DeFi | ForkLog - Part 63

ForkLog 12 27.04.2021

Blockchain startup Securrency raises $30 million from leading Wall Street players

The blockchain compliance solutions provider Securrency raised $30 million in a Series B funding round.

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ForkLog 14 26.04.2021

Bender Labs developers launch bridge between Ethereum and Tezos blockchains

The Bender Labs team has launched a bridge between the Ethereum and Tezos blockchains. With Wrap Protocol, holders of ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens will be able to interact with the Tezos ecosystem.

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ForkLog 12 24.04.2021

DeFi Bulletin: Liquity launches on Ethereum and more than $100 billion in locked funds

The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector continues to attract heightened attention from cryptocurrency investors. ForkLog has compiled the most important events and news of the past weeks in this digest.

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ForkLog 14 20.04.2021

DeFi project EasyFi loses $6 million in hack

Hackers siphoned off around $6 million from EasyFi's liquidity pools.

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ForkLog 11 20.04.2021

DeFi project Injective Protocol raises $10 million from Mark Cuban, Pantera Capital and other investors

Positioned as the first exchange-grade Layer-2 protocol, Injective Protocol closed a $10 million financing round.

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ForkLog 13 20.04.2021

Media: Argo Blockchain-linked crypto fund to hold IPO

An investment-focused firm Pluto Digital Assets is preparing to list shares on the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (Aquis) by the end of May 2021, The Block reports.

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ForkLog 8 19.04.2021

Decentralised oracle network to connect 400 banking APIs to blockchains

A DAO-governed project to create fully decentralised application programming interfaces (dAPI) API3 and the open-banking pioneer Open Bank Project have signed a ten-year agreement to connect more than 400 banking APIs to blockchains.

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ForkLog 71 14.04.2021

Polychain backs DeFi social-trading platform Enso Finance in a $5 million round

The Enso Finance project, aimed at building a platform for social trading in DeFi, attracted $5 million in investments. The round was led by venture firm Polychain Capital and Beacon Fund from Dfinity.

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ForkLog 17 13.04.2021

TVL in the BSC Venus protocol surpasses $10 billion

Total value locked (TVL) in the lending DeFi project Venus has reached $10.4 billion.

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ForkLog 10 13.04.2021

Binance Labs invested in the Pancake Bunny DeFi project’s developer

Binance's venture arm led a strategic investment round in the MOUND startup behind the Pancake Bunny platform on Binance Smart Chain.

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ForkLog 14 12.04.2021

Opinion: Binance Smart Chain — a centralized Ethereum fork, nothing more

The advantages of Binance Smart Chain (BSC) over the Ethereum blockchain are explained by the 'magic of centralization', not by technological innovations. This was stated by Messari analyst Ryan Watkins.

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ForkLog 13 09.04.2021

CipherTrace to Help DeFi Projects Comply with U.S. Sanctions

CipherTrace announced the launch of a Chainlink-based solution that will allow decentralized exchanges and other DeFi projects to comply with the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions regime.

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