DeFi

Ethereum is surging steeply last few days. Many investors are betting on the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap after its new upgrade with the codename “London” took place. This update should change the fee structure of each transaction, making those fees less volatile while reducing the amount of ETH in circulation. Another major transformation…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Cayman Islands-registered DeFi Money Market (DMM) and its two top executives for unregistered sales of more than $30 million of securities using smart contracts and decentralized finance. This is the SEC’s first securities case involving DeFi technology. Florida residents Gregory Keough and Derek Acree, along with Cayman…

Could DeFi revolutionize finance? And can regulators do something about it? Chris Matthews reflects in his MarketWatch column, while Washington is paying close attention to this $100 billion movement. More than a decade after its creation, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have failed to achieve the dream of a new, widely-used global currency free from the…

Led by former professional poker players, the Ascensive Assets investment firm has raised a $130 million fund to focus on the decentralized finance (DeFi). That substantially exceeds Ascensive’s first fundraising of $24 million in 2019, backed by Polkaswap, Benqi, Yield Guild Games, and JennyDAO. By the words of Ascensive Assets partner Oliver Blakey, Investors in…

Built on Polkadot, Pontem Network, a decentralized application framework, has partnered with Pinknode service provider to develop an experimental test environment for Facebook’s Diem blockchain-based payment system. It will lay the groundwork for various applications to join Diem’s network, providing decentralized finance and other features to Facebook’s users. Diem Association, the rebranded Libra cryptocurrency project…

Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs has filed on July 26 an application with the United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) for new decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to the filing, the proposed fund, called the “Goldman Sachs Innovate DeFi and Blockchain Equity ETF,” seeks to provide investment results that…