2020-10-25 14:07 |
Decentralised finance (DeFi) is now being taken seriously by traditional finance. In a European-wide survey of financial institutions spanning across insurance, banking and trading, 86%... origin »
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Marcel Harmann shares his vision of DeFi’s future, emphasizing THORWallet’s role in blending decentralized and traditional finance while expressing concerns about the rise of CBDCs. He believes crypto's blockchain technology will eventually surpass traditional finance.
2025-4-10 01:00 | |
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The post BlackDuckRWA Takes Flight with Token Launch – Bridging Traditional Finance and Web3 appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2025-1-31 15:30 | |
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In a recent episode of SlateCast, Phillip Alexeev, Chief Growth Officer at CrossFi, joined CryptoSlate’s Editor-in-Chief Liam “Akiba” Wright and CEO Nate Whitehill to discuss the platform’s innovative solutions to integrate crypto with traditional finance.
2024-12-8 18:59 | |
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The real potential of cryptocurrencies heavily depends on integration with traditional finance, which in turn requires a well-developed and clever regulatory approach.
2024-4-14 16:14 | |
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Sarah Clark, the CEO of E-Gates, believes that traditional finance needs to adopt features of decentralized finance as part of an evolution instead of seeing it as a revolution.
2023-11-17 16:20 | |
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The fundraise include traditional finance heavyweights BNY Mellon and Wedbush.
2022-6-8 16:00 | |
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When Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, first came on the scene a few years ago, it was more of a curiosity, and certainly didn’t pose any form of serious competition for traditional finance. The post Op-Ed: The merging of decentralized and traditional finance is inevitable appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-10-24 16:00 | |
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For most of the year, the world's largest and most dominant cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has noted a strong correlation with the world of traditional finance. In fact, over the course of 2020, the S&PThe post Why is this decoupling a great sign for Bitcoin in the coming days? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-25 23:30 | |
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Decentralized finance, often called DeFi, refers to the shift from traditional, centralized financial systems to peer-to-peer finance enabled by decentralized technologies built on the Ethereum...
2020-10-23 17:58 | |
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been the most prominent trend across the cryptocurrency and blockchain space throughout 2020. These blockchain-based alternatives to traditional finance have enabled crypto investors to earn ‘yields’ on their token lendings, borrowings, pool liquidity stakes to fund projects, and much more.
2020-10-9 12:00 | |
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Contour, a blockchain-based trade finance platform, has gone live after a successful beta testing phase. The trade finance platform aims to optimize the traditional financial system by digitizing them and putting them on a blockchain.
2020-10-8 23:13 | |
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RioDeFi’s readying for India with INR banking services for RioDeFi ecosystem & RFUEL token RioDeFi is creating a payments ecosystem that builds bridges between traditional finance and the digThe post RioDeFi Builds a Bridge to India before its long awaited IDO on Uniswap appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-9-27 18:37 | |
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RioDeFi’s readying for India with INR banking services for RioDeFi ecosystem & RFUEL token RioDeFi is creating a payments ecosystem that builds bridges between traditional finance and the digital asset services universe.
2020-10-15 18:19 | |
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RioDeFi’s readying for India with INR banking services for RioDeFi ecosystem & RFUEL token RioDeFi is creating a payments ecosystem that builds bridges between traditional finance and the digital asset services universe.
2020-9-29 11:42 | |
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The trouble with many current DeFi projects is that while they eliminate traditional institutions from the mix, they instead transfer ultimate control over to a select group of insiders who have their financial motives and agendas.
2020-9-23 20:30 | |
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Kraken’s move to become a bank in Wyoming is more about getting traditional finance to adapt to the crypto industry than the other way around.
2020-9-21 00:11 | |
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Cryptocurrency is sizing up traditional finance on its legacy turf of lending and borrowing with competitive interest rates (currently as low as 0. 44% for ethereum and 4. 50% per year for bitcoin) as well as less cumbersome verification procedures.
2020-9-9 01:15 | |
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The blockchain technology underlying cryptocurrencies has evolved over the past few years to create a whole new Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement. In simple words, DeFi is a collection of alternative financial services that are analogues to traditional products like savings, loans, trading, insurance, etc.
