Tag: DeFi, Gas, Markets, Optimizing
DeFi Is Optimizing For gas, Not For Markets
Opinion by: João Garcia, DevReal lead at Cartesi.Decentralized finance presents itself as a transparent alternative to Wall Street. Yet, what it has largely...
Faster Settlement May Make For Poorer Markets
Opinion by: Chris Kim, CEO and co-founder at Axis. Shorter settlement cycles are now sweeping the globe. In 2024, the United States moved equities to T+1 settlement....
Execution Quality Is The Missing Metric In Bitcoin And Ethereum Markets
Opinion by: Arthur Azizov, founder of B2 Ventures Transaction cost analysis (TCA) has long been an important tool in equity trading. With this instrument, traders can...
How World Liberty’s $3.4B USD1 Stablecoin Powers Onchain Lending Markets
Key takeaways World Liberty Financial has entered DeFi lending with the launch of World Liberty Markets, an onchain borrowing and lending platform built around its...
Polymarket Adds Taker Fees to 15-Minute Crypto Markets
Prediction market platform Polymarket updated its documentation to show that 15-minute crypto up/down markets now carry taker fees, marking a departure from its...
Prediction Markets Hurt Fintech User Churn: Inversion CEO
Finance platforms racing to add prediction markets are doing so at the cost of accelerated “casino-like” user churn, says venture capital firm Inversion Capital...
Phantom Integrates Kalshi Prediction Markets Into Crypto Wallet
Crypto wallet application Phantom has partnered with regulated prediction market Kalshi to bring event-based trading directly into its wallet interface, signaling a...
US Markets Race Toward Onchain Settlement After SEC No Action
Traditional financial markets are moving rapidly onchain as the US Securities and Exchange Commission chair doubles down on the idea of an “innovation exemption” to...
Prediction Markets Get Leeway From CFTC Event Contract Rules
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued “no-action” letters to a group of prediction markets, exempting them from requirements related to swap data...
CFTC Innovation Council Adds Prediction Markets & Crypto Exchange CEOs
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has added a host of blockchain industry executives alongside counterparts from traditional finance as part of the agency’s...
Mubadala Capital Partners With Kaio To Explore Tokenized Private Markets
Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Capital has partnered with institutional real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure provider Kaio to explore tokenized access to private market...
Elite Traders Hunt Retail Investors On Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are emerging as a new battleground in the crypto economy, where the best-informed traders are competing against casual retail bettors for profits....
