DeFi News

The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) this year, among other developments, will likely see rising popularity of tranche lending, increased use of Layer 2 protocols as a scaling solution, faster tokenization on Ethereum (ETH), and improved mobility of staked ETH, estimates ConsenSys Codefi unit of major ETH-focused blockchain company ConsenSys.

Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan is persuaded that decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology bring major growth potential, and is determined to remain “at the forefront of this innovation,” Jamie Dimon, the bank’s Chairman and CEO, wrote in his latest letter to the company's shareholders.

The hacker of XCarnival, a lending aggregator for metaverse assets, has accepted a bounty of ETH 1,500 (USD 1.85m) in exchange for the return of the remaining ETH 1,467 (USD 1.8m) and the team not pursuing legal actions.

Maple Finance, an institutional capital marketplace focused on crypto, has issued its first syndicated loan in excess of USD 100m to Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm and parent company of crypto derivatives exchange FTX.

The digital asset platform Fireblocks is partnering with the US-based publicly listed fintech firm FIS to bring a range of new enterprise-grade solutions from the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto trading and staking to its client base, the two companies announced today.

Pure decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols have fared far better than the more centralized crypto lending and borrowing companies during this bear market. This proves that computer code and transparent standards give “a better outcome,” crypto essayist and former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes wrote.

A scorching hot decentralized finance (DeFi) hack summer continues, with the latest in a string of at least eight protocols to fall victim to an exploit since early June being Acala Network - and it is at least the fourth one in August alone.

The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned an ethereum (ETH) address that it says received coins stolen in the Ronin Validator hack – and the FBI has claimed that the North Korean Lazarus group of hackers was behind the security breach.

Tron (TRX) platform has just announced that it has established a USD 300m fund called TRON Arcade, which will invest in and incubate GameFi projects over the next three years.

Popular decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave (AAVE) has partnered with decentralized operating system Centrifuge to launch a new market called Real World Assets (RWAs), which would enable users to earn yield against real-world assets.