2020-9-7 19:24 | |
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Decentralization has been the key differentiator between the world of cryptocurrencies and that of traditional finance. However, over the past decade, as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin grew in populariThe post DeFi's DEX foray means centralized exchanges need to act appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-9-3 22:00 | |
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In the traditional world of finance, risk management is a key aspect of any investor’s skillset. The post More than 95% of the net worth of Ethereum protocol Synthetix’s founder is in SNX appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-8-31 13:00 | |
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In an announcement that had been speculated about in the media, ConsenSys, which serves as a startup incubator for Ethereum-based projects, has acquired JPMorgan’s Quorum platform. The announcement closely aligns the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance (DeFi).
2020-8-26 19:30 | |
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The exponential rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) in the crypto industry has run alongside the increasing popularity of decentralized exchanges (DEX). This hardly comes as a surprise as DEXes not only offer several benefits over the traditional centralized exchanges (CEX), such as user-custody of funds, privacy protection, and robust security mechanism but also stay trueRead MoreRead More.
2020-8-19 08:21 | |
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Germany’s Finance Ministry has drafted a bill that will update its legal framework regarding securities. The bill specifically targets tokenized securities and will bring digital assets closer to traditional financial instruments.
2020-8-16 16:20 | |
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With traditional finance and crypto traders both enjoying market madness, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with your latest crypto news roundup!
2020-8-16 19:15 | |
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In the current era of the financial industry, cryptocurrencies have become a household name for investors and traders. Over the past decade, we have seen Bitcoin laying out the path for the rest of thThe post Evai.
2020-8-10 12:30 | |
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Strategies from the world of traditional finance could offer promise for miners who want to lower the risk associated with holding inventory.
2020-8-10 02:30 | |
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Since it was created, Bitcoin's aim has always been to prove traditional finance wrong. Now, it seems like this aim is being fulfilled. With every passing day, Bitcoin's price is either holding firm, The post Bitcoin is proving 'smart money' wrong again appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-8-9 19:30 | |
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Decentralized finance, or simply DeFi, is an ambitious development wheeled by blockchain ideals. It is a notion that the traditional financial system can be replicated on a decentralized, open-source, resilient environment, smoothly operating without a middle man.
2020-8-8 23:07 | |
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According to CNBC, Goldman Sachs is rejuvenating its efforts towards a digital asset with the appointment of Mathew McDermott as its new head of digital assets. McDermott replaces Justin Schmidt to radically transform the traditional financial system and embrace digital technologies like blockchain to create a digital finance market ecosystem. He said, “In the next […]
2020-8-7 20:01 | |
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One of the most common tropes in the crypto community is that of the so-called “Ethereum Killer.” Commentators include projects like Cardano, EOS, and Zilliqa. As of late, Ava Labs...
2020-8-4 18:27 | |
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Global fintech company Circle has partnered with cryptocurrency prime brokerage Genesis. The two will work together to push the adoption of Circle’s USDC stablecoin. As part of the deal, Digital Currency Group (DCG) has invested $25 million in Circle.
2020-8-1 18:20 | |
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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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Fidelity Digital Assets describes the origins of the omnibus custody model in traditional finance and explores how and why digital asset custodians apply the omnibus model to securing customer assets.
2020-8-4 18:06 | |
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On countless occasions, many people outside the cryptocurrency community have put in a word for Bitcoin. Some are investors who may have been on the other end of traditional finance but on fewer occasions, a world-famous chess player doesn’t just say a word or two about cryptocurrencies, he sits down and extensively talks about the […]
2020-7-26 15:14 | |
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Stablecoins have seen their importance in the crypto-market grow rather dramatically over the past year. For Tether, the world's most popular stablecoin, the past few months have seen it surge past XRThe post Stablecoins' ties to traditional finance - A problem for transparency? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-7-23 20:00 | |
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Decentralized finance (DeFi), the idea that decentralization can stretch to traditional finance and still not be hindered or affected by any centralized government has, since the start of this year, been making rounds in the cryptocurrency space.
2020-7-23 00:10 | |
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Though the Compound-led decentralized finance (DeFi) sector is rapidly growing, it’s still very small compared to the traditional multi-trillion financial services industry. This may soon change, however. Compound and Curve...
2020-7-17 15:35 | |
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Hao believes that DeFi can bring financial services to “the people who are currently excluded or underserved by traditional finance.”
2020-7-15 22:55 | |
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The close interaction between traditional finance and regulators is the key element in the development of the cryptocurrency industry.
