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DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raises $25 Million Series A Led by A16z

It's one of the largest venture capital investments in a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup to date.

Compound founder Robert Leshner

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Bithumb Wants User-Created DEXs With Its New Blockchain Ecosystem

Bithumb Global is launching an "exchange-as-a-service" platform through its new namesake blockchain platform.

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Lending Protocol Founders to Launch 'Neo-Bank' Offering Interest on USDC

The founders of Nuo are launching Juno, which will offer a smart-contract wallet with 5.5 percent interest on USDC in a bid to attract retail users.

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InstaDApp DeFi Site Raises $2.4 Million From Prominent Crypto Investors

The fourth-largest dapp in DeFi, InstaDApp, is now backed by Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase Ventures and others.

Instadapp co-founders Sowmay Jain and Samyak Jain in a photo from 2019.

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Sequoia-Backed Startup Enters DeFi Market With Bitcoin Binary Options

Band Protocol launched its binary options dapp Monday, allowing users to make predictions on bitcoin's price swings.

The Band Protocol team in 2019.

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Ripple's Xpring Looks to Build XRP DeFi Products With New Acquisition

Nine Logos engineers are joining Xpring to develop DeFi products based on XRP.

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WATCH: Chainlink CEO Talks Data Oracles

"The ability for a developer to make all the choices the way he wants about inputs and outputs is what oracles really provide," Nazarov said at Invest: Asia.

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What the Holy Land Reveals About Bitcoin

Israel's political backdrop gave attendees of Tel Aviv Blockchain Week an opportunity to ponder the duality of today's bitcoin movement.

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ConsenSys Announces Codefi Project to Boost DeFi Adoption

ConsenSys is doubling down on the DeFi ecosystem with a new product suite called Codefi.

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Staked Automates the Best DeFi Returns With Launch of Robo Advisor

The firm's new robo advisor, RAY, automates the process of finding high-yielding opportunities.

Tim Ogilvie (right) at Consensus 2019, New York City.