Firelight raises $8 million, expands beyond XRP as it aims to make DeFi less scary for fintechs
The protocol aims to give fintechs and investors a faster way to recover losses from DeFi hacks, while letting XRP, bitcoin and XLM holders earn yield by backing that protection.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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XRP is showing up inside the DeFi theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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