Your Weekly DeFi News in Bite-Sized Fashion
This week’s issue covers events between January 8th and January 15th, 2023.
Welcome to the 127th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This week’s issue covers events between January 8th and January 15th, 2023.
🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
The SEC has charged Gemini and Genisis for unregistered securities offerings.
The US Department of Justice is probing Saber Labs Founders over Solana-based projects.
Polygon is to hard fork on January 17th.
ConsenSys is to lay off upwards of 100 staff.
Yearn Finance is planning to let anyone create Curve reward farms.
Lens Protocol is implementing a feature where content creators can gate content based on token holdings.
Ondo Finance announced tokenized US treasuries and bonds.
We interviewed Joe Sticco of CryptexFinance, where we discussed things like JPEGz and concepts like index methodology and business models based on indexed products.
The Easy Company has secured $14.2M in seed funding, aiming to launch the first social web3 wallet.
Alkimiya has closed a $7.2M funding round, aiming to grow its cash flow hedging protocol.
Exactly Protocol has raised $2M in funding and launched on the Ethereum mainnet.
💱 DEX Report
Jumbo has raised $3.5M in funding, hoping to deliver its DEX ecosystem to the NEAR protocol.
Thanks for reading, and be sure to catch the 128th issue of The Defiprime Post out this time next week! 👋♦️👋