2020-10-15 06:49 |
DeFi Pulse and Gauntlet have released a new tool to improve users’ risk awareness of major DeFi projects.
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The US Department of the Treasury has released the world’s first DeFi Illicit Finance Risk Assessment, which analyzes decentralized finance (DeFi) services and their vulnerabilities to “illicit activities.
2023-4-6 19:44 | |
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Users who are unfamiliar with the nuances of DeFi products yet want to maximize their returns face an inherent risk in the continually expanding and evolving DeFi industry. There is a need for a service that can assist users in selecting investing strategies that are appropriate for their risk tolerance. HyperDEX Finance is one such […]
2022-1-15 15:53 | |
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The decentralized finance (DeFi) boom of 2020 has not been without risks. A great deal of money was made and lost through various pumps, rug pulls, and vulnerability exploits. DeFi Pulse has recognized this trend and launched a safety index to rank risks for various platforms.
2020-10-14 11:47 | |
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Yearn. Finance closed last week with a strong rebound that left DeFi investors hopeful a bottom was in. However, from this weekend’s high notes set on Friday and Saturday night, YFI has fallen over 20% and is now at risk of an even deeper decline.
2020-10-13 20:00 | |
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There have been rumors floating on the Crypto Twitter that the creator of the DeFi darling YFI, Andre Cronje, has “permanently left the lead of development and possibly the project after reports he fell in depression.
2020-10-9 15:33 | |
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It’s fair to say that it’s been a slow past few weeks for the decentralized finance space. The post Yearn.finance (YFI) yields are plunging: is this a risk for the Ethereum DeFi darling? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-9-26 22:00 | |
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A new Coingecko survey has found that a large number of yield farmers do not know how to read smart contracts despite claiming they understand the risks that come with such investments. According to the survey, which polled 1,347 people, around 40% of decentralized finance (defi) users cannot comprehend the smart contracts they use for […] The post Survey: Large Number of Yield Farmers Can’t Read Smart Contracts Despite High Risk appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-9-23 04:00 | |
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Binance exchange has launched a new trading zone dubbed Innovation Zone. The exchange unveiled this news through an official announcement, noting that the Innovation Zone lets users trade new, innovative tokens that tend to have higher volatility and pose a higher risk than others.
2020-9-22 14:06 | |
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Leading spot exchange Binance has created an “Innovation Zone” to list newer tokens. “The team has created the Innovation Zone, which will allow users to trade newer token offerings from the comfort of their Binance account, while at the same time protecting less suited users from being exposed to the “risk” that comes with trading […] The post Binance Launches the 'Innovation Zone' to Justify DeFi FOMO Listings first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-9-21 16:40 | |
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“DeFi is developing faster than you can say ‘protect me from the risks in DeFi’,” said Kayleigh Petrie, Director of Engagement at Nexus Mutual, an Ethereum based insurance protocol. Given the sector’s high risk, high gain motto, it makes sense the need for insurance coverage is growing in line with the sector, which has yet […] The post Nexus Mutual Sees Active Cover Growing 10x, Now Token Price 'Directly Linked to Adoption' first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-9-19 19:10 | |
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DeFi tokens are becoming increasingly more accessible through centralized exchanges, such as Coinbase listing YFI this week, which though net positive for the ecosystem, also presents the risks of FOMO, the fear of missing out.
2020-9-15 19:49 | |
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Announced Thursday, Cozy Finance has raised a $2 million seed round, led by Electric Capital and including Variant Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Robot Ventures, Slow Ventures, Volt Capital, Spencer Noon, Moncada and others.
2020-9-3 19:01 | |
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“Adapt or be left behind,” is the mantra that is largely being adopted in the world of decentralized finance, popularly known as DeFi. However, the CEO of Binance, also known as CZ, has in a recent tweet warned about the possibility of a brewing Storm, which he calls the “DeFi Bubble.” This year alone, DeFi […]
2020-9-2 02:03 | |
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Ethereum network use and transaction fees are rising to record highs, will this interfere with DeFi’s current expansion?
2020-8-17 00:31 | |
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As the world’s leading regulatory compliant digital asset exchange, Coinbase sets one of the most stringent requirements for digital asset listing which includes technical evaluation of projects, legal and risk analysis, market supply and demand analysis, and crypto-economics.
2020-8-13 20:00 | |
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The latest solicitation from the SEC comes at a time the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry is booming, and the forensic tool will be vital in assisting the commission to monitor risk, security issues on these platforms, and improve compliance of these projects.
2020-8-5 16:31 | |
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"Imagine a world without counterparty risk..." - Chainlink's co-founder Sergey Nazarov shares why the move from brand-based contracts to math-based contracts is inevitable.
2020-7-29 22:00 | |
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Coinspeaker ETH Network Turns 5, Vitalik Buterin Warns DeFi Users Are ‘Underestimating Smart Contract Risk’Ethereum went live five years ago changing the entire blockchain and crypto sector with developers envisioning a new form of money and social interactions and it has so far revolutionized the nascent industry.
