Tag: DeFi

Even though Bitcoin remains the world’s leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, it has not always lived up to its promise of serving as digital cash. Instead, BTC is a store of value and speculative asset above anything else. Other currencies can take their place as leading digital cash as competition continues to heat up in…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has at this point become such a significant part of the crypto world that it simply can no longer avoid the attention of various regulatory bodies. On the other hand, government regulators still cannot even deal with conventional cryptocurrencies. And since DeFi is much more difficult to figure out, it would be…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is considered the next big opportunity among blockchain technologies. But money is fleeing the sector amid a cryptocurrency market decline and fears of regulatory scrutiny. Recently, red flags are starting to appear more often in the DeFi sector, one of the most profitable and volatile fields of the crypto world this year….

Another decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol suffered a collapse in token value. The IRON Titanium Token, or TITAN, backed by billionaire Mark Cuban fell from over $60 to zero dollars on June 16 morning. Cuban has claimed he ‘got hit like everyone else’ after the token crash. The DeFi Titanium token in one day has dropped…

A travel booking site Travala.com backed by Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is launching Dtravel, a decentralized vacation rental service that could compete with Airbnb and gives homeowners a stake in the platform. In a Wednesday announcement, Travala said it had partnered with former executives from Airbnb and Expedia to launch a new service…

DeFi gets a bad rap for being complex, technology makes it simple enough to cut out middlemen in non-finance industries ranging from energy to e-commerce. Decentralized finance is far and away the hottest topic in crypto, touted as a way to make a fortune by backing the right token, but also a tool for taking…