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Opinion

DeFi vs CeFi Lending: Before Choosing, Understand the Challenges and Risks

CeFi simplifies DeFi user experience for investors, but comes with many risks.

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Finance

Aave Companies Seeks $16M From DAO Funds to Pay Crypto Developers

Some $15 million of that amount has been earmarked for work performed directly by the team over the course of more than a year.

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Markets

DeFi Giant Aave Stops Loaning Ether Ahead of the Merge

The Aave community is worried that users may increasingly borrow ether ahead of the Merge, exposing the protocol to liquidity issues and injecting volatility into Lido's staked ether market.

DeFi giant Aave stops ether borrowing. (Broesis/Pixabay)

Tech

Aave Wallet Activity Reaches 2022 High on GHO Stablecoin Decision

The platform's native aave tokens saw volatile trading during the week before the launch of the yield-generating stablecoin.

Wallet activity has risen on Aave. (Creative Commons)

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Opinion

Why DeFi Giants Aave, Curve May Want Their Own Stablecoins

Stablecoins could drive users and revenue to platforms in a similar way that governance tokens did during the “DeFi Summer” of 2020.

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Tech

Aave Passes Proposal for Yield-Generating Stablecoin GHO

The fully collateralized stablecoin is native to the Aave ecosystem and will be initially available on the Ethereum network.

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Markets

Vitalik Drinks Hot Water in Heatwave and Other Observations From Paris Ethereum Conference

This week's EthCC conference is taking place during one of Europe's worst heatwaves in recent memory. There are a lot of sweaty blockchain developers, mostly men, and a meditation teepee in a "Chill Room" that isn't chilled. Lyllah Ledesma, attending the conference for CoinDesk, provides her observations.

Scene at the 1inch Party at Pont Alexandre III. (Lyllah Ledesma)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Drops After CPI Data Comes In Hotter Than Expected

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 13, 2022.

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Markets

Celsius Pays Off Aave Loan, Moves $418M 'stETH' Stack to Unknown Wallet

The liquidity-stricken crypto lender fully paid off its debt to the decentralized finance protocol, freeing $26 million in tokens as part of its latest debt restructuring maneuver.

Consensus 2019 Alex Mashinsky Founder and CEO Celsius Network (CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z, Variant Lead $18M Round for Lending Protocol Morpho Labs

The protocol enhances existing lending protocols such as Compound and Aave with peer-to-peer liquidity.

A16z partner Chris Dixon (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)