TradFi
March 29, 2022

MakerDAO May Hook Up With Traditional Bank
MakerDAO's deal with a U.S. bank may open a new chapter in DeFi-TradFi collaboration.
March 25, 2022

Meme Stonk GameStop Taps Loopring for Beta NFT Marketplace
Meme stock fave GameStop just selected two Layer 2s to run its NFT marketplace.
March 24, 2022

Australian Bank Drops Anti-Crypto Stance and Embraces Stablecoins
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Minted an Aussie dollar-denominated token.
March 16, 2022

ConsenSys Notches $7B Valuation Amid Flurry of Legal Challenges
The trailblazing Ethereum dev shop closed a fresh fundraising round amid swirling controversy.
January 06, 2022

TradFi Billionaires Bet Livepeer's DeFi Streaming Model Can Disrupt YouTube
In its bid to disrupt YouTube, Livepeer raised $20M in its latest round from Wall Street heavyweights.
November 11, 2021

The Web3 Three: Discord, Reddit and Twitter Tease Crypto Integration
The big-but-not-Facebook-big companies of the social web, Discord, Reddit and Twitter, are giving crypto’s technology a much more serious look. That could mean the blockchain party will be much larger, soon.
October 07, 2021

MakerDAO Chases 'Real World' Deals and Assets in Major Test for DeFi
Société Générale's request for a $20M loan from MakerDAO is just one of several real-world deals that the DeFi protocol has coming soon. The O.G. decentralized finance protocol is on the move to fund projects that will make tangible differences in the world. That potentially includes MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen's push for the organization to…
October 01, 2021

SocGen Wants To Borrow 20M Dai on MakerDAO Using Tokenized Bonds as Collateral
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…
September 30, 2021

Visa Sketches a Global Network of Central Bank Digital Currencies With Itself at the Center
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…
September 24, 2021

Decentralization Now: Coppola Studio Brings Blockchain to the Movies
After four years of development, Decentralized Pictures — a new project from Frances Ford Coppola’s fabled American Zoetrope production company — is preparing to go live. The project is just what it sounds like — a decentralized platform leveraging blockchain and digital tokens to select films for financing and production support. It is now wrapping…