DeFi Rate - This Week In DeFi – July 8
This Week In DeFi – July 8This week, Multicoin announces a new $430 Web3 fund, StarkNet confirms a token and Celsius files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.To the DeFi community, This week, Multicoin raised $430 million for "Venture Fund III," the company's third venture capital fund in the crypto space. The fund will be allocating between $500k and $25 million to early stage projects, with up to $100 million toward more established companies. Multicoin's focus for the fund is web3 infrastructure, DAOs and “proof of physical work" – protocols that incentivize verifiable work to build real-world infrastructure. Multicoin Capital has secured $430M to invest in crypto startups
These are 9 areas they're investing on 🧵 StarkWare has confirmed the launch of a token for its StarkNet Layer-2 scaling platform on Ethereum, however will not be airdropping any tokens until next year. 10 billion tokens have already been minted off-chain, going live on StarkNet in September. 51% will go to the StarkNet foundation, 32.9% to StarkWare core contributors and 17% to StarkWare investors. #StarkNet Alpha was launched on Ethereum Mainnet in November 2021.
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Now it’s time to advance its decentralization as demanded of an L2 on Ethereum.
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Here’s our decentralization proposal, introducing the StarkNet Token, and the StarkNet Foundation
medium.com/@starkware/par… CeFi lending platform Celsius has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, as shown by court filings. The company has declared between $1 billion and $10 billion in assets and equal liabilities, with 100,000 creditors on the books. A Celsius statement says statement by the company says it has $167 million in cash to support certain operations during the restructuring process. Customer withdrawals with remain frozen. Celsius filing chapter 11 (like Voyager) bankruptcy!
Chapter 11, the debtor negotiates with creditors to alter the terms of the loan without having to liquidate (sell off) assets.
Unlike 7 where they sell off assets.
Still hope for Celsius depositors!
#bitcoin #crypto Retail trading platform Robinhood has listed Uniswap's UNI governance token, bringing the total number of crypto assets available on the app to 13. The announcement was made via Twitter yesterday and assisted in the token's 20% advance over the last day of trading. Thanks to our partner: Nexo – Unlock the power of your crypto with up to 17% interest and borrowing starting at 6.9%. Read our Nexo review. Interest RatesDAIHighest Yields: Nexo Lend at 10% APY, Gemini at 6.43% APY Cheapest Loans: Aave at 2.34% APY, Compound at 2.62% MakerDAO Updates DAI Savings Rate: 0.01% Base Fee: 0.00% ETH Stability Fee: 0.50% USDC Stability Fee: 1.00% WBTC Stability Fee: 0.75% USDCHighest Yields: Nexo Lend at 10% APY, Gemini at 7.99% APY Cheapest Loans: Compound at 1.52% APY, Aave at 1.73% APY Top StoriesUS Inflation Gauge Jumps to Fresh 4-Decade High of 9.1%; Bitcoin FallsBlockchain venture funding declined roughly 22% in Q2China's central bank to expand deployment of e-CNYG20 regulators call for new global rules on cryptocurrenciesStat BoxTotal Value Locked: $40.15B (down 3.0% since last week) DeFi Market Cap: $40.88B (up 2.7%) DEX Weekly Volume: $10B (down 17%) Bonus Reads[Tom Matsuda – The Block] – Gnosis Safe raises $100 million led by 1kx as it rebrands to Safe [Vishal Chawla – The Block – Uniswap liquidity provider hacked for $8 million in phishing attack [Tom Mitchelhill – Cointelegraph] – Cred Protocol unveils its first decentralized credit scores [Fran Velasquez – CoinDesk] – MATIC Surges as Disney Chooses Polygon for Accelerator Program If you liked this post from This Week in DeFi , why not share it? |
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This Week In DeFi – July 8
Friday, July 8, 2022
This week, Aave looks to launch a stablecoin, Shiba Inu is expanding its ecosystem and MakerDAO lends to a legacy bank.
This Week In DeFi – July 1
Friday, July 1, 2022
This week, FTX looks to acquire a distressed BlockFi, Compound goes multi-chain and ConsenSys partners with StarkWare.
This Week In DeFi – June 24
Friday, June 24, 2022
This week, dYdX decides to ditch Ethereum scaling for its own chain on Cosmos, Solend stirs up governance drama and Uniswap steps into NFTs.
This Week In DeFi – June 17
Friday, June 17, 2022
This week, Circle announces a new euro-pegged stablecoin, while Celsius and Three Arrows battle solvency issues – also involving stETH.
This Week In DeFi – June 10
Friday, June 10, 2022
This week, Ethereum completed its Ropsten testnet merge, Wintermute unveiled its DEX aggregator and TronDAO decides to overcollateralize USDD
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