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Defi Economy Is Recovering Faster Than Most Crypto Assets After Market Rout
3.6.2021
Decentralized finance (defi) exchanges and tokens are recovering a lot faster than a great number of digital assets that lost more than 40% in value last week. Defi tokens like curve, kyber network, terra, hxro, and more have been seeing double-digit gains. On May 23, the defi economy’s...
Why On-Chain Governance Is Critical for Blockchain Growth and Longevity
3.6.2021
The decentralized properties that make blockchain architecture unique can also be its Achilles heel, demonstrating the importance of bringing network governance on-chain to promote a more inclusive and democratized consensus on network upgrades. Governance Transformation Is the Key To Unlocking...
Composable Finance raises $7M for cross-chain and cross-layer DeFi interoperability
1.6.2021
Composable Finance has secured funding from several blockchain investment firms as it seeks to foster greater interoperability in the emerging decentralized finance market
More Than 5 Million in Ethereum Worth $13 Billion Rests in the Eth2 Staking Contract
1.6.2021
Statistics now show the Eth2 deposit contract has more than 5.2 million staked ether worth over $13 billion locked into the smart contract. The contract launched on November 4, 2020, and three weeks later, the contract met the required threshold to initiate the Beacon Chain. It’s not cheap...
Bitcoin rejects near $37.5K, on-chain data shows capitulation from short-term holders
1.6.2021
On-chain data shows short-term Bitcoin holders continue to capitulate while long-term investors have been buying the dip in anticipation of the market moving higher
Binance Smart Chain Faces yet Another Flash Loan Attack: Belt Finance Loses $6.3 Million
31.5.2021
Belt Finance, a Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized lending protocol, lost $6.3 million in a flash loan attack last week. The attackers took advantage of a series of inefficiencies in the smart contract to manipulate the price of the set and obtain profit from a series of transactions. This...
3 on-chain indicators suggest the Bitcoin price sell-off is losing steam
31.5.2021
As Bitcoin price shows new signs of bullish momentum, data from various on-chain indicators suggest that the current sell-off is reaching an end
Belt Finance loses millions in latest BSC-based DeFi exploit
31.5.2021
Another day, another BSC DeFi protocol gets hacked
Pandora Raises $2.4M From Industry Heavyweights to Bridge off-Chain Assets to Open Finance via NFTs
29.5.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Pandora Finance (https://pandora.finance/) announced that they have successfully closed their $2.4m seed round. The Pandora team received pledges from some of the most visible investors within the crypto space, and closed the round oversubscribed by manifolds. Overview of strategic...
BSC Defi Protocol Burgerswap Loses $7.2 Million from a Flash Loan Attack
29.5.2021
Another Binance Smart Chain project has been hit with a flash loan attack according to a post mortem written by the Burgerswap team. The project’s official Twitter account said at around 3 a.m. on Friday, Burgerswap suffered from a flash loan attack with the hackers stealing $7.2 million...
US Convenience Store Chain Sheetz to Accept Cryptocurrencies for Payments
28.5.2021
The American chain of convenience stores and coffee shops, Sheetz, announced on Thursday that the firm would be accepting digital currencies like bitcoin, ether, and dogecoin for payments. The major Mid-Atlantic chain’s executive payments manager says accepting crypto-asset acceptance...
American convenience store chain now accepts Bitcoin payments
28.5.2021
Mid-Atlantic convenience store giant Sheetz is set to accept Bitcoin and crypto payments across its outlets
Realm Joins Reef Chain to Build NFT Realms
28.5.2021
Despite the digital sector going through rapid fluctuations, the NFT domain is maintaining its prominence. The pattern was followed by Realm, the open-source community-driven project. Realm announced joining the Reef Chain ecosystem to create new magical realms and living NFTs. Reef Finance also...
Another Two Binance Smart Chain Projects Suffer Flash Loan Attacks
28.5.2021
Source: Instagram, Binance
And yet another two projects on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) suffered incidents, in the form of more flash loan attacks - and this time it's Burger Swap (BURGER) and JulSwap (JULD).
BSC, ran by the crypto exchange giant Binance, may be getting more popular among...
Binance Smart Chain’s BurgerSwap drained of $7.2M in exploit
28.5.2021
The latest in a recent spate of decentralized finance hacks
CipherTrace expands to cover Binance Smart Chain amid wave of exploits
28.5.2021
Binance beefs up blockchain analytics amid a surge in DeFi exploits
Mark Cuban Reveals Stake in Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling Solution Polygon
27.5.2021
Famed American entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has divulged a strategic investment in Polygon, highlighting his own use and embrace of the protocol’s multi-chain approach to Ethereum. Investment Accompanies Release of the Polygon SDK As major names line up behind Ethereum, notably...
dCanvas Employ Secure Proxies, On-Chain Meta Data on Collaborative NFT
26.5.2021
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Positioned as the biggest collaborative NFT art project, dCanvas opened up for the public for the second time by allocating 256 public release NFTs...
The importance of block sizes, and the rise of off-chain solutions
25.5.2021
A number of blockchain projects have exploded in popularity in recent months, but their block sizes have stayed the same. What’s the answer to this looming scalability crisis?
Critical $20M SafeMoon vulnerability? Project devs say no cause for alarm
25.5.2021
One blockchain security firm says its audit of the SafeMoon smart contract has unearthed a potential $20 million vulnerability within the viral meme coin