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Cosmos-based DeFi lending protocol Nolus joins Cointelegraph Accelerator

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Nolus’ DeFi lending protocol aims to onboard more people by solving collateralization inefficiencies. Crypto lending has become an essential part of decentralized finance (DeFi), allowing people to lend and borrow digital assets via specifically designed protocols. With crypto lending, users can lock their crypto assets as collateral and then borrow a fiat or stablecoin loan. Instead of traditional intermediaries, like banks and credit unions, DeFi lending protocols operate directly on a blockchain. Smart contracts facilitate each loan or borrowing, and on-chain supply and demand decide the interest rates. Reports expect a $231 billion DeFi market by 2030, with lending protocol s being a key element driving the growth. According to a CoinGecko research report, lending has more than an 11% market share in the DeFi ecosystem, and it stands as one of the five biggest DeFi sectors. Users flock to DeFi lending protocol s to avoid directly selling their crypto holdings, which they expect...

Circle announces USDC launch for Cosmos via Noble network

The stablecoin will be launched on the Noble network, making it available to all 50-plus Cosmos IBC blockchains. USD Coin (USDC) will soon be available in the Cosmos ecosystem via the Noble network (STAKE), according to a blog post from the Noble development team. The post was shared on Twitter by USDC issuer Circle. We're excited to bring USDC to @Cosmos! USDC is expected to launch on @noble_xyz soon, stay tuned for details. #IBC https://t.co/eqU8wno43F — Circle (@circle) March 28, 2023 Neither Circle nor Noble gave out a specific date for USDC’s launch on the network, but both said that readers should “stay tuned” for that information. In its announcement, the Noble team said that USDC will be the first “native, fiat-backed stablecoin that is highly liquid and fully collateralized” on a Cosmos IBC connected network. In its view, the introduction of the fiat-backed stablecoin will solve many of the challenges that Cosmos users currently have when trying to bridge assets from on...