In mid-September, the total-value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) continues to climb higher, as the value held on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, Solana, and more blockchains has risen dramatically to $171 billion today. On the Ethereum network, there’s 270,783 bitcoin held in TVL worth more than $13 billion and $15 billion has been…
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“Companies dealing in cryptocurrencies are not immune from oversight,” said New Jersey’s acting attorney general Andrew Bruck. The Texas State Securities Board has filed for a hearing with the potential to impose a cease and desist order against crypto lending firm Celsius Network for not offering securities licensed at the state or federal level, while…
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“We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto,” said Khairi Azmi. Singapore-based crypto lending platform Hodlnaut will partner with United States crypto exchange Okcoin in an effort to drive adoption and crypto transactions among users. In a Wednesday announcement, Hodlnaut…
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Researchers from Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley contributed to the development of the crypto-asset lending platform. Decentralized lending protocol Pledge has secured $3 million in investments for its cross-chain ecosystem focused on long-term financing, highlighting the continued innovation in the DeFi sector. The investment round was led by DHVC, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm,…
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At the time of writing, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) is around $176 billion across various blockchains like Ethereum, Binance, Terra, Polygon, Solana, and Avalanche. While Ethereum commands $130 billion of the aggregate total locked, a myriad of other defi-fueled blockchains continue to see TVLs steadily rise. Total Value Locked Across…
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As Ethereum rallied to new highs, the total value locked in multiple DeFi platforms surged above $10 billion, lifting MKR, AAVE and COMP toward new all-time highs. Analyzing the activity on lending platforms can sometimes be used as a barometer for measuring the sentiment of the cryptocurrency market as a higher number of collateral-backed loans…
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Can governance token distribution help Aave overtake Compound? With a liquidity mining program set to launch on Monday, Aave could be on the cusp of becoming the dominant decentralized finance (DeFi) ledning protocol. Earlier today, Aave Improvement Proposal (AIP) 16 reached quorum, meaning that starting on Monday, 4/26 liquidity providers and borrowers in Aave’s USDC,…
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Hodling can be a nerve-wracking experience — and if crypto is left to languish in a cold wallet for several years, it can also end up being an unrewarding one. What legal safeguards should you look for? Working with a licensed crypto company offers clients legal rights and helps ensure that they don’t run into…
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Crypto YouTuber EllioTrades and law professor Edmund Schuster debated the value of NFTs and the role of blockchain in digital collectibles. At the BlockDown 2021 conference, EllioTrades, a crypto YouTuber and co-creator of the Superfarm NFT project, joined a debate about the value of nonfungible tokens with Edmund Schuster, associate professor of law at the…
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Bitcoin’s long to short ratio has dropped to a 5 month low but bears are not taking the bait, suggesting bulls are still in control of BTC price. Newer traders might be unaware of this, but investors can also borrow BTC to margin trade a short position, thus betting on the price downside. This is…
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