In the SEC's suit against Binance, the regulator goes far beyond the "unregistered securities" take - but still lack the community's trust.
Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance’s $180MM profit and Greensill’s $1.5B SoftBank raise
Look at the difference between (1) building out the crypto asset class, and (2) operating infrastruture for a blockchain-based digital economy. There are so many little logic pot holes into which you could fall! There are so many things one could believe that make the whole thing make no sense at all! I am anchoring around two primary data points -- a Multicoin report about Binance's financial progress and its massive (though unaudited) $180 million profit in Q3 of 2019, and a post by supply chain company Centrifuge about marrying cashflow financing with the decentralized web.
In this conversation, we go through the essentials of Decentralized Finance with Kerman Kohli, who is a serial entrepreneur and the writer of the DeFi Weekly newsletter. We discuss the mechanics of issuing stablecoins, decentralized lending, decentralized exchange, automated market makers, and the increasing complexity of synthetic assets that have grown the sector to nearly $7 billion in August of 2020.
Binance, as a surprise to no one, finds themselves the subject of a Reuters exclusive alleging they commingled customer funds with corporate accounts.
The SEC filed 13 charges against Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, in the latest in a series of painful stories about the embattled fintech.
Pat White, the founder of crypto enterprise startup Bitwave, said programmable money and its infrastructure will change traditional institutions.
In this conversation, we have a really cool conversation on fintech, crypto assets, payments and all the things around it with Ivan Soto-Wright, the CEO and Co-founder of MoonPay.
More specifically, we discuss Liability-driven Investment (LDI), the proliferation of AI in personal finance to drive sound decision-making, innovation in finance is following the same trajectory that resulted in VOIP for the telecommunication industry, the geographical maze of crypto KYC, payment networks, and crypto payment processing.
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The FTX debacle continues- when you thought it was all over, things just get weirder.
One day after dropping 13 counts against Binance, the largest crypto exchange worldwide, the SEC set its sights on Coinbase.
The DoJ's hyped announcement yesterday resulted in a takedown of a little known exchange, causing concern for the future of DeFi regulation