2020-7-12 12:06 | |
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Chicago DeFi Alliance welcomes 11 new members, including a decentralized lending platform, Aave, Three Arrows Capital, and ParaFi. The Alliance now focused on forming a network of partnerships between the traditional finance institutions and DeFi startups to provide solutions to liquidity sourcing problems within the decentralized finance market.
2020-7-12 19:13 | |
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Cryptocurrency has posed serious competition to PayPal since its debut into the global finance scene. This is especially because the asset class significantly reduces the transaction charges that are inherent with traditional payments processors like Paypal, Payoneer, Amazon Pay, and the like.
2020-6-23 11:03 | |
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As nations around the world scramble to contain the second wave of coronavirus, investors in the stock market have mostly entered a “wait and see” mode. This indecision in the traditional finance markets has trickled to the crypto market with bitcoin staging a rather boring price action in recent weeks. The OG crypto has been […]
2020-6-23 20:43 | |
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Bitcoin has come a long way since its inception. While there are concerns regarding Bitcoin having strayed away from its original ideals, in comparison to traditional forms of finance, cryptocurrencieThe post Coin swap may increase Bitcoin's privacy, but here's the downside appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-6-22 20:00 | |
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XRP Ledger has introduced the traditional finance feature of checks starting from June 18th after getting the approval of the validators. The firm claimed that the feature was introduced with ripple v0.
2020-6-20 21:19 | |
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If cryptocurrencies are to gain in adoption, popular coins like Bitcoin may soon need to start solving problems that are currently taken care of by traditional forms of finance. While it is unlikely tThe post Bitcoin can be a game-changer within e-commerce sector appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-6-15 00:00 | |
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The world of finance tends to normally take a traditional route when it comes to its evolution. This is why cryptocurrencies and the digital asset revolution within mainstream finance have been deemedThe post Bitcoin, 'too volatile' to be a long-term investment? Not really... appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-31 16:00 | |
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DeFi is a budding ecosystem with a bright future. Some projects in the ecosystem are promising and are better alternatives to the ones in traditional finance. The growth of this ecosystem has also beeThe post Ethereum & DeFi: How dForce allegedly 'copied' other projects' codes appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-30 18:00 | |
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Just two months ago, Bitcoin was trading at $3,700. Amid a liquidation event in traditional finance and growing fears of a recession and a pandemic, global markets were tanking, crypto included. But just eight weeks and a block reward halving later, BTC just recently traded at $10,000 — just over 170% higher than the March...
2020-5-19 03:00 | |
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Yield, a fintech startup is developing a new protocol for the Ethereum network on the issuance of fixed-rate lending and borrowing. In traditional finance, such issuance is called a zero-coupon bond, where the buyer can only cash out once the bond reaches its maturity stage and they are guaranteed to receive a higher amount than […]
2020-5-9 21:11 | |
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Victoria, Seychelles, Nov. 28, 2025 — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX) will donate $1. 54 million USD ($12,000,000 HKD) to fully support families affected by the Wang Fuk Court fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, and to assist community rebuilding efforts.
Prediction markets, once niche experiments, have evolved into significant financial instruments. These platforms, where participants trade on the outcomes of future events, have attracted significant attention due to their demonstrated ability to be more accurate than traditional polls and commentators, particularly concerning critical political and economic results.
[Panama, Nov. 19, 2025] 2025 marked a decisive year for HTX DAO, a year in which its strategic blueprint transformed into tangible outcomes, and its value cycle began to take shape. HTX DAO systematically broke free from traditional DAO limitations and completed the initial construction of a “Financial Free Port.
Devconnect Buenos Aires showcases Ethereum’s shift from future promise to real-world infrastructure, highlighting stablecoin payments, mature Layer 2 tech and adoption shaped by Argentina’s economic realities.
From SWIFT’s shared ledger to Google Cloud’s Universal Ledger, Q3 2025 cemented blockchain as the backbone of modern finance — signaling a new era where global institutions are no longer testing crypto rails but actively building on them.
Sept. 25, 2025 — Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume and users, today announced the inaugural launch of The Blockchain 100. This new annual awards show is designed to recognize and celebrate the most influential creators advancing blockchain education, innovation, and community engagement.
As the digital assets market matures beyond speculation, David Gan, Founder and General Partner of Inception Capital, is placing his conviction on one transformative shift: the rise of an automated financial system.