Tag: DeFi

Avalanche (AVAX) Rallies On Fed Rate Cut, DeFi Growth Boosts Long-Term Outlook

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With its price climbing 17% over the past seven days, Avalanche (AVAX) has lately been on a winning run. Right now, the cryptocurrency is trading at $28.12, up 7% over the past 24 hours alone. This abrupt increase fits a larger recovery across the crypto market driven by a significant shift in the US financial scene: the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates. The Fed lowered interest rates by 50 basis points on September 18, therefore defining the new range as 4.75%-5%. Aimed at helping to lower inflation and…

DeFi Lender Sky Ratifies Plan to Offboard Wrapped Bitcoin, Due to Sun Concerns

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BA Labs, in its proposals to offboard WBTC, had cited perceived risks from Tron founder Justin Sun’s involvement with BiTGlobal, the custodian for the underlying assets. BitGo, the original custodian for WBTC, announced in August that it planned to transition control of the asset to a joint operation with BiT Global, which has regulated operations based in Hong Kong. Original

DeFi Lending Platform Rari Capital Settles SEC Charges

“The SEC also alleges that Rari Capital and its co-founders misleadingly touted the high annual percentage yield that investors would earn, but they failed to account for various fees and, ultimately, a significant percentage of Earn pool investors lost money on their investments,” the agency said in a release. Source

Donald Trump Is Now a DeFi Enthusiast. Here’s Why It Matters

Technically, it is Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr., alongside the puzzling designation of 18-year-old Barron Trump as “Chief DeFi Visionary,” who are leading this initiative. Behind the scenes, Chase Herro – a figure with a controversial past and history of dubious ventures – emerges as the project’s real architect. The whitepaper, seen by CoinDesk, shows early iterations copied the code base of Dough Finance, which lost $1.8 million in a flash attack in July. Technical development is believed to be entirely outsourced to third parties, leaving an even higher…

DeFi Platform Loses $6M In Breach, Is North Korea Involved?

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Este artículo también está disponible en español. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform Delta Primes suffered a security breach on Monday, affecting the protocol’s users. The attack took $6 million from the project’s pools and is under investigation. However, on-chain investigators suspect it could be linked to North Korean hackers and be part of a larger-scale scheme. Related Reading Hackers Drain $6 Million From DeFi Protocol On Monday morning, cyber security platform Cyvers Alerts informed the community about the ongoing attack on DeFi borrowing protocol Delta Primes. The initial report revealed that…

DeFi protocol Euler Finance announces launch of new stablecoin Maxi

Decentralized finance lending platform Euler Finance has introduced a new hybrid token called Maxi. Euler Labs, the team behind the decentralized finance lending protocol on Ethereum (ETH), announced the development on Sept. 16. Maxi, as the platform explained in a post on X, is a bespoke lending product designed to offer its users greater capital efficiency. A stablecoin backed with range of assets Maxi is a stablecoin whose key features include a blend of assets and cross-collateralization for both capital efficiency and risk mitigation, Euler Finance posted. In terms of…

Argentine Exchange Ripio Announces Defi Credit Card

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Ripio, a leading Argentine exchange, has announced that it has created a Visa-backed decentralized finance (defi) credit card allowing users to put crypto in a liquidity pool as collateral for purchases. The card, currently in the testing phases, will not sell the cryptocurrencies owned automatically but will instead borrow up to 30% of the capital […] Source

Building a Yield Curve for Defi

While decentralized finance (defi) continues to innovate, it still lacks a critical component that has long been foundational in traditional finance: fixed-income products. I sat down for a great conversation with Jerry Li, co-founder and CEO of Term Structure, who introduced me to the idea of fixed-income products in crypto. Why Fixed-Income Could Be the […] Source CryptoX Portal