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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Maybe Hasn’t Escaped Campaign Finance Charges

Bankman-Fried is currently set to go on trial on Oct. 2 on seven different charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He is then set to go on trial again in March of next year on another five charges, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter and conspiracy to bribe foreign government officials. Source

Borroe Finance empowers small businesses to scale, grow revenue

Borroe Finance is a crypto project behind ROE. It aims to transform how small businesses receive funding and expand in web3.  The platform empowers businesses to unlock their true potential, scale up, and thrive using artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.  Struggles of small businesses in web3 Though the web3 revolution has presented opportunities for small businesses, there have been challenges. Many ventures encounter short-term liquidity issues, capping growth. Meanwhile, traditional financing institutions have been slow to grasp the dynamics of the web3 industry, resulting in slow, inefficient, and expensive funding options.…

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Headed Toward a ‘Major Resurgence,’ Tribe Capital’s Boris Revsin Says

In late 2018, the crowdfunding platform Republic acquired the team behind Game Theory Group and Revsin was brought on to head its new Republic Capital arm, which was distinct from the more consulting and builder-oriented Republic Crypto group. By the time Revsin left in April 2022, Republic Capital had raised more than $600 million, held about $1 billion in assets under management and had invested in more than 80 startups, including Avalanche, Polygon, Blockdaemon and Kraken. Source

Web3 Could Revolutionize Climate Finance

These are the kinds of solutions we need if we’re going to reach $1 trillion in annual climate financing, let alone $100 billion. Grand gestures by governments and institutions, while good for headlines, make very little difference on the ground. Web3 stands poised to be the catalyst that unlocks access to retail capital, spawns and scales a new generation of grassroots climate projects, and finally gives at-risk countries a chance to leverage their climate assets. Source

Parrot Finance early backers to lose 90% of investment in contentious proposal

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Parrot Finance is facing a redemption vote two years after raising over $80 million in a public token sale during Solana’s heyday. The proposed redemption program seeks to end Parrot’s governance token, PRT, with more than $80 million from its treasury set to be distributed among holders at $0.0045 per token. The price would drastically devalue the investment of early backers, causing them to recoup just one-tenth of their initial investment of $0.04 per token.  Critics…

Centralized exchanges will become gateways for DeFi: 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 past week in DeFi saw new advancements in zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) as a scaling solution as more DeFi protocols embraced the technology. A new United States Senate DeFi bill attracted a lot of scrutiny — though not necessarily of the positive kind — as many stakeholders came out to slam the “unworkable” legislation. The CEO of the dydx Foundation made a…

DeFi Protocol Conic Finance Hacked for 1,700 Ether

Each Omnipool allocates liquidity of a single asset into different Curve pools. All Curve liquidity provider (LP) tokens get staked on Convex to boost Curve (CRV) rewards earnings. Convex (CNX), another Curve ecosystem token, is also rewarded, as is Conic (CNC), Conic’s native token. Source