Prasanna Loganathar is the head of engineering at Cake DeFi, which is built atop DeFi Chain, a proof-of-stake network for dapps built on a fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. He tells Decrypt’s Jason Nelson in our Decrypting Mainnet booth at Mainnet 2022 (sponsored by DeFi Chain) about how DeFi Chain works, how it’s possible to layer proof-of-stake on top of Bitcoin, and the biggest misconceptions about DeFi that he’d like to see go away in 2023….
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There are many coins and tokens that have performed well in the last 24 hours, and it seems that DeFI tokens in particular have been showing some strength, with a large degree of growth being conferred to a mixture of governance tokens such as UNI and CRV. Earlier this month, token holders of UNI decided that they would vote to improve upon the ecosystem by creating the Uniswap Foundation.
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This is the second and final part of the Cryptonews exclusive interview with Dr Ulli Spankowski, head of digital assets at Börse Stuttgart, founder of Sowa Labs and the BISON app, as well as being the CEO of the latter. The first part of the interview can be found here. In the first part of the interview, available here, Ulli covered regulation, the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework, Europe’s big crypto opportunity and the future of stablecoins, among other things….
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Sino Global Capital CEO Matthew Graham, a longtime crypto investor, joins Decrypt’s Dan Roberts in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 to talk about investment choices during the bear market, DeFi growth prospects, how crypto needs to do a better job of “encouraging good actors and being vocal when people are doing something not sustainable.
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Do Kwon, the under-fire CEO of Terraform Labs, has hit out at South Korean prosecutors via his firm. The company has accused prosecutors of morphing the legal definition of a security to kowtow to political pressures….Read More: Terraform Says Case Against Do Kwon Is ‘Politicized’ and LUNC ‘Isn’t a Security’…
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Brandon Neal, COO of Euler Labs, told Decrypt’s Liam Kelly and Stacy Elliott in our Decrypting Mainnet booth at Messari Mainnet 2022 about how Euler approached the Ethereum merge, how to onboard more people into crypto and DeFi, and how Euler competes with Compound and Aave, the leaders in the DeFi borrowing and lending space….
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Steve Newcomb, chief product officer of zkSync, tells Decrypt’s Liam Kelly in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 about why “zero knowledge” and EVM-compatibility matters so much for DeFi scaling solutions now. He also predicts the biggest crypto news of 2023 will be “the great port” to zk-proofs….
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Jonas Surmann, ambassador for DeFi Chain, sponsor of the Decrypting Mainnet booth at Messari Mainnet 2022, tells Decrypt’s Dan Roberts and Sander Lutz about why DeFi will weather the crypto winter, how DeFi Chain is building decentralized apps on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, and what could happen with regulation if the SEC views most DeFi tokens as securities….
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Ribbon Finance’s exchange lets users trade Ethereum options on-chain. The launch is the latest in a suite of structured financial products….
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DeFi Education Fund policy director Miller Whitehouse-Levine tells Decrypt’s Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 about how DeFi in some ways “came too early for the crypto ecosystem” and that some lawmakers see it as “hocus pocus, but there’s still reason for optimism. He also sees Bitcoin as “a DeFi protocol for payments.
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