Yield


Markets

Here's Why Crypto Traders Should Be Attentive to 'De-Inversion' of Treasury Yield Curve

The Treasury curve suggests the widely anticipated U.S. economic recession is near. Historically, the signal has brought pain to risk assets.

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Finance

Affine Protocol Raises $5.1M From Industry Heavyweights to Develop DeFi Yield Offering

The round was led by Jump Crypto and Hack VC and included contributions from Circle Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.

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Markets

Explaining the Disconnect Between Bitcoin and Treasury Yields Post-US Inflation Data

Bitcoin and technology stocks rose Tuesday even as a hotter-than-expected U.S. CPI figure revived Fed angst and lifted Treasury yields.

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Tech

Aave Deploys Native Stablecoin GHO on Ethereum Testnet

GHO joins an increasingly competitive space as rival DeFi protocols also issue or are moving to release their own protocol-native stablecoins.

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Tech

DeFi Protocol Ondo Finance Sets Up Tokenized Corporate Bonds With Over 8% Yield on Stablecoins

The on-chain funds are directly invested in exchange-traded funds managed by BlackRock and Pimco.

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Tech

DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance Will Let Anyone Create Curve Reward Farms

Yearn was among the first yield aggregators in the now-mature decentralized-finance ecosystem.

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Opinion

The Year Crypto Yields Blew Up

Centralized interest-bearing accounts stayed artificially high after DeFi yields programmatically went dry. Crypto can be competitive with TradFi, but it needs to remain transparent and composable.

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Markets

DeFi Giant MakerDAO Voting on Hiking DAI Stablecoin Rewards

Increasing the DAI savings rate would increase the Maker stablecoin’s competitiveness and help mitigate capital outflow from crypto to traditional financial markets, MakerDAO contributors said.

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Policy

Australia's Markets Watchdog Sues Fintech Company Block Earner

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said the company offered fixed-yield earning products that should be licensed, leaving consumers without important protections.

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Markets

Surging Popularity of Ethereum Staking Keeps Lid on Yields

Over 14 million ether, worth more than $2 billion, are currently deposited on the Ethereum blockchain, data shows. But as the staked pool gets larger, it also lowers the yield.

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