Tagged: tradfi

Decentralized Finance: Maple to Establish DeFi, Traditional Finance Services with Lending Marketplace

The funding initiates a multi-year, comprehensive growth roadmap designed to see Maple establish itself beyond DeFi and into the world of traditional finance “as a lending marketplace and technology provider.” As noted in a blog post, Maple has closed “a $5 million strategic funding round.”… Read More

Dr. Shira Brezis Co-Founder of Redefine: DeFi, Web3 Security Professional Comments on Safety Issues in Decentralized Finance and Role of Financial Institutions

We recently connected with Dr. Shira Brezis, CEO & Co-founder of Redefine, the “first” end-to-end security tech for DeFi investors. Dr. Shira discussed major issues financial institutions are concerned about regarding safety and security for web3 investing. Redefine helps enable secure transactions, monitor in real-time,… Read More

DeFi: Violet Launches Mauve, the Decentralized Exchange that Provides Compliance of Traditional Finance

Violet, the provider of privacy-protective compliance and identity infrastructure for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), announced the launch of Mauve, the compliant Decentralized Exchange (DEX) purpose-built “to offer the best of both DeFi and Traditional Finance (TradFi) to the crypto markets.” Backed by $15 million in funding… Read More

Benedikt Schuppli: Obligate’s Co-founder, CEO Comments on the Future of Blockchain-based Finance

Obligate, formerly known as FQX, is a Switzerland-based company that provides a blockchain-based bond platform. The Obligate platform is designed to streamline the debt issuance process and make it more accessible to businesses of all sizes. The platform provides a secure and transparent way of… Read More

Dr. Torsten Stuber: CTO at Pendulum Explains How Use of Stablecoins Affects Developments of DeFi Apps

We recently caught up with Dr. Torsten Stüber, Co-Founder and CTO at Berlin-based Pendulum, an initiative focused on traditional finance infrastructure blockchain solutions, which is “the missing link between fiat and DeFi.” Pendulum is an open-source blockchain built on the “proven” Parity Substrate framework, establishing… Read More

Solana’s Portfolio Management Platform Friktion Launches Institutional Undercollateralized Lending

Friktion, Solana’s portfolio management platform launched in December 2021, has successfully attracted crypto-native and traditional institutions “managing up to $60 billion in AUM who seek to access leading risk-adjusted and transparent yields on DeFi.” Friktion Institutional is “a new arm of the protocol aimed to… Read More

Let’s Debunk Some Recent Myth-Making About Blockchain

Blockchain seems to be an endless source of misunderstanding and myth-making, to the extent that sometimes it is treated as a form of magic. This needs to stop.    Blockchain is awfully cool, it solves an important issue for the internet age, and it is… Read More

Credix Raises $11.25 Million, Builds Future of Global Credit Markets with Blockchain Powered Platform

Credix, a Brazilian Fintech, has raised $11.25 million in Series A funding, according to a corporate statement. The Credix funding round was led by Motive Partners’ Early Stage fund and ParaFi Capital. Other investors include Valor Capital Group, Victory Park Capital, MGG Investment Group, Circle… Read More

KYC, Identity Controls Might Reshape DeFi by Allowing Regulated Entitites to Participate: Report

The team at Alloy, which specializes in identity verification APIs that make KYC/AML “effective and simple,” has looked into how DeFi has evolved into a “major” sector of crypto without running KYC or AML checks on users. The Alloy team members have looked at “Permissioned… Read More

Abhishek Singh: Comdex CEO Talks About the Potential of Commodities Market for Retail Investors

Recently, we connected with Abhishek Singh, the Co-founder and CEO of Comdex, a decentralized synthetics protocol working towards making global financing more accessible to the multitude. Developed on the Cosmos blockchain, the Comdex protocol is building solutions to democratize finance. They use synthetic assets to… Read More

Insurtech: Hong Kong’s OneDegree, Munich Re to Introduce a Digital Asset Insurance Product

Hong Kong’s insurance firm OneDegree recently revealed that it has agreed to a 3-year  partnership with Munich Re in order to introduce OneInfinity, a digital asset insurance product. As noted in the update, OneInfinity is an insurance and tech product offering developed specifically for digital… Read More

Everest’s Polygon Integration to Increase Access to Biometric Verifiers

Everest, a Fintech company with blockchain solutions for identity verification, eKYC, crypto custodianship, and financial services, this week announced an integration with Polygon, a leading platform for Ethereum scalability and infrastructure development. By making its EverChain fully interoperable with Polygon PoS chain, Everest brings its… Read More

C3 Protocol Celebrates $3.6M Raise, Building Comprehensive Spot, Derivatives Capital Market

C3 Protocol, a decentralized capital market powered by a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol, this week announced a $3.6 million raise, which was led by Arrington Capital and Jump Capital. The platform’s goal is to build an all-in-one capital market for spot and derivatives trading…. Read More

AllianceBlock Partners with DIA or Decentralized Information Asset, an Open-Source Financial Information Platform

AllianceBlock has partnered with DIA (Decentralized Information Asset), the open-source financial information platform that “sources and validates data” for market participants including DeFi platforms and also traditional institutions. According to AllianceBlock, the partnership will see DIA integrate “several elements” of AllianceBlock’s protocol, which has been… Read More

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