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Hatom Protocol launches liquid staking, $sEGLD unlocks DeFi opportunities
14.4.2023
Hatom Protocol, a non-custodial liquidity protocol on MultiversX, has published an official tweet announcing that the liquid staking functionality is now live. It can be accessed via Devnet, with the mainnet launch scheduled to happen in the future. Hatom Protocol has expressed confidence in...
Blockchain Security Firm PeckShield: DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance Suffers $11 Million Exploit – Here's What Happened
13.4.2023
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yearn Finance has fallen victim to an attack which occurred on Aave version 1, leading to the theft of about $11 million worth of Dai (DAI), Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), Binance USD (BUSD) and Tru USD (TUSD) tokens, according to an investigation carried...
MagicGLP deploys on Avalanche Network to offer low fees on GMX
13.4.2023
It has only been a couple of months since MagicGLP launched on Arbitrum. The platform has established a massive presence in the market due to its low fees and auto-compounding features. MagicGLP currently boasts a total value locked (TVL) of 28 million dollars. In addition, the platform...
Tether Takes Action: Blacklists Validator Address Linked to $25 Million MEV Bot Drain – Here's What Happened
12.4.2023
Tether, the company behind the world's largest stablecoin, has blacklisted a validator address responsible for draining $25 million from Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bots.
The validator exploited a bug in the MEV-boost relay to bypass MEV bots by attempting to execute a sandwich trade, which...
TokenPocket announces partnership with SFT Protocol
12.4.2023
TokenPocket has published an official blog post to share that it has partnered with the SFT Protocol. This has stirred a lot of excitement among the community, with the core teams being equally happy about the development. This is evident from the tweet in which TokenPocket referred to SFT Protocol...
Jared Grey confirms SushiSwap lost $3.3M in token allocation
10.4.2023
Jared Grey, the Head Chef of SushiSwap, recently confirmed that the platform was attacked. According to the latest tweets, the platform lost over $3.3 million. The breach occurred in RouterProcessor2 that led to sifuvision.eth losing 1800 ETH. SushiSwap has reported that one attacker has returned...
SushiSwap Exchange Suffers Major $3.3 Million Smart Contract Hack – Here's What Happened
10.4.2023
Popular decentralized exchange (DEX) platform SushiSwap has suffered more than $3.3 million in losses after a hacker exploited a bug in a smart contract.
More specifically, the DEX saw its RouteProcess02 contract, a smart contract that aggregates trade liquidity from multiple sources...
U.S. delivers 2023 DeFi Illicit Finance Risk Assessment
7.4.2023
The U.S. Treasury Department happened to have delivered the 2023 DeFi Illicit Finance Risk Assessment. This happens to be the very first of its kind in the whole world ever. It was carried out on the topic of decentralized finance (DeFi). Risk assessment is useful in protecting the U.S. financial...
US Treasury Report: North Korea and Scammers Using DeFi to Launder Dirty Money – Regulation Incoming?
7.4.2023
The US Treasury has revealed that North Korean hackers and scammers exploit loopholes in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space to launder money and hide criminal activity.
In a Thursday report, the federal agency claimed that North Korean hackers and other groups engaged in illicit activity have...
ApeSwap announces the release of ApeSwap V3
6.4.2023
ApeSwap has taken this opportunity to officially announce the release of ApeSwap V3. This makes use of the most recent industry benchmark strategy for focused liquidity. The scalability will provide advantages for both ApeSwap and its connected users in the form of a higher level of capital...
M11 Credit Restarts Crypto Lending on Maple Finance After FTX Fallout – Here's What You Need to Know
6.4.2023
Blockchain-based financing firm M11 Credit has resumed crypto lending on the decentralized credit marketplace Maple Finance.
The news of the resumption of service was announced in a Twitter thread from M11 Credit on Wednesday, where the firm also said it had upgraded its underwriting...
BNB Chain and Ethereum begin hosting PancakeSwap V3
5.4.2023
Per the announcement by PancakeSwap, a decentralized exchange platform, V3 is now live on BNB Chain and Ethereum, with better improvements in comparison to V2. To start with, PancakeSwap V3 offers higher efficiency and flexibility in setting the fee structure for its users. Trading fees have been...
LayerZero Labs manage to obtain $3B in funding
5.4.2023
LayerZero Labs has successfully managed to collect an amount to the tune of $3 billion. This was duly obtained through a Series B funding round. In order to remain in sync with its plans for the future, this amount will be duly utilized for the onboarding of a fresh lot of employees, along with...
S&P Global Puts Decentralized Finance at the Forefront with New DeFi Director Hire – Crypto Going Mainstream?
4.4.2023
S&P Global is on the hunt for a DeFi director to oversee its expansion into the rapidly evolving decentralized finance sector.
According to a Monday job posting on LinkedIn, the giant financial information and analytics company is hiring for a DeFi director to spearhead its expansion into...
Arbitrum’s dream to decentralize goes down the drain
4.4.2023
Arbitrum’s efforts to hand over control to its community have not gone the way it wanted them to. Thus, efforts have been wasted due to critics’ harsh criticism of its first-ever governance proposal. Several critics called the procedure a “Sham Vote,” arguing that it was nothing...
Polytrade raises $3.8 million to expand international trade
4.4.2023
Polytrade, a Web3 protocol for worldwide commerce, has successfully raised $3.8 million. This was made possible through a seed fundraising round in which Alpha Wave, as well as Matrix Companions, CoinSwitch Ventures, and Polygon Ventures took an active role and made considerable contributions....
Crypto Scammer Gets Away with $1.2M in ARB Tokens Through 'Address Poisoning' Attack – Here's What Happened
1.4.2023
A hacker has made off with $1.2 million worth of ARB tokens through a relatively new type of cyber-attack that uses modified wallet addresses to steal funds.
Blockchain data shows that one crypto address has been stealing funds from Arbitrum users. So far, the attacker has scammed out over...
UNICEF's Foray into Crypto: Agency Tests Prototype DAO for Digital Public Goods
31.3.2023
UNICEF, a United Nations agency focused on humanitarian aid and relief to children, is further venturing into the cryptosphere with its ongoing work related to a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) prototype.
"Right now, we're building a DAO prototype to fairly distribute power...
Arbitrum begins hosting Yama Finance
31.3.2023
Yama Finance is hosted on the Fuel and Eclipse networks, among others. The list has been expanded by the addition of Yama Finance, which has announced its debut on Arbitrum as of the end of March 2023. Yama Finance is an omnichain stablecoin with the industry’s highest leverage and liquidity....
ERC-4626 Alliance fosters collaboration & enhances ERC-4626 standard
30.3.2023
Considering the sheer force of standards, it becomes imperative for an overall wider endorsement that happens to be required for them to be able to create a greater impact. In the case of the previous endorsers of the ERC-4626, they have declared the 4626 Alliance, wherein a group of 4626 builders...