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Freaked Out by DeFi? Swarm Markets Gets Licensed to Win Over Wary Investors

Dive, News / By / July 20, 2021 / , , , , , ,

When Philipp Pieper and Timo Lehes co-founded Swarm Markets in 2017 in California and then moved to Berlin, they did a strange thing. They knocked on the door of Germany’s financial watchdog, known as BaFin, and said, please regulate us. That’s not supposed to happen in DeFi. The whole idea is to break free from …

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Grayscale’s Most Exotic Crypto Bet is Soaring Yet Not Many are Biting

News, Op-ed / By / June 24, 2021 / , ,

What a wild moment.  When Grayscale Investments launched its Decentraland trust back in February it was hard to believe that a Wall Street firm with $40B in assets was firing up a vehicle to invest in one of the most exotic experiments in crypto. Created on the Ethereum blockchain six years ago, Decentraland is a …

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