DeFi

Forex liquidity and currency swaps are hard to access for many in Africa, which limits the use of dollar-based services in the continent’s import-dependent economy. This creates a vacuum that decentralized finance could solve, leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain networks and services (DApps), ...

As Web3 gets bigger, it struggles to keep up with the malicious actors targeting users’ funds across different blockchains and networks. This security protocol takes a preventive approach against hacks and exploits, freezing assets before they get stolen.Web3 benefits from being a d ...

Cross-chain protocol Wormhole has secured a $225 million investment at a valuation of $2.5 billion.According to the Nov. 29 announcement, the investment round was led by Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Jump Trading, ParaFi, Dialectic, Borderless Capital, and Arrington ...

In their quest for scalability and cost-effectiveness, many layer-2 networks adopt a centralized approach to on-chain transaction processing, introducing a single point of failure vulnerability. The Metis blockchain, however, has pioneered a distributed sequencer pool to improve security a ...

The decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Aerodrome and Velodrome reported compromises to their front ends on Nov. 28. The two platforms posted announcements on X (formerly Twitter) stating their front ends were compromised and asked users not to interact with the platforms while inv ...

The exploiter behind the $46 million crypto theft against KyberSwap has demanded its execs and tokenholders ease up on the hostilities, threatening to push out negotiations until everyone is “more civil.”In an on-chain message addressed to KyberSwap executives, tokenholders and ...

Decentralized crypto trading with leverage has grown in popularity over recent years — but something is holding the sector back: a lack of reliable platforms for noncustodial transactions.Users often face clunky and poorly designed interfaces that are difficult to understand and nea ...

Cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 developer OKX announced the expansion of its services for users in the Brazilian market with a local crypto exchange and Web3 wallet platform. On Nov. 27, the company said it is focusing on providing a gateway to decentralized finance (DeFi) and c ...

Inferno Drainer, one of the most popular crypto wallet-draining kits for hire says it is shutting down for good after helping phishing scammers steal nearly $70 million worth of crypto this year. In a Nov. 26 Telegram post, the team behind Inferno Drainer said it was “time for us to move o ...

The governing body of Cosmos Hub has endorsed a proposal to decrease the maximum inflation rate of its native token, ATOM (ATOM), from approximately 14% to 10%.As per the proposal, the authorized modification would reduce Atom’s annualized staking yield from around 19% to approximately 13. ...

Indexed Finance, an Ethereum-based project that suffered a $16 million hack in 2021, has successfully thwarted two hijacking attempts. The project’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) control will be returned to its founders, aiming to allocate the remaining treasury to victims of ...

Web3 protocol Blast network has gained over $400 million in total value locked (TVL) in the four days since it was launched, according to data from blockchain analytics platform DeBank. But in a Nov. 23 social media thread, Polygon Labs developer relations engineer Jarrod Watts claimed that the n ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The attacker who stole $46 million from the KyberSwap protocol has used a complex strategy described by ...

Tether and Bitfinex have jointly agreed to drop initial opposition to a freedom of information (FOIL) request lodged in New York by a number of high-profile news publications.A statement from the USDT stablecoin issuer and cryptocurrency exchange shared with Cointelegraph notes that it is ...

Australia’s tax regulator has been unable to clarify confusing aspects of its new guidance that suggests capital gains tax (CGT) is payable on a slate of everyday decentralized finance transactions.The ATO failed to answer direct questions from Cointelegraph on whether staking Ether ...

The attacker who drained $46 million from KyberSwap relied on a “complex and carefully engineered smart contract exploit” to carry out the attack, according to a social media thread by Ambient exchange founder Doug Colkitt. Colkitt labeled the exploit an “infinite mo ...

Users have concerns about centralized exchanges’ transparency and trustworthiness, but decentralized alternatives lack liquidity and security. Crypto exchange Phemex, celebrating its 4th year anniversary this week, is poised to usher in a new era, where traditional barriers in finance are ...

Around $46 million in various crypto assets has seemingly been drained from the decentralized KyberSwap exchange in the latest decentralized finance exploit.On Nov. 23, the Kyber Network team alerted its users stating in an X (Twitter) post that KyberSwap Elastic “has experienced a s ...

HTX, formerly Huobi Global, suffered an estimated loss of $13.6 million as part of the $86.6 million HECO Chain bridge exploit on Nov. 22. According to a report by blockchain security firm Cyvers, the losses stem from three compromised hot wallets with users and exchang ...

Decentralized crypto exchange Pancakeswap has implemented a new voting system. Called “Gauges,” the system allows governance token holders to vote for additional rewards to be distributed to particular pools, according to a Nov. 22 blog post. The exchange has also sunsetted its vCAKE ...

Circle has launched a new standard to streamline the process of launching its stablecoin, USDC, on new networks, according to a Nov. 21 blog post. The new “bridged USDC standard” allows developers to launch the token through a two-phase process. In the first phase, the thi ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dYdX founder Antonio Juliano took to X (formerly Twitter) to share some of the findings of the investigation into the loss of $9 million in insurance funds, in what many suspected was an exit scam that took place on Nov. 17.Juliano noted that the actua ...

Liquid staking (LST) has emerged as a popular solution for Ethereum users to participate in staking without locking up their Ether (ETH) for extended periods. However, concerns have been raised about the potential for liquid staking to centralize power within the Ethereum ecosystem. In thi ...

A big problem when transferring assets from one blockchain to another concerns bridges. Between 2020 and 2022, data from Token Terminal revealed that more than $2.5 billion had been stolen by hackers — all because of vulnerabilities within bridge infrastructure.In some cases, inadeq ...

Decentralized crypto exchange dYdX has disclosed new measures to mitigate trading-related risks after burning $9 million of its insurance fund on Nov. 17 to cover users’ losses.According to an announcement on X (formerly Twitter), the exchange increased margin requirements on several ...

Decentralized exchange (DEX) dYdX was forced to use its insurance fund to cover $9 million in user liquidations on Nov. 17. According to dYdX founder Antonio Juliano, the losses resulted from a "targeted attack" against the exchange. Based on reports from the dYdX team on X (formerly ...

Yearn.Finance's governance token (YFI) plummeted over 43% in just five hours on Nov. 18 after rallying almost 170% early in the month, stirring fears about a possible exit scam. During the dramatic drop in value, over $300 million was wiped out in market capitalization from November's ...

Lee Jeong-hoon, the former chairman of Bithumb, one of South Korea’s major cryptocurrency exchanges, is at the center of a legal battle and might be facing an eight-year prison sentence in the appeal whose verdict is scheduled for Jan. 18.According to Korean local media reports, prosecutor ...

The decentralized finance (DeFi) market has been one of the most exciting and volatile sectors in the crypto outside of Bitcoin (BTC). In 2020, the DeFi sector experienced a bull market that saw the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance protocols surge from $1 billion to over $100 bil ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.A new DeFi report has highlighted that a significant amount of crypto lost to exploits was due to tradi ...

DeFi platform Sushi has partnered with interoperability platform ZetaChain to explore the possibility of native Bitcoin swaps for its users across 30 different blockchain networks.Sushi’s deployment of its decentralized exchange (DEX) on ZetaChain is touted to enable trading of BTC without ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) group Aave Companies has been rebranded to Avara as it looks to broaden its user base across the Web3 ecosystem.Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Avara (formerly Aave Companies), tells Cointelegraph that the company’s growing number of offerings, including liq ...

goodcryptoX, a new DeFi trading platform, leverages Ethereum’s account abstraction feature to provide users with advanced trading functionality and a seamless user experience.Decentralized finance (DeFi) offers unique advantages over centralized platforms, empowering individuals and ...

A new report from blockchain security platform Immunefi suggests that nearly half of all crypto lost from Web3 exploits is due to Web2 security issues such as leaked private keys. The report, released on November 15, looked back at the history of crypto exploits in 2022, categorizing them into di ...

