DeFi

CoinDesk Research

CoinDesk Q4 2019 Review: A Year in Suspended Animation

Christine KimJan 23, 2020

The CoinDesk Quarterly Review surfaces the key data, trends and events shaping the crypto markets. Check it out now.

Podcasts

Tyrone Ross on Why Financial Advisors Are Taking Notice of DeFi

Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 17, 2020

Financial advisor and crypto advocate Tyrone Ross joins for hot takes on financial advisors, DeFi and the most important company in crypto.

BlockFi

BlockFi Adjusts Interest Rates to Lure Larger Crypto Deposits

Sebastian SinclairJan 24, 2020

BlockFi recently announced it would make changes to the interest they pay for bitcoin and ether deposits.

Taxes

2019’s DeFi Boom Raises New Questions for Tax Filing Season

Leigh CuenJan 17, 2020

A number of startups are now trying to help retail investors make sense of the tax implications of decentralized finance.

Podcasts

Why Crypto’s ‘Rogue State’ Narrative Is a Risk to the Industry

Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 15, 2020

From a North Korean blockchain conference to a sanctions-evading crypto hedge fund, does this type of activity present a narrative risk to the crypto industry as a whole?

DeFi

Traders Turn to DeFi to Capitalize on Tuesday’s Crypto Market Spike

Brady Dale

Decentralized finance (DeFi) applications are popping off Tuesday, and the ETH price spike isn't the whole story.

CES 2020

MakerDAO Pitches DeFi to the Masses at CES 2020

Brady Dale

There's a "digital money" section on the show floor of this year's CES. MakerDAO's DAI is the only crypto with a booth.

Year in Review 2019

Store of Value Remains Crypto’s Best Use Case

Ryan Zurrer

Store of value was the most viable and desirable use case across crypto in 2019 and offers a basis to increase adoption in the second decade of crypto, says Ryan Zurrer of Dialectic.

DeFi

Compared to Gaming and Gambling Dapps, DeFi Is Still Behind

Christine Kim

A closer look at the data shows that decentralized applications are struggling to gain traction, and DeFi is not the main use case.

Year in Review 2019

When DeFi Meets Neo Banking, This Thing Gets Interesting

Varun Deshpande

When you combine DeFi with wider trends in fintech, you get an existential threat to banks.

Year in Review 2019

3 Under-the-Radar Product Trends for 2020

Richard Chen

Here's what 1confirmation partner Richard Chen is expecting to pop in the new year.

Kyber Network

Kyber Network Aims to Improve DeFi Liquidity With ‘Katalyst’ Protocol Upgrade

Sebastian Sinclair

Kyber Network, the ethereum-based protocol focused on aggregating liquidity and facilitating swaps for ERC-20 tokens, is about to launch a major upgrade.

DeFi

Bitcoiners Are Building a Sidechain Version of Ethereum’s MakerDAO

Leigh Cuen

The bitcoin community may soon have its own version of ethereum’s flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.

DeFi

Developer Flags Big-Money Loophole for Stealing All the ETH in MakerDAO

Brady Dale

An ethereum developer has flagged an attack on MakerDAO that could turn $20 million of MKR into $300 million of ETH.

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