Market-making deals are usually sorted out in private, but DeFi might be making headway for transparency. Wintermute proposed a market-making deal with MakerDAO on Friday via the MakerDAO governance forum. It requested a loan of 10,000 MKR ($24M) from the DAO in order to provide market-making services for both DAI and MKR, across all kinds…

We’ll be talking with a stellar collection of DeFi powerhouses about what it takes to create the next frontier… of frontend. What are the challenges they face when looking at UX/Ui within DeFi? What are the risks when going decentralized? And what will it take to get the next BILLION users on board this DeFi…

There’s a meme on crypto Twitter that calls DeFi the “future of France” as a play on the phrase the future of finance. Well, there may be more truth to the meme than many expected. Société Générale, the third-largest bank in France, has proposed to borrow Dai in MakerDAO using bonds it issued on the…

1inch, a decentralized exchange aggregator, introduced a feature which pushes its users to verify whether they are US residents.  The feature requires users to sign an agreement with their cryptocurrency wallet stating that they are not in the United States. While the signature doesn’t go directly onto the blockchain, 1inch could post it there if…

You may never be able to send a message from Telegram to a friend on WhatsApp, but you might be able to send dollars from a digital wallet issued by the U.S. Treasury to a wallet from the People’s Bank of China, only the recipient will receive the payment in yuan. That’s the vision that…

A growing category of social media users now prefers using cartoons rather than their own photos to identify themselves online. They especially like cartoons that are as unique as their real faces.  Non-fungible token (NFT) technology makes it easy for a person to know they are the only person who owns such an image. The…

Compound Finance’s smart contracts paid users an excess of millions of dollars in COMP tokens after a protocol update was deployed with a flaw in the code.  The impact of the bug is limited to 280K COMP tokens and does not affect user deposits or loans, founder Robert Leshner said in a tweet. Just over…

Coinbase Pro is set to list Avalanche’s AVAX token for trading on Sept. 30, according to a Medium post from the company.  Despite the listing, AVAX’s price action has been flat — changing  2.4% to $64.82 since the listing was announced on the morning of Sept. 29 on Coinbase’s Twitter.  Subscribe for free to get…

JPEG'd is a new project that will allow NFT owners to deposit their NFTs as collateral into a vault and be able to take out a loan in PUSd.

Add AngelList to the ever-lengthening list of mainstream tech outfits going crypto. On Tuesday it started letting investors use USDC-enabled funds on its site.  It’s a significant move. For the last decade, AngelList’s online bulletin board for angel investors and job-seekers has made it a valuable utility in the U.S. startup scene by playing matchmaker…