Ethereum Layer 2 networks reached a new milestone on November 10, reaching $13 billion of total value locked (TVL) within their contracts, according to data from blockchain analytics platform L2Beat. According to industry experts, this trend of greater interest in layer 2s is likely to continue, ...

Zubin Koticha and Alexis Gauba, two founders of the Opyn decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, are stepping down from the project and “leaving crypto,” according to a statement from Koticha posted to social media on November 14. The statement comes approximately two months after Opyn ...

A new phishing scam has emerged in China that uses a fake Skype video app to target crypto usersAs per a report by crypto security analytic firm SlowMist, the Chinese hackers behind the phishing scam used China’s ban on international applications as the basis of their scam, as several main ...

Native asset settlement protocol THORChain has recorded the third-largest trading volume among non-centralized exchanges in the last week with users seemingly attracted to the high yield offered adjacent to its native token Rune (RUNE).Over the last week, THORChain’s trading volume h ...

The “fixReducedOffersV1” amendment is now in a two-week activation countdown phase, having garnered approval from over 80% of validators. This amendment signals a significant upgrade for XRPL.XRP Ledger (XRPL) is set to introduce additional features in the upcoming weeks. As per XRPScan, u ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The exploiter behind the $116-million theft of assets from Mango Markets will face trial in April next ...

The latest Cointelegraph AMA, live on October 25, 2023, covered the journey of XBTO, a comprehensive platform for digital assets and tailored investment solutions catered to sophisticated non-US investors and institutions.. The special guest invited to talk about XBTO’s journey, impa ...

A recent spike in transaction fees on Ethereum and Bitcoin appears to have reignited the debate around solutions for scalability and the role of layer 2s.Over the last 24 hours, cryptocurrency users began sharing screenshots showing double, occasionally triple-digit transaction fees on Eth ...

The Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a non-profit organization that represents firms in the crypto staking industry, published an updated version of its “staking principles” on Nov. 9. The new principles are supported by Ava Labs, Alluvial, Coinbase, Lido Protocol, Paradigm, and ten other staking ...

Crypto exchange Bitget has integrated a decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator into its crypto exchange application, allowing users to swap their tokens and access DeFi services through its Web3 Wallet.According to Bitget, the effort aims to provide users with options for trading their cr ...

Lido’s governing body has approved the deployment of Lido’s Wrapped Staked Ether (wstETH) to Coinbase’s Base network, according to a Nov. 8 announcement. The token is now live and can be traded or used in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on the Base network. ...

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), a coalition of the world's central banks, criticized stablecoins as being "not a safe store of value" in its latest research report dated Nov. 8.In outlining its reasons, the BIS explained that from January 2019 to September 2023, fiat-backed st ...

The developers of the NEAR and Polygon networks are teaming up to create a zero-knowledge (ZK) prover for Web Assembly (WASM) blockchains, according to a joint announcement on Nov. 8. The new prover, called “zkWASM,” will for the first time allow WASM-based networks to join the Polygo ...

For an extended period, centralized exchanges (CEXs) have played a pivotal role in cryptocurrency trading, offering traders dependability and robust liquidity. These platforms have been the go-to choice, with users trusting CEXs to safeguard their assets, appreciating user-friendly interfa ...

ShuttleFlow, the ecosystem multichain protocol operated and maintained by Conflux Foundation, also known as the Shanghai Tree-Graph Blockchain Research Institute, will shut down after two years. The ShuttleFlow technology stack will instead be transferred to Web3 studio Zero Gravity, ...

Blockchain-based startups continue to gather funding during the current bear market, with MetaMask partner Blockaid raising $33 million in October. However, the overall funding in the crypto industry has dropped to levels last seen in 2020, amassing $2.1 billion over 297 deals in the third quarte ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) might hold immense potential to solve the problems faced by traditional finance (TradFi). However, DeFi still struggles with onboarding new users -both retail and institutional- due to its limitations on the user experience side. Despite all the innovation ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave paused a number of markets on Nov. 4 after receiving reports of an issue affecting “a certain feature,” according to a post on X (formerly Twitter). The pause affects multiple networks, including Aave V2 Ethereum Market and certai ...

Lawyers representing the $116 million Mango Markets exploiter have convinced a judge to postpone the fraud trial until April 8, 2023.Avraham Eisenberg’s fraud trial was set to commence on Dec. 4 but several circumstances impacted his trial preparations, according to his lawyers, who ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.A trader managed to exploit the brief opening of the Multichain cross-chain bridge, which was frozen si ...

Decentralized finance project SafeMoon, which was charged by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for security rules violations and fraud, has said that it is closely examining recent developments and will work to resolve the situation promptly.According to a statemen ...

A professor from the Texas A&M University School of Law recently published research exploring blockchain technology use cases in the world of copyright administration. According to their findings, blockchain has the potential to radically alter the way intellectual property is handled both “d ...

The tokenization of real-world assets has been tipped as a major use case of blockchain technology that could drive Web3 adoption. In episode 35 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, host Elisha Owusu Akyaw interviews Sanjay Raghavan, vice president of Web3 Initiatives at Roofstock ...

SafeMoon, a decentralized finance project exploited in March, resulting in a net loss of $8.9 million in BNB, has been charged by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and its key executives for security rules violations and frauds. The funds associated with the exploit have ...

As the crypto industry continues to grow, it becomes increasingly intertwined with traditional finance (TradFi) to the benefit of end users. TradFi is notoriously slow, inefficient and expensive. International wire transfers, which take days and double-digit dollar fees in most cases, are a perfe ...

A wallet address turned nearly 1.9 million FTM worth $280,000 to $1.9 million within hours of exploiting the long-frozen Multichain Bridge opening momentarily, leading to insider job speculations among the crypto community.The Multichain Bridge, frozen since its exploit in July 2023, opene ...

Solana (SOL) has posted 30-day gains of nearly 81%, and has rallied over 30% in the past week amid the testnet launch of the blockchain’s loawaited scaling solution Firedancer.SOL reached over $41 on Nov. 2 touching highs it hasn’t seen since August last year, Cointelegraph Markets Pro dat ...

As the holiday season approaches, anticipation in the cryptocurrency world heightens for the annual phenomenon known as the "Santa rally." Amidst this festive period, market dynamics tend to shift. This season, there are several factors that could influence the last few months of the year.Ins ...

The teams behind the Floki protocol and Bitget crypto exchange have accused each other of market manipulation after the protocol’s token, TokenFi (TOKEN), was listed and delisted by Bitget. This is according to an October 31 social media post from the Floki team and a blog post from Bitget.  ...

Stablecoin issuer Circle will close out consumer or individual accounts on November 30, according to emails received by Circle customers on October 31. In an email to Cointelegraph, the stablecoin issuer confirmed that it is closing the accounts but confirmed that business and institutional &ldqu ...

The reserves for stablecoin issuer Tether contained approximately 86% cash and cash equivalents as of September 30, according to a new attestation report from accounting firm BDO. This is the highest percentage of cash and cash equivalents that have ever made up Tether’s reserves. ...

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has requested a United States district judge to reject the securities and fraud suit from the federal securities regulator, claiming it has failed to prove they did anything wrong.In an Oct. 27 filing to a New York District Court, lawyers for Kwon and Terr ...

Snowtrace.io, a popular blockchain explorer tool for Avalanche (AVAX), will shut down its website, powered by Etherscan's Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS) toolkit, on November 30. The Snowtrace team clarified that only its explorer powered by Etherscan will be shut down.According to the Octobe ...

Following October’s tragic events in Israel, a narrative linking Hamas funding to cryptocurrencies emerged from The Wall Street Journal in an Oct. 10 story authored by the paper’s Angus Berwick and Ian Talley. It fueled Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s crusade against the crypto sector. ...

A cutting-edge crypto platform says it offers all the advantages of centralized exchanges in a noncustodial environment. Changex offers seamless on and off-ramps to fiat, effortless purchases via bank transfers and debit cards, and cross-chain swaps for speedy conversions between digital a ...

