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Standard Chartered China provides digital yuan exchange services

Multinational banking giant Standard Chartered has begun offering exchange services for the digital yuan, helping to integrate China’s CBDC into the global financial system. Standard Chartered, a major multinational bank, has recently entered the growing realm of digital currencies by providing exchange services for China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan. This strategic move aligns the bank with the evolving landscape of global finance, particularly in embracing a state-backed digital currency. Collaborating with City Bank Clearing Services, Standard Chartered’s chinese division is facilitating access to the digital yuan’s interconnection platform. This service encompasses both the recharge and redemption functions, enhancing customer interaction with this novel digital currency. You might also like: Standard Chartered predicts Bitcoin’s future value China’s digital yuan, also known as e-CNY, has been a front-runner in the...

At most, four services control the majority of any DeFi sector

It’s debatable whether decentralized finance (DeFi) was ever decentralized — but there’s no doubt that it has become more centralized this year. Crypto research firm Gauntlet’s new research has detailed this rapid centralization of DeFi. First, Gauntlet identified various sectors of DeFi, such as liquid stakers, yield aggregators, DEXs, bridges, synthetics, and so on. It then counted how many protocols controlled a majority of those sectors’ market shares. Researchers didn’t need to count very high. In the 12 sectors of DeFi, just four DeFi projects apiece control a majority of their sector’s market . The most decentralized DeFi sector is DEXs, where only four projects control 54% market share. Sectors only get more centralized from there. For example, just four liquid stakers control 90% of that sector. Cross-blockchain bridges as a sector is just as centralized: 89% of market share controlled by four bridges. As another example, two-thirds of DeFi y...