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Are the Bulls Back? Crypto Markets Whipsawed With Amazon News
Crypto markets were showing impressive strength to start the week, on track for a sixth straight day of gains –– until news headlined caused prices to trip mid-run. Bitcoin shot up to as high as $40,300 and Ethereum was trading above $2,400 on Tuesday. The DeFiPulse Index (DPI), a market capitalization-weighted index which consists of…
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Treasury Troubles Solved: with the UMA range Token
A year ago we were all aping into DeFi farms hunting those precious governance tokens because, you know, NUMBER GO UP. Governance was basically seen as a LARP, a way to shank idiots into believing money really could be conjoured out of thin air. But I’ve become increasingly aware of grumbling around governance, particularly when…
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Buenbit Raises $11M to Bolster Crypto in Latin America
In a record-breaking deal for a Latin American crypto company, Buenbit, an exchange based in Argentina has raised $11M in Series A funding. Buenbit, the leading cryptocurrency platform in South America’s second-biggest economy, allows users to exchange fiat currency for BTC, ETH, and DAI. In May, Buenbit launched operations in Peru, and now with their…
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Circle To Go Public in Q4 at $4.5B Valuation
DeFi’s most popular stablecoin issuer is going public. Circle, which issues the USDC stablecoin, announced its plans yesterday to go public in Q4 of this year through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal will happen with Concord Acquisition Corp. and Circle will trade under the ticker symbol CRCL with the transaction valuing the…
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Sygnum is the First Bank Offering Eth2 Staking
Sygnum has become the world’s first bank to offer Ethereum 2.0 staking. The digital asset bank based out of Switzerland will allow clients to securely stake Ethereum through its banking platform. Currently, Ethereum staked through Sygnum can generate yields of up to 7% per annum. Ethereum 2.0 is a scalability upgrade to the Ethereum network,…
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DeFi Rates are Sliding Closer to TradFi Yields
DeFi’s borrowing and lending rates are trending downwards, opening questions of what will happen to open finance if yields converge with those of traditional finance. Borrowing rates for USDC have declined to 2.5% and 3.1% on Compound and Aave, from over 15% three months ago, according to LoanScan. Lending rates have suffered similar compression, with…
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Dharma Enables One-Tap Bank-to-DeFi Access
Dharma just made getting started in DeFi easier. Users can now move funds from their bank account into the Compound Finance, Aave and Yearn Finance protocols with one tap and begin earning interest of at least 7.7% currently, more than 100 times the United States’ average savings rate of .07% according to Bankrate. It’s the…
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Visa Transacting on Ethereum Signals Stronger TradFi-Crypto Link
Visa is now settling transactions via stablecoins on the Ethereum network. While these are just a tiny sliver of Visa’s total volume, and only apply to one client, the fact that the largest payments network is using a public blockchain signals the integration between traditional finance and crypto is strengthening. The first such transaction in…
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Should You Be Worried About FinCEN?
On the 18th December, The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a proposed rule that would instill record keeping and reporting requirements for transactions by or to a bank or money service business involving an “unhosted or otherwise covered wallet.” The 15 day comment period to respond to this proposal ended with over 65K…
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"Fintech Can Be a 1.5 Bridge Into 2.0 DeFi:" 11:FS Co-Founder Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor has the rare quality of being very knowledgeable about decentralized finance but also about fintech. He is the co-founder at fintech consultancy firm, 11:FS, and he previously led blockchain research at Barclays. He also leads the excellent newsletter Fintech Brain Food. Simon points to a world where fintech and DeFi start to converge...