Default auditing for DeFi projects is a must for growing the industry
There has been a shift that has taken auditing from being seen as an unnecessary burden to an absolute essential for any serious project. The radical opportunity presented by decentralized finance has garnered significant attention from investors and speculators alike. The total value locked in DeFi protocols grew over 2,500% in 2020, from around $700 million in January 2020 to over $20 billion in December 2020. TVL is a more useful metric than market capitalization when it comes to DeFi, as it accurately represents the equity that investors are willing to commit to these protocols. And....
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Smart contracts auditing is becoming even more important with the advent of decentralized finance. This is where companies like HashEx enter the picture. HashEx has provided smart contracts auditing for over 500 projects to date and the company helps secure DeFi protocols. The vulnerabilities the company has found in smart contracts have saved projects more […]
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the best form of money, Binance’s CEO says. Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, said that decentralized finance is here to stay despite many DeFi projects showing signs of being in a bubble.In a Nov. 17 interview with Russia’s news agency RBC, Zhao argued that “a lot of DeFi projects are already in a bubble, and I also believe that there are some signs of a bubble in the DeFi industry, but this does not mean that DeFi will eventually disappear entirely.”Zhao went on to say that the DeFi industry has a lot of....
While the exponential growth of decentralized finance is evident from the increased awareness and utility, the industry still remains complex to navigate for new users. However, with the growing progress and growth, a new concept of decentralized finance has evolved as DeFi 3.0. DeFi 3.0 is a modular approach to decentralized finance in harmony with Web 3.0 with an aim to improve user participation using simplification. DeFi 3.0 is an initiative taken by several projects to promote a community-centric approach where the investors and traders benefit the most. With the right approach and....
Cointelegraph Consulting releases some trends and insights featured in their “DeFi Adoption 2020: A Definitive Guide to Entering the Industry.” The majority of DeFi projects believe the industry is far away from maturity, but they are sure that mainstream adoption is likely to occur. This was disclosed on Sept. 21 when Cointelegraph Consulting released the results of a DeFi survey in “DeFi Adoption 2020: A Definitive Guide to Entering the Industry.”The survey showed that 48% of the top projects in the DeFi space expect mainstream adoption to arrive after three to five years, while 8%....
The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued and set charges of 1 million USD as a monetary penalty against Friedman LLP, the former auditing firm of Tether. Although the stablecoin issuer Tether hired the same auditing company from May 2017 to January 2018, the case filed last week does not count it. It has […]