DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report February 2021

After FTX imploded, and as fear among market participants mounted about a full-blown insolvency crisis in crypto, lenders raced to recall outstanding loans to mitigate potential losses. With a significant chunk of funds locked up on FTX, Auros faced a sudden liquidity crunch to repay all of its desperate creditors.

Jul 23, 2020 at 21:05 UTCFilecoin founder Juan Benet and Coinbase alum Balaji Srinivasan (CoinDesk archives)Climbing off Twitter on Scaffolds of Truth: Where Srinivasan and Benet DivergeIn the American epic, Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, there are two characters who can see much further than the other members of their gang: Captain Gus McCrae and…

opinion Kyle Samani is a Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests in tokens reshaping entire sectors of the global economy. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Over the last 20 years, a lot of companies have built large online marketplaces to connect buyers and sellers. Amazon,…

The Top Universities for Blockchain – MethodologyCoinDesk’s 2020 Blockchain University Rankings are by no means the first attempt to create such a list. However, it is, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive and nuanced consideration of universities’ impact on the blockchain field. As we collected data, sent out surveys and spoke with schools across the…

feature When the governing board of Hyperledger approved a new supply chain project earlier this month, it marked a significant departure for the open-source blockchain consortium. Sawtooth Supply Chain, as the project is provisionally called, breaks new ground because it’s arguably the consortium’s first to really inhabit the application layer of the software stack. It’s…

Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, held $3.3 billion of reserve assets in excess to back the value of its stablecoins, the ​​firm reported in its Q2 attestation on Monday.Signed by accounting firm BDO Italy, the attestation disclosed about $72.5 billion of exposure to U.S. Treasuries, including direct T-bill investments, repurchase agreements and deposits in…

Vega Protocol’s token VEGA has gained over 20% over the last seven days, with the protocol itself ready to go live as soon as MondayVega is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for creating and trading derivatives. It was deployed on alpha mainnet earlier in May.The associated token, VEGA soared to a monthly high of $1.62…

The Bank of England (BoE) plans to carry on with its plans for a systemic stablecoin regime a consultation response showed on Monday.The consultation set out that systemic stablecoins would be supervised by both the BoE and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which was welcomed by respondents. Respondents and the government also supported extending the accountability…

Some of the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed juror questions could bias either miss juror biases or prejudice potential jurors into thinking Sam Bankman-Fried was guilty before the trial begins, the FTX founder's defense team charged in a late Friday filing."As a general matter, the Government’s proposed voir dire discourages full disclosure from potential jurors