Decentralized Finance

U.S. Treasury Department (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Flux Finance Launches Lending Token Collateralized by U.S. Treasurys

Flux Finance invests in Ondo’s Short-Term U.S. Government Bond Fund (OUSG) a tokenized version of a Blackrock Treasury Bond ETF.

By Sam Reynolds

Feb 9, 2023 at 8:16 a.m. UTC

Feb 9, 2023

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MakerDAO Contributors Propose First Native Liquidity Market Focused on DAI Stablecoin

The proposed Spark Protocol will leverage MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin and its crypto assets for liquidity, and would be based on lending protocol Aave’s upgraded smart contract system.

By Krisztian Sandor

Feb 8, 2023 at 8:13 p.m. UTC

Feb 8, 2023

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Decentralized Lending Protocol Clearpool to Start Institutional Borrowing Platform

Clearpool Prime will allow institutional borrowers to create permissioned borrowing pools with their own loan terms.

By Krisztian Sandor

Feb 6, 2023 at 5:59 p.m. UTC

Feb 6, 2023

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Decentralized Lending Protocol Centrifuge Accrues $6M Unpaid Debt

1754 Factory, the originator of the debt pool with the most distressed loans, said it is liquidating the assets off-chain and negotiating with borrowers for repayments.

By Krisztian Sandor

Feb 3, 2023 at 10:09 p.m. UTC

Feb 3, 2023

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Cross-chain bridge attacks equal $2B in 2022

Synapse Token Surges 44% as Cross-Chain Momentum Builds

The token has outperformed the broader DeFi sector since the turn of the year as investors flock to its cross-chain bridge.

By Oliver Knight

Feb 2, 2023 at 1:18 p.m. UTC

Feb 2, 2023

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DeFi Project Friktion’s Shutdown Said to Stem Partly From Founder Disagreement

The official reason given by Friktion officials for the shutdown was that costs outpaced revenue, creating challenging economics for the Solana-based project.

By Danny Nelson

Jan 30, 2023 at 7:15 p.m. UTC

Jan 30, 2023

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DO NOT USE: CDCROP: Ghosts in a pool (MidJourney/CoinDesk)

DeFi Protocol Aave Clears Bad CRV Token Debt from Exploit Attempt

The maneuver comes ahead of the activation of a major tech upgrade of the protocol called Aave v3.

By Krisztian Sandor

Jan 26, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. UTC

Jan 26, 2023

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Maple Finance Plots Comeback With New $100M Liquidity Pool for Tax Receivables With 10% Yield

After defaults and a major overhaul, crypto lending protocol Maple Finance moves away from uncollateralized lending toward bringing yield-generating real-world assets to crypto investors.

By Krisztian Sandor

Jan 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. UTC

Jan 25, 2023

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Uniswap DAO Members Vote for New Governance Process

Uniswap community members chose Wednesday to reform the voting process on the popular decentralized finance De Fi protocol in an effort to make it easier to change the way the system is governed The Hash hosts discuss what this means for the Uniswap ecosystem in the latest move in the latest story illuminating the power [...]

By CoinDesk Inc

Dec 22, 2022 at 6:23 p.m. UTC

Dec 22, 2022

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