DeFi
VCs Back ‘Pawn Shop of the Metaverse’ With $3M Raise
Pawnfi lets customers take out loans against their NFTs while also providing appraisal and liquidation services.
Alex Raises $5.8M to Bring DeFi to the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Alex aims to be a one-stop DeFi platform for fixed-rate and fixed-term bitcoin lending and borrowing.
Cream Plunges on News That Hack Compensation Will Inflate Token Supply
The price of CREAM has fallen off two cliffs in less than a month.
xDai Wants a Gnosis Merger to Stay Relevant, but Some Tokenholders Are Crying Foul
Project leads see a potentially historic DeFi merger as a way to fend off the competition. Speculators are complaining they’ve been shortchanged.
‘Curve Wars’ Heat Up: Emergency DAO Invoked After ‘Clear Governance Attack’
In a governance first, Curve has halted rewards emissions to a pool after it deemed a protocol’s behavior a “clear governance attack.”
Saddle Raises $7.5M to Reduce Slippage in DeFi Trading
The automated market maker wants to minimize the spread on stablecoin trades.
Polkadot DeFi Darling Acala Has Gathered Over $600M and Counting
Acala is likely to win the first Polkadot parachain slot in the auction process beginning Thursday.
MakerDAO’s Christensen Turns Optimistic After US Stablecoin Report
The founder of the crypto lender and stablecoin issuer had feared the worst about potential regulation.
LUNA Hits All-Time High as Terra Community Passes Popular Burn Proposal
The burning marks one of the largest, if not the largest, layer 1 token burnings in crypto history.