2020-7-29 19:47 | |
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After DeFi, Ethereum users are stocking up on Ether in hopes of earning passive returns via staking. But as exchanges and staking services emerge, these easy payoffs come with a serious...
2020-7-23 11:19 | |
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Hugh Karp is the founder and CEO of Nexus Mutual - a people-powered alternative to insurance. Nexus Mutual uses the power of Ethereum so individuals can share risk together without the need for an insurance company.
2020-7-22 12:00 | |
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Teller, a blockchain project for decentralized lending incubated by A16Z’s crypto startup school, today announced a $1 million seed raise led by Framework Ventures, followed by Parafi Capital and Maven11 Capital, to build the first-ever algorithmic credit risk protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi).
2020-7-17 18:08 | |
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There's a lot of DeFi hype going around. Countless micro-cap projects sub 10 mil market cap. Just remember micro caps are high risk, high reward. Will they catch adoption? Sure big gains are possible,The post What’s behind the hype about DeFi in Crypto Space? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-7-15 15:00 | |
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With extraordinary yields, farmers are rushing to plant their crypto in DeFi protocol Compound. But there’s a drought coming. DeFi Won’t Stop, Risks Pile Up If you thought Compound was...
2020-6-29 20:47 | |
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After ICOs in 2018, DeFi applications are seemingly positioning themselves to be the next 100x coin baggers in 2020; complete with shiny websites, world-changing promises, and sparking dreams of early-retirement for those who dare.
2020-6-26 10:00 | |
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San Francisco-based Hex Capital reported that “User funds being drained due to unauthenticated safeTransferFrom() function on their new BancorNetwork contract. ” Bancor then tried to “white-hat” drain user funds but were too late.
2020-6-18 19:33 | |
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Nexus Mutual, an alternative insurance provider for a variety of Ethereum-based DeFi protocols, has seen its risk pool double over the past 90 days to more than $4 million.
2020-6-16 20:30 | |
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With around a billions dollars locked in decentralized finance projects, the new data feed for cryptocurrency prices is aimed to help keep those funds secure.
2020-4-25 11:43 | |
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DeFi giant MakerDAO is considering USDC as collateral support to fight its liquidity risk
2020-3-17 01:19 | |
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For Ethereum, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency, finance seems to be the most important use case. Decentralized finance (DeFi) powered by Ethereum's smart contract blockchain can provide valuaThe post For DeFi, flash loans may pose a greater risk than expected appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-16 23:00 | |
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Synthetix, one of the largest DeFi protocols, has announced an initiative that provides an additional reward to good actors for providing liquidity to the ecosystem and assuming risk. Two million...The post Synthetix to Reward Risk-Bearing Stakers in New Upgrade appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-26 09:59 | |
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1inch Exchange, the leading DEX aggregator in DeFi, accused bZx of withholding information on a bug that put $2.5 million of user funds at risk. bZx hit back, claiming they...The post DeFi Project Claims bZx Witheld Info Tied to Exploit appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-22 18:41 | |
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The recent bZx exploit has the DeFi community searching for answers in the midst of a security crisis. Insurance is an efficient way to protect oneself against risk, and DeFi...The post Since bZx Exploit, Enthusiasts Flock to DeFi Insurance appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-18 18:20 | |
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In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.
2020-2-1 23:01 | |
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Returns from holding funds in DeFi schemes remain lower in comparison to taking a risk by “hodling” crypto coins outright.
2019-11-14 13:18 | |
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Earlier today, blockchain software technology company ConsenSys announced the launch of ‘DeFi Score,’ – “an open-source methodology to evaluate code and financial risk in DeFi lending.
2019-9-21 15:00 | |
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Interest-bearing DeFi organizations were promising to be a future use case for Ethereum (ETH), but are proving problematic.
2019-7-17 16:25 | |
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The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
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Compound Finance, the company behind the concept of Decentralized Finance Applications (DeFi), alongside MakerDAO, among others, has registered $9 million in crypto collateralized loan. It just took six months for the firm to reach this amount of funds, after being launched back in September 2018. Now, the firm is planning to release a new risk […]
2019-3-20 13:59 | |
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The "restaking" protocol with $15 billion in deposits won't pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical "slashing" feature.
When the tech hub of Europe meets a society that prizes financial autonomy, the result is a crypto community that practices the very decentralization it preaches. Case in point: Blockchain Week Berlin, the flagship annual conference of the No.
Layer 1 blockchain Canto has experienced a 35% slump in total value locked (TVL) over the past month as liquidity continues to dry up across the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.
The Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman affirmed that DeFi services offering derivatives would be regulated by the CFTC. The post CFTC Chairman Affirms Regulatory Authority over DeFi Platforms Offering Derivatives appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade spurred deposit inflows to liquid staking protocols, including to the largest player Lido.
The license expiration marks a significant event within the DeFi ecosystem, enabling developers to deploy their own decentralized exchange.
Digital regulatory professionals have predicted the wide use of stablecoins worldwide by 2030, despite the current competition between TradFi and DeFi.