Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. DeFi has become a prominent choice for investors after multiple centralized finance (CeFi) collapses throughout 2022. Some key interest areas for investors include “NFTfi,” on-chain derivative platforms, decentralized stablecoins and Ethereum layer 2’s. February…
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered against a rule change to allow investment manager VanEck to create a spot Bitcoin Trust on March 10. Commissioner Mark Uyeda joined his colleague Hester Peirce in releasing a statement that criticized the commission’s decision not to approve the listing and trading of the financial product. The commissioners noted that the…
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has introduced new restrictions for Russian users, in accordance with the latest European sanctions. The platform is restricting access to peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions in U.S. dollars and euros for traders based in the Russian Federation. Binance Prohibits US Dollar and Euro Transactions for Russians on Its P2P Market The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, is imposing restrictions…
USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle exposure to the United States banking system sits near to $9 billion, according to its latest audit report from January. Circle’s reserves are held in a number of regulated financial institutions in the country, including Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, and Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon. According to the report, the amount held in cash…
Ethereum’s upcoming Shanghai upgrade will allow users to withdraw staked Ether (ETH), increasing the network’s liquidity and competitiveness while also boosting its staking ratio closer to its competitors. The Shanghai upgrade is a hard fork of Ethereum tentatively scheduled to occur in March. It implements five Ethereum Improvement Proposals, the headliner being EIP-4895, which allows users to withdraw their locked-up…
President Joe Biden yesterday dropped a $6.9 trillion budget plan. The huge blueprint—which is expected to be rejected in the GOP-controlled House—wants to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations to reduce a massive deficit. And that includes crypto traders and investors. The document says it wants to close the “loophole that benefits wealthy crypto investors” by focusing on wash…
With the Bitcoin (BTC) halving more than a year away, don’t expect crypto industry narratives to change anytime soon. Nay, crypto winter is still in full force, and the nasty headlines show no signs of abating. This week, Silvergate Bank’s parent company announced it would shut down and liquidate the crypto bank “in light of recent industry and regulatory developments.”…
There are only ten days into March, and volatility in the crypto markets has heightened, with both bitcoin and ethereum falling to two-month lows. A collapse in Silvergate Bank was one of the major catalysts leading to this month’s bearish sentiment, which now sees bitcoin trading under $20,000. With over three weeks remaining in March, what could be next? Current…
Some AAVE users who accidentally sent tokens to the wrong address may soon be able to recover them, according to the text of a proposal passed by the AAVE decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on March 10. The proposal, called “Rescue Mission Phase 1 Long Executor,” authorized AAVE developers to upgrade smart contracts that have been mistakenly sent tokens in the past,…
The collapse of crypto-friendly bank Silvergate will likley have a significant impact on the crypto ecosystem and its ties with the banking sector in the U.S. Earlier this week, the parent company of Silvergate Bank announced plans to wind down operations and liquidate the bank. The announcement came after the crypto-friendly bank had suffered 1$ billion worth of losses in…
