Tagged: liquidity

April 2, 2025 @ 4:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A PitchBook update indicates that the venture capital ecosystem is grappling with a growing Distributed to Paid-In Capital (DPI) crisis, as exits remain elusive and liquidity pressures mount. Secondary markets, where investors buy and sell stakes in existing VC funds or companies, have been touted… Read More

February 10, 2025 @ 1:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Nexus, a tech initiative designed to unlock instant liquidity for third-party issuers of tokenized Treasuries (that being, yieldcoins) has now officially been launched. Leveraging OUSG’s minting and redemption capabilities, Ondo Nexus enhances the “liquidity and utility of tokenized Treasuries while building foundational infrastructure for… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Baton Systems, a global capital markets tech provider orchestrating the optimized settlement of $20-30 billion (USD) in asset value daily, has introduced new treasury management tools designed to optimize intraday liquidity, reduce costly buffers and mitigate risk in real-time. The new liquidity management capabilities offer… Read More

June 27, 2024 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crossover Markets, a digital asset technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions, announced that it has raised $12 million in its Series A funding round led by Illuminate Financial and DRW Venture Capital. Illuminate and DRW VC join a growing list… Read More

June 23, 2024 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook has provided their 2024 US Venture Capital Outlook as part of a comprehensive  Midyear Update. Expectations for the turnaround in the VC market entering 2024 were not especially high, the research-focused firm noted in a recent update. PitchBook pointed out that the headwinds that… Read More

April 11, 2024 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyriba has announced a partnership with Onyx, J.P. Morgan’s blockchain business unit, to improve cash management, payments and liquidity performance for CFOs and Treasurers. The collaboration is described as the first of its kind. Furthermore, a new partnership with Workday, Inc. “will fully embed bank… Read More

November 19, 2023 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morpho, a decentralized lending protocol, has joined the Ledger Live app, enabling users to access optimized crypto lending and borrowing rates through Ledger’s secure ecosystem. Morpho is a peer-to-peer layer built “on top of lending pools like Compound or Aave, designed to improve the capital… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional digital asset trading technology, announced the launch of options trading on its flagship trading platform, in partnership with crypto derivatives exchange Deribit as its first liquidity venue accessible at launch. The integration between Talos and Deribit “allows institutional traders in select… Read More

August 27, 2023 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The expansion to this new Coinbase-incubated blockchain is set to offer 1inch users access to deeper liquidity, lower transaction costs and higher speeds. Continuing its expansion across the DeFi space, the 1inch Network is glad to share that the 1inch Aggregation Protocol and the 1inch… Read More

July 22, 2023 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Radiant Capital, a lending and borrowing protocol built atop Binance Labs portfolio company, LayerZero Labs, and focused on “bridging fragmented liquidity across decentralized finance ecosystems.” This strategic funding round “emphasizes Binance Labs’… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi has been suffering from a silent problem for years: a liquidity management gap. The lack of these services has caused a range of issues. It leads to increased price volatility, making executing trades at fair prices challenging and resulting in potential losses for traders…. Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 2:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fasset, the global digital asset platform for emerging markets, announces its partnership with Minted, a provider of precious metals, in order “to offer increased accessibility and liquidity to the global precious metals market through tokenization at the Dubai Fintech Summit.Under the MOU, Fasset will distribute… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marinade Finance, Solana’s No.1 protocol by total value locked (TVL), has announced a major drive “to increase staking of SOL on the blockchain as the protocol aims to increase Solana’s decentralization and grow liquidity throughout its decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.” Launching February 1, Marinade’s Open… Read More

July 24, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FTX Trading Ltd., owner and operator of FTX.com, a global cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced a joint offer with West Realm Shires Inc., the owner and operator of FTX US, and Alameda Ventures Ltd, “to provide early liquidity to customers of Voyager Digital, LLC, which filed… Read More

August 21, 2021 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Robo.cash, a Croatian peer-to-peer lender, has shared insights on different investment approaches. In a new blog post, Robo.cash talks about the liquidity strategy. As explained by the P2P lender,  liquidity is one of the “significant factors” that make assets appealing to investors…. Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 12:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

iFactor, a Romania-based hybrid B2B marketplace for alternative SME liquidity, has successfully secured its initial €625,000 funding target and is now nearing €715,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2016, iFactor describes itself as a fintech startup that is on a mission… Read More

February 26, 2021 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s Flovtec Technologies AG, a technology firm focused on offering liquidity to digital token issuers and exchanges, stated that it will be giving the digital asset ecosystem greater (or full control) over market making activities. This move should provide a more seamless digital experience, transparent… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 4:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Telos, a global blockchain platform based in the UK, announced on Wednesday the launch of T-Bond Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which is described as a “new fusion” of decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFTs as a tool for unlocking liquidity. “T-Bonds are an innovation in DeFi… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

78% of the circulating Bitcoin (BTC) supply is now “illiquid and therefore hardly accessible for buying,” according to crypto data provider glassnode. 78% of the circulating #Bitcoin supply is illiquid and therefore hardly accessible for buying. This points to a bullish investor sentiment as large… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Liquidations System of the Maker Protocol, which supports a leading Ethereum (ETH) based lending system, is a key element that has been developed to ensure that the stablecoin Dai generated in Maker Vaults “remains adequately collateralized.” The Maker Protocol is central or key to… Read More