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Security, regulation, and knowledge gaps: Bad crypto news of the week
3.10.2020
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Did Ethereum Learn Anything From the $55M DAO Attack?
20.9.2020
Matthew Leising's new book, "Out of the Ether," tells the story of the attack that almost brought down Ethereum. Here he talks with Dan Kuhn
A new DAO wants to bring sanity to the tipsy world of DeFi
17.9.2020
This VC says he doesn't want to play a game of DeFi musical chairs
The $55M Hack That Almost Brought Ethereum Down
17.9.2020
Matthew Leising's new book "Out of the Ether" tells the history of Ethereum and the story behind the hack that almost brought the network to its knees
‘No Other Option but More Collateral’: The Short- (and Long-) Term Fixes for Dai’s Broken Peg
11.9.2020
Stablecoin demand in yield farming is breaking dai's peg. Solutions revolve around USDC and Maker's version of QE, but will these measures last?
The number of active DAOs is up 660% since 2019
8.9.2020
DeepDAO has launched a new interface for examining the health and wealth of the top decentralized organizations in crypto
Yearn Finance Vault Users Lock $139M: Farmers Claim Collateralized ETH Gathers 90% APY
4.9.2020
On September 3, 2020, the well known Yearn Finance defi project “paused” the popular ethereum liquidity vault (yETH) service, after locking in a significant $139 million. Yearn’s vault feature launched on Wednesday, and saw $100 million deposited on the first day. The vault hype...
Aave Protocol Outpaces Maker With $1.4B Locked, Defi Project Granted UK Electronic Money License
26.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) open-source protocol built on Ethereum, Aave, has surpassed the Maker Dao project in terms of total-value-locked (TVL) this week. The lending and borrowing platform Aave has $1.43 billion locked on Tuesday climbing 7.7% in the last 24-hours. On August 25, the defi...
DeFi Be Warned: The Short, Unhappy Life of Yam Finance
21.8.2020
Was Yam Finance’s short-lived rebasing project a useful economic experiment or just another scam? The crypto community is divided
Newest DAO Project Was Thrown a Curve, but the Team Is Rolling With It Anyway
14.8.2020
An anonymous DeFi user deployed Curve Finance’s DAO and token smart contracts without the team’s permission, but the Curve team is adopting it anyway
Crypto Porn Startup Says Its New Governance System Is Better than DAOs
12.8.2020
PornVisory is moving to a decentralized governance structure based on the DFO standard, which allegedly allows greater user influence than DAOs
PSF Token Invokes the First Coin-Age Staking Protocol on Bitcoin Cash
11.8.2020
During the last six months, the Simple Ledger Protocol has grown immensely and there’s been 9,604 SLP tokens created since the infrastructure launched. Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on mistcoin, the mineable SLP token that can be mined with a CPU. Now software developer Chris...
pTokens Project Launches pNetwork DAO With Staking Rewards of 42% APR Interest
3.8.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
London, Friday 31st July 2020
The pTokens project has today launched the pNetwork DAO, giving holders of the governance token $PNT the opportunity to help govern and influence the future of the DeFi cross-chain...
pTokens project launches pNetwork DAO with staking rewards of 42% APR interest
31.7.2020
London, Friday 31st July 2020 – The pTokens project has today launched the pNetwork DAO, giving holders of the governance token $PNT the opportunity to help govern and influence the future of the DeFi cross-chain solution. pTokens make every cryptocurrency compatible with every blockchain...
27 Key Execs at PlusToken Scam Are Reportedly Arrested
30.7.2020
PlusToken, one of the greatest exit scams in history, defrauded investors of nearly $6 billion, according to latest reports
Curve’s Daily Volume Increases 50x in Two Months
30.7.2020
Decentralized exchange Curve has attracted record volumes after revealing plans for the retroactive distribution of its forthcoming governance token
CoinDesk Live Recap: The DAO Hack Is Still a Mystery
30.7.2020
The DAO attack was a foundational episode in Ethereum history. On Tuesday, CoinDesk Live gathered a handful of blockchain veterans to look back
pNetwork Launches Yield Farming Programme, Steroids
24.7.2020
The pNetwork, the decentralised ecosystem backing the cross-chain pTokens solution, has announced the launch of its yield farming programme, Steroids. The programme will run for a period of one month and will award Uniswap liquidity providers with up to 10% monthly interest, distributed in pNetwork...
Cryptocurrencies Could Undermine Obsolete Laws, Says Cybersecurity Expert
22.7.2020
According to Pavol Luptak, “cryptocurrencies or crypto markets may undermine government laws and regulations that are obsolete for the 21st digital century.”
Beyond In-Game Assets: Blockchain Gaming, DAOs, Guilds, and Ragequitting
28.6.2020
“If the “real world” economy is run by centralized authorities who can change and adapt monetary policy on a whim outside public opinion or scrutiny, current video game economies are a microcosm of this behavior.”