DeFi
Ethereum in 2022: What Is Money in the Metaverse?
DeFi, NFTs, stablecoins – most of it started on Ethereum. What about next year? This post is part of CoinDesk’s Future of Money Week.
UST Stablecoin Demand, DeFi Incentives Drive Terra’s LUNA to New All-Time High
Following a network upgrade in October, it’s the second time this month LUNA has logged record highs.
Three Arrows Backs Money-Streaming Mean DAO to Boost DeFi Payments on Solana
The $3.5 million funding round included SoftBank and DeFiance Capital.
Elrond Leapfrogs Into DeFi’s Top 10 as Users Chase Ridiculously Large Incentive Program
What was a $1.29 billion sweetener package when announced is now worth $7.32 billion as the MEX token surges. It has dragged an afterthought chain’s TVL into the big leagues.
German VC Greenfield One Raises $160M Crypto Fund With Backing From Swisscom, Others
The VC’s third fund is its biggest yet, and most likely one of the largest crypto funds in Europe.
El Salvador Wants to Build ‘Bitcoin City’ With Major Tax Incentives
El Salvador, the only country where bitcoin is a legal tender, is going to build an entire city based on the largest cryptocurrency by market value. “Bitcoin City” will have no income, property, capital gains or payroll taxes.
Rari Capital, Fei Protocol Look to Overcome Bagholder Bias in Ambitious DeFi Merger
Two teams are looking to form a $2.4 billion DeFi powerhouse. What’s the holdup?
Crypto Options Traders Turn to DeFi for Altcoin Bets as QCP Slings $1B
The Singapore-based firm QCP now trades more than $1B of crypto options per month using decentralized financial applications, including $1 million worth of AAVE options recently with Ribbon Finance.
Another E-CNY Scam Busted, SCMP to Tokenize History
Inner Mongolia e-CNY scam busted. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post to release news archives as NFTs. DeFi emerges as an enabler for pricing assets. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."
