Celsius is the first centralized lender on Maple Finance's platform.

Crypto lender BlockFi has agreed to pay $100M to settle charges that it misrepresented risks to depositors.

Bitfinex's LEO token surged after news of a $4B seizure of Bitcoin stolen from the exchange in a 2016 hack.

Coinbase did a deal with Mastercard to secure fiat inflows in its market share battle with OpenSea.

Paradigm's investment in Citadel Securities will broaden its portfolio away from DeFi to TradFi.

Vader is a Liquidity Protocol anchored by a Native Stablecoin with Slip-Based Fees AMM, IL protection and Synthetics. DAO governed Protocol Owned Liquidity.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has allocated $1 billion in funding to a new growth fund that aims to kickstart the next phase of expansion for Binance Smart Chain (BSC). According to the announcement, $100M will be earmarked for talent development to enable a “new generation of crypto-native professionals to push crypto adoption forward.”…

Robinhood, the wildly popular brokerage app, just made a move that could be a shot in the arm for DeFi.  It plans to introduce crypto wallets in 2022 that will enable customers to deposit and withdraw Bitcoin, ETH, and other digital tokens from their accounts to external wallets. Robinhood’s current system doesn’t provide customers with…

DeFi is getting easier for CeFi users.  Crypto’s largest centralized exchange, Binance, now allows users to withdraw and deposit Polygon’s MATIC token directly from and onto the protocol’s proof-of-stake mainnet. Previously users needed to go through a multi-step process, either utilizing one of Binance’s two blockchains or swapping for Ethereum-based versions of MATIC when withdrawing…

Retail investor-focused stock trading app Robinhood plans to bolster its crypto functionality. Ahead of its upcoming IPO on July 29, Robinhood livestreamed its “roadshow” to give investors insight into the company’s growth plans. Referring to Robinhood’s crypto offerings during the livestream, CFO Jason Warnick said the company would be “making a lot of investments in…