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5 Barriers To Widespread Adoption And How To Overcome Them

By Austin Kimm, Director of Strategy & Investments, Choise.com

Benzinga

Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt

Former employees and internal documents suggest a reckless pursuit of high returns put the company in a poor position to ride out this year’s market turbulence

Financial Times

Innovators discuss redefining finance

An all-star line-up of DeFi and Web 3.0 innovators and change makers from across the world will be speaking during "REDeFiNE Tomorrow 2022", which will be held virtually on July 21 and 22 from 8am to 5.30pm.

Bangkok Post

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Cryptocurrencies are great for gambling – but lousy at liberating our money from big central banks

The dream that decentralised finance – or “DeFi” – can free the monetary system from the clutches of governments and banks has helped launch 20,000 cryptocurrencies.

The Conversation

Solend's Ticking DeFi Bomb Highlights Lack Of Decentralization

Solend (CRYPTO: SLND), a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and borrowing platform, recently highlighted the scarce decentralization most such projects face, as it tried to defuse a ticking bomb that might wreck Solana's (CRYPTO: SOL) DeFi ecosystem and its liquidity.

Benzinga

After the crash, what’s next for the crypto kids?

Gen Z and younger millennials are the generation feeling the brunt of the cryptocurrency crash, says decentralised finance expert George Eggins. But all is not lost.

Evening Standard

Crypto’s Lehman Brothers moment

What happened this weekend to crypto markets?

Evening Standard

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Investigating the crypto crash

The value of cryptocurrencies has plunged over recent days, with Bitcoin -- the largest coin by market cap -- sinking to its lowest point since 2020.

Bangkok Post

EXCLUSIVE: Autonomy Network Unveils DeFi Tool To Onboard Institutional Investors To Web3

AutoHedge, the newest tool offered by Autonomy Network, serves as a decentralized application designed for liquidity providers to optimize their gains, hedging against volatility.

Benzinga

Celsius Faces Liquidity Crisis, But How Are Other Crypto Firms Faring?

Global markets took a catastrophic hit yesterday, as the Nasdaq was down 4.60% and the S&P 500 was down 3.88%. Crypto suffered the most, as Bitcoin dropped over 20% to reach a low of $20,800. Ever since the crypto rally in November, in response to Bitcoin ETF Futures product being…

Benzinga

SEC’s new crypto enforcers are coming for DeFi, lawyers say

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to beef up its cryptocurrency enforcement staff could signal new worries for digital asset exchanges and others in the industry, as the agency broadens its view of whether some cryptocurrencies are securities.

Tribune News Service

SEC's new crypto enforcers are coming for DeFi, lawyers say - Roll Call

Lawyers say the SEC's boosting of cryptocurrency enforcement will put more scrutiny on decentralized finance platforms and NFTs.

Roll Call

Why Is Celsius Token Crashing? Ethereum's DeFi vs. CeFi Lending, Explained

Celsius Token (CRYPTO: CEL) has plunged over 60%, as Celsius Network pauses withdrawals, given turbulent market conditions.

Benzinga

JPMorgan Chase's Blockchain Unit Plans To Bring Trillions Of Dollars In Tokenized Assets To DeFi

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) plans to tokenize institutional funds and have decentralized finance (DeFi) developers capitalize on non-virtual assets.

Benzinga

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Nexo Offers To Buy Celsius Assets Amid Withdrawal Halt

Crypto lending platform Nexo (CRYPTO:NEXOY) has offered to buy the assets of its rival Celsius (CRYPTO:CEL) after the latter announced a pause on all withdrawals, swaps, and transfers between accounts due to “extreme market conditions.” The offer to buy Celsius's assets ends on June 20

Benzinga

DeFi Has Lost 45% of Its Value Since April End: DappRadar

With the collapse of the former second-largest DeFi ecosystem – Terra and the crash of the associated LUNA token having accentuated the bear season that still affects the crypto landscape, DeFi has lost 45% of its value since the end of April, according to a report.

Benzinga

Customer Support On Ethereum Is Here: Metamask Announces VillageDAO Partnership, Potential $MASK Token Integrations

Ethereum’s most popular DeFi wallet announced a partnership with the VillageDAO to scale customer support in a decentralized and secure manner. Consensys wasn’t able to comment on which tokens will be used to incentivize VillageDAO members, but we speculate a native MASK token could be used for this utility in the…

Benzinga

EXCLUSIVE: How aUSD Is Different From UST, According To Polkadot Stablecoin Protocol Acala Network

Benzinga traveled to Permissionless, a cryptocurrency, DeFi and NFT conference hosted in West Palm Beach.

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Why SpringWorks Shares Are Soaring Today Premarket

SpringWorks Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: SWTX) has announced positive topline results from the DeFi Phase 3 trial evaluating nirogacestat in adult patients with progressing desmoid tumors.

Benzinga

Binance Looking To Rope In 'Terra-Struck' Crypto Projects Migrating Away From Ecosystem

Binance Chain (CRYPTO: BNB) is looking to bring on board some important builders from the Terra (CRYPTO: LUNA) ecosystem.

Benzinga

Top News In Fintech And Beyond For May 20, 2022

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Bangkok Post

Elkrem Capital issues novel DeFi strategy

Elkrem Capital, a decentralised finance (DeFi) asset management service provider under the Cryptomind Group, has launched "E-Growth", a new investment strategy to help investors capture returns from DeFi amid market volatility.

Benzinga

DYOR: Choosing A DeFi Farm For Investment

Dmitry Mishunin, the founder and CEO of a DeFi security and analytics company HashEx The cryptocurrency market is growing, and more decentralized protocols and tokens are coming on the scene every day. However, a sizable chunk of new ones turn out to be a waste of your time if you…

Benzinga

Top News In Fintech And Beyond For April 20, 2022

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Benzinga

Liquid Staking: What Is It And How Can It Amplify Your DeFi Strategies?

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