The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has urged regulators to avoid excluding decentralized finance (DeFi) rules from the newly adopted Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework. The AFME recently published a study titled "Decentralised Finance - Principles...
Since the emergence of Bitcoin in 2008, the blockchain industry has undergone significant changes that have transformed the entire ecosystem and financial markets. One such trend that has emerged is decentralized finance, or DeFi. DeFi represents a pivotal moment...
Platypus Finance, a DeFi protocol, has announced the creation of a portal that enables its customers to verify the amount owed to them by the platform following the $9.1 million hack of the protocol. On February 16, the DeFi...
Investing in financial markets, whether it be stocks, forex, or cryptocurrency, requires a deep understanding of market trends and analysis. Despite the growing interest and adoption of cryptocurrency, statistics show that only a tiny percentage of the global population,...
While Bitcoin was designed to facilitate secure money transfers, Ethereum was designed to enable developers to create decentralized applications (dApps). Most of the new Layer 1 protocols feature advancements far beyond Bitcoin's basic functionalities. Qtum incorporates some of the...
The DeFi industry is becoming increasingly complex with the constant introduction of new protocols and dApps. This means that there are always new ways to make money in the DeFi space, but getting there may require navigating multiple protocols...
There are two primary interest rates in the cryptocurrency market; the Annual Percentage Yield (APY) and the Annual Percentage Rate (APR). Both APY and APR measure interest earned over a year, but APY includes compound interest in its calculation,...
The industry as a whole is still reeling from the effects of FTX's historic collapse, but some subsectors, like DeFi, are thriving as a result of the crash. According to Dune Analytics, trading volumes on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit...
Although the NEAR protocol is a newcomer in the Web3 arena, it brings a wealth of technological advancements that prioritize user experience. Nightshade, its innovative scalability solution, is at the heart of these initiatives. Nightshade employs a novel sharding...
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a system that aims to shift the spotlight away from centralized cryptocurrency exchanges and the constraints of the current traditional finance (TradFi) system. Despite DeFi’s cutting-edge nature, it has yet to achieve widespread adoption due...
