DeFi News

Everything about decentralized finance, from lending and yield farming to protocol innovation.

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Crime

US Treasury says lawful crypto users may use mixers for financial privacy

March 2026 Treasury report draws new line between crypto privacy and crypto crime.

4 weeks ago

Investments

BlockFi in talks with FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to acquire a share of the company

Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX and Alameda Research is in talks to acquire a stake in crypto lending firm BlockFi just days after he acquired 11% of Voyager Digital

4 years ago

Merge

Ethereum to shutdown 3 testnets after Merge

Ethereum foundation has revealed that Kiln, Rinkeby, and Ropsten testnets would be deprecated after Ethereum’s transition into a proof-of-stake network.

4 years ago

Analysis

Bitcoin could be a panacea for income inequality, says Forbes

Bitcoin emerges as a way to rescue the world's economy as the inflation continue to increase and the income gap widens.

4 years ago

Interview

Inside THORchain: The cross-chain RUNE DEX offering native coins like BTC and ETH

CryptoSlate spoke to Tyler Bond from Nine Realms to discuss what makes THORchain so different and why cross-chain interoperability is so important.

4 years ago

Lending

Crypto lender Maple Finance joins list of platforms facing liquidity issues

The DeFi protocol for institutional borrowers and lenders published an update saying “lenders must wait for borrower repayments.”

4 years ago

NFTs

Uniswap Labs acquires Genie to integrate NFTs into its products

The company said that the acquisition of Genie, the first NFT marketplace aggregator, will enable it to integrate NFTs into its own products and enable users to buy and sell NFTs through Uniswap.

4 years ago

DeFi

What’s going on with Bancor?

One of the biggest DeFi protocols on the market has paused its impermanent loss protection, sparking rumors of a liquidity crisis. The Bancor team talked to CryptoSlate about what caused the decision to halt ILP and the steps the protocol is taking to prevent these problems in the future.

4 years ago