Auros Global, a crypto trading firm, is the latest to face liquidity problems following the FTX collapse as it missed payment Wednesday on a decentralized finance (DeFi) loan.

Five months after acquiring NFT trading aggregator <a href="https://decrypt.co/103467/uniswap-labs-buying-ethereum-nft-aggregator-genie" target="_blank">Genie</a> and its founder Scott Gray, Uniswap is launching an NFT aggregator on its website.

Lyra has raised $3m from Framework Ventures and GSR in a strategic round. Lyra will continue to work with respected and capable venture capital partners as the protocol continues building towards the vision of becoming the volatility engine that powers DeFi.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lyra.finance/">Lyra</a>&nbsp;is a protocol for options liquidity built on Ethereum.

Aave executed a proposal to freeze the markets for 17 different assets in the Aave V2 lending pool on the Ethereum network, including the Yearn. Finance (YFI), Curve DAO (CRV), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Maker (MKR), and 1inch (1INCH) tokens.

France and Luxembourg have used an experimental central bank digital currency (CBDC) to settle a bond worth 100 million euros ($104 million), the latest in a series of trials in tokenized financial markets.

Centralized exchanges (CEX) must adopt transparency measures prevalent in <a href="https://forkast.news/explainer-decentralized-finance-defi-guide/">decentralized finance (DeFi)</a> to restore public trust, <a href="https://forkast.news/video-audio/nft-defi-tron-justin-sun/">Tron founder Justin Sun</a> said in a panel discussion at the Philippine Blockchain Week event on Tuesday.&nbsp;

The 69th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Fantom (FTM), has shown relative strength over the past seven days, rising 29%. Over the past 24 hours, it even stands at a gain of 10%.

DeFi giant <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/learn/how-does-makerdao-work-understanding-the-central-bank-of-crypto/">MakerDAO</a>'s community is voting on increasing the annual reward for its <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/price/dai/">DAI</a> stablecoin up to 1%.

The top Japanese financial regulator has given a hint that it may be preparing to attempt to police the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.

DeFi, or decentralized finance, is a blockchain-based alternative to traditional financial solutions, including banking, exchange, funding and so on. However, the state DeFi is in right now raises a lot of questions about the future of the industry.