Societe Generale–FORGE (SG-FORGE) has granted a loan to its mother company Societe Generale to refinance covered bonds held by the bank in the form of Security Tokens issued natively on the Ethereum public blockchain (the OFH Tokens). SG-FORGE funded this loan in the crypto market by borrowing DAI stablecoins from MakerDAO, a market-leading decentralized finance (‘DeFi’) protocol. […]
The most recent FTX event has triggered a chain reaction in the market, and the aftermath continues to remind the market that centralized custody poses its own risk. The Web3 ecosystem is still in its infancy, and its infrastructure is not yet completely developed. When it comes to digital asset custody, the bulk of custody […]
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announces that the first industry pilot under MAS’ Project Guardian that explores potential decentralised finance (DeFi) applications in wholesale funding markets has completed its first live trades. More industry pilots have been launched to test the application of asset tokenisation and DeFi across a broader range of use cases […]
