DeFi


Markets

Grayscale, in the Spotlight as GBTC Discount Widens, Says DeFi Fund Now Trading

The debut of the DEFG fund in over-the-counter markets comes as Grayscale’s largest fund, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), is trading at a record discount and at the center of crypto-market speculation.

Grayscale's Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Invest: NYC 2019 (CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Perennial Launches, Announces $12M in Funding

Polychain Capital and Variant co-led a seed round for the decentralized derivatives protocol.

DeFi protocol Perennial makes public a $12 million fundraise. (Unsplash)

Finance

Attacker Targets Wealthy Crypto Funds Using Telegram Chats

Exchange owners cautioned against downloads of malicious as attackers zeroed in on gullible users with a very relevant and specific narrative.

(Adam Levine/CoinDesk)

Tech

What Does an AI Chatbot ‘Think’ About DeFi? We Asked ChatGPT

ChatGPT, CoinDesk’s new, robot-guest contributor, explains how AI might help (and harm) the future of DeFi.

AI Artwork Robot writing typing writer (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Tech

DeFi Project Mercurial Plots Revamp and New Tokens Following 'Toxic' Association With FTX

Mercurial would launch some of its popular products as a separate project under the name Meteora.

Piggy bank bent forward change money coins (Andre Taissin/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

DeFi Protocol SushiSwap Proposes 'Immediate' Action to Support Its Treasury

Developers proposed to divert 100% of fees generated on the platform to Sushi’s multisig for one year or until new tokenomics are implemented.

Los rollups no tienen la seguridad de Ethereum. (Luigi Pozzoli/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Audit Platform Sherlock Expects $4M Loss From Troubled Loans on Maple Finance

Sherlock deposited $5 million USDC of its staking pool into the beleaguered credit pool on Maple, which suffered a $31 million hit from Orthogonal Trading’s FTX-induced insolvency.

Mysterious transactions and reconciliation head-scratchers happen in traditional finance, too, but crypto could be uniquely prone to a situation of this sort. (Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Crypto Firm Orthogonal, Victim of FTX Contagion, Now Faces Internal Dissent

Shortly after Orthogonal got served with default notices on $36 million of crypto loans from Maple Finance, the firm’s credit team published a statement saying it was “speechless” and unaware of the extent of the trading team’s exposures.

Rancor and dissent have broken out between units of Orthogonal Trading after $36 million of loan defaults on the crypto lending platform Maple Finance. (Charles Altamont Doyle/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Financial Stability Watchdogs Vow to Tackle DeFi, Learn FTX Lessons

Policymakers from the world’s major jurisdictions want an international rulebook for crypto.

FSB Chair Klaas Knot (left) meets the Indonesian president in November. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)