Bitcoin’s DeFiChain adds tokens for Disney, Intel, MicroStrategy

DeFiChain announced on April 7 that four new decentralized assets, so-called dTokens, have been added to its ecosystem following a community vote. The four new decentralized tokens will give users price exposure — not ownership — to public companies’ stocks and ETFs without any restrictions. The added dTokens are dDIS representing Walt Disney Co; dMCHI representing…

Synthetix to launch perpetual futures on Ethereum scaling solution Optimism

Synthetix is a financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering derivatives and exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain. A synthetic asset, in turn, is simply a tokenized derivative that mimics the value of another asset. A spot exchange-traded fund, or ETF, is a typical example of a synthetic asset that could represent…