2021-10-29 18:05 |
Near protocol allocates $800 million to its DeFi ecosystem, and Immunefi raises $5.5 million to advance its security service — all of this and more coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined. origin »
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In a sophisticated crypto scam, a Hong Kong finance manager was deceived into transferring over $2. 1 million into a sham trading platform, highlighting the perilous landscape of online investment frauds.
2024-2-22 19:00 | |
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Due to a vulnerability in the smart contract code, the DeFi protocol Qubit Finance lost $80 million in cryptocurrencies. The project team turned to the hacker with a request to start negotiations.
2022-1-30 18:05 | |
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Belt Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform based on smart contract network Binance Smart Chain (BSC), became the latest project to fall victim to a flash loan attack, losing over $6. 2 million worth of tokens in the process.
2021-6-1 13:14 | |
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A hacker has made off with $2.8 million after draining $11 million from Yearn Finance’s V1 DAI vault.
2021-2-5 05:34 | |
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Decentralized finance (defi protocol) Harvest Finance was hacked on Monday for $24 million. The attacker targeted the protocol’s liquidity pools, performing an arbitrage attack using a large flash loan – a type of uncollatarized loan – but later returned $2.
2020-10-26 17:45 | |
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Coinspeaker Crypto Lending DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raises $25 Million Led by Andreessen HorowitzCompound Finance said that it will be using the new funds to further "decentralize" its automated protocol while expanding its services and making them accessible to ordinary people.
2019-11-15 11:52 | |
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The Decentralized Finance or DeFi ecosystem has been one of the most discussed fields in 2019, with the industry now worth over $650 million. It is owing to this success that various foundations todayThe post Ethereum-based Compound raises $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-15 08:34 | |
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A San Francisco-based decentralized finance protocol called Compound was recently able to raise $25 million USD in its latest Series A investment round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and venture capital funds such as Polychain Capital, Paradigm and Bain Capital Ventures also participated.
2019-11-14 22:37 | |
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It's one of the largest venture capital investments in a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup to date.
2019-11-14 21:20 | |
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Crypto-based collateralized lending, and other forms of decentralized finance, host above $150 million in 2019.
2019-11-13 17:59 | |
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In another huge development for Maker Protocol and open finance, DAI has hit its 100 million ceiling, and the community is going in for an executive vote on November 8. The vote to raise the ceiling is expected to be approved unanimously as DAI becomes an integral part of the open finance stack, November 7,Read MoreRead More.
2019-11-8 02:00 | |
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Craig Wright has pulled out of the settlement with the Kleiman estate, claiming he was unable to finance the 500,000 BTC payoff. Wright lost the case against Kleiman earlier in August and was ordered by the court to hand over half of the 1 million bitcoin he mined before 2014 to the estate of his […] The post Craig Wright pulls out of 500,000 BTC settlement, Kleiman trial back on appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-11-4 23:04 | |
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First, derivatives cryptocurrency platform Deribit liquidated all the positions due to a glitch in one of the exchanges (Coinbase) used for its Bitcoin Index that cost the company 150 BTC (approximately $1.
2019-11-1 15:31 | |
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The sub-industry of Decentralized Finance or DeFi is showing no signs of stopping at the moment. Over the past few months, DeFi’s stock has risen leaps and bounds and has managed to grow into a $600 million ecosystem.
2019-11-1 20:30 | |
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Synthetix Network, a financial dApp that allows users to invest in synthetic assets, has raised capital from Framework Ventures and a number of other undisclosed investors. With DeFi surging, many institutions are finally seeing a potential paradigm shift and investing in these protocols.
2019-10-31 00:00 | |
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) apps are getting pretty popular these days and you can see that from the amount of Ethereum these apps are using. This week, the amount of ETH used reached an all-time high of $2.
2019-10-29 23:44 | |
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On October 25, Huobi Japan raised nearly $4. 6 million from Financial Products Group (FPG) reports Coin Desk. In particular, the latter firm, an expert within the finance and real estate fields, purchased 499,968,000 Yen worth of shares from Huobi Japan.
