Tag: DeFi

Bitcoin gets DeFi upgrade with Velar’s first PerpDEX launch

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Velar has officially launched the world’s first decentralized perpetuals exchange built natively on Bitcoin. Velar, a DeFi infrastructure platform focused on building advanced trading products and user interfaces for Bitcoin-secured assets, said its new product marks a new chapter in Bitcoin (BTC)-based decentralized finance. Deployed on Stacks, a Bitcoin layer 2, the platform allows users to trade perpetual futures with leverage while maintaining full custody of their assets. The exchange is now live at perpdex.velar.com and opens with a trading pair of sBTC-USDh. USDh, developed by Hermetica, is the first…

Kinto to List $K Token on Gate.io, MEXC, and Kinto Exchange, Pioneering Fair Tokenomics in DeFi

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March 27th, 2025 – San Francisco, USA Kinto, the modular exchange designed to provide secure, compliant, and seamless access to decentralized finance (DeFi), today announced the upcoming listing of its $K token. Scheduled for March 31st, 2025, the token will initially be available on  Kinto’s native exchange, Gate.io, MEXC, and Uniswap. The $K listings mark a major milestone in Kinto’s growth, following a successful token launch that raised $3.84 million from over 2,700 participants. The sale, which used a Dutch auction model—a transparent price discovery mechanism where the bidding starts high…

Bitlayer Integrates BitVM Bridge With Xverse Wallet to Advance Bitcoin DeFi

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Bitlayer has announced the integration of the BitVM Bridge with Xverse Wallet, a bitcoin wallet that supports customizable Bitcoin testnet configurations. This collaboration allows users to access the trust-minimized BitVM Bridge seamlessly through the Xverse Wallet, enhancing the adoption of BitVM technology in the Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi) space. As a member of the BitVM […] Original

Resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker rule heads to Trump’s desk

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The US Senate has passed a resolution to kill a Biden administration-era rule to require decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to report to the Internal Revenue Service, which will now head to US President Donald Trump’s desk. On March 26, the Senate voted 70-28 to pass a motion repealing the so-called IRS DeFi broker rule that aimed to expand existing IRS reporting requirements to crypto. The Senate had voted to pass the resolution earlier in March, which also passed the House, but it was sent back to the Senate for a…

LatAm Exchange TruBit Taps Crypto Lending Platform Morpho for DeFi Earn Offering

TruBit, a Latin America-based cryptocurrency exchange with regulatory licenses in Mexico and Argentina, is offering users in the region a decentralized finance (DeFi) yield product powered by crypto lender Morpho. Catering to a growing demand for crypto-backed lending, this move by retail exchanges is all about creating an easy way for users to interact with decentralized, automated lending and borrowing, a so-called “DeFi mullet” (fintech on the front end, DeFi at the back). Morpho’s TruBit partnership follows the DeFi lending protocol’s announcement earlier this year with Coinbase, to offer bitcoin-backed…

SEC plans 4 more crypto roundtables on trading, custody, tokenization, DeFi

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission will host four more crypto roundtables — focusing on crypto trading, custody, tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi) — after hosting its first crypto roundtable on March 21. The series of roundtables, organized by the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, will kick off with a discussion on tailoring regulation for crypto trading on April 11, the SEC said in a March 25 statement. A roundtable on crypto custody will follow on April 25, with another to discuss tokenization and moving assets onchain on May 12. The…

DeFi lender Nostra pauses borrowing after price feed error

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Nostra, a lending protocol on Starknet, has paused borrowing for two liquid staking tokens after identifying a “critical issue” with its price feeds, the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol said.  On March 24, errors in Nostra’s price feed inflated the reported prices of xSTRK and sSTRK — two liquid staking derivatives of Starknet’s native STRK token — to approximately three times the tokens’ actual value, Nostra said in a post on the X platform. According to Nostra, “[s]uch an inflated price feed could have caused unnecessary liquidations of otherwise safe positions,…

How Elastos uses Bitcoin’s security to power DeFi

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The decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape continues to evolve, and Bitcoin-centric solutions are gaining momentum. BTCFi is an emerging sector that transforms Bitcoin (BTC) from a passive store of value into an actively utilized asset in DeFi.  A new report by Cointelegraph Research and Elastos delves into how Bitcoin’s security helps to create trustless, scalable financial ecosystems. Bitcoin’s expanding role in DeFi DeFi has traditionally been dominated by Ethereum, which accounts for over 50% of the sector’s total $175 billion total value locked (TVL). However, Bitcoin’s strong security and liquidity make…

Ethena Labs, Securitize launch blockchain for DeFi and tokenized assets

Stablecoin developer Ethena Labs and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company Securitize are launching a new blockchain for retail and institutional investors seeking access to the DeFi and tokenization economies.  According to a March 17 announcement, the forthcoming Converge blockchain is an Ethereum Virtual Machine that will provide retail investors with access to “standard DeFi applications.” It will also specialize in institutional-grade offerings that will help bridge traditional finance with DeFi opportunities.  The Converge blockchain is announced at the Tokenize NYC conference on March 17. Source: Cointelegraph Converge will launch with…

Move is now primed to grow DeFi

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Opinion by: Alex Nguyen, CEO at VibrantX The Move programming language’s origin is not super cypherpunk. Facebook (now Meta) created Move after the Libra/Diem team compared major smart contract languages (Bitcoin Script, Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode languages) and decided their formidable in-house tech talent could make a new language built on years of private and public sector research. The original team, including founders Mo Shaikh, Avery Ching, and their engineering team, left Facebook to continue as a fully independent, open-source project headed up by Aptos Labs and supported by the…