Liquidity issues affected users on two decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms today, though for different reasons and with widely differing consequences. In what appears to be user error, three…
Daniel Kim transitioned from traditional banking to crypto, leading Maple Finance and co-founding Volta to enhance institutional lending and security. He sees Bitcoin’s role in DeFi growing, with…
Bitcoin, the flagship crypto asset, has long been nicknamed “digital gold” due to its store of value. With a market cap exceeding 1 Trillion, the crypto asset drives the price movements of basically…
A quick look at some of the numbers available online reveals that the global structured finance market, valued at $1.4 trillion in 2024, is projected to reach $2.6 trillion by 2030. In brief,…
Injective’s governance proposal aims to bring McDonald’s on-chain stock perpetuals to decentralized exchange dApps, expanding access to traditional assets in DeFi. The proposal leverages Injective’s…
One of the foremost projects aiming to increase the speed of the Ethereum network is ramping up its work on the world's original blockchain: Bitcoin. Ethereum layer-2 Starknet, in partnership with BTC…
This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Serial entrepreneur Dan Held, whose past exits include Zeroblock and Interchange, sees Bitcoin DeFi as the…
SatLayer, the Bitcoin yield hub, is bringing BTC restaking to Sui, unlocking new DeFi opportunities with secure, yield-generating Bitcoin staking. In partnership with Lombard Finance, SatLayer is now…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Compound is facing calls to onboard additional risk managers in response to a recently approved governance proposal made by current manager Gauntlet.…
The total TVL of DeFi has collapsed below 90 billion dollars, marking a -35% from the $140 billion in December. The collapse of the price of Ethereum is weighing heavily. Summary Analysis of the…