DeFi

DeFi

Finance

Cardano's Founding Entity Emurgo to Invest Over $200M to Boost Ecosystem

The funds will be invested in projects over a three-year period.

Coin98 joins a growing roster of DeFi protocols crafting their own stablecoin. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain-Powered Reinsurer Re Raises $14 Million Seed Round to Build Decentralized Market

The company sees its protocol as providing collective backing of insurance policies in a similar way to the Lloyd’s of London market.

Inside the Lloyd's of London insurance market. (Lloyd's of London)

Policy

Tron Founder Justin Sun Thinks Crypto Could Learn Something From TradFi

“We want our 100 million customers to know that we really take their money and their data seriously,” he said in an interview with CoinDesk.

Justin Sun, speaking at the Binance Blockchain Week in Paris. (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Finance

Market Maker Flowdesk to Join With Jump-Backed Pyth Network to Improve Access to Blockchain Data

Flowdesk hopes the partnership will help DeFi users and developers gain ready access to institutional-quality market data.

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Markets

Ethereum Project Ribbon Finance Launches Crypto Options Exchange to Boost Growth

Ribbon said it expects trading volumes to reach over $100 million a day within the first six months.

Ribbon founder Julian Koh announced Aevo at Token 2049 in Singapore. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Policy

Industry Offers Cautious Welcome to EU’s Landmark Crypto Law MiCA

A near final leaked text is fuzzy on NFTs and could strangle the stablecoin market, some worry, but the overall reception to the bill appears to be positive.

A leaked draft of Europe's landmark Markets in Crypto Assets bill is being received warmly by the crypto community, despite a few concerns. (Frederic Köberl/Unsplash)

Opinion

The DeFi Financial Crime Arms Race

By taking a fresh approach to stamping out financial crime we can build a safer future for DeFi.

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Policy

US Fed Chair Powell Urges Caution on Regulating DeFi

Some policymakers are keen to press new rules on the decentralized finance sector following the collapse of Do Kwon's terraUSD stablecoin.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Finance

DeFi Hub Umee Targets TradFi With Institutional Lending DAO

The cross-chain lending protocol has raised almost $40 million since June 2021.

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Policy

French Central Bank CBDC Projects Aim to Manage DeFi Liquidity, Settle Tokenized Assets

The Bank of France is looking at a wholesale central bank digital currency that would be used by banks and financial markets.

The former stock exchange in Paris (Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)