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[sociallocker id="55298"] Decentralized lending and borrowing platform Celsius Network has crossed $1 billion in total cryptocurrency deposits since its launch in 2018.The platform claims that it returns 80% of its total revenue to its users and has so far paid $17 million as interest rewards to its community of cryptocurrency
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HackMoney Hackathon, a 30-day virtual Aave hackathon organized by Ethereum developer group ETHGlobal, has announced its three winning projects—Learn&Earn, a gamified online learning platform, YieldHero, a suite for managing Aave, and MagicBet, a no-loss betting platform that enables users to stake DAI.Hacking Lending and Money Maker Protocol AaveOrganized by ETHGlobal,
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Ethereum’s budding decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem took a heavy beating after the March capitulation crash.As I detailed in an analysis for LongHash, what happened was that MakerDAO became unstable due to what some say is an erosion in trust in the protocol. Ethereum investor Parafi Capital wrote in a blog
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Ken Deeter, a partner at crypto venture firm, Electric Capital, proposed a pragmatic approach to ensure decentralized finance, or DeFi, projects are not exploited due to bugs in the system.In an article published on May 27 through the Electric Capital blog, Deeter calls for DeFi projects to introduce “better risk
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The use case that helped power Ethereum‘s record-setting string of positive weekly closes in early 2020, has now gone parabolic.Decentralized finance users have grown from just 90,000 individuals to over 178,000 over the course of the last six months, showing a rapid increase in demand for such alternatives to traditional
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Investor, early crypto adopter, and CEO of Gemini exchange, Tyler Winklevoss, predicted that competition between stablecoins will really begin once Wall Street moves into decentralized finance, or DeFi, during a recent interview with The Defiant’s Camila Russo.However, despite his optimistic outlook for DeFi, the Gemini co-founder asserted that the crypto
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In an interview with Cryptox, Alex Mashinsky, the founder of the decentralized finance app Celsius Network, took aim at the crypto community for becoming fixated on short-term profiteering and failing to drive mass adoption. Mashinsky urged the community to capitalize on the opportunity to redefine money and finance offered amid
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Cryptocurrency price aggregator CoinGecko conducted a survey with almost 700 of its users to learn more about the trends in decentralized finance (DeFi).The report, published on May 20, highlights that many cryptocurrency users heard about DeFi and some of its better known projects, but few of these are actually using
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Argent, a non-custodial Ethereum mobile wallet, has officially come out of beta and is now available for both iOS and Android users to download. The company wants to bring DeFi to the masses with its simple UX and an innovative approach to security.First Public Version of Argent Wallet Officially LaunchedArgent
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A report published by venture capital research firm, Ana.vc, has revealed a 57% decline in crypto funding from VCs over the month of April.Despite the decline in overall investment, the decentralized lending sector appears to still be flourishing — raising 150% of its March total.Crypto fundraising plummets during AprilThe report
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