT platform Metalink, bear markets are a time to ideate and build new products. During…
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