Good morning. Robert Leshner has built one of the essential cornerstones of decentralized finance (DeFi) with Compound, a lending protocol. This year, Compound Treasury launched, providing a pathway for non-crypto financial institutions to earn yields in the rapidly expanding “institutional DeFi” sub-sector. That’s important. As are the series of investments Leshner has made in fledging […]
Archives for December 2021
Presenting CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021
It was a massive year for crypto: Twelve months when long-held theses were validated and many once sci-fi concepts became relatively mainstream. Celebrities embraced NFTs (non-fungible tokens), and DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) became a thing. The U.S. Congress taxed crypto (but accepted it more and more). And the markets … well, they were nuts. “Crypto” […]
McDonald’s McRib NFT Project Links to Racial Slur Recorded On Blockchain
One of the problems with the recent phenomenon of food brands getting into NFTs is that food is actually quite different from NFTs. If you’re a business that’s really good at, like, nailing the economics of mass-producing hamburger meat, there’s no guarantee you’re going to have the same success peddling tokens on a blockchain. Take […]
Market Wrap: US Inflation at 39-Year High Fails to Buoy Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s price swung from gains to losses and back to gains on Friday after a key U.S. inflation report showed consumer prices rose in November at their fastest pace in 39 years. The market fluctuations left bitcoin on track for its fourth straight weekly decline, and the starry-eyed forecasts of $100,000 by year end – […]
Router Protocol Raises $4.1M to Bridge EVM and Non-EVM Chains
Router Protocol, a project aimed at connecting multiple blockchains, has raised a $4.1 million funding round. Router, which raised $485,000 of seed funding last year, now has the backing of Coinbase Ventures, QCP, De-Fi Capital, Polygon, Wintermute, Shima, Woodstock and Bison Ventures. As the blockchain universe matures, liquidity is at risk of being fragmented across […]
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