DeFi, CeFi and institutions: AscendEX’s $50M raise highlights ambitions beyon...
Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Jump Capital and Alameda Research are just some of the big names behind AscendEX’s $50 million Series B. Global cryptocurrency and financial platform AscendEX recently concluded a $50 million Series B fundraiser that was backed by some of blockchain’s biggest venture funds, putting the company on track to bridge the gap between centralized finance and the budding world of DeFi. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, AscendEX’s head of business development Shane Molidor and Wes Kaplan, the platform’s director of marketing and operations, talked about the....
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CeDeFi presents a new financial system and it should be built by using the best of each other, with DeFi leading and CeFi contributing. Decentralized finance, or DeFi, has established itself as a force capable of disrupting traditional systems. While DeFi still mostly keeps opposing itself to traditional finance, the centralized operators are actively looking for ways to integrate into the established system. The institutional interest pushes both decentralized and centralized participants to ask questions about DeFi, its role and a possible collaboration with centralized finance, or....
Data indicates DeFi could take a huge bite out of CeFi when it comes to the ether cryptocurrency.
Decentralized technologies’ insiders shared their views on DeFi and the role, achievements and challenges the space faced in 2021. Tristan Frizza of Zeta Markets:Tristan is the core contributor to Zeta Markets, an under-collateralized DeFi derivatives platform, providing liquid derivatives trading to individuals and institutions alike.“We’ve seen a Cambrian explosion in the DeFi ecosystem in 2021, with peak TVL approaching $300 billion vs the 2020 peak of $21 billion. This sounds like the growth surely has to slow. Yet, DeFi still represents just a fraction of CeFi trading volumes.At Zeta,....
Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao made a confident assertion last July that decentralized finance, commonly referred to as DeFi, is poised to rise above centralized finance, or CeFi, in terms of prominence and significance within the financial landscape. According to his forward-looking perspective, this transformative shift is expected to materialize over the course of the […]