Welcome to this week's episode of This Week in DeFi!

Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, will provide a rundown of the major events that took place in the #DeFi industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Assets locked in DeFi 
• Square Releases White Paper Detailing Protocol for a Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange 
• Stacks-Based Crypto Project ALEX Raises $5.8M to Build DeFi on Bitcoin 
• Valkyrie Is Launching a $100M DeFi Hedge Fund
• Portal and Polygon Enter Strategic Partnership to Boost Bitcoin Usability in DeFi Ecosystem 
• Maple Finance, Alameda Research Launch DeFi's First Syndicated Loan 
• Acala wins first Polkadot parachain auction with over 32M DOT staked