Thaw Digital, a financial technology company, emerged from stealth mode today to announce the launch of its first decentralized credit protocol, Coolwater. Coolwater provides trust-minimizing smart contract infrastructure to coordinate the terms on which capital can be called, deployed, and managed. While existing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols allow for the tranching of financed assets’ repayment […]
Flux Finance is releasing a decentralized lending protocol that can support both permissionless cryptoassets as well as tokenized securities with transfer restrictions. Flux Finance follows a peer-to-pool model and is designed to always quote a lend and borrow rate, ensuring constant liquidity. Flux is an evolution of earlier DeFi lending protocols like Compound and Aave, […]
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. […]
