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Multicoin Capital Leads $1.15M Seed Round for DeFi Protocol Swivel Finance

The decentralized protocol says its offerings of fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives will place it in a unique position in Defi.

By Tanzeel Akhtar

Dec 11, 2020 at 2:42 p.m. UTC

Dec 11, 2020

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Blockchain Startup Raises $12M Series A to Turn Brands Into Cellular Networks

Blockchain startup OXIO raised a $12 million Series A to make “Telecom-as-a-Service” as common as SaaS.

By Ian Allison

Nov 17, 2020 at 5:05 p.m. UTC

Nov 17, 2020

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DeFi Risk Management Startup Cozy Finance Debuts With $2M Funding Round

Announced Thursday, Cozy Finance has raised a $2 million seed round, led by Electric Capital and including Variant Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Robot Ventures, Slow Ventures, Volt Capital, Spencer Noon, Moncada and others.

By Ian Allison

Sep 3, 2020 at 4:01 p.m. UTC

Sep 3, 2020

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Exchange Outages Are Going Mainstream: What Robinhood Can Learn From Crypto

With popular online trading platforms hit by more outages amid high volumes, companies like Robinhood may learn something from crypto exchanges.

By Muyao Shen

Sep 1, 2020 at 8:44 p.m. UTC

Sep 1, 2020

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Ethereum

Coinbase Ventures Invests in $5M Token Sale for Ethereum Data Firm 'The Graph'

Blockchain data startup The Graph has raised $5 million in a token sale with Framework Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group and others.

By Leigh Cuen

Jun 30, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Jun 30, 2020

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Chinese DeFi Platform dForce Raises $1.5M From Multicoin, Huobi Capital

One of China’s largest DeFi platforms has raised $1.5 million from Multicoin Capital, Huobi Capital and CMB International to expand its product lineup.

By William Foxley

Apr 14, 2020 at 11:01 p.m. UTC

Apr 14, 2020

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Coinbase

Does Crypto Need Circuit Breakers? Last Week’s Price Crash Ignites a Debate

A longtime feature of stock exchanges, circuit breakers throw sand in the gears of a plummeting market like last week’s. Should crypto adopt them?

By Lawrence Lewitinn

Mar 16, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTC

Mar 16, 2020

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Ethereum

Mind the Gap: Why ETH Price and DeFi Adoption Aren't in Sync

Demand for DeFi lending services built on ethereum shows a pattern of inverse relationship to the price of ETH. When ether prices are falling, the amount of ETH locked in DeFi tends to rise. Most recent data indicate the relationship operates the other way, too.

By Galen Moore

Feb 16, 2020 at 9:20 a.m. UTC

Feb 16, 2020

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How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

In December we invited two fund managers both long bitcoin and other crypto assets for a Coin Desk Research webinar on lending and staking Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking what crypto assets risk free [...]

By Galen Moore

Jan 31, 2020 at 8:01 p.m. UTC

Jan 31, 2020

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