This is what's standing in the way of DeFi's 'NFTification'
NFTs and DeFi have taken the world by storm in recent years, but both industries have downsides. Bringing them together could be a force for good. Ask someone what an NFT is, and they'll instinctively think of digital art — the CryptoPunks, Bored Apes and Ether Rocks that have sold for eye-watering sums.In some circles, nonfungible tokens have been dismissed as a vehicle for speculation, with critics lamenting that demand for such assets is fueled by greed.But this argument doesn't give us the full picture. We're barely scratching the surface of what these one-of-a-kind tokens can achieve....
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Security remains a perennial concern for DeFi protocols, but DeFi will still inevitably “grow and flourish,” Bitfinex chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino believes. Despite the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency investors appear to be sticking to centralized exchanges (CEXs) over DeFi tools, according to a new report.Crypto investors are more comfortable holding their assets on CEXs because decentralized exchanges are still more vulnerable to the threat of hacks. This is according to a joint report by the blockchain data firm Chainalysis and Bitfinex exchange, issued on....