Decentralized crypto exchange PancakeSwap now has portfolio manager functionality, according to an October 30 announcement. The feature has been added in partnership with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Bril Finance. The new feature allows PancakeSwap users to deposit tokens int ...

Zero knowledge-proof (ZK-proof) scalability solutions have grown in prominence in the crypto ecosystem in recent years, making way for several ZK-focused conferences and events. A marquee ZK conference dedicated to the growing community will take place on Nov. 13 in Istanbul, Turkey. ZkDay is hos ...

Stablecoins are essential to cryptocurrency markets, and traditional payment systems, especially cross-border ones, can also benefit from them. Edelcoin sets a new standard for stablecoins, offering low volatility, inflation protection, and zero reserve investment risk. Its verified reserv ...

A new bridged token from cross-chain protocol LayerZero is drawing criticism from nine protocols throughout the Ethereum ecosystem. A joint statement from Connext, Chainsafe, Sygma, LiFi, Socket, Hashi, Across, Celer, and Router on October 27 called the token’s standard “a vendor-lock ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi was filled with bullish resurgences for many projects, but it was the Uniswap fou ...

Cointelegraph Accelerator, a startup booster that leverages Cointelegraph’s capabilities as a media and strategic partner, announced its second cohort launching in October 2023 for up-and-coming Web3 startups.Selected from over 1000 startup applications, the 16 participants of the second c ...

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange dYdX has launched its layer 1 blockchain with the creation of its genesis block which will operate using native DYDX tokens.The dYdX Chain is set to distribute all fees to validators and stakers in USD Coin (USDC). This includes trading fees denominate ...

Polygon Labs has launched the Ethereum contract for the new Polygon token, POL, according to an October 25 announcement. The new token is intended to replace the ecosystem’s current token, MATIC. However, the team said users presently don't need to exchange their MATIC for POL. ...

Cryptocurrency rug pulls are not too difficult to be spotted by investors as the majority of such scams usually share distinct and visible features, according to a new report.Blockchain security auditor Hacken on Oct. 25 released its latest security insights report, aiming to spot the tren ...

Crypto exchange dYdX has published the open source code for its new Cosmos-based network of the same name, according to an October 23 blog post. The new code includes the “protocol, order book, front-end, and more,” the post stated. The publication of the code is intended to pave the ...

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams burned 99% of the HayCoin (HAY) supply on Oct. 20, according to an announcement on X (formerly Twitter). The majority of the tokens have been removed from circulation due to Adams’ concerns about price speculation over the previous days.Adams deployed the ...

On October 20, the team behind Ethereum layer-2 Base network announced that it's launching an eight-week training course to turn traditional software developers into blockchain developers. Called “Base Bootcamp,” the new program doesn't cost anything to attend. However, it's designed ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi was dominated by developments in the popular decentralized exchange platform Unis ...

On Oct. 10, the development team for gaming project FinSoul carried out an alleged exit scam, siphoning away $1.6 million from investors through market manipulation, according to a recent report from blockchain security platform CertiK shared with Cointelegraph. The FinSoul team alleg ...

Google Cloud has teamed up with blockchain infrastructure firm MultiversX (formerly Elrond) to boost its Web 3 presence. Google Cloud has integrated MultiversX into the platform which will in turn help Web3 projects and users derive valuable insights from powerful data analytics and artificial in ...

Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched a new tool that it says will allow developers to “remove the complexity” of building Web3 apps, according to an announcement and accompanying social media post on October 19. Called “Smart Contract Platform,” the new tool allows ...

The Ethereum liquid staking derivatives finance (LSDFi) ecosystem has seen a surge in growth this year as Ether (ETH) holders chose to stake rather than liquidate. Despite ETH withdrawals being enabled with the Ethereum Shapella upgrade in April 2023, an Oct. 16 LSDFi report from cryp ...

Scroll, a new contender in the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) space that works to scale the blockchain, has confirmed the launch of its mainnet.The team behind Scroll announced the launch in an Oct. 17 post and added that existing applications and developer tool kits on Et ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus Finance said it had recovered 90% of assets that were stolen in a security breach last week.According to the October 17 announcement, developers said the protocol's net loss was limited to "18,000 Avalanche," worth $167,400 at the time of publ ...

The Bank of Canada published a staff note on decentralized finance (DeFi) on Oct. 17, assessing the innovations that made it popular and the challenges and risks associated with its use.The staff note described DeFi as a multi-layered structure, with the Ethereum blockchain serving as ...

Decentralized liquid staking protocol Lido Finance has announced a decision to cease operations on the Solana blockchain following a community vote in Lido’s decentralized autonomous organization.The proposal to sunset Lido on Solana was first put forward by Lido’s peer-to-peer ...

Decentralized exchange Uniswap (UNI) will begin charging a 0.15% swap fee on certain tokens in its web application and wallet on October 17.According to a post by Hayden Adams, the DEX's founder, the affected tokens are Ethereum (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), Wrapped Ether (WETH), Tether (USDT), ...

Last week, the FTX court saga had elements of a TV drama, with Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried’s former business associate and girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, sharing some shocking stories about SBF’s rule over the company. Ellison admitted to fraud during her time as CEO at Alameda under Bankman-Fried’s d ...

JPMorgan has reported that Ethereum's recent upgrades, known as the Merge and Shanghai, have led to increased centralization in the network and a decline in overall staking yields. The research report highlights concerns about the concentration of control and rehypothecation risks associated with th ...

Floki, a prominent cryptocurrency, has entered into a strategic partnership with Karma, a launchpad and decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. The collaboration aims to enhance the security and reliability of Karma's launchpad operations. Karma is known for its innovative approach to launchpads, ...

Real World Assets (RWAs) are assets from the physical world that have been tokenized and brought onto blockchain platforms for use in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. These assets are represented as digital tokens on the blockchain, allowing them to be utilized within various DeFi protocol ...

In September 2023, crypto-related exploits reached an unfortunate peak, making it the worst month of the year so far in terms of cryptocurrency theft, with a staggering $329.8 million in digital assets stolen. Blockchain security firm CertiK reported on October 2 that the most significant contrib ...

Shiba Inu, the meme coin that has evolved into a vast ecosystem, has hinted at more upcoming developments. RagnerShib, the project's Telegram Group Administrator, mentioned that there are still surprises in store for the Shiba Inu community. The Shiba Inu ecosystem now includes Shiba Inu (SHIB), ...

Bitgert and Orbit Pad have joined forces to advance the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). In the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape, new companies and innovative solutions continue to emerge, and partnerships play a crucial role in promoting blockchain technology and supporting the success of bloc ...

The Balancer team has stated that a social engineering attack on its domain registrar, EuroDNS, was responsible for the compromise of its website's frontend on September 19. This incident resulted in an estimated $238,000 in cryptocurrency being stolen. Balancer DAO actively addressed the DNS att ...

The Blockchain Economy Dubai Summit, scheduled for October 4-5, 2023, is generating excitement within the blockchain and crypto communities. With over 3,000 attendees expected from 85 countries, this prestigious event will bring together blockchain entrepreneurs, crypto enthusiasts, and industry lea ...

Recent data reveals a significant increase in the daily usage of the Ethereum network, with Ethereum surpassing Bitcoin in terms of daily active addresses. On September 13th, Ethereum recorded more than 1 million daily active addresses, while Bitcoin had 743,800, and the BNB chain had 1.02 million. ...

Ripple Labs' CTO, David Schwartz, has drawn the attention of the cryptocurrency community to an upcoming feature on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). In a tweet, Schwartz mentioned the "EVM sidechain," confirming that it was one of the features discussed at the ApexDevSummit earlier in the year. The EVM sid ...

