US SEC Shuts Down $30 Million Defi Money Market in First Decentralized Financ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken its first enforcement action involving decentralized finance (defi). The commission has charged a defi platform and its executives for unregistered securities sales of more than $30 million and misleading investors. SEC’s 1st Enforcement Action Involving Decentralized Finance The SEC announced Friday that it has taken the first enforcement action involving decentralized finance (defi). The case involves “securities using defi technology.” The regulator charged two Florida men — Gregory Keough and Derek....
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We are at a pivotal moment in the history of the internet. And DeFi is a symptom of the real shift from centralized services to decentralized. Decentralized finance has exploded over the past 12 months. The swapping, staking and yield farming successes have been well touted. The DeFi market cap has reached $45 billion, and there’s over $28 billion total value locked in DeFi today. That’s up from $600 million in January 2020 — a 4,300% increase.As with all nascent technology, new money flowing into a sector attracts talent, innovation and the best entrepreneurs. Whether we like it or not,....
The inherent risks in DeFi have slowed potential growth by deterring institutional investment. Now one decentralized insurance firm is attempting to right that wrong with a range of insurance innovations for the sector. New Money Decentralized finance (DeFi) offers a new path for money, free of centralized control and intermediaries. Until now, however, it was […]
PRESS RELEASE. Zug, June 08, 2022 — As markets continue to tumble, Arrakis Finance, a yet relatively unknown & tokenless project, just reached a new milestone — a total value locked of $1 billion. DeFi TVL overall fell from $224B on April 1 to $109B on May 30, dipping by 51%. While nearly all major DeFi projects and platforms have suffered losses in TVL, Arrakis Finance has amassed $1 billion TVL and is closing in on capturing 1% of total DeFi TVL, overtaking the leading DeFi projects like dYdX and Aave V3. Arrakis, created by team members of the infrastructure protocol....
Big-money players accounted for the majority of transactions in the decentralized finance crypto market in Q2 2021. The DeFi market appears to no longer be the domain of retail actors alone as the institutional investment footprint in the crypto market segment continues to attain more significant levels.According to blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis, institutional investors played a major role in decentralized finance (DeFi) adoption in Q2 2021.In its soon-to-be-released “Global DeFi Adoption Index” report, Chainalysis stated:“Large institutional transactions, meaning those above....