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Celsius Pays Off Last DeFi Loan, Reclaims Nearly $200M of Wrapped Bitcoin From Compound
The troubled crypto lender previously paid off loans from Aave and Maker.
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A16z partner Chris Dixon (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
A16z, Variant Lead $18M Round for Lending Protocol Morpho Labs
The protocol enhances existing lending protocols such as Compound and Aave with peer-to-peer liquidity.
A16z partner Chris Dixon (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius Network, at Consensus 2019 in New York (CoinDesk)
Celsius Reclaims $172M Collateral From Aave, Compound
The liquidity-strapped crypto lender has paid down $95 million in debt from the two DeFi platforms since Friday.
Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius Network, at Consensus 2019 in New York (CoinDesk)

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky (CoinDesk archives)
Celsius Pivots Toward Paying Off Aave, Compound Debt, With $950M Collateral as Prize
The troubled crypto lender Celsius started to make good on the $258 million debt on the decentralized lending protocols Aave and Compound – possibly in an attempt to reclaim c...
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky (CoinDesk archives)

Bangkok, Thailand (Noom HH/Getty Images)
Siam Commercial Bank Is Chasing DeFi Yield Through Compound
The bank’s venture arm, SCB 10X, is using Compound Treasury’s 4% yield service via the Fireblocks custody platform.
Bangkok, Thailand (Noom HH/Getty Images)

S&P (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Compound’s Enterprise Arm Receives S&P Credit Rating in DeFi First
The iffy B- grade applies to Compound Treasury, a platform promising 4% yield for USDC-denominated business accounts.
S&P (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Coinbase's New Listings, Robinhood Adds SHIB, SOL, And More
Coinbase’s New Listings, Robinhood Adds SHIB, SOL, And More
Coinbase has announced an extensive list of ERC-20 tokens that will be added to the crypto exchange’s offerings, and Robinhood will now include shiba inu, Solana, MATIC, and C...
Coinbase's New Listings, Robinhood Adds SHIB, SOL, And More

Printing U.S. Dollar Bills (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Money Market Platform Burrow Raises $5M to Launch on NEAR
Burrow is a non-custodial liquidity pool platform similar to Aave and Compound.
Printing U.S. Dollar Bills (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Tron founder Justin Sun
Tron’s Justin Sun Accused of ‘Governance Attack’ on DeFi Lender Compound
Crypto think tank GFX Labs says a prominent whale may be attempting to swing a vote in his favor.
Tron founder Justin Sun

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Grayscale Adds Flexa’s AMP to DeFi Fund, Removes BNT, UMA in Quarterly Rebalancing
The world’s largest digital asset manager announced the updated weightings on Monday, following reconstitution of the CoinDesk DeFi Index (DFX).
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