An undisclosed liquidity provider associated with the Synapse crosschain bridge reportedly sold 9 million SYN tokens at once, causing the asset's market value to plummet by 25% from $0.4 to $0.31, according to blockchain observer Soingecko. Etherenscan data indicates that the SYN tokens were sold fo ...

Hong Kong's Animoca Brands, a formidable web3 investor with a primary focus on gaming and the metaverse, has set the stage for a remarkable transformation with a resounding $20 million boost for its visionary project, Mocaverse. At its core, Mocaverse is dedicated to constructing web3-native tools t ...

Since its launch in August 2021 with its built-in security feature, Arbitrum's mainnet has remained untouched by any fraud proof submissions, as confirmed by Ed Felten, the co-founder and chief scientist of Offchain Labs, the team behind Arbitrum. Arbitrum operates as an Ethereum layer-2 solution ...

The Terra Luna Classic community is currently engaged in voting on various proposals, but there are growing concerns regarding the surge in "spam" proposals, particularly following a decline in LUNA prices. In response to this issue, a fresh proposal has emerged, suggesting an increase in the minimu ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in the DeFi ecosystem was filled with ups and downs, from the United States Commodity Fut ...

On this week's episode of “Macro Markets,” Cointelegraph analyst Marcel Pechman delves into a thought-provoking discussion on the United States Federal Reserve’s financial woes. Pechman opens by highlighting how the Fed is grappling with staggering losses and emphasizes a fundamental macroec ...

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner, Summer K. Mersinger, has expressed concerns over the CFTC's approach to decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. In a public statement issued on September 7, Commissioner Mersinger criticized the focus on enforcement actions rather than engagi ...

A group of local blockchain experts discussed how blockchain technology can help solve economic problems in Nigeria and throughout the African continent. In their discussion, Nigeria's naira flow shortage was used as a case study.At the Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of ...

The Synthetix project, known for its decentralized derivatives protocol, is gearing up to bridge the usability gap between centralized and decentralized exchanges with the imminent launch of the Synthetix V3 protocol and its decentralized exchange front-end, Infinex, scheduled for Q4. Synthetix f ...

The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is taking regulatory action against three decentralized finance protocols for allegedly failing to register various derivatives trading offerings.The U.S. commodities regulator announced that it issued orders against protocol Op ...

The need for an oracle in decentralized finance (DeFi) is a major impediment to adoption in the real world, according to the authors of a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) bulletin. The problems with oracles are both practical and principled, and the study’s authors saw no way around ...

Price volatility is one of the biggest deterrents of the crypto market, dissuading newcomers from trading or investing in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH). Extreme market conditions can trigger billions of dollars in liquidations, making it less than ideal for institution ...

Crypto exchange Binance is refunding users 1 million Tether ($1 million) over its handling of the CyberConnect (CYBER) token incident.As narrated by the exchange on Sept. 7, a price discrepancy on listed CYBER tokens occurred the week prior due to a liquidity crunch constricting CYBER cros ...

Blockchain analytic firm Lookonchain flagged a crypto wallet allegedly belonging to Polygon Foundation that transferred large amounts of Matic tokens on Binance. Polygon Labs founder Sandeep Nailwal refuted the claim and said it was a case of mislabeling and the wallet doesn’t belong to Pol ...

The sharp increase in global interest rates may have limited investors’ appetite for crypto ventures, but new projects are still flourishing and attracting capital to speed up growth. Data from the Cointelegraph Research Venture Capital Database shows June closed out with a 29.73% decrease ...

Crypto exchange Binance has created an automated smart contract to reimburse users following the events of the Xirtam rug pull.According to a Sept. 6 announcement, users affected by the Xirtam rug pull can receive their money by connecting their wallets to Etherscan, passing a verific ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pools systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds through zero-knowledge proof technology.The document initially discusses ...

Venture capital has been a key driver for myriad startups in the blockchain space. Founders know how competitive it can be to secure valuable VC funding that can keep the lights on and employees paid during the critical first days of a new project.In a new interview series, Cointelegraph s ...

Decentralized exchange (DEX) platform dYdX is planning to offer a “purely decentralized” order books exchange as they migrate their ecosystem from the Ethereum network to the interchain network Cosmos.At the Korea Blockchain Week 2023, Cointelegraph's Andrew Fenton spoke with d ...

Artificial intelligence could be the missing piece for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), while trained AI models could become valuable assets on-chain, according to the co-founder of Framework Ventures.Speaking to Cointelegraph on Sept. 5 at Korea Blockchain Week, Vance Spence ...

Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has launched natively on both Base and Optimism networks, allowing Circle account holders to send USDC stablecoin from their accounts to Base or Optimism. Coinbase has also made USDC transfers to Base available, according to a Sept. 5 social media post. Circle claim ...

A report from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) noted that 40% of the crypto trading platforms are decentralized and make use of distributed ledger technology. On the other hand, the majority, or 60%, of platforms make use of Central Limit Order Books (CLOBs), quite similar to regulated exc ...

Raj Gokal, co-founder of blockchain protocol Solana and chief operations officer of Solana Labs, started his career in venture capital with a focus on high-growth tech business. For seven years, Gokal focused on health tech, first with wearable sensors using Bluetooth Low Energy as a ...

The price of the native token of decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain bridge Synapse (SNY) plummeted on Sept. 5 after an unknown liquidity provider on the platform dumped nearly 9 million SYN tokens and pulled all stablecoin liquidity from the bridge.The official X account for Synapse ...

The total number of wallets on Shiba Inu’s newly launched layer-2 blockchain, the Shibarium network, has surpassed the 1 million mark in a meteoric rise since its relaunch. The milestone — announced in a Sept. 3 blog post by the official Shibarium team — means there were at least 900, ...

The total number of wallets on Shiba Inu’s newly launched layer-2 blockchain, the Shibarium network, has surpassed the one million mark in a meteoric rise since its relaunch. The milestone — announced in a Sept. 3 blog post by the official Shibarium team — means there were at least 90 ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) gave birth to a wide range of financial services that aim to challenge what traditional finance (TradFi) offers. However, the user experience persists as a major issue hindering the widespread adoption of DeFi apps and solutions. For years, the DeFi ecosystem has been ...

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao predicts that decentralized finance (DeFi) has the potential to surpass centralized finance (CeFi) in the next bull run.In an Sept 1 live X Spaces (formerly Twitter Spaces), titled CZ AMA, CZ stated his predictions for the future of DeF ...

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen has submitted a proposal to build the decentralized finance project’s upcoming native chain off of a fork of Solana’s codebase, and not the Ethereum Virtual Machine despite its long-running ties with Ethereum. MakerDAO’s native chain o ...

In one of the weirder moments of my writing career, Carl “The Moon” Runefelt contacted me out of the blue seeking an “update to old information” in a May 2022 article. The article had touched on his involvement with the crypto payment platform Kasta, but Runefelt felt a pr ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.In this week’s newsletter, Ethereum staking services have agreed upon a 22% limit on all validators to ...

Malicious actors targeting the crypto space have taken more than $45 million in digital assets from their victims in the month of August alone and a total of $997 million year-to-date (YTD), according to a report shared by the blockchain security firm CertiK. Within the report, CertiK ...

At least five Ethereum liquid staking providers have either imposed or are working to impose a self-limit rule in which they promise not to own more than 22% of the Ethereum staking market — seen as a move to ensure the Ethereum network remains decentralized.Among the Ethereum stakin ...

A total of $15.8 million in cryptocurrencies were lost to hacks or exploits in the month of August.According to an Aug. 31 report by blockchain security firm Immunfi, a combined $23.4 million in crypto was lost to a combination of hacks and fraud, a significant decrease compared to the $32 ...

Circle’s United States dollar stablecoin, USDC, will launch natively on the Base network “next week,” according to an Aug. 29 social media post from CEO Jeremy Allaire. The new version will replace the current US Dollar Base Coin (USDbC) that most users rely on as a substitute. ...

