DeFi Hedging Startup Opyn Raises $2.16M Seed Round Led by Dragonfly Capital
Opyn, a hedging instrument for decentralized finance (DeFi) has closed a $2.16 million funding round led by Dragonfly Capital.
Opyn, a hedging instrument for decentralized finance (DeFi) has closed a $2.16 million funding round led by Dragonfly Capital.
BlackBerry and Intel are hoping to halt cryptojacking attempts on Intel's commercial PCs with a new mining malware detection tool.
Gold is a traditional safe harbor in a crisis and the blockchain-based version is a good way to start taking advantage of tokenization.
It's been a second straight year of disappointment for the XRP token from Ripple, which has stagnated as other big cryptocurrencies have seen big rallies.
CrossTower has raised $6 million in seed funding, with entrepreneur Gerard Lopez leading the round.
Bitcoin is reporting moderate gains on Monday as gold, a safe haven asset, rallies amid renewed coronavirus concerns.
The Financial Conduct Authority wants six months to review and ask follow-up questions to crypto businesses applying to operate in the U.K.
The bank funds are said to be linked to Russian Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly ran the defunct crypto exchange BTC-e.
The offer seems an apparent effort to bring about negotiations that could end the divisions that have been tearing the company apart.
Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals.
Securitize Japan joined the Japan Security Token Offering Association, becoming the first international firm to do so.
A solar energy trading trial run by blockchain startup Power Ledger has found its initiative to be "technically feasible."
The Italian Banking Association announced its banks are interested in piloting a digital euro.
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Compound has overthrown MakerDAO as the decentralized finance protocol with the most value staked, locking $484 million to Maker's $481 million on Saturday.
The Bank of Thailand is integrating a CBDC payments system into the financials of the country’s oldest cement company in an extension of its Inthanon project.
An economic comparison of where boomers were at the same age as millennials leads to only one conclusion: Millennials are screwed.
The widespread use of public/private key pairs will change how assets are held and funds are managed.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has been nominated to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, replacing U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who said he had not resigned.
At a virtual event Friday called "Crypto & Race," blockchain entrepreneurs explored how racial inequality affects the cryptocurrency sector.
Cambodia's central bankers are riding their hopes of de-dollarization on a national payments blockchain: Project Bakong.
Lower bitcoin spot volumes and flatter-than-usual price action doesn’t mean crypto traders have zero opportunities to capitalize.
Economists at the New York Federal Reserve think bitcoin is a fiat currency. Nic Carter thinks the New York Fed is "insane."
Startups built on Compound's decentralized lending protocol are now pondering the second-order effects of COMP's price surge.
Tether's volume on decentralized lender Compound has quadrupled to over $224 million in just a few days, and is by far the dominant stablecoin on the platform.
The former head of the Kraken exchange's digital asset trading is now calling the shots at quantitative cryptocurrency fund Galois Capital.
Assemblyperson Ron Kim has proposed a decentralized contact tracing protocol and a blockchain-based public banking system for New Yorkers.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission moved Friday to halt an allegedly fraudulent digital asset investment fund run by two Pennsylvania brothers.
With DeFi and ETH-backed stablecoins booming, and the ETH 2.0 scaling upgrade imminent, the Ethereum community is gaining near-unstoppable momentum.