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DeFi’s surging popularity has seen the sector grow to comprise 240,000 users and more than $2 billion in value.
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Lending News
Lending is a type of financial relationships between two parties: the lender and the borrower. The lender provides a loan of money or some other item for temporary use while borrower uses the provided loan under the conditions that guarantee its refund. Usually, lending is a services provided by financial establishments, although there is also peer-to-peer — i.e., person-to-person — lending that means that individuals do not use any kind of intermediary. This kind of p2p lending removes the middleman from the process. However, it takes more time and carries more risk. Lately, there has also appeared the possibility of online lending, including Bitcoin lending platforms. As cryptocurrency has grown in terms of price and popularity, Bitcoin lending sites provide more and more services for lending Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.
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The Aave decentralized finance protocol new feature lets users borrow money without posting collateral.
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Nomics wants to provide an algorithmic ranking for every cryptocurrency product category from wallets to crypto media outlets.
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Compound’s COMP token has been wildly successful in the initial period since launching. What’s behind it, and is it sustainable?
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Using digital assets to earn yields and borrow capital became possible thanks to crypto lending, one of the fastest-growing sectors in the crypto ecosystem.
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The DeFi sector is seeing rapid growth in use and volume. Some appear concerned about a bursting bubble, but could it be natural growth?
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Alex Mashinksy says that new equity investors, including Tether, will have no say in Celsius’ mission of sharing 80% of profit with its users.
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United States cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Pro announced the listing of COMP, the token powering the decentralized lending protocol Compound.
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MKR is up 30% in 24 hours following the MakerDAO community’s vote in favor of introducing tokenized “real-world” assets as collateral for Dai loans.
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Mexico’s blockchain sector is producing robust growth, with the sector having nearly doubled in size since 2018.
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Decentralized finance platform Celsius Network has crossed $1 billion in total cryptocurrency deposits.
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The Aave protocol has introduced Uniswap tokens as a collateral form, which opens the door to the somewhat risky practice of leveraged liquidity pools on the exchange.
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Tether usage is picking up pace in DeFi as Aave reports over 10% of its assets locked are in USDT, after a slow start that saw its competitor USDC gain adoption.
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Major American digital asset financial services firm BitGo is releasing a new full-service trading platform designed for institutional investors.
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BlockFi disclosed a data breach that potentially leaked the physical addresses and account activity of its customers, highlighting the risks of KYC finance platforms.
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