The landscape of web development has undergone a profound transformation with the emergence of Web3 technologies. As blockchain and decentralized applications (DApps) gain momentum, developers are embracing this new paradigm to create a more open, secure and user-centric internet. This article wi ...

Decentralized exchange (DEX) platform dYdX will unlock $14.02 million worth of DYDX (DYDX) tokens dedicated to the community treasury and rewards for traders and liquidity providers. On Aug. 29, dYdX will release 6.52 million in-house tokens, representing 3.76% of the DYDX circulating supply. Out ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. Over two weeks after Curve Finance’s multiple pool exploits, the DeFi protocol has assured the hack victims t ...

Base project RocketSwap Labs has outlined its emergency program to bounce back from a brute force hack that swiped $865,000 or 471 Ether (ETH) from the protocol on Aug. 14.The team explained on Aug. 15 that they plan on redeploying a new farm contract and open-source it on-chain, reli ...

The Bitcoin Frontier Fund, formerly Stacks Ventures, launched what it’s calling the first Bitcoin Ordinals accelerator program on Aug. 14.Program InformationThis program is led by VC ...

Taiwanese music celebrity Jeffrey Huang, also known as "Machi Big Brother," has withdrawn a defamation lawsuit against internet sleuth ZachXBT.In a bilateral announcement dated Aug. 14, Machi Big Brother said "Zach has many times in the past been of great service to the crypto community an ...

With the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies, the digital landscape has become a breeding ground for scams and fraudulent schemes. Fake cryptocurrencies and fraudulent projects aim to deceive unsuspecting investors and enthusiasts. This article will delve into the key indicators and strategies ...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the rise of on-chain activities on its new layer-2 network Base has exposed how “broken” the Coinbase app is for user experience, and has pledged to improve it. In an X (Twitter) post on Aug. 13, Armstrong said a number of pain points have ...

Decentralized finance protocol Zunami Protocol has advised users not to buy any of its Zunami Ether (zETH) or Zunami USD (UZD) stablecoins, after encountering an attack on its "zStables" pools on Curve Finance. On Aug. 13,  Zunami confirmed on X (Twitter) that its stablecoin pool ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Curve Finance has officially stated its intention to reimburse users impacted by the recent hack resulting in $62 million of losses. According to an X (formerly Twitter) post from its official account, ongoing investigations are yielding prog ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The DeFi ecosystem is yet to recover from the crisis brought on by the Curve Finance hack, and even tho ...

Telegram trading bots, which have been turning the messaging platform into a quasi-crypto marketplace, pose significant security risks for users and require further scrutiny, according to blockchain security firms.While such trading bots have existed for years, they've recently gained atte ...

Aptos (APT), the cryptocurrency powering layer-1 blockchain Aptos Network, is up approximately 11.6% since announcing it will leverage Microsoft’s suite of artificial intelligence tools to advance Web3 adoption among banks and financial enterprises.This will be achieved by enabling t ...

Coinbase’s Base network has officially launched after spending a few weeks in an “open for builders only” phase. The network is now ready to onboard users, according to an Aug. 9 announcement from the team.Several Web3 development teams have simultaneously announced that ...

Blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed fresh vulnerabilities targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) projects on Aug. 9. According to the firm, Aave’s Earning Farm has been compromised by a reentrancy attack, resulting in the theft of at least $287,000 worth of Ether (ETH). ...

SpiritSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on smart contract platform Fantom, will wind down operations starting Sept. 1, citing exposure to troubled Chinese cross-chain protocol Multichain.In the Aug. 9 announcement via Discord, developers revealed that the Multichain hack left Spir ...

The team behind the Cardano-based decentralized exchange MuesliSwap has made a decision to refund users that have been hit with high slippage over the past year.On Aug. 8, the MuseliSwap team said it “fell short in providing adequate clarity” on the slippage feature within its ...

USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has released a beta version of a multiparty computation (MPC) wallet service, according to an Aug. 8 announcement. The new service will allow developers of decentralized finance (DeFi) apps, Web3 video games, e-commerce services and other blockchain applications to c ...

Solana-based decentralized futures exchange Cypher Protocol halted its smart contract after an estimated $1 million exploit.On Aug. 7, Cypher alerted its 13,500 followers on X (formerly known as Twitter) that it had experienced a security incident and had therefore frozen its smart contrac ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance is extending a bug bounty offer to anyone who is able to identify the exploiter responsible for draining over $61 million from its pools on July 30. Curve and other protocols affected by the attack offered a 10% bug bounty to the hac ...

Crypto lender Hodlnaut appears to have found a white knight investor to exit its bankruptcy proceedings. According to a Bloomberg report, OPNX exchange has made an offer to take over 75% of the company.The deal would see a capital injection of nearly $30 million worth of FLEX tokens into H ...

Lending platform Alchemix has announced the return of all stolen funds by the Curve finance hacker. The attack took place on July 30 and resulted in over $61 million in cryptocurrencies drained, including $13.6 million from Alchemix’s alETH-ETH pool. Along with Alchemix, JPEGd&r ...

Gone are the days when decentralized finance (DeFi) was a niche for crypto frontrunners, while centralized finance (CeFi) was the absolute owner of users’ trust. Following the collapse of major centralized organizations within the industry, such as FTX, Prime Trust, and Celsius, among others, the ...

Nonfungible token finance (NFT-Fi) protocol JPEG’d has confirmed that 5,495 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $10 million at current prices, has been returned by the Curve Finance hacker. In exchange for returning the funds that were stolen on July 30, the hacker received a 610.6 ETH ($1.1 ...

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced a challenging week after a seismic security incident led to over $61 million being stolen from Curve Finance’s pools, leaving several protocols facing broader contagion risks.This attack exposed vulnerabilities across DeFi pr ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The $47 million Curve Finance exploit on July 30 had a domino effect on the DeFi ecosystem, mainly due ...

Coinbase’s Base network has released a user interface (UI) for its official bridge, allowing end-users to onboard for the first time without relying on developer tools, according to an Aug. 3 announcement. The team has set Aug. 9 as Base’s “official” release date. They wil ...

On the latest episode of Market Talks, host Ray Salmond spoke with Blockware Solutions account executive David Gamble about the future of Bitcoin (BTC) mining, expectations for the cryptocurrency’s price, and his views on how the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector needs to evolve. Ga ...

Curve Finance’s native stablecoin, crvUSD, briefly depegged on Aug. 3, reacting to an uncertain environment surrounding the protocol after its recent exploit. In the course of the day, the stablecoin fell by as much as 0.35% before regaining its peg to the United States dollar.Curve& ...

Unibot (UNIBOT) token was among the top crypto gainers in July as its price rallied by 400% in a month to reach an all-time high of $199.90 on July 28. The project defied the market’s negative trend as both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) dropped by nearly 4%.However, by August 3, 2 ...

The Curve Finance lending protocol has terminated governance token rewards for select liquidity pools affected by the July 30 Curve exploit and July 6 Multichain exploit, according to an Aug. 2 social media post from a member of the protocol’s governing body. The ending of rewar ...

Kanis Saengchote, a researcher at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, recently developed a framework for identifying and measuring systemic risk in decentralized finance (DeFi) institutions. The new protocol is called the Global Systematically Important Protocol (G-SIP), and it’s ba ...

The transition from Web2 to Web3 is reshaping the technology landscape and attracting the attention of developers. Despite the challenges faced during the current crypto winter, the Web3 ecosystem continued to onboard new developers, with many thousands of developers making the jump from Web2 to ...

Decentralized Web3 data service Space and Time has tapped into zero-knowledge-proof technology to cryptographically verify information queries within its ecosystem.The company’s proprietary Proof of SQL allows the platform to generate a SNARK cryptographic proof of a query within ...

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov is attempting to offload some of his DeFi positions to alleviate his mountain of debt, but some have highlighted his liquidity sources.On Aug. 1, Nansen research analyst Sandra Leow posted a list of liquidity sources for Egorov’s Curve DAO (CRV) p ...

