Russia’s Sberbank plans to launch DeFi platform on Ethereum
04 Feb 2023
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DeFi systems are able to displace the traditional market of banking services, Sber’s Blockchain Lab product director Konstantin Klimenko said. Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, is moving forward with the plan to launch its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, preparing to trial the product in a few months. Sberbank expects to launch open trials of its DeFi…

DeFi enjoys prolific start to 2023: DappRadar report
03 Feb 2023
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DeFi protocols have seen significant growth in total value locked in January, with Lido Finance leading the charge. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols experienced a boom in total value locked across different staking pools in January. The market hit $74.6 billion worth of staked assets, increasing by 26% from December. In its latest monthly report, DappRadar…

Vitalik Buterin divulges the ‘largest remaining challenge’ in Ethereum
23 Jan 2023
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While the concept of stealth addresses appears complex in theory, Buterin previously described it as a “low-tech approach” compared to other Ethereum privacy solutions. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared a possible solution to what he describes as the “largest remaining challenge” on Ethereum — privacy. In a blog post on Jan. 20, Buterin acknowledged the need…

DeFi should complement TradFi, not attack it: Finance Redefined
21 Jan 2023
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Top 100 DeFi tokens continued their bullish momentum into third week of January with majority of the tokens trading in green on weekly charts. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. Following FTX’s demise, the DeFi space is…

DeFi was the most attacked ecosystem in 2022: Finance Redefined
14 Jan 2023
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2023 started on a bullish note for nearly all the top 100 DeFi tokens, as most of them rose to new multi-week highs. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The DeFi ecosystem started 2023 on a bullish…

Why DeFi should expect more hacks this year: Blockchain security execs
09 Jan 2023
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One reason is that “hackers have gotten smarter, gained more experience, and learned how to look for bugs,” according to the founder of a crypto auditing firm. Decentralized finance (DeFi) investors should buckle themselves up for another big year of exploits and attacks as new projects enter the market and hackers become more sophisticated. Executives…