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How DeFi platforms leverage Blockchain technologies to achieve enhanced security & liquidity?
25.4.2023
The Blockchain industry boasts several niches where projects and businesses develop solutions for various use cases. One of these niches is decentralized finance (DeFi), which has emerged as an alternative to traditional financial services. What is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)? Decentralized...
GMX integrates Chainlink low-latency oracles with 96.28% votes
25.4.2023
GMX recently concluded its voting to integrate Chainlink’s low-latency oracles. The decentralized exchange conjured 96.8% approval to conduct the integration. The decision was undertaken after GMX’s successful governance proposal. The proposal aimed to offer real-time industry data across GMX...
THENA, Gamma Strategies, & Algebra’s creation FUSION boosts CL management
20.4.2023
The coming together of THENA, along with Gamma Strategies and Algebra, has brought about FUSION. This will help simplify Concentrated Liquidity (CL) and simultaneously work on capital effectiveness and overall user exposure. Where concentrated liquidity is concerned, it provides Liquidity Providers...
Hundred Finance loses $7m in an exploit on Optimism solution
17.4.2023
PeckShield recently reported that Hundred Finance lost over $7 million in an attack. The blockchain security firm announced that the attack took place on the L2 Optimisim scaling solution. The attacker used 200 WBTC to exploit the lending protocol on April 15. The attacker donated WBTC to boost...
Hundred Finance Suffers $7 Million Loss in Optimism Hack – Here's What Happened
17.4.2023
Multi-chain lending protocol Hundred Finance has fallen victim to a hacking attack which enabled the theft of about $7 million worth of crypto. The attacker accessed the funds via Optimism, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain.
"Once again we hope the hacker will reach out back to us and we will...
Ondo Finance Introduces Yield-Generating Stablecoin Alternative for Institutions – How Does it Work?
14.4.2023
A new type of yield-generating stablecoin has been introduced by DeFi provider Ondo Finance, offering institutions a way to benefit from the return of US money market funds on-chain.
According to an update from Ondo Finance on Thursday, the new stablecoin, dubbed OMMF, will be a tokenized version...
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...