Galaxy Digital partners with Bloomberg for DeFi index

Galaxy Digital partners with Bloomberg for DeFi index

According to Bloomberg, the nine DeFi assets selected for the index at launch were based on "institutional trading and custody readiness" in the United States. Financial news site Bloomberg and Galaxy Digital Management have expanded their crypto offering to track the performance of the decentralized finance space.In a Thursday announcement, Bloomberg said it would launch an index currently tracking nine different decentralized finance, or DeFi, projects with Galaxy Digital. As of Aug. 1, these projects included Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE), Maker (MKR), Compound (COMP), Yearn.Finance (YFI),....


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