Top 5 Notable Real World Assets (RWA) Crypto Projects in 2023

Real World Assets (RWAs) are assets from the physical world that have been tokenized and brought onto blockchain platforms for use in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. These assets are represented as digital tokens on the blockchain, allowing them to be utilized within various DeFi protocol ...

AI to reinvent DAOs while tokenized models will become valuable: VC firm

Artificial intelligence could be the missing piece for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), while trained AI models could become valuable assets on-chain, according to the co-founder of Framework Ventures.Speaking to Cointelegraph on Sept. 5 at Korea Blockchain Week, Vance Spence ...

MakerDAO co-founder proposes fork of Solana codebase for native chain

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen has submitted a proposal to build the decentralized finance project’s upcoming native chain off of a fork of Solana’s codebase, and not the Ethereum Virtual Machine despite its long-running ties with Ethereum. MakerDAO’s native chain o ...

Controversy as MakerDAO’s Spark Protocol blocks users with VPNs

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 ...

Protocol to identify ‘systemically important’ blockchain banks could help prevent a market crash: Study

Kanis Saengchote, a researcher at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, recently developed a framework for identifying and measuring systemic risk in decentralized finance (DeFi) institutions. The new protocol is called the Global Systematically Important Protocol (G-SIP), and it’s ba ...

LTC, XMR, AAVE, and MKR turn bullish as Bitcoin stalls under $31K

Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading in a narrow range for the past few days but that doesn’t take away the sheen from its stunning 84% rally in 2023. The strong recovery in Bitcoin’s price has boosted buying in several altcoins, which have risen sharply from their yearly lows.As the second half ...

MakerDAO Launches DeFi Credit Platform Spark with Unique Interest Rate Model

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 ...