Jane Hume, an Australian politician, spoke about Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Monday at the Australian Financial Review Super & Wealth Summit in Sydney. In her speech, she referenced the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) calling crypto a fad. And she emphasized that it most certainly is not. She further urged policymakers to cautiously embrace blockchain technology like…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms have been the target of criminal attacks this year. Investors in the blockchain-based form of finance have lost billions of dollars to criminals that target the platforms. The total amount of money deposited at DeFi services has spiked from just $500 million in 2019 to $247 billion this year. Related Reading | Dog-Themed…
The developer and co-founder of Ethereum recently urged the community to innovate beyond decentralized finance. He made these statements during a conference that took place in Paris. According to Buterin, non-financial utilities are part of the vision general-purpose blockchains such as Ethereum aims to offer. But he is somewhat disappointed that the ETH blockchain is…
Aave declared a kick-off of its new project this month to meet the abruptly growing demand from different institutions. According to their announcement, Aave, one of the leading DeFi money markets, will launch a permission payment platform for investors. The DeFi protocol is partnering with Fireblocks, a crypto service provider and custodian, to launch the…
News BTC is mostly a price prediction platform. After writing about the cultural side of crypto for near four years, I’ve come to learn a thing or two about the correlation between leader, community, and price. Even though I have no qualifications or desire to be a price predictor, I’ve made great friends here through…
News BTC is mostly a price prediction platform. After writing about the cultural side of crypto for near four years, I’ve come to learn a thing or two about the correlation between leader, community, and price. Even though I have no qualifications or desire to be a price predictor, I’ve made great friends here through…
Last night on the Monday night live airing of the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune, a contestant named Jeremy Kerbel introduced viewers to DeFi for the first time, while in the same breath mentioning Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole. Jeremy Kerbel is a managing director at OSL and the founder of Kerve…
Compound Finance’s native token COMP was among the biggest gainers in the decentralized finance space on Wednesday. The fourth-largest DeFi token by market cap surged by more than 10 percent, hitting an intraday high of $154.08 as traders assessed a flurry of upside fundamentals around it. A pseudonymous analyst noted that the Compound protocol lured…
Associating with the term “DeFi” worked in favor of many blockchain assets this year. UNI was one of them. The governance token, which landed in the hands of people who contributed to the progress and running of UniSwap, a decentralized crypto exchange, was a hit right after its launch. It topped charts after rising more…
CREAM logged a sharp reversal rally on Wednesday as traders assessed its listing on Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange by volume. The Malta-based trading platform will list CREAM/BNB and CREAM/BUSD trading pairs at 1300 UTC, per its announcement. That will enable users to effectively deposit and trade their CREAM tokens against Binance Coin and…