DeFi

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Liti Capital to finance ‘landmark’ case against Binance

Proceedings against Binance will be brought in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre by a group of disgruntled Binance customers who were unable to trade on the platform during this year’s infamous May 19th crypto crash.

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Hacker behind $610m crypto heist in line for reward for returning assets

After returning nearly all the $610 million in cryptocurrency that they stole earlier this week, a hacker has been offered a $500,000 "bug bounty" by the Poly Network.

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Polynetwork says crooks have returned some of $610m hack haul after Twitter plea

Polynetwork, a platform that helps link blockchains together, says that its Twitter plea to hackers to return the $610 million in recently stolen cryptocurrency has begun to pay off, with several million already handed back.

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Gemini bolsters DeFi team through Guesser acquire-hire

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has boosted its DeFi credentials through the acquisition of Guesser, a real-time predictions market platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Valora digital wallet spins out from Celo with $20m Series A funding

Open-source blockchain payments outfit Celo is spinning out Valora, its native digital wallet, into an independent company that has already closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Blockpass Partners and OpenDeFi announce KYC alliance

Blockpass and OpenDeFi are proud to announce their new partnership.

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Sygnum offers Ethereum staking

Sygnum Bank announces today that it is the first bank to offer Ethereum (1) 2.0 staking.

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Visa and PayPal back $300m Blockchain Capital fund

Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.

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Crypto firm Ledger hits $1.5bn valuation

Digital asset management player Ledger has hit a $1.5 billion valuation off the back of a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings.

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Thiel-backed Block.one preps $10bn crypto exchange

Block.one, the blockchain software firm backed by Peter Thiel, is pumping $10 billion into a new cryptocurrency exchange subsidiary.

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Wirex adds WXT to Ethereum in DeFi push

Digital payments platform Wirex has announced the migration of a fifth of their popular native token, the Wirex Token (WXT), from the Stellar Network to the Ethereum blockchain.

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WEF: Little market-wide agreement on DLT use in capital markets

A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that while distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers the potential for significant market-wide transformation, market participants are still far from adopting this technology at scale at a market-wide level.

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Qredo raises $11m

Qredo, a decentralized digital asset management infrastructure and product suite, announces an $11 million seed round led by a diverse group of investors including G1 , Gumi Cryptos, Maven 11, Spartan Group, 1kx and Kenetic.

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Open Bank Project and API3 partner to unite banking and the blockchain

Open Bank Project (OBP) has formed a partnership with the API3 Foundation to deliver banking and open banking data oracles to the decentralised web.

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Metaco unveils digital asset orchestration system

Metaco, the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has launched Metaco Harmonize, an end-to-end digital asset orchestration system for institutions.

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Former Revolut exec raises $7.1m for DeFi startup

Gro, a UK DeFi startup founded by former Revolut and Spotify executive Hannes Graah, has raised $7.1 million in a seed funding round led by Galaxy Digital and Framework Ventures.

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Asian DeFi incubator launches

RioDeFi, a Singapore-based decentralised finance startup, has launched an incubator hub designed to bring greater blockchain interoperability to Asia.