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Many of the most popular decentralized finance protocols are getting a front-end makeover, but will the new looks and sleeker interfaces bring widespread adoption? Critics have long held that the barrier to entry for DeFi is significant, both for the amount of knowledge required to participate as well as for oftentimes
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The anticipated flow of institutional capital into the crypto market has been a popular narrative over the last few years, but often with limited traction. Now, in the aftermath of the 2020 macro backdrop, it’s actually happening. Preparations for institutional involvement have been made, and enterprise-level solutions built for crypto
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However, the total number of Ethereum locked up in DeFi plunged from 9.4 million ETH in mid-late October to the current 6.8 million ETH locked up at the time of writing.The Total Value Locked (TVL) in all of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications have crossed the $20 billion benchmark according
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The end of 2020 has been huge for the crypto community. Not only was there a spectacular price surge across digital assets, possibly signaling the beginning of another bull market, but there was also the launch of Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain, which has been in development for some time.The long-awaited
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As 2020 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest crypto developments and the wild ride the sector took investors on.At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin (BTC) was hovering just above $7,000, and the top-ranked digital asset had started to gather steam as the
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Hashed, one of South Korea’s largest crypto asset fund managers, has raised $120 million to fund new blockchain ventures in the so-called “protocol economy.”The funds were raised via Hashed Ventures Inc., a new entity that will oversee the deployment of the nine-figure investment. The company has yet to disclose its
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Last night, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse revealed his company’s expectations that they would be slapped with a lawsuit
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A new paper released on Thursday from a team of crypto researchers hopes to add to a body of work that will eventually identify “the Black-Scholes of decentralized finance (DeFi)” — an equation that will allow investors and users to properly value DeFi projects and potential profit/loss metrics in popular
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has launched Efforce, a company that facilitates investments in energy efficiency projects via cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The company aims to be a marketplace to streamline the process of financing and undertaking energy efficiency projects by enabling them to receive crowd contribution from investors via its token
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As decentralized finance sees its first mergers and acquisitions, we’re left with a big question: How do you value an open-source project in a very new field like DeFi? The whole thing is fascinating, almost a contradiction! An analysis of the issues can help us sharpen a toolkit for understanding value
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