DeFi

DeFi

Financiën

Solana DeFi Protocol Exotic Markets Raises $5M Ahead of Mainnet Launch

Multicoin and Ascensive Assets co-led the private token sale.

Solana's Breakpoint came at the market's previous zenith (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Markten

Fantom (FTM) Surges, NEAR Sets Highs as Major Cryptos Stagnate

A revived interest in layer 1 bets is fueling growth in some tokens even as bitcoin shows signs of weakening.

(Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Technologie

Polkadot Gets DeFi Building Block as DEX Aggregator Dot Finance Migrates From BSC

The project will first launch on Moonriver, Moonbeam’s canary network on Kusama, before jumping to Moonbeam proper.

An installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, after whom Polkadot's canary network is named. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)

Markten

CRV Extends Rally as ‘Curve Wars’ Intensify

More and more protocols are building off of Curve, and an entire ecosystem is emerging, engaged in the so-called Curve Wars, one analyst said.

CRV extends five-month winning trend, decoupling from the weakness in top coins

Markten

Cosmos-Based Exchange Osmosis Crosses $1B in Locked Value

Trading volume crossed $95 million on the decentralized exchange while prices of its native tokens surged to all-time highs.

Umee wants to build bridges between Ethereum and Cosmos.

Financiën

Binance Invests $12M in Liquidity Platform WOO Network

WOO had raised $30 million in November.

Binance. (Shutterstock)

Beleid

Estonia Regulator Says No Plans to Ban Crypto

The country’s Ministry of Finance shut down claims that owning and trading cryptocurrency would be banned under the proposed anti-money laundering legislation.

Estonian, EU flags.

Financiën

Grayscale Adds Flexa’s AMP to DeFi Fund, Removes BNT, UMA in Quarterly Rebalancing

The world’s largest digital asset manager announced the updated weightings on Monday, following reconstitution of the CoinDesk DeFi Index (DFX).

(Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images)

Video's

Bitcoin Compared to Ether, Solana and Doge

2022’s first Chart of the Day analyzes the movement of decentralized finance (DeFi) assets over the last seven days, looking closely at BTC, ETH, SOL, and DOGE compared to the CoinDesk DeFi Index (DFX). DeFi assets in the DFX started the new year off with a rally opposed to cryptocurrencies.

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