Crypto Twitter has been abuzz with debate after a new conspiracy theory has suggested FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried may be secretly behind one of the most controversial new memecoins on Base.The BALD memecoin, which draws its namesake from a humorous reference to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstro ...

Decentralized exchange LeetSwap, which operates on Coinbase’s Base network has announced a pause on trading, citing concerns of a potential exploit.LeetSwap tweeted on Aug. 1 that it noticed some of its liquidity pools may have been compromised and temporarily stopped trading to inve ...

The cryptocurrency market is having its worst month of 2023, according to a report from Web3 outlet De.Fi shared with Cointelegraph. Losses for July totaled $486 million, more than six times the total from 2022:Cryptocurrency losses comparing July 2022 and July 2023. Source: De.FiTh ...

Memecoin madness has arrived on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Base, bringing with it everything from remarkable shitcoin surges to classic token rug pulls.On July 30, memecoin traders were snapping up a suite of questionable tokens on Base, with one Brian Armstrong-the ...

The recent Curve Finance exploit has reportedly led to one of the largest ever maximal extractable value (MEV) reward blocks of 584.05 Ether (ETH). On July 31, Ethereum core developer “eric.eth” reported that “today has produced some of the largest MEV reward blocks ...

The BNB Smart Chain (BSC) has reportedly suffered copycat attacks due to a vulnerability in the Vyper programming language, following a similar vein to the exploit on the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance.Amid the exploits carried out on Ethereum, Blockchain security firm ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are undergoing a stress test following a critical vulnerability was found on versions of Vyper programming language, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies on July 30.A number of pools using Vyper 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0. ...

Several stable pools on Curve Finance using Vyper were exploited on July 30, with losses reaching $24 million at the time of writing. According to Vyper, its 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 versions are vulnerable to malfunctioning reentrancy locks. "The investigation is ongoing but any proj ...

Scanning your iris to become a “verified human” in exchange for digital currency sounds like a Black Mirror episode. But this is not the story arc of a dystopian science fiction show — it’s happening now with one of the latest projects in Web3.The launch of Worldcoi ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi was dominated by exploits and hacks, with three DeFi platforms losing nearly $39 ...

The Optimism network has surpassed Arbitrum in transaction volume for the first time in six months, according to July 27 data from blockchain analytics platform Artemis. Both networks are layer 2s of Ethereum that use optimistic rollup technology, which compresses and batches transactions before ...

Decentralized blockchain oracle service Goracle provides real-world information so anyone can build better Web3 apps based on off-chain data.The blockchain ecosystem was changed forever with the introduction of smart contracts — digital agreements between two parties th ...

Lending app Era Lend on zkSync has been exploited for $3.4 million worth of crypto, according to a July 25 report from blockchain security firm CertiK. The attacker used a “read-only reentrancy attack” to drain the funds, which is a type of attack that interrupts a multi-step process ...

The Connext cross-chain bridging protocol has announced a new token standard to reduce losses from bridge hacks. According to a July 24 announcement, the new “xERC-20” standard allows token issuers to maintain a list of official bridges and control how many tokens can be minted by eac ...

Crypto payment platform Alphapo had at least $31 million drained from its hot wallets on Ether (ETH), TRON (TRX), and Bitcoin (BTC), security experts reported on July 22. Since the number of Bitcoins stolen is uncertain, the figures may be even higher. According to on-chain sleuth Zac ...

Terraform Labs faces a “big hill to climb” as the progress of its various projects in development are constantly being impeded by frequent accusations against Do Kwon, according to Terra’s new interim CEO Chris Amani.During a July 20 Twitter Spaces, titled A Terra Communi ...

A recent proposal from Parrot Protocol's team, a Solana-based liquidity network, has sparked controversy among its community members. The proposal, up for vote until July 27, calls for the redemption of its PRT tokens for liquid treasury value, and the transition to a no-token protocol.Bas ...

In recent years, the rise of blockchain technology has paved the way for groundbreaking innovations in the realm of decentralized systems. Among the revolutionary concepts are decentralized applications (DApps) and protocols. While both are integral components of the decentralized ecosystem, they ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi saw new advancements in zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) as a scaling solution a ...

As people become accustomed to traditional, online-only banking, crypto innovators are building decentralized solutions that could radically change everyday finance.A quick Google search of the term “neobank” will bring up the 2007–2009 crisis for a good reason. In the aftermath of ...

This week’s episode of Cointelegraph’s Market Talks welcomes Alvin Xu, the co-founder and CEO of Maverick Protocol, a platform that is taking a new approach to building decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. Xu has been in the crypto space since 2018, and before co-founding M ...

Crypto industry advocacy bodies have slammed a newly proposed United States Senate bill for what they say is a confused approach to regulating the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.On July 20, crypto think tank Coin Center and crypto advocacy group the Blockchain Association released sep ...

Although the crypto market is growing and evolving, and market players boast various clever payment solutions, there is still ample room for improvement toward broader Web3 adoption. Until last year, decentralized finance (DeFi) constituted a relatively small part of th ...

The development firm behind the Chainlink protocol and its native LINK token has gone live with its cross-chain protocol, aimed at providing interoperability between traditional financial firms and both public and private blockchains.In a July 17 post on the Chainlink blog, Chainlink ...

In today’s fast-paced digital world, speed and convenience are paramount when it comes to online transactions. Whether you run an e-commerce business or simply want to make swift payments online, having a reliable payment gateway that ensures seamless and speedy transactions, including support fo ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave has launched its algorithmic United States-dollar pegged stablecoin GHO on the Ethereum mainnet, with $2.19 million worth of GHO minted so far.Aave announced the launch of the new stablecoin in a July 16 blog post, describing the new stablecoin GH ...

Fantom's co-founder Andre Cronje classified Multichain's debacle as a "big blow" to the smart contract platform, which saw a sharp decline in activity in the past weeks as a result of Multichain's problems. According to data from DefiLlama, Fantom's total value locked (TVL) dropped fr ...

The travel industry has long been a behemoth, catering to the diverse needs of nearly 2 billion digitally savvy users each year. When it comes to technological innovation, however, it has remained a sleeping giant. That is, until now. The industry is finally waking up to the tr ...

Decentralized finance protocol Synthetix is preparing to expand its range of affiliated products.Synthetix founder Kain Warwick revealed intentions to introduce a new derivatives front-end called Infinex to the decentralized trading infrastructure of Synthetix. The upcoming exchange w ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, which links borrowers and investors directly, has become a well-liked substitute for traditional banking. P2P lending networks enable decentralized lending, in which people can borrow money from other people or institutions directly without the use of intermediaries, s ...

A pair of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Princeton University conducted a study to determine how tokenization affects decentralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Their findings indicate that many of the challenges to autonomy are related to the reaso ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.This week, Finance Redefined looks at the growing popularity of zero-knowledge proof-based scalable sol ...

According to a July 13 report by Messari, Filecoin currently averages 954.2 pebibytes (1.07 billion gigabytes) worth of storage deals on its network, compared with 12.2 exbibytes (14.1 billion gigabytes) worth of raw storage capacity. Until recently, uptake had been sluggish due to high storage c ...

Lending protocol Geist Finance is shutting down permanently due to losses from the Multichain exploit, according to a July 14 social media post from the app’s development team. Geist contracts were paused on July 6, then resumed in “withdraw and repay only” mode on July 9. The l ...

Solana’s (SOL) price briefly surged to a new year-to-date peak on June 14 after Ripple’s partial win against the United States Securities Exchange and Commission in the case contesting XRP’s (XRP) position as a security. The token recorded gains of 48.09%, reaching a peak of $32.40 as ...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao wrote a letter addressing the exchange’s users, reflecting on past crypto winters and laying out key trends shaping up within the industry as the company celebrates its sixth anniversary. Within the letter, Zhao highlighted some of the company’s ...

