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Ondo Finance has purchased $25 million of YLDS, the yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Figure Technology Solutions, to diversify the assets backing its tokenized US Treasurys fund.The company said Monday that YLDS will be added to a reserves portfolio that already includes tokenized Treasu ...

A federal judge has approved an order requiring crypto lending firm Voyager Digital and its affiliates to pay $1.65 billion in monetary relief to the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).In a Nov. 28 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Gregory ...

Cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius said its reorganized company will focus only on Bitcoin mining following feedback from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).In a Nov. 20 announcement, Celsius said the core business of the ‘NewCo’ company proposed under ...

Crypto lender Hodlnaut’s days appear to be numbered after the High Court of Singapore ended judicial management and ordered its liquidation. Users’ funds have been frozen since August 2022. Former Hodlnaut interim judicial manager (IJM) Aaron Loh Cheng Lee announced in a l ...

The Celsius bankruptcy plan has been approved. The path is now clear for customers to see some of their funds returned and receive shares in the reorganized company, which will be called NewCo.Judge Martin Glenn of the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court issued a confirmation on ...

Crypto lending platform BlockFi has emerged from bankruptcy and is ready to pay back some of its creditors, according to an October 24 blog post. Withdrawals “are currently available to nearly all Wallet customers,” the post stated, adding that Blockfi Interest Account (BIA) and Loan ...

Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast talked with MultiChainZ chief operating officer Aanchal Thakur to discuss a popular decentralized finance (DeFi) use case: lending. Host Elisha Owusu Akyaw and Thakur explored what makes a cross-chain lending platform different from other platforms and ...

The interim judicial managers overseeing the affairs of Hodlnaut, the collapsed cryptocurrency lender, have reportedly turned down a recent buyout offer, primarily due to a substantial decline in the settlement token's value. Hodlnaut administrators have expressed reservations about the acquisition ...

Crypto giant Coinbase seems to be strategically steering its ship amid constant crypto industry turbulence in 2023. The company recently unveiled its lending platform for institutional investors, aiming to fill the void left behind by major players during 2022’s crypto winter, when firms su ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has rolled out a crypto lending service for institutional investors in the United States, reportedly aiming to capitalize on massive failures in the crypto lending market.Coinbase has quietly launched an institutional-grade crypto lending platform, Coinbase ...

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is trying to block attempts by the similarly bankrupt FTX and Three Arrows Capital (3AC) that aim to retrieve hundreds of millions of dollars to pay back their creditors. BlockFi claimed in an Aug. 21 filing to a New Jersey bankruptcy court that its own cred ...

The United States Federal Reserve is broadening the scope of its supervision program which oversees U.S. banks that engage with the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. An Aug. 8 announcement by the Federal Reserve Board established the Novel Activities Supervision Program, which aims t ...

MakerDAO, one of the early pioneers of decentralized finance, has sparked criticism over its decision to block virtual private network (VPN) users from accessing its recently launched lending platform, Spark Protocol.At the time of writing, VPN users that attempt to access the Spark Protoc ...

Nonfungible token finance (NFT-Fi) protocol JPEG’d has confirmed that 5,495 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $10 million at current prices, has been returned by the Curve Finance hacker. In exchange for returning the funds that were stolen on July 30, the hacker received a 610.6 ETH ($1.1 ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The $47 million Curve Finance exploit on July 30 had a domino effect on the DeFi ecosystem, mainly due ...

As regulatory scrutiny continues to circle the wider Web3 ecosystem, cryptocurrency lending platform Nexo will look to leverage training resources, connections and data by joining the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS).The association offers training and certification fo ...

South Korean crypto lending firm Delio has reportedly raised concerns over whether it can continue to provide normal services to clients after having its assets seized by a local financial regulator. In a July 22 blog post translated from Korean, Delio said an ongoing legal battle wit ...

What is peer-to-peer (P2P) lending?Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, also referred to as marketplace lending, is a type of lending that uses online platforms to link lenders and borrowers directly, eliminating the use of conventional financial intermediaries, such as banks. In P2P lending, indiv ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, which links borrowers and investors directly, has become a well-liked substitute for traditional banking. P2P lending networks enable decentralized lending, in which people can borrow money from other people or institutions directly without the use of intermediaries, s ...

On July 13, authorities arrested Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius Network. He faces criminal and civil charges stemming from his time at the cryptocurrency lending platform, which he helped co-found in 2017.Though the potential criminal proceedings of Mashinsky and indictment of C ...

Algofi, the borrowing and lending protocol built on decentralized finance blockchain Algorand, will soon shut down.According to a July 11 announcement, developers' "belief in the strength of Algorand's technology and novel consensus algorithm has not wavered," however, the Algofi platform ...

Crypto exchange Gemini founder and CEO Cameron Winklevoss is again threatening to sue Digital Currency Group and its CEO Barry Silbert over delays in the resolution of Genesis for its Earn customers while slamming the CEOfor allegedly trying to play the victim card.In the July 4 “Ope ...

Singapore’s central bank is introducing new measures to improve investor protection and market integrity in the cryptocurrency industry.On July 3, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced new requirements for crypto service providers to hold customer assets in a statutory trust ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The second quarter of 2023 saw over $208 million exploited and hacked from DeFi protocols, and with jus ...

Web3 lending platform Maple Finance has announced the launch of a direct lending program, according to a June 28 fact sheet from the platform’s development team. The program is intended to replace services previously provided by Celsius, BlockFi and other now-bankrupt lenders.The fir ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to postpone the payment of a $30-million fine from bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi until creditors are paid back. The amount represents the balance of a $50-million settlement with the regulator from February 2022. Accordi ...

Real-world asset (RWA) protocols have become a hot trend within decentralized finance (DeFi) circles.An RWA protocol is a decentralized application that allows entities to tokenize and trade real-world assets. These assets range from stocks and government bonds to real estate and commoditi ...

The main leveraged asset here will be the DAI And the interest rate is chosen by vote The platform goes live today MakerDAO introduced a DeFi-like credit platform called Spark. It is based on the Aave V3 protocol, and promises unique credit solutions ...