DeFi
Placeholder Leads $2 Million Seed Round for DeFi Services Provider Zerion
DeFi services provider Zerion has raised $2 million from Placeholder, Blockchain and others to build out its team.
Algorand 2.0's New Non-Turing-Complete Smart Contracts Are a Feature, Not a Bug
Thursday's Algorand 2.0 upgrade adds decentralized finance (DeFi) features and smart contracts to the $108 million blockchain.
DAI Is Moving Beyond Ether, But DeFi Isn't Decentralized Just Yet
MakerDAO may be diversifying the assets it works with, but it has a long way to go to decentralize the power to make key decisions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
