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Jia Expands Credit Solution on Huma to Foster Growth in Emerging Markets

Addressing a $5 trillion global credit gap in emerging markets, Jia, which connects capital to small businesses in every corner of the world, scales up its credit solution on Huma, which builds infrastructure for real-world lending.

Ethereum’s 8th Anniversary: Ecosystem Leaders Share Insights

Contributor Chris Castiglione spoke with seven leaders in the Ethereum ecosystem to celebrate the past eight years of Ethereum, and to look forward to what's on the horizon.

Empowering the Yield Ecosystem: Sommelier Use-case

This article was co-written by Josh Kessler from Sommelier Finance.

The Metamorphosis DeFi Lending Needs

A few days ago, I wrote The Two Paths for DeFi: Decentralized Brokers vs. Protocols.

Upgrading Morpho's brand, preparing for the future

We are at the dawn of Morpho's next chapter, and what better way to start it than with an upgraded brand identity fit for the future?

Ambient Finance Raises Seed Round Funding

We’re excited to announce that Ambient Finance (previously known as CrocSwap) has raised $6.5M in a seed round at $80M network valuation led by Blocktower with participation from Jane Street, Circle, Tensai Capital, Naval Ravikant, Yunt Capital, Susa Ventures, Quantstamp, and Hypotenuse Labs, along with angel investors Julian Koh, llllvvuu, Dogetoshi, afkbyte, Jai Prasad, Don Ho, and others.

Tokenomics 101: How to build a thriving financial community using blockchain

At Jia, one of our main value propositions is creating a financial community where entrepreneurs participate as owners, not just customers. This commitment is based on our core belief that ownership enhances the behavior of small business entrepreneurs within a community, encouraging loyalty.

The Halo-Halo System: Creating a Unified Brand for a Global Financial Community

Welcome to our third edition of Behind The Brand, a weekly newsletter featuring leaders at startups and VCs to highlight their unique perspectives on design, brand, and marketing for founders, operators, and investors across the early stages. At Slope, our goal is to build category defining creative for exceptional companies, and we believe brand is applicable to everyone in different ways depending on your role, stage, or industry.

The Two Paths Ahead For DeFi: Decentralized Brokers vs. Protocols.

DeFi is still in its infancy and faces a major fork in the road.

Using blockchain to finance accessible healthcare in Kenya

Announcing the first of a series of stories spotlighting local partners providing valuable services in their communities, powered partly by Jia’s financing.

Crypto & Credit - Moving a Trillion Dollar Market On-Chain

While a lot of people in crypto seem to be focused on building a brand new financial system from scratch, this conversation focuses on how crypto rails can improve the traditional finance world. After nearly a decade at Citi, Kevin straddles both the TradFi and the DeFi world, and at BlockTower, he is working on bringing the multi-trillion dollar securitization market on-chain. We go deep into the weeds in this one, first getting into the nuts and bolts of how credit and securitization traditionally work, before diving into BlockTower’s approach to transform this entire process, moving it on chain, which will reduce friction, errors. and consequently fees.

New fixed income platform PV01 to evolve debt capital markets using public blockchain

PV01 announces their new platform with a novel approach to digitizing the bond market. Targeting both the traditional fixed income and digital asset markets, PV01 is designed to underwrite and tokenize bonds and operate as a dealer by providing liquidity in those securities, all on public blockchains. The result will be a more efficient way for issuers to raise capital and investors to purchase high-quality debt, providing broader access to investment opportunities through tokenization. PV01’s model provides better visibility into ownership using smart contracts and a frictionless method of transferring debt.

Discrimination of Toxic Flow in Uniswap V3: Part 4

This post is a new installment in an ongoing series by @0xfbifemboy on Uniswap liquidity pools, concentrated liquidity, and fee dynamics. It is the fourth of multiple posts in a subsequence which aims to focus on the characterization of toxic flow in ETH/USDC swap data and potential implementations of price discrimination or flow segmentation mechanisms.

Product Updates: Shopify redemption

With nearly 20 brands using the TYB platform to make Community a growth channel, and their members completing hundreds of thousands of challenges earning rewards each time, we are thrilled to announce the TYB Shopify App, which provides an additional avenue for fans to redeem rewards for brand perks.

Real Vision Crypto

Has Crypto Weathered the Banking Storm?

Most major cryptocurrencies have navigated the recently choppy (even stormy at times) waters of global finance with aplomb. So is it “full steam ahead” from here? Ash is joined by Kevin Miao, head of credit at crypto investment firm BlockTower Capital and a former VP of structured product trading at Citi, to discuss the intersection of Web3 and lending, and what cracks in the broader banking system mean for crypto.