TradFi and DeFi come together at Davos 2023: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.

Traditional finance, or TradFi, continues to explore the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, with the World Economic Forum holding more workshops and sessions for the sector in 2023.

Layer-1 blockchain protocol, Injective, has launched a $150 million ecosystem fund to support developers building on the Cosmos network.

The Mango Markets saga took another turn this past week, as the company filed a lawsuit against the exploiter Avraham Eisenberg for $47 million in damages plus interest. The lawsuit marks the fourth time the Mango Markets exploiter has been hit by charges or lawsuits relating to his attack on the DeFi protocol.

Blockchain transaction history shows that the hacker transferred the funds onto a decentralized exchange and then went on to cycle funds around different DeFi protocols.

The top 100 DeFi tokens continued their bullish momentum into the final week of January, with most of the tokens trading in green and a few even registering double-digit gains.

On this episode of Decentralize With Cointelegraph, the team reflects on their week in Davos covering the World Economic Forum as crypto and TradFi continue to collide.

Speaking to several industry insiders and TradFi participants, Cointelegraph journalist Gareth Jenkinson highlighted the ongoing cross-pollination between the sectors. Still, just a handful of crypto participants were involved in conversations inside the World Economic Forum.

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Injective, a layer-1 blockchain protocol founded in 2018, has launched a $150 million ecosystem fund to support