Aussie fintech to offer mainstream direct access to DeFi with a fixed rate
Taking the “heavy lifting” out of DeFi — Block Earner has received $6.4 million in seed funding and is ready to offer fixed yields from Aave and Compound to Australian investors. Australian fintech company, Block Earner, has officially gone live, offering everyday investors a 7% fixed rate investment product by utilizing decentralized finance (DeFi) technology.Block Earner has already attracted attention from big names in the crypto industry, finalizing a $6.4 million seed funding round in December last year. It was led by Framework Ventures and joined by Coinbase Ventures, DeFi Alliance,....
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Kulfi Finance is the first Cardano fixed-rate money market. At launch, vaults will be dedicated to stable-asset and pegged-asset pairs, with additional vaults added in the future. Louis Ryman, Chief technical officer at Kulfi, stated “By building upon Cardano, Kulfi has created a simple way for crypto users to access the benefits of the fixed rate money market.” Kulfi finance facilitates lending and borrowing of Cardano native assets at fixed rates / Terms through an innovative financial primitive called wTokens. Fixed-rate financing touches all the edges of the modern financial....
Kulfi Finance is the first Cardano fixed-rate money market. At launch, vaults will be dedicated to stable-asset and pegged-asset pairs, with additional vaults added in the future. Louis Ryman, Chief technical officer at Kulfi, stated “By building upon Cardano, Kulfi has created a simple way for crypto users to access the benefits of fixed rate money market.” Kulfi finance facilitates fixed-rate lending, borrowing of Cardano native assets at fixed rates / Terms through an innovative financial primitive called wTokens. Fixed-rate financing touches all the edges of the modern financial....
In its latest seed funding, Infinity Exchange investors allied behind the need for more secure institutional investment. Infinity Exchange, a new platform providing institutional grade capital efficiency in decentralized finance (DeFi), announced a $4.2 million seed round in a bid to boost institutional adoption for DeFi.Infinity Exchange is led by ex-Morgan Stanley executive Kevin Lepsoe, who left the world of traditional finance with sights set on the possibilities provided for investors through DeFi.However, the founder says that institutional investment is critical for providing strong....
After hitting a wall with banks, a borrower has turned to DeFi to pay off his mortgage. A software engineer has taken decentralized finance to a new level of practicality, by paying off his mortgage with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and refinancing the loan through fixed-rate lending protocol Notional Finance.The move marks a major step for the fledgling DeFi sector and more fixed-rate lending protocols in DeFi may attract additional users seeking mostability in longer-term investments and loans, such as mortgages. Currently, the ecosystem is largely populated by yield farmers looking....