Tag: finance

Kyberswap comes to the rescue of hack victims, Platypus hacker walks free: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. Cointelegraph interviewed Velvet Capital’s CEO on the challenges facing DeFi and the key barriers it needs to overcome to go mainstream. Cosmos-based Umee and Osmosis merge to create “DeFi Hub,” where Umee’s UX Chain code will be reimplemented on the Osmosis chain, combining features of the two networks. The Platypus hacker has managed to evade accountability for the $8.5 million exploit on…

Moody’s launches quantum-as-a-service platform for finance

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According to the Moody’s Analytics website, QFStudio is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that will serve as “a continuous integration, benchmark, and delivery platform” for quantum computing solutions. Quantum computing for finance The burgeoning quantum computing sector is expected to experience steady growth over the next few decades. A recent forecast predicted that quantum computing technologies would grow from a market capitalization in the United States of about $138 million in 2022 to $1.2 billion by 2030. Currently, most of the focus in quantum computing is on research and development. Companies…

ParaSpace to continue NFT lending as it rebrands to Parallel Finance

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Despite rebranding to Parallel Finance for a greater focus on the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, the nonfungible token (NFT) lending protocol ParaSpace will continue to focus on its core product amid sector woes. In a conversation with Cointelegraph, Yubo Ruan, founder and CEO of ParaSpace (now Parallel Finance), explains that the protocol uses a combination of diversified liquidity pools, dynamic loan-to-value ratios and price-discovery partnerships to mitigate the risks associated with high volatility, which can often result in a lack of bidders on the underlying asset. “Despite the market downturn,…

Over Two Dozen Indian Crypto Service Providers Have Registered With Financial Intelligence Unit, Finance Ministry Says

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KyberSwap hacker wants control, law firm says Aussie DeFi tax rules ‘non-binding’: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The hacker who stole over $46 million from the DeFi protocol KyberSwap has released a list of demands, including total control over the Kyber company and all its assets. The hacker specified a deadline for the Kyber team to fulfill the demands. A law firm in Australia described the DeFi tax guidance released by the country’s finance regulator as “toilet paper.” Cadena…

Digital Finance Firm SoFi Hands Its Crypto Business to Blockchain.com

SoFi’s transition away from directly offering crypto services may be tied to its decision to become a bank holding company. The U.S. Federal Reserve, as part of that approval, told the company that its crypto activities were not permissible under banking rules, though it would be allowed to continue them for two years, with the possibility of extensions, according to a regulatory filing. (Bloomberg reported on SoFi’s decision to close and the link to banking regulation earlier Wednesday.) Source

The Driving Force of DeFi’s Growth and the Future of LST Finance

Decentralized applications (dApps), such as Lybra, Prisma, Sommelier, Enzyme, that use these types of tokens are part of the LSTfi (LST finance) category of finance (allowing users to stake their LSTs in a form of collateral, or for other DeFi use cases). In other words, LSTfi is the use of LSTs in DeFi. LST finance (LSTfi) exploded after Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade on April 12 2023, which enabled staked ETH withdrawals. Source

Renowned Finance Author Says Buy Bitcoin Now Before It’s Too Late, Here’s Why

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Renowned finance author Robert Kiyosaki has never been shy about his support for Bitcoin and he continues to push for more adoption of the asset. Kiyosaki who wrote the infamous ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ book is back once again with a piece of advice, and a warning, for investors regarding Bitcoin. Buy Bitcoin Now, Says Kiyosaki In normal fashion, Kiyosaki took to Twitter to sound the warning about rising prices due to inflation. This tweet was made back on November 23 where the author lamented the reality of individuals who…

How Indexed Finance Foiled Two Treasury Hijack Attempts

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In an interesting line of events, Ethereum-based DeFi project Indexed Finance recently faced and triumphed over a dual hijack attempt of the protocol DAO’s treasury. Following this development, the project’s founders will now re-assume control from the DAO. In a thread on X on Saturday, Laurence Day, a former executive at Indexed Finance, shared two failed hijack attempts targeted at the treasury of the project’s DAO, which is currently valued at  $120,000. According to Day, both attackers purchased a high amount of Indexed’s native token – NDX and attempted to…

Indexed Finance thwarts hijackers, set to compensate 2021 hack victims

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Indexed Finance, an Ethereum-based project that suffered a $16 million hack in 2021, has successfully thwarted two hijacking attempts. Control of the project’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will be returned to its founders, who aim to allocate the remaining treasury to victims of the 2021 hack. In a thread on X (formerly Twitter), Laurence Day, a former core contributor, detailed the efforts of the Indexed community in overcoming two hijacking attempts on the remaining treasury of the Indexed DAO. Both attackers acquired significant amounts of the protocol’s NDX token and…