Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund submitted a petition to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposing that decentralized applications (dApps) that don’t perform intermediary functions be exempted…

Mining pools Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool, which together provide over one-third of Bitcoin’s total hashrate, backed the implementation of BitVM technology. This technology enables the deployment of complex smart contracts…

An innovative DeFi solution is introduced that allows companies to earn up to 8% annual interest on payroll funds without losing liquidity and with full transparency. Franklin, a provider of…

Pareto introduced a new synthetic dollar fully backed by private loans. The initiative aims to provide institutional investors with access to decentralized finance markets. The Pareto platform announced the launch…

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warns that the growing popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) and cryptocurrencies, especially stablecoins, poses a threat to financial stability, particularly in countries with low…

The launch of Converge, a blockchain specifically designed to support and develop institutional projects in decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenized real-world assets (RWA), was announced. Ethena Labs and Securitize revealed…

The U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of repealing a rule requiring DeFi platforms to collect user and transaction data and report it to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)….

Ripple Labs announced the development of DeFi infrastructure for institutional users, including new liquidity mechanisms, digital identifiers, and lending protocols. Ripple representatives shared plans to integrate DeFi solutions tailored for…

The World Economic Forum (WEF) called on global lawmakers to create tailored regulatory sandboxes that will reduce risk, increase transparency, and foster innovation in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. According…