Crypto Hedge Fund Looks for $50M to Buy DeFi Tokens Amid Market Pullback
Panxora, a cryptocurrency hedge fund manager, seeks $50 million to buy digital tokens associated with decentralized finance, known as DeFi.
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Major DeFi tokens, including UMA, Maker, and Uniswap have surged up to 22% in the past 24 hours. The decentralized finance (DeFi) market has generally rebounded following a sustained pullback. There are two main reasons behind the short-term recovery of major DeFi tokens. First, most DeFi tokens were heavily sold since September, causing most to […]
Bloomberg hails crypto as top 2020 asset, bitcoin hits exchanges, options traders see calm around U.S. elections, hedge fund seeks $50M for DeFi.
Ethereum’s correction triggered a DeFi-token collapse which resulted in YFI and UNI dropping by 46%. After outperforming Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) strongly in August, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) tokens are now plummeting as many registered losses of up to 50%. Cryptocurrency daily market performance snapshot. Source: Coin360At the moment, the two coins garnering the most attention are Yearn.finance (YFI) and Uniswap (UNI) as both have dropped by 46% and 48% since reaching a monthly peak.YFI/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView.comThree catalysts appear to be behind the correction:....
In July, a hedge fund in Jersey issued a press release announcing that it had become the first regulated fund to deal in bitcoin. The Jersey fund, called Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), later said it was seeking $200m in assets under management. In subsequent months, mentions of GABI have been regularly prefaced by its status as the first regulated bitcoin hedge fund by everyone from the BBC to Newsweek. Now another hedge fund is challenging GABI's claim. Crypto Currency Fund, managed by Timothy Enneking, says that it, not GABI, should rightfully be referred to as the....
Digital asset manager Grayscale has launched a new DeFi fund with CoinDesk Indexes, according to a press release. The Grayscale Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund will offer its clients exposure to some of the major tokens in the sector. The fund will track the CoinDesk DeFi Index, created on May 10, 2021, to “measure the investable […]