Krisztian Sandor

Krisztian Sandor is a U.S. markets reporter focusing on stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets. He graduated from New York University's business and economic reporting program before joining CoinDesk. He holds BTC, SOL and ETH.

Krisztian Sandor

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Markets

DeFi Protocol Clearpool Chooses Polygon Network for Its Institutional Lending Platform

Clearpool also opened the onboarding and whitelisting process for institutional borrowers and lenders to its Prime platform.

Clearpool Prime is set be released in the first quarter of the year. (Clearpool)

Markets

Liquid Staking Tokens Rally as Kraken Shuts Staking Service to Settle With SEC

The sudden price uptick of governance tokens for the largest liquid staking protocols – Lido Finance, Rocket Pool and Frax Finance – was a counterweight to the decline of the broader crypto market.

La economía del token de ether se vería favorecida con solo una pequeña recuperación económica. (Pixabay)

Tech

DeFi Giant MakerDAO Integrates Blockchain Data Provider Chainlink for DAI Stablecoin

Chainlink Automation will run specific tasks, including price updates and liquidity balancing, to help maintain the stability of Maker’s $5 billion DAI stablecoin.

(Tom/Pixabay)

Tech

Aave Deploys Native Stablecoin GHO on Ethereum Testnet

GHO joins an increasingly competitive space as rival DeFi protocols also issue or are moving to release their own protocol-native stablecoins.

(MidJourney/CoinDesk)

Markets

MakerDAO Contributors Propose First Native Liquidity Market Focused on DAI Stablecoin

The proposed Spark Protocol will leverage MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin and its crypto assets for liquidity, and would be based on lending protocol Aave’s upgraded smart contract system.

Spark Protocol would be a new liquidity market for lending and borrowing crypto assets focused on DAI. (Dawid Zawila/Unsplash)

Markets

Decentralized Lending Protocol Clearpool to Start Institutional Borrowing Platform

Clearpool Prime will allow institutional borrowers to create permissioned borrowing pools with their own loan terms.

Liquidity Pool (Unsplash)

Markets

Decentralized Lending Protocol Centrifuge Accrues $6M Unpaid Debt

1754 Factory, the originator of the debt pool with the most distressed loans, said it is liquidating the assets off-chain and negotiating with borrowers for repayments.

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Markets

Crypto Investors Can Purchase Bankruptcy 'Put Options' to Protect Funds on Binance, Coinbase, Kraken

Investment firm Cherokee Acquisition is offering the options, which will allow account holders to recover 100% of their assets in the event the major exchanges file for bankruptcy and lock customer assets.

Bankruptcy (Gerd Altmann/Pixbay)

Markets

Decentralized Exchange Vela’s DXP Token Surges Ahead of Beta Release on Arbitrum

The utility token has rallied 50% in the past 24 hours and more than doubled since Wednesday ahead of the release of its widely anticipated beta version next week.

Traders are betting Vela, which means sail in Spanish, can take a share of the growing decentralized exchange activity on Arbitrum. (Johannes Plenio/Unsplash)

Markets

DeFi Protocol Aave Clears Bad CRV Token Debt from Exploit Attempt

The maneuver comes ahead of the activation of a major tech upgrade of the protocol called Aave v3.

(MidJourney/CoinDesk)