DeFi

DeFi

Tech

Crypto Crime Hit All-Time High of $14B in 2021 as Prices Climbed: Chainalysis

The percentage of illicit transactions fell drastically, but the dollar value surged, a new report says.

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Finance

JPMorgan Says Ethereum’s DeFi Dominance at Risk Due to ‘Sharding’ Delays

Analysts from the bank said that the scaling of the network might arrive too late.

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Finance

Fireblocks ‘Whitelists’ 30 Trading Firms for Aave’s Institutional DeFi Debut

Aave Arc could usher in a new era of bank-friendly DeFi. Here’s how.

Photo of Stani Kulechov in 2019 (CoinDesk archive)

Finance

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)

Markets

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.

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Tech

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)

Markets

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

Markets

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.

Finance

Binance Invests $12M in Liquidity Platform WOO Network

WOO had raised $30 million in November.

Binance. (Shutterstock)