The current state of Web3 user experience is akin to driving a manual transmission car — there’s more control, but most users will find it unnecessarily clunky, according to several UX designers.Over the years, discussion around mainstream adoption of Web3 has centered around t ...

The Cosmos-based decentralized exchange Osmosis (OSMO) has launched a new “concentrated liquidity” feature, according to a July 12 announcement from the app’s developer, Osmosis Labs. The new feature allows liquidity providers (LPs) to choose a minimum and maximum price to offer to buy or sell cr ...

Blockchain gaming startup Spielworks has partnered with the Web3 platform Mycelium Network to launch a program that allows full refunds for nonfungible token (NFT) purchases. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, the team explained that within the program, users who acquire NFTs c ...

A former security engineer for an international technology firm has been arrested and charged for allegedly using a smart contract bug to steal $9 million in cryptocurrency from a Solana-based decentralized crypto exchange.On June 11, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of ...

Algofi, the borrowing and lending protocol built on decentralized finance blockchain Algorand, will soon shut down.According to a July 11 announcement, developers' "belief in the strength of Algorand's technology and novel consensus algorithm has not wavered," however, the Algofi platform ...

At the end of Q2 2023, layer-one blockchain Near Protocol's (NEAR) treasury had declined to $900 million, led by a fall in the price of NEAR tokens from $1.99 to $1.38 apiece.At the ...

Bug bounties are programs organizations offer to incentivize security researchers or ethical or white hat hackers to find and report vulnerabilities in their software, websites or systems. Bug bounties aim to improve overall security by identifying and fixing potential weaknesses before malicious ...

Four major crypto drainers have emerged to fill the vacuum left by the notorious wallet sweeper Monkey Drainer, with thousands of victims targeted and millions in crypto stolen already this year. The crypto drainers — called Pink Drainer, Inferno Drainer, Pussy Drainer, and Venom Dra ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the most critical use cases of blockchain technology. Despite the dramatic decline that has left the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi at about 20% of its peak ($248.8 billion in November 2021 compared to $48.6 billion in April 2023), the trend is here ...

Approval management platform Revoke has issued a fix aimed at mitigating a new crypto scam, which involves baiting crypto users into revoking “fake approvals” and then stinging them with excessively high transaction fees. On July 9, Revoke.cash stated that it had received ...

Scammers appear to have wasted no time since the launch of Meta’s new microblogging app — with several high-profile Crypto Twitter users already warning of imposter accounts on Threads. Threads was launched on July 5 and has seen sign-ups climb above 98 million in the days foll ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.Amid the growing number of hacks in the DeFi ecosystem, a smart contract developer has made a new Ether ...

On today’s Macro Markets show, veteran stock market and Cointelegraph analyst Marcel Pechman starts by analyzing Argentina’s 150% inflation, which proves that people continue to work and consume (somehow) even if their local currency loses its value.What is the lesson here? For starters, e ...

From 2012 to the present, over $30 billion in crypto has been hacked in 1,101 documented incidents, a July 7 report from SlowMist has revealed.According to the blockchain security firm, the top five most common hacks are smart contract vulnerabilities, rug pulls, flash loan attacks, scams ...

A decentralized finance “circuit breaker” could have prevented billions of dollars worth of crypto being stolen from DeFi protocols in 2022, according to the developer of the newly published ERC-7265 proposal.A new Ethereum request for comment (ERC) was published on Github on J ...

BarnBridge DAO members have been told to pause “all work” related to the project after a reported probe by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).In a July 6 post to the platform’s Discord channel, Douglas Park, a lawyer for the decentralized autonomou ...

Abnormally large outflows from the Multichain MPC bridge platform are sparking fears of a multi-million dollar exploit.On July 6, observers noticed that approximately $102 million worth of crypto has been withdrawn from Multichain’s Fantom bridge on the Ethereum side, as well as $666 ...

Via a July 6 announcement, decentralized social media protocol DeSo has issued a $1 million bounty for building a competitor to Reddit using its native blockchain. In supporting the decision, developers wrote:"Reddit recently sparked controversy within its community following a de ...

On-chain derivatives are set to become the next big growth sector in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, says Henrik Andersson, the chief investment officer of Australian crypto investment firm Apollo Crypto.In a wide-ranging interview with Cointelegraph, Andersson said he thinks the i ...

Crypto exchange dYdX has launched a public testnet of its “v4” iteration, according to a July 5 announcement from the exchange’s development team. This marks the completion of “milestone 4” out of five, paving the way for a future v4 mainnet launch.Once implem ...

The crypto industry has faced significant challenges over the past few years, dealing with issues such as failed exchanges, regulation, collapsing projects and depegged stablecoins. These hurdles have contributed to an atmosphere of uncertainty and skepticism within the industry. However, ...

Crypto exchange Gemini founder and CEO Cameron Winklevoss is again threatening to sue Digital Currency Group and its CEO Barry Silbert over delays in the resolution of Genesis for its Earn customers while slamming the CEOfor allegedly trying to play the victim card.In the July 4 “Ope ...

The Open Network (TON) has released an on-chain encrypted messaging feature, according to a July 3 announcement from the network’s developer, TON Foundation. The new feature allows for private messages to be sent between TON users.  ...

On June 26, decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator Chibi Finance was exploited by its own deployer account, and $1 million worth of cryptocurrency was drained from its contracts in an apparent rug pull or exit scam. The protocol’s official user interface disappeared, producing a 404 error, and a ...

Further details are coming to light following a July 2 attack on cross-chain bridge platform Poly Network, which has resulted in a hacker being able to issue billions of tokens out of thin air for profit.In a July 2 Twitter post, Poly Network confirmed it became the latest DeFi exploit vic ...

Privacy advocates scored a big win in June with Binance’s announcement that it was backtracking on a decision to delist privacy coins for users in a number of European countries.As a result of the move, users in Italy, Poland, Spain and France will be permitted to continue trading tokens i ...

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has burned 2.65 billion Terra Classic (LUNC) tokens in its 11th burn round.The total LUNC tokens burned by Binance now exceed 35.5 billion, with the community’s burn surpassing 68 billion. Traders have reacted positively to the burn ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The second quarter of 2023 saw over $208 million exploited and hacked from DeFi protocols, and with jus ...

Polygon Labs, creator of the Polygon network, has proposed an architecture for its forthcoming “Polygon 2.0” project. The team suggested in a June 29 blog post that the new project should be made up of four different “layers” that will combine to create a web of networks u ...

Base, a new layer 2 application-focused protocol by Coinbase, has just one criterion left to fulfill before being ready for mainnet launch.On June 29, the team said the Optimism-powered, Ethereum-secured network has been subject to six months of rigorous security audits — both intern ...

Italy’s top banking authority has called for a “robust, risk-based” regulatory framework for stablecoins, which could help prevent a worst case scenario — a “run” on stablecoins. The central bank’s recently released “Markets, Infrastruct ...

Web3 lending platform Maple Finance has announced the launch of a direct lending program, according to a June 28 fact sheet from the platform’s development team. The program is intended to replace services previously provided by Celsius, BlockFi and other now-bankrupt lenders.The fir ...

While Bitcoin (BTC) offered the world an era of true decentralization, the introduction of centralized exchanges and custodial services has lured people away from the original premise of crypto — trustlessness and self-custody. However, the collapse of major crypto exchanges such as FTX ac ...

Yield Protocol announced on June 27 that it had fully recovered from the Euler flash loan attack. Liquidity providers can now update their strategy tokens, the protocol said on Twitter. That was the last step to protocol restoration after “a long journey.”Yield Protocol was one ...

Over $204 million was lost in decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks and scams in the second quarter of 2023, according to a June 27 report from Web3 portfolio app De.Fi. The report, titled “Q2 De.Fi Rekt Report,” was partially based on data from De.Fi’s “Rekt Database.” Over $208.5 million wa ...

