The Critical Role Of Real-World Assets In The Future Of DeFi
Crypto was born from the desire to create a better, more equitable financial system built atop of an infrastructure that’s inclusive, and accessible to anyone, no matter who they are or where they live. Since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, the cryptocurrency industry has matured far beyond its original concept as a medium of exchange, spawning countless new use cases. Decentralized finance, as these new use cases have collectively become known, refers to a range of financial services that can be accessed by anyone without the involvement of a centralized institution or intermediary,....
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DeFi already offers innovative financial products, but what’s needed for it to go mainstream is to bring more real-world assets on-chain. In a business school lecture hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a senior executive for Safaricom gave a prediction of decentralized finance and the future of commerce to a room of keen but confused MBA students. “You will be able to buy your first home on WhatsApp! Smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain will take care of everything and you won’t need a broker,” he said with conviction, pointing to a slide.“How will the house’s....
On April 22, MakerDAO, known as the DeFi world’s ‘central bank’, in partnership with the financial supply chain project Centrifuge, completed the first real-world asset loan in DeFi (decentralized finance). Centrifuge helped New Silver, a loan pool to set up a real estate repayment and transfer loan pool in its Centrifuge Tinlake protocol. They have […]
On March 16, the protocol engineer at Makerdao and co-founder of the software and design firm Bellwood Studios, Hexonaut, announced a proposal to use real world assets (RWAs) in order to scale the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Makerdao. Hexonaut insists the bull market was good, but “the time is passing” and he believes Makerdao needs “to take the next step and begin integrating with the real world at scale.”
Makerdao Community Proposal Discusses Integrating Real World Assets Into the CDP Equation
A software engineer from the Makerdao team has....
Connecting DeFi with traditional financial instruments will give a massive boost to the whole market. With over $13 billion in total value locked, decentralized finance has truly shaken the crypto world in the last year. It has provided a new way to profit from the crypto market. Meanwhile, DeFi right now is only a niche trend with a gigantic potential to start a revolution in the business loan market. In order to grow out of diapers, DeFi desperately needs to be connected with real-world assets and exist in an environment where it can be used by real businesses, corporate clients, etc.As....
More options for single-sided Bitcoin staking could lead to a consolidation of decentralized exchange aggregators — meaning improved liquidity for users. For many years, Ethereum reigned supreme over the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, with the blockchain serving as the destination of choice for many of the most innovative projects serving up their take on decentralized finance. More recently, however, DeFi projects have started to crop up across multiple ecosystems, challenging Ethereum’s hegemony. And, as we look to a future in which the technical problem of interoperability is....