DeFi

Founder of major crypto investment firm DeFiance Capital, “Arthur_0x”, has suffered a hack on one of his hot wallets resulting in the loss of more than $1.6 million in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto, as he announced in a tweet on March 22. The wallet appears to have been...

The cryptocurrency space has experienced considerable volatility thus far in 2022 amid abounding risks. Meme coin Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB), which peaked slightly ahead of most of its peers in 2021, experienced a steep sell-off at the start of 2022. For the year-to-date period, Shiba Inu has...

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Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) announced the launch of Coinbase Pay. The development comes as the cryptocurrency exchange platform looks to offer its users an easier way to fund their Coinbase Wallet from browsers, as well as explore Web3. Typically, the process to access and use DeFi, NFT, and...

Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has added Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) — the self-described “Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) killer” — to its decentralized finance (DeFi) wallet. What Happened: Crypto.com announced on Twitter that it has added Shiba Inu along with six other...

Fantom (CRYPTO: FTM) has emerged as the most traded cryptocurrency by the 1,000 biggest Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) wallets in the past 24 hours. What Happened: Fantom was ranked sixth among the top 10 purchased tokens of the Ethereum whales with an average purchase amount...

Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, has launched a $560 million fund focused on the cryptocurrency space. What Happened: Bain Capital’s Crypto Fund I will exclusively focus on investing in early-stage cryptocurrency protocols operating in...

Yearn.finance (CRYPTO: YFI) has emerged as the most traded cryptocurrency by the 1,000 biggest Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) wallets in the past 24 hours. What Happened: Yearn.finance was also ranked seventh among the most used smart contracts by the Ethereum whales, according to data from cryptocurrency...

Every day new DeFi projects are launched. Many of these also launch accompanying tokens. This has led to the emergence of 'airdrops' to draw people into these new crypto ecosystems.  An airdrop happens when a cryptocurrency is distributed to a group of people for free. Most airdrops...

BarnBridge (CRYPTO: BOND) continues to be the most traded cryptocurrency by the 1,000 biggest Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) wallets in the past 24 hours. What Happened: BOND was also ranked sixth among the most used smart contracts by the Ethereum whales as at press time late Monday, according to data...

Fantom (FTM) and Yearn Finance (YFI)  — coins associated with Andre Cronje — tumbled 21% and 10.3% over 24 hours to $1.33 and $18,046.12 respectively after the news of the software developer’s departure from Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, was announced. Fantom Performance...

BarnBridge (CRYPTO: BOND) has emerged as the most traded cryptocurrency by the 1,000 biggest Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) wallets in the past 24 hours. What Happened: BOND also stood in the sixth position among the most purchased tokens by the Ethereum whales as at press time late Sunday, with an average...

This article was originally published on SmartContent and appears here with permission. Cryptocurrencies and tokens are a completely new digital asset class never before seen in financial systems. It’s why one of the first and most commonly asked questions about crypto-assets is what is their...

By Diane Dai Crowdpooling has become a people-powered engine for expanding the size, scope, ambition, and functionality of the DeFi ecosystem.  Since day one, the ethos of Web3 technology has been all about two things: decentralization and democratization. In its earliest days, crypto offered...

The Android version of major web browser software Opera — widely known for being the first mainstream browser to integrate Web 3.0 features — just integrated with decentralized finance (DeFi) service DeversiFi (CRYPTO: DVF). What Happened: A Wednesday announcement...