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Quick Take

• South Korea still lacks a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets.
• With the recent renewed uptick in prices and public interest, parts of the government are pushing for swift reforms to close the development gap between the local ecosystem and other countries.

Crypto exchange Bitfinex is now offering personal loans in bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) via its peer-to-peer lending platform Bitfinex Borrow.

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• 3 venture funding deals in 2020 were some of the industry’s largest-ever
• Relative to 2019, the top deals on average were much larger in size, from $55 million in 2019 to $80 million in 2020
• The Banking & Payments category had the most deals in the top 15 this year with 5 total deals

Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Warp Finance has experienced a flash loan attack that resulted in a loss of $7.7 million worth of stablecoins.

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The U.S. Treasury is on the cusp of putting forward a new transaction reporting rule for money services businesses that interact with self-hosted crypto wallets.

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On December 22nd The Block’s Director of Research, Larry Cermak will host a panel discussion on institutional DeFi adoption.

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The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) invested $3 million worth of Stellar lumens in Latin American cross-border payment and exchange platform Settle Network. 

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Quick Take

• The Block looks at the growth of blockchain-related citations in scholarly journals using data from Google Scholar

• We found that 2020 saw a boost in Bitcoin citations in scholarly journals

• 2019 and 2020 have the two lowest annual growth rates, respectively, for blockchain-related citations

Decentralized blockchain-based protocol Compound has released a whitepaper for its new cross-chain protocol, Compound Chain.

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