Global Digital Finance
DeFi News
Balancing Crypto's Carbon Footprint with Its Social Utility is Key to Sustainable Finance
Global Digital Finance argues that digital assets' carbon footprint is outweighed by its social utility.
DeFi News
Looking for a Bullish Signal? Fidelity and HSBC Shrug Off Crypto Angst and Scale DeFi Offerings
In 2017, the ICO boom helped propel crypto assets to record levels only to fall almost as precipitously. With that history it is perhaps only natural that 2020-21’s extraordinary increase in activity has been greeted by mainstream attention, albeit with some hesitancy from media commentators who are yet to be convinced that the crypto-sphere is…
DeFi News
Wall Street Swoons for Altcoins and the Drums Beat for Crypto ETFs: A DeFi Summer Roundup
Welcome to GDF’s FI Corner. We had a little break for the summer, but are back with a round up of the top stories from the establishment’s adoption of crypto. The US Senate bill may have dominated the news over August – and rightly so. The bill saw the global crypto industry put aside differences…
DeFi News
Love Dies Hard: Data Shows Institutions Still Sweet on BTC and Crypto
Welcome to the first Global Digital Finance x The Defiant column, bringing you the stories and discussions that have caught our eye this month. From market infrastructure to institutional investors to the digitalization of private markets, we’ll look at how decentralization is reshaping traditional finance. . ETPs showing that Digital assets are ‘here to stay’ Bitcoin-indexed…