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Deutsche Telekom Arm to Validate Polkadot, IOTA Staking + More News
21.12.2021
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Yearn.Finance Token Jumps as Team Promises ‘Aggressive Buybacks’
21.12.2021
YFI, the governance token issued by the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yearn.Finance, has seen its price almost double in a week following the announcement of a completed token buyback worth some USD 7.5m.
The buyback, which Yearn.Finance said made up 0.77% of the total supply of...
Solana Gaming Project DeFi Land to Announce Public Testing on Dec 22
21.12.2021
DeFi Land, one of the leading agriculture-simulation games, reached first place at Solana’s Hackathon in the summer and is encouraging GameFi fans to test the platform. DeFi Land will be available for public testing on the 22nd of December at 4 p.m. UTC, following a six-week period...
Fantom DeFi Project Loses $30M to a Security Breach
21.12.2021
Fantom-based Grim Finance recently faced a security breach, losing 30 million dollars to a hacker. The unidentified hacker exploited a reentrancy bug in Grim Finance’s smart contracts. As soon as the news of the attack came out, the network’s TVL dipped to 4.2 million dollars from 98.9...
6th Hack This Month Confirmed: Bent Finance Asks Investors to Withdraw all Funds
21.12.2021
High yield staking platform Bent Finance has confirmed that it has been attacked, advising investors to withdraw funds - becoming the sixth hacked decentralized finance (DeFi) platform we reported on this month alone.
So far, reported-on December hacks include Badger DAO, Bitmart, AscendEX...
Element․Black Forms Strategic Partnership With DJ Snake
21.12.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Social-fi has been the trend of the blockchain industry as of late. The concept, closely linked to the idea of co-creating, combines the terms “social” and “DeFi” to promote a diversified interactive platform for the public. Element.Black, a recent...
Bitcoin.com to Give Away $25,000 In “December to Remember”
20.12.2021
In light of the holiday season, and to celebrate a fantastic year for economic freedom enhancing technologies like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, NFTs, DeFi, Play-to-earn games, and more, Bitcoin.com is giving away more than $25,000 in cash prizes between now and the end of the year. $20,000...
DeFi Is a Ticking Bomb, Thanks to Innovative Collateralization
20.12.2021
2021 is coming to an end, and DeFi’s top lineup is mostly made up of synthetic asset platforms (SAPs). Any platform allowing users to synthetics or derivative values which are tied to existent assets through complete real-time is known as an SAP. Synthetics usually represent different types...
Radioshack Goes Defi in Its Latest Iteration
20.12.2021
Radioshack, the electronics-associated brand, has announced it will now pivot to a cryptocurrency-centric model. The company informed that its focus will be to “bridge the gap” to bring cryptocurrency into mainstream use. This is the latest iteration in the story of the brand, which...
DeFi protocol Grim Finance lost $30M in 5x reentrancy hack
20.12.2021
An apparent security flaw in the Grim Finance protocol allowed the attacker to fake five additional deposits
Hacked Grim Finance's Auditors Blame New Analyst For Missing the Issue
20.12.2021
Auditors of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Grim Finance, which was exploited for USD 30m worth of digital assets on Sunday, claim that a new analyst had conducted the protocol's audit while their Chief Technology Officer (CTO) was on vacation....
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Uniswap Community Votes to Deploy v3 on Polygon, Contract Support Coming in a Few Days
20.12.2021
One of the largest decentralized exchange (dex) platforms in terms of trade volume, Uniswap, has announced that the dex community has approved a governance proposal to support the Polygon blockchain. Uniswap to Support Polygon PoS Blockchain In terms of trade volume, statistics show that Uniswap...
Investors Not Impressed by Polkadot's Parachains Launch
20.12.2021
Blockchain protocol Polkadot (DOT) failed to impress investors over the weekend as it launched its first set of parachains, or individual blockchains running in parallel within the Polkadot ecosystem.
While Polkadot's utility token DOT was relatively flat on December 18, the day of the launch...
BIS Exec Says Defi Is a ‘Wake-up Call’ for Regulators, Global Crypto Policy Expected in 2022
20.12.2021
A Bank of International Settlements (BIS) executive, Benoît Cœuré, says that crypto is “growing very fast” and ”becoming mainstream in different ways.” Emphasizing that decentralized finance (defi) is a “wake-up call” for financial...
Collateral damage: DeFi’s ticking time bomb
19.12.2021
As 2022 dawns and crypto enters a new year, an innovative collateralization model will take decentralized finance space by storm
The battle of banks vs. DeFi is a win for individual crypto investors
19.12.2021
Banks are no longer the only player in the financial industry, as decentralized finance builds authority and gains mainstream adoption
Crypto Security in 2022: Prepare for More DeFi Hacks, Exchange Outages, and Noob Mistakes
19.12.2021
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Security is integral to crypto. This is perhaps unsurprising for something based heavily in cryptography, but with cryptoassets now surpassing a total market capitalization of USD 2trn, security has to be a key issue for every exchange, wallet, platform, user, and investor in...
Swiss Bank Seba Launches Regulated Gold Token, Aims to Bolster ‘Digital Ownership of Physical Gold’
18.12.2021
On December 15, FINMA-licensed Swiss bank, Seba, announced the launch of a gold token that can be delivered in physical form, on-demand, at any time from the firm’s partner refineries. Seba believes the token can be leveraged as a compliant stablecoin “backed by responsibly sourced...
From DeFi year to decade: Is mass adoption here? Experts Answer, Part 1
18.12.2021
Decentralized technologies’ insiders shared their views on DeFi and on the role, achievements and challenges the space faced in 2021
Kraken Ventures Raises $65 Million to Invest in Web3, Defi, Blockchain Startups and Protocols
18.12.2021
The independent investment fund led by Kraken alumni that’s focused on early-stage companies and protocols, Kraken Ventures, announced the successful closing of its first fund at $65 million. Presently, the fund holds positions in platforms like Hashflow, Pstake, Acala, Blockdaemon...