Finance Redefined: Secret’s $400M fund, and 1inch expanding, Jan. 14–21

On August 28, a crypto wallet associated with 1inch Investment Fund, “0x225d3822de44e58ee935440e0c0b829c4232086e”, bought 6,088 Ether (ETH) at $1,655 spending $10 million on the trade, data from Lookonchain, a blockchain analysis platform, shows. The fund is linked with 1inch Network, the decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregating protocol that is also one of the largest platforms by total value […]

Lending firm Celsius raised $400 million, Rari Capital exceeded $1 billion in TVL, and North America witnessed surging crypto volume — all included in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter.In a week where Rari Capital achieved the $1billion TVL milestone, read on to discover why OlympusDAO is yielding four-figure sums on its most popular protocol. What you’re about to read is a shorter, more succinct version of the newsletter. For a comprehensive summary of DeFi’s developments over the last week, subscribe....

The grants program will be distributed to developers over the next 12 months via 1INCH tokens. 1inch Foundation, the non-profit organization of the 1inch decentralized exchange aggregator, has earmarked $3 million to fund new protocol upgrades as part of a grants program targeting developers. Over the next 12 months, 1inch Foundation will disburse grants for projects in the following categories: network development, community development and research and analytics. The network development category targets aggregation products, automated market makers, wallets, layer-2 protocols and....

Avalanche Foundation showcases a six-figure ecosystem fund, wXRP set to launch smart contracts on Ethereum, and AllianceBlock joins forces with Flare — all coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.For many years, Ethereum and XRP held the second and third-ranking spots in the crypto market. Read on to discover how wXRP will integrate into Ethereum to expand its utility to smart contracts.What you’re about to read is the smaller version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments....

On August 31, the Atlanta-based cryptocurrency payments services provider Bitpay announced that the Bitpay wallet has integrated the decentralized exchange (dex) aggregator 1inch Network. Bitpay wallet users can utilize 1inch protocol to swap ether or the myriad of ERC20 tokens. The Bitpay Wallet Supports 1inch Decentralized finance (defi) has grown exponentially according to statistics as defillama.com data shows there’s $157 billion total value locked (TVL) across all defi supporting blockchains. Metrics from Dune Analytics indicate that, as far as Ethereum....