Gondor is betting it can build the missing financial layer for on-chain prediction markets—starting with lending against Polymarket positions. DeFi project Gondor has raised a new $2.5 million pre-seed round in December 2025, adding …
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Stablecoin issuer Tether is expanding its presence in commodity lending, with billions of dollars already deployed in the sector, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. In an interview with Bloomberg, Ardoino said Tether has extended …
A co-founder of Bitcoin infrastructure company, Babylon Labs, claims to have built a system that allows for native Bitcoin to be used as trustless collateral to borrow on the Ethereum blockchain. In a Wednesday …
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There is a $200K Bug Hunt for XRPL’s New Institutional Lending Protocol
by adminby adminFintech company Ripple is partnering with security platform Immunefi for an upcoming “Attackathon” event, designed to put a new decentralized finance protocol on the XRPL through rigorous testing. The event will offer $200,000 in …
Visa Says It Wants to Build the Rails for Lending in ‘Onchain Finance,’ Its New Name for DeFi
Visa built the world’s largest payment network that pushes nearly $16 trillion in payments through its virtual pipes. Now it wants to do the same for lending in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). …