PANews reported on December 8th that DeFi protocol Magma Finance announced it has secured $6 million in strategic funding to build an adaptive liquidity engine on the Sui Network. This round of funding was led by HashKey Capital, SNZ, SevenX Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Topspin Ventures, and received support from the Navi Protocol ecosystem.
Magma states that it will address the issues of capital inefficiency and liquidity fragmentation on Sui, providing traders with better execution and generating real returns for LPs. The project has already passed security audits by Zellic and ThreeSigma.


Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Jonathan Gould says crypto companies should have a path to supervision in the banking system, which can evolve to embrace blockchain. Crypto companies seeking a US federal bank charter should be treated no differently than other financial institutions, says Jonathan Gould, the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).Gould told a blockchain conference on Monday that some new charter applicants in the digital or fintech spaces could be seen as offering novel activities for a national trust bank, but noted “custody and safekeeping services have been happening electronically for decades.”“There is simply no justification for considering digital assets differently,” he added. “Additionally, it is important that we do not confine banks, including current national trust banks, to the technologies or businesses of the past.”Read more