ShapeShift lived up to its name with a 2021 structural transformation, but it didn’t escape the wrath of the SEC.
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Switzerland-based crypto platform claimed Warren made “mistakes” in comments at a recent senate hearing and encouraged her to “constructively engage” with its community.
3603While the Senator did not expand on other details of the upcoming bill, she suggested that DeFi should not be exempt from AML laws.
12018The organization transitioned to a DAO in July 2021 as part of a broader pledge to decentralize its operations.
3318The entity will be dissolved upon the completion of ShapeShift’s decentralization process.
2264Nonfungible tokens have emerged as one of the most popular use cases of blockchain technology, generating billions of dollars in revenue through 2021.
3427In a July interview with Cointelegraph, CEO Erik Voorhees described full decentralization as an “iterative process” that can take many years.
7486The Erik Voorhees-led company is making strides to fully decentralize its corporate structure. In July, ShapeShift announced the largest airdrop in history as part of its decentralization pledge.
2602“Stablecoin experimentation is happening in real-time with billions of dollars at stake in this vast permissionless lab we call DeFi,” reads a new research report from ShapeShift. The author focuses on the rise of algorithmic stablecoins and their potential use cases.
13100Erik Voorhees is embarrassed by toxic Bitcoin maxis and told a podcast: “I don’t know when they got into Bitcoin, but absolutely that is not the community that I come from in Bitcoin.”
14082“It has become clear that open, immutable finance requires open, immutable organizations,” said Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of ShapeShift.
19095FOX holders will be able to offset gas fees proportionally to their token holdings.
11374ShapeShift has identified two unaffiliated projects as promising DeFi insurance protocols.
11489The noncustodial cryptocurrency exchange first announced plans to integrate decentralized exchanges in January. Now, mobile users can trade BTC with ETH and LTC, without an intermediary.
8267The derivatives landscape offers “tantalizing” opportunities for stakers, according to Kent Barton of ShapeShift. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t risks.
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