2019-10-28 20:48 | |
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The amount of ETH locked in open finance applications broke its all-time high, with 2. 37 million ETH – representing 2. 19 percent of total supply – now locked in various financial protocols.
2019-10-28 14:00 | |
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From the first week of October, LocalBitcoins, a cryptocurrency exchange, could only watch as their trade volumes went into a freefall. At the end of last week, the exchange only saw around $38.49 million in BTC traded, while this may seem high to conventional people, for the finance industry, this is not a good sign. […]
2019-10-26 22:33 | |
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NGC Ventures boosts growth of crypto service provider Babel Finance - CryptoNinjas Babel Finance, a cryptocurrency financial services company, has today summarized positive growth after a strategic investment by NGC Ventures, a leading blockchain investment firm, in October 2018.
2019-10-17 16:25 | |
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A new record has been set by Ethereum locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects at 3 Million. According to the tracker site, DeFi Pulse, the total value locked in DeFi reached a new milestone, hitting 3 million ETH for the first time ever.
2019-10-16 18:29 | |
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Metal Pay app pioneers are looking to fund new investments. Mr. Marshall Hayner and Erik Finman, who called the $1 million worth investment fund Metal VC, aim for the fund to put more emphasis on angel and micro-investments.
2019-10-11 18:50 | |
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Erik Finman's $1 million fund will make seed-level investments in startups dealing in banking and decentralized finance.
2019-10-11 02:00 | |
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Korean blockchain firm ICONLOOP raises over $8M to grow digital ID service - CryptoNinjas ICONLOOP, one of the largest blockchain enterprises in South Korea and creators of the ICON blockchain, today announced that it raised KRW 10 billion (over USD 8 million) in Series A funding.
2019-10-11 19:45 | |
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InstaDApp, a startup that runs a lending portal focused on decentralized finance (DeFi), raised $2. 4 million in a seed round led by Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures. InstaDApp Streamlines Complex Transactions The startup’s platform aggregates major protocols through a smart wallet layer and intermediate or bridge contracts.
2019-10-3 20:00 | |
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As the multi-billion dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme continues to tumble, news of witnesses set to testify against the scam’s perpetrators are now coming to light. According to Finance Feeds, employees of the Bank of Ireland have been asked to testify in the case against Mark Scott, one of the alleged figureheads of the $3 billion-plus OneCoin scam.
2019-9-30 17:30 | |
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The SEC-regulated firm raised $14 million from notable investors across traditional and blockchain finance.
2019-9-25 16:46 | |
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Crypto exchange Titan, Binance, and Jihan Wu’s Matrixport have joined in on a $200 million Series B round for Mars Finance: a Chinese media firm that aims to bring more clarity and information to the space.
2019-9-19 09:00 | |
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Binance makes its first strategic Chinese investment by participating in a $200 million funding round in crypto publication Mars Finance
2019-9-17 14:01 | |
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Coinspeaker Biggest BTC ATM Network Coinme Raises $1. 5 Million From Ripple’s XpringCoinme, a global leader in cryptocurrency ATMs, secured $1. 5 million in funding from Ripple’s Xpring and the Blockchain Finance Fund to develop its cryptocurrency ATM network in the U.
2019-9-14 14:45 | |
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Coinme, which provides kiosks and ATMs for digital currencies, raised $1. 5 million in a Series A-1 financing round that included Ripple’s subsidiary Xpring and Blockchain Finance Fund, the company said.
2019-9-14 02:13 | |
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The decentralized finance (DeFi) industry is growing at an astronomical pace and developers are finding better and more efficient methods to increase yields for these assets. Staked –a DeFi company that raised $4.
2019-9-13 19:00 | |
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The fifth-largest bank in Europe, Banco Santander, is the first financial institution to issue an “end-to-end” debt-based bond on Ethereum’s public blockchain. The move is an indicator of ETH’s growing importance in finance.
