Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, continues its business as usual despite the ongoing bear market. The VC firm is preparing to launch the fifth round of the Most Valuable Builder (MVB) accelerator program, the incubation program designed to support new projects focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3. Organized in cooperation with…
sponsored Foresight Ventures launches 200m Foresight Secondary Fund I to invest in private round crypto assets that are looking to access liquidity during current volatile market conditions. The fund is launched with Bitget Exchange as the largest single LP. Current market conditions have not diminished our long-term outlook on the development of the crypto market, we want to cooperate with…
In a tweet, Finblox announced that the firm is assessing the effects of 3AC’s situation on its liquidity. While the firm does this, it highlighted that it paused its reward distribution for all of its users and lowered its monthly withdrawal limit to 1,500 USD. Many of the platform’s users were disappointed with the news, sharing their frustrations about not…
MakerDAO, the organization behind the DAI stablecoin, is set to disable the Direct Deposit Module (D3M) for DeFi lending platform Aave later today. “The Maker Governance has voted to temporarily disable the Aave DAI Direct Deposit Module” tweeted MakerDAO. The governance proposal, put forward earlier this week, invited the community to vote on temporarily disabling D3M for Aave, in order…
On Friday, Bitfrost, a Web 3.0 derivatives protocol that provides decentralized cross-chain liquidity for staked assets, launched the updated Slot Liquidity Auction Protocol dubbed “SALP 2.0.” Projects such as Moonbeam, Unique network, OAK network, Polkadex, etc., held their parachain crowdloans on Kusama and Polkadot via the original SALP. A total of 8,834,746 vsKSM ($439 million) and 3,045,564 vsDOT ($21 million)…
Embattled crypto lending platform Celsius Network is not on the brink of a bailout, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, a major Canadian pension fund, and the New York-based WestCap Group led Celsius’ oversubscribed $750 million Series B funding round last year, which raised the firm’s…
The Colombian Financial Superintendence, the securities and financial watchdog of the country, is working on a document to regulate the transactions and operations made using cryptocurrency assets in the country. The organization announced that it will present the document in the coming weeks, which will issue norms for the treatment of these assets in the Colombian financial system. Colombian…
Crypto startups have a significant role to play in the development of the entire blockchain industry. However, while many business owners have big ideas that aim to change the world, some fail to invest to develop the most critical aspects of a business, resulting in employees quitting. After being hired by a crypto startup, Roland Guirdonan from Chad, Central Africa,…
Elon Musk shared further details of his plans for how crypto could be used on Twitter in a leaked Q&A session with employees of the social media company. Per a transcript of the meeting released by Vox, the billionaire Tesla CEO expounded on how payments, including crypto, are a “critical area” for Twitter, and highlighted the ongoing issue of crypto…
The largest Bitcoin investment vehicle, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), is now trading at its biggest ever discount to the spot market. Data from on-chain analytics resource Coinglass shows GBTC shares down 34% versus BTC/USD on major exchanges as of June 17. GBTC suffers in market downturn Amid continued turmoil in DeFi spilling over to infect the crypto market, conditions…
