DeFi

Coinbase is on the verge of losing its dominance in the crypto market. Uniswap, one of the biggest decentralized exchanges, is almost surpassing Coinbase’s trading volume, as the recent data shows. Meanwhile, Binance has overtaken Coinbase in Bitcoin balances. According to a report by Kaiko, the market share of trading volumes for Uniswap against Coinbase…

BNP Paribas, one of the world’s largest banking groups, is reportedly considering partnering with a digital asset custody firm Metaco. The French bank, with almost $13 trillion in assets under custody, joins a long list of institutional firms, including Fidelity and Société Générale looking to offer crypto services for their clients. BNP Paribas, the French…

Celsius Network, a crypto lending services provider, announced on July 13 that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The bankruptcy filing says the platform made “certain poor asset deployment decisions” when the platform grew faster than it anticipated. It also confirms its liabilities outweigh its assets by $1.2 billion. After a series of descending…

Alpha in DeFi is about to get a lot scarcer, although still super attractive. Luckily, risk management will eventually get much simpler, suggests Jesus Rodriguez, the CEO of IntoTheBlock, in an article on CoinDesk. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been one of the areas of crypto most affected during the recent market downturn. From the collapse…

Multicoin Capital, the crypto investment firm known for its backing of multiple Web3 and DeFi projects, announced its latest fund, Venture Fund III, with commitments of up to $430 million. The fund will be used for investments in projects based on a “proof of physical work” model, permissionless data aggregation, and offering creator monetization. Multicoin…

Grayscale, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, has announced rebalancing its Fund Components for the second quarter of 2022. However, the organization revealed it removed some crypto tokens from its portfolio. According to the release, Grayscale mentioned that in accordance with the Large Cap Select Index methodology it has removed Bitcoin Cash, Chainlink, Litecoin,…