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Defi Lending Startup Aave Launches Permissioned Platform to Entice Financial Institutions – Defi Bitcoin News

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On January 5, the open-source non-custodial decentralized finance (defi) lending platform Aave launched a permissioned version of the protocol aimed at institutions. The platform dubbed Aave Arc will leverage Fireblocks as the first whitelister as the platform aims to help bridge traditional financial institutions with defi. KYC-Centric Defi Liquidity: Aave Launches Aave Arc Permissioned Protocol for Financial Institutions Aave has launched a permissioned platform called Aave Arc on Wednesday, a new protocol dedicated to financial institutions that want to particpitate in defi in a compliant manner. Aave is a popular…

Fast-growing gTrade Platform Gets $250K Grant As It Closes In On First Major Milestones

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Rapid organic growth has put Gains Network’s decentralized gTrade platform well on the way towards achieving the first major milestones on its roadmap. Now, armed with $250,000 in funding from the Polygon DeFi, its founders are confident it will soon hit its second set of milestones. Gains Network is intending to build a blazing-fast and liquidity-efficient leveraged trading platform with a decentralized architecture on the Polygon blockchain, giving investors the benefit of lower fees and faster trades. gTrade currently offers 43 cryptocurrencies and 10 major Forex pairs. Its asset-agnostic synthetic…

Cion Digital secures funds to expand blockchain orchestration platform

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Cion Digital, a developer for an enterprise SaaS blockchain orchestration platform, announced on Tuesday that it had closed out its recent seed funding round at $12 million. The round was overseen by Green Visor Capital and 645 Ventures who have since joined Cion Digital’s board of directors. Additionally, Cota Capital, Epic Ventures, Hourglass Capital Partners, BAT Ventures, Greycroft and Ulu Ventures were also participants.  Following the raise, the company said that it intends to allocate these funds toward its new resource and development center in Pune, India in an effort…

Netgear’s Digital Art Frames Will Support NFTs, Owners Can Connect Metamask to Meural Platform – Bitcoin News

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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, multinational computer networking company Netgear, based in San Jose, California, showcased the company’s Meural digital art frames. According to an announcement, Netgear has added non-fungible token (NFT) tech support, and the Metamask Web3 wallet will be able to sync with the product. Netgear Adds NFT Support to Meural’s Digital Art Platform Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are very popular and it doesn’t seem like the trend is going away any time soon. For instance, four NFT collections now have billion-dollar market valuations including…

Binance Labs leads $12M round for DeFi platform WOO Network

Decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity provider WOO Network has secured additional funds in a Series A funding round. Incubated by quantitative trading heavyweight Kronos Research, WOO Network has pocketed an additional $12 million strategic investment in a a Series A+ funding round led by Binance Labs. The fresh funding, announced by Binance Labs on Tuesday, builds upon WOO Network’s $30 million Series A funding round. WOO Network is known for adding liquidity to tens of institutions, exchanges, trading teams, wallets and decentralized applications. DYDX, Matcha, ParaSwap, 1inch and DODO are the primary…

Crypto predictions platform Polymarket fined $1.4M by CTFC

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New York-based crypto predictions platform Polymarket has reached a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to pay a fine of $1.4 million. Polymarket is a decentralized platform that enables users to bet on the outcomes of event markets such as pro-sports games and political elections via binary options contracts. On Jan. 3, the CFTC announced that it had entered an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Polymarket, with the platform found to have operated an “illegal unregistered or non-designated facility” since June 2020. Under the order, Polymarket…

CFTC Fines ‘Decentralized’ Prediction Market Platform Polymarket $1.4 Million, Shuts Down Noncompliant Markets – Regulation Bitcoin News

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered a “decentralized” prediction market platform to shut down non-compliant markets and pay a fine of $1.4 million. “Polymarket had been operating an illegal unregistered or non-designated facility for event-based binary options online trading contracts, known as ‘event markets,’” said the derivatives regulator. CFTC Takes First Crypto Enforcement Action of the Year The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken the first crypto enforcement action of the year in the U.S. The derivatives regulator announced that it entered an order Monday “filing…

Samsung Introduces World’s First Television-Based NFT Platform – Bitcoin News

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The well known electronics giant Samsung, the manufacturer of LCD and LED panels, laptops, mobile phones, memory chips, and televisions, revealed that the firm’s upcoming smart TVs will incorporate non-fungible token (NFT) technology. Samsung Reveals Smart TV With NFT Capabilities One of the largest electronics manufacturers worldwide, Samsung Electronics, has noticed how popular NFTs are today and the company believes there’s something needed to view these digital artworks. The U.S. Samsung Newsroom published a summary of the company’s latest lineup of MICRO LED, Neo QLED, and Lifestyle TVs with “cutting-edge…