DeFi

CME derivatives marketplace and cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks announced they will introduce this month reference rates and real-time indices for AAVE, curve (CRV), and Aynthetix (SNX), they said on Dec. 1. Initially, pricing will come from a group of six crypto exchanges. The new rates will be calculated and published starting Dec. 19 and…

Uniswap Labs, the developer of the decentralized exchange protocol Uniswap, is starting a new NFT marketplace, aiming to break the barrier between crypto exchanges and NFT markets. Uniswap is also airdropping $5 million to early Genie adopters. Uniswap, one of the most popular DeFi protocols, wants to foray into the NFT sector with its own…

ConsenSys, one of the firms behind the Ethereum Merge, revealed on Nov. 24 that it also collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask. The firm said when using Infura as an RPC on MetaMask, a user’s IP address and wallet address information would be collected as well.   According to the new…

Decentralization was and still is the answer, the co-founder of Near Protocol Illia Polosukhin told CoinDesk. The spectacular $32 billion collapse of the FTX exchange and its sister trading firm Alameda Research recently once again has crypto’s detractors gloating in the headlines. In fact, FTX bears no resemblance to most of what the longtime believers…

The real reason why the FTX failure hits so hard is not that the crypto industry was duped but because it proved that the industry was vulnerable to being duped – Sam Kessler explains on CoinDesk. Depending upon whom you ask, last week’s FTX blowup feels bigger than when Mt. Gox, the original Bitcoin exchange,…

Cardano developer Emurgo announced plans to issue a US dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDA, on the Cardano network in early 2023. Emurgo plans to introduce USDA by the end of Q1 2023. Emurgo, Cardano’s official commercial arm, said in a statement that USDA will be the first regulated stablecoin on the blockchain backed by a fiat currency….