dHEDGE has announced that $1.1 million will be injected into its fund managers’ pools by six of the platform’s investors and the dHEDGE DAO. Some of the biggest names in DeFi, including Framework Ventures and Alameda Research, are backing the expansion of decentralized asset management protocol dHEDGE. The investors and the protocol’s decentralized autonomous organization […]
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Gnosis shaped its DAO based on the concept of futarchy. Gnosis, an Ethereum-based platform that facilitates betting on events and other metrics, revealed plans for its own Decentralized Autonomous Organization, or DAO, called GnosisDAO. “This will have the effect of progressively decentralizing Gnosis as a project using a native governance framework powered by their token […]
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Crypto is often seen as trustless and failproof. But as more regulation, venues and developers come aboard, just how trustless is it really? Blockchain technology is great because it cuts out the middleman, removes the need to trust third parties, and gives users full agency over their finances, or true ownership of their wealth. From […]
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The outgoing SEC director first joined the agency in 2017. Bill Hinman, outgoing director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chose to focus one of his last speeches on the commission’s achievements in regulating crypto during his tenure. In remarks published on the Securities and Exchange Commission, or […]
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The Ukrainian government is making serious steps toward crypto to make the country a leader in Eastern Europe. Ukraine is ranked as the world’s leader in the Global Crypto Adoption Index 2020, according to a research published by Chainalysis earlier this fall. Despite this, cryptocurrencies still remain a gray area in the economy. Since 2014, […]
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The recent DeFi downturn has impacted the treasuries of decentralized autonomous organizations by 40% in a month Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) were heavily hit by October’s decentralized finance (DeFi) downtrend, with the total value of assets managed by DAO’s crashing by 40% from 30 days ago. According to data from DeepDAO, the combined assets under […]
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Polkadot’s DeFi ecosystem is expanding, but will its interoperability prove to be the Ethereum-killer? The Polkadot blockchain platform only launched its mainnet in May, but it is already pushing to become a major competitive force in the sector. In late August, following a DOT token redenomination, Polkadot smashed into the top 10 cryptocurrencies, overtaking established […]
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Coinbase leads a growing list of crypto companies attracting top-tier legal talent On Friday Coinbase Inc. announced the appointment of former Google Senior Legal Director Milana McCullagh as deputy general counsel for product and commercial legal. McCullagh, who worked for more than 13 years at Google, will work across functions at Coinbase on product legal […]
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DeFi apps attempt to return crypto funds affected by the KuCoin hack to users. Are they to blame for the issues? The recent KuCoin exchange hack and ongoing OKEx incident, during which withdrawals have been frozen, have raised questions as to how blockchain projects with coins traded on exchanges should act when said exchanges are […]
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Where do NFTs fit into DeFi, what’s next for a space awash with funding, and how do DAOs manage NFT content? Jesse Johnson discusses with Cointelegraph Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), once the red-headed stepchild to more popular smart contract implementations, are finally beginning to have their day in the sun. Average purchase prices of NFTs on […]
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