Tag: finance

7 Brutal Truths About Bitcoin Exchanges in 2025 No One Wants To Say

7 Brutal Truths About Bitcoin Exchanges in 2025 No One Wants To Say

So, you’re planning to get into Bitcoin in 2025, eh? Good. The future is digital, and ignoring crypto is like ignoring the internet in 1995. Hold up before you throw your hard-earned cash at the first exchange that yells “low fees” or “highest security.” Let’s cut the fluff and have...

Crypto Lending Platforms Primed for Growth in 2025

Crypto Lending Platforms Primed for Growth in 2025

The cryptocurrency lending landscape is highly competitive and dynamic, making it crucial to identify potential platforms that are best positioned to thrive in 2025 and beyond. These platforms stand out from the crowd with cutting-edge functionality, top-notch security protocols, and creative ways to use decentralized finance (DeFi). Key players such...

DeFi Surges Past $65 Billion as Regulators Eye Decentralized Trading Platforms

DeFi Surges Past $65 Billion as Regulators Eye Decentralized Trading Platforms

Decentralized Finance (or DeFi) is continuing to change the face of the cryptocurrency market. With its cutting-edge, blockchain-based framework, it reimagines conventional trading paradigms. DeFi platforms run on smart contracts on public, permissionless blockchains such as Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche and many others. They empower users in ways that provide...

5 DeFi Trading Myths That Are Costing You Money

5 DeFi Trading Myths That Are Costing You Money

DeFi. Decentralized Finance. It's the Wild West of crypto, promising untold riches and, let's be honest, delivering a fair share of heartbreak. You’ve probably been following the hype around new overnight millionaires. They threw a bunch of money at some random meme token and become overnight winners. But behind the...

Spark (SPK) Changes Everything? 3 Brutal Truths DeFi Isn't Ready For

Spark (SPK) Changes Everything? 3 Brutal Truths DeFi Isn't Ready For

Spark Protocol. Sounds exciting, right? Just another shiny new DeFi toy that’s going to change the world of lending and borrowing. Built on the MakerDAO ecosystem, aave V3 inspired, lending DAI, ETH, USDC, stETH… the usual suspects. Boasting juicy APYs and billions in TVL. Now, the whole world’s yelling bloody...

DeFi Lending Protocols Surge to Record Highs, Fueling Web3 Growth

DeFi Lending Protocols Surge to Record Highs, Fueling Web3 Growth

For the last few months, Decentralized Finance (or DeFi for short) has been all the rage again, with lending protocols at the forefront. By 2025, the Total Value Locked (TVL) in DeFi lending applications reached an all-time peak. This boom was larger than anything that occurred even in the all-time...

Merlin Chain and Takara Lend Unite to Enhance Bitcoin DeFi Accessibility

Merlin Chain and Takara Lend Unite to Enhance Bitcoin DeFi Accessibility

Merlin Chain, a Layer-2 solution that accelerates the Bitcoin blockchain, today unveiled an exhilarating new partnership. To make this a reality, they are collaborating with Takara Lend, a decentralized platform specializing in token borrowing and lending. Bridging Bitcoin With DeFi This collaboration aims to open up Bitcoin’s tremendous potential within...

Merlin Chain & Takara Lend: Unleashing Bitcoin DeFi on Sei

Merlin Chain & Takara Lend: Unleashing Bitcoin DeFi on Sei

Bernadette M. Santos, your Friend of Token, here, delving deep into this new and exciting world of Bitcoin and DeFi. Now, we’ll look at how Merlin Chain and Takara Lend are partnering together. Their partnership is now opening up some pretty game-changing opportunities for Bitcoin holders on the Sei network....

Cardano's Bold DeFi Move: Will $100M Unlock Its True Potential?

Cardano's Bold DeFi Move: Will $100M Unlock Its True Potential?

Hoskinson’s issuing the challenge, footing the bill for a $100 million ADA-to-Bitcoin and stablecoin conversion. That's a huge statement. Unlike Ethereum, it’s not just about the numbers—it’s about Cardano’s identity and its future in the cutthroat DeFi landscape. The goal? Increase the stablecoin-to-TVL ratio from a pathetic 10% to a...

3 Altcoins That Make Bitcoin Look Like a Stone Age Calculator

3 Altcoins That Make Bitcoin Look Like a Stone Age Calculator

Bitcoin. We all know it. The granddaddy of crypto. Face it—sticking with Bitcoin today just for the sake of it being the first is retrograde. It’s the equivalent of refusing to use a smartphone and holding out for Americans to switch back to rotary phones. It may have gotten us...