2019-9-13 13:26 | |
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2019-9-10 05:52 | |
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UAE-based bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank [ADCB], is the latest member to join the blockchain community. The bank will reportedly use a blockchain platform offered by Singapore-based dltledgers, in order to deliver digitized trade finance to its customers.
2019-9-5 14:00 | |
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Blockchain. com, a London-based firm, is raising $50 million to invest in a range of startups and cryptocurrencies, according to a report by Yahoo Finance. The crypto wallet and data provider is aiming to raise $50 million.
2019-9-5 09:36 | |
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One of the UAE’s largest banks has adopted a blockchain bookkeeping platform of physical trade from Singapore-based firm dltledgers, according to Ledger Insights, September 3, 2019. The first transaction was the movement of goods worth $6.
2019-9-5 23:00 | |
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The crypto wallet giant Blockchain is currently trying to raise venture capital funds, according to reports from Yahoo Finance. According to inside sources cited by the media outlet, the company is currently looking to raise as much as $50 million USD.
2019-9-4 21:05 | |
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It used to be that a job in finance would set you up for life. Steady, reliable, dependable, calculators and sweater vests. These things come to mind when you think of a career in finance. Just like in other industries, AI and machine learning are entering the scene and causing great disruption in what used to be one of the most stable career choices.
2019-9-2 16:27 | |
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The Algorand (ALGO) project performed a round of crypto-based fundraising, receiving the sum in ALGO rather than US dollars, in a novel deal of pure crypto finance.
2019-8-27 15:04 | |
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The Ethereum Foundation announced over $2.46 million in grants to finance Ethereum 2.0 development
2019-8-27 21:38 | |
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We need a new category for this sort of Netflix activity. Robert De Niro’s company has filed a $6 million lawsuit against a former employee who purportedly binged Netflix while on the clock, Variety reports.
2019-8-20 17:01 | |
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Ripple is working on “multiple” investments and acquisitions after the $30 million investment in MoneyGram, reported Yahoo Finance. “We’re in a very strong position, our business is growing strongly, we have a strong balance sheet, and I intend to press our advantage,” Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple revealed. Garlinghouse told the publication that active […]
2019-8-9 15:32 | |
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The latest decentralized finance (DeFi) aims at creating new business solutions built on distributed, permissionless networks. A Binance Research study shows that DeFi has grown spectacularly in less than a year.
2019-7-25 19:00 | |
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This week, the inter-ministerial committee (IMC) of India officially recommended the imposition of what has been considered a blanket ban on crypto assets like bitcoin. According to Reuters, the panel led by finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has suggested a fine of $3.
2019-7-23 10:57 | |
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A recent bill, “Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act,” recommends prohibiting giant tech firms from serving as financial institutions or launching their own cryptocurrency. Likely geared toward Facebook, the bill was reviewed by Democrats that oversee the House Financial Services Committee.
2019-7-16 18:38 | |
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The longer you’ve been in the blockchain space, the more you’ve likely realized that traditional finance companies will come in and benefit from the technology as well. It started with patents and investments; now the companies inevitably begin to take a more active role.
2019-7-12 09:45 | |
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Компания Anchorage, занимающаяся предоставлением криптовалютных кастодиальных услуг для крупных инвесторов, привлекла в рамках финансирования серии B около $40 млн. Today we’re proud to share that @Anchorage has raised a $40 million Series B led by @blockchaincap and @Visa, to accelerate the growth of crypto finance.
2019-7-11 17:56 | |
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Xpring, the incubation and investment arm of Ripple, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) project in charge of the XRP altcoin, has hinted that it has invested $500 million in over 20 startups. Each of the small businesses is using Ripple’s platforms and products to grow the decentralized ecosystem, reports Finance Magnates’ report on July 4,Read MoreRead More.
2019-7-5 21:00 | |
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