Transactions on the Optimism network surged 67% following its June 7 “Bedrock” upgrade, according to a June 26 Twitter thread from blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The network had been seeing less than 300,000 transactions per day before the upgrade, but this figure increased to over ...

The cryptocurrency market saw an explosion of growth during the 2021 decentralized finance (DeFi) Summer and increased fear of missing out (FOMO), which drove prices of Bitcoin (BTC) and much of the cryptocurrency market to all-time highs. During that time, the total value locked (TVL) across DeF ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Tres Finance warned the community about a scam that involves fake tokens designed to mimic legitimate transactions.In an interview, Tres Finance co-founder Tal Zackon and the company’s technical lead, Idan David, shared the details of a scam using frau ...

A renewed call from the Financial Action Task Force has asked countries to implement the “Travel Rule” to combat money laundering and terrorism financing activities enabled by cryptocurrencies.On June 23, the United Nations body — whose role is to promote strategies to co ...

A creditor of now-bankrupted crypto exchange FTX pledged a claim as collateral for a loan in the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Arcade. The transaction was the first on-chain loan backed by an FTX claim, according to the bankruptcy claims platform Found.The $31,307 claim was tokeniz ...

Creditors of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius have alleged that crypto market maker, Wintermute, assisted Celsius executives in manipulating the price of CEL (CEL) through improper market trading.According to a June 23 Bloomberg report, which cited a recent court filing, Ce ...

The vast potential of decentralized finance (DeFi) is frequently overshadowed by the risks associated with crypto markets and decentralized platforms. The lack of reliable insurance policies leads to users becoming susceptible to losing funds in the event of hacks or exploits, which is hap ...

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic has proposed upgrading the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) network to a “zkEVM validium” version, according to a June 20 forum post. If the upgrade is implemented, the new version will rely on zero-knowledge proofs to increase security. ...

Stablecoin protocol Reserve is investing $20 million into the governance tokens of yield farming apps Curve (CRV), Convex (CVX) and Stake DAO (SDT), according to a June 20 announcement. The investment is intended to increase the liquidity of Reserve’s stablecoins, called RTokens. It will also inc ...

On June 19, Ethereum block explorer and analytics platform Etherscan launched a new tool dubbed “Code Reader” that utilizes artificial intelligence to retrieve and interpret the source code of a specific contract address. After a user inputs a prompt, Code Reader generates a response via OpenAI’s ...

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has been found guilty of using a false passport by a court in Montenegro and has been sentenced to four months in prison.Kwon’s colleague and former Terraform Labs chief financial officer Han Chong-joon was charged alongside him and received the same sentence ...

Crypto has been at the mercy of an ongoing bear market that began in the spring of 2022 after a historic bull run that had investors, developers and users piling into the Web3 space. Despite interest slowing down and companies needing to adjust to the current market conditions, many i ...

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has received over $1 million in donations in slightly more 24 hours from the crypto community to pay for his legal fees in a defamation lawsuit.ZachXBT, known for his investigative work in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, has become embroiled in a ...

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has been sued for libel by one of the people he accused of fraud, according to a June 16 social media post. According to the post, Jeffrey Huang, known as “MachiBigBrother” on Twitter, has accused ZachXBT of damaging his reputation through false allegat ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.On June 15, an imbalance in Curve Finance’s 3pool led to a Tether (USDT) depeg scare as the stablecoin’ ...

Curve DAO’s governance token CRV dropped 12% on June15 after reports surfaced of risky loans taken by its founder, Michael Egorov, on Aave. The token recorded its lowest trading level against ether (ETH) at 0.00035010 ETH on June 15.According to on-chain analytics outlet LookOnChain, Egoro ...

Crypto trading platform Hashflow has assured affected users will be “made whole” following an exploit that saw at least $600,000 in digital assets removed from the platform.On June 14, blockchain security firm Peckshield reported an ongoing issue with the Hashflow trading platf ...

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has refuted accusations that Binance has been secretly selling Bitcoin (BTC) to artificially stabilize the price of its BNB (BNB) token.The rumors have come from several market commentators, including analyst Dylan LeClair and Swan Bitc ...

What makes a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) a DAO? In practice, the democratic structure of these organizations has been compromised because a number of self-purporting DAOs are operating like traditional corporations.With this in mind, developers at Delphi Labs proposed an al ...

Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer will be calling on United States officials to “nurture” and “support” responsible blockchain innovation, warning that they face “disastrous consequences” if they don't.Gün Sirer’s comments in defense of what he ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the success of Ethereum will come down to three major technical “transitions” that need to happen almost simultaneously — layer-2 scaling, wallet security and privacy-preserving features.In a June 9 post via his personal blog, ...

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is set to open its first office outside of the United States this year, adding to the backdrop of U.S.-based firms seeking greener pastures outside of the country. Chris Dixon, a16z’s crypto founder and managing partner, cited a &l ...

The United States securities regulator has in recent lawsuits designated a slate of cryptocurrencies as securities, including Algorand (ALGO) and Flow (FLOW), which hit all-time price lows following the declaration.On June 10, ALGO and FLOW hit their respective historic lows of $0.098 and ...

Real-world asset (RWA) protocols have become a hot trend within decentralized finance (DeFi) circles.An RWA protocol is a decentralized application that allows entities to tokenize and trade real-world assets. These assets range from stocks and government bonds to real estate and commoditi ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuits against two leading centralized c ...

Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm has slammed the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s attempt to redefine the term “exchange” — which if accepted, would bring decentralized exchanges under its purview. On June 8, the firm sent a lengthy 14-pag ...

Cumberland Labs, the incubator arm of Chicago-based crypto trading company Cumberland, has launched the beta version of a new API tool that could simplify the arduous task of connecting to blockchain and decentralized finance protocols.Cumberland Labs told Cointelegraph that the Cumberland ...

Ether’s price retested $1,780 after the news of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suing cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Coinbase, but it’s not preposterous to suggest that Ether bulls should be more than happy that its price did not break below the 67-day ...

Cointelegraph presents Pitch Room, a new stage in the effort to boost innovation in the crypto space, dedicated to investors interested in deal flow. Pitch Room opens doors for promising startups in the Web3 space, exploring new markets and building solutions with the potential to disrupt ...

The median trading volume across the top three decentralized exchanges (DEX) jumped 444% in the past 48 hours as crypto investors reeled from the United States securities regulator's recent legal actions against cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance.According to aggregated data fro ...

On June 6, decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Defactor Labs said that it tokenized $100 million worth of Alpha Bonds using the ERC-3643 token standard. The bonds, tokenized on the Polygon (MATIC) network, will be lent to small- and medium-sized enterprises using real-world assets, such ...

Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced an impending split that will see the company break into three distinct partnerships serving the United States, China, and Asian markets separately. The move, announced on June 6, is intended to decentralize back-office functions for ...

At least $35 million worth of crypto assets have been stolen from Atomic Wallet users since June 2, according to an analysis from on-chain sleuth ZachXBT. The five largest losses account for $17 million.According to Atomic Wallet on Twitter, the cause of the attack is being investigated. R ...

Atomic Wallet has been apparently exploited, with users on Twitter reporting complete losses of their crypto portfolios. Atomic is a noncustodial-decentralized wallet, meaning users are responsible for assets stored in the application. "We have received reports of wallets being compro ...

Ether’s (ETH) DeFi activity has declined in the bear market and the sector faces further competition from Ethereum’s annual staking reward of 4%, according to Glassnode analysts. However, a DeFi narrative is building around liquid staking derivative (LSD) tokens that could revive Ethereum’s netwo ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.May was a month filled with exit scams in the DeFi world, with over $45 million lost to exit scams, whi ...

Demox Labs has debuted a new wallet for the privacy-oriented Aleo blockchain network, according to a June 1 announcement. Called “Leo,” the wallet allows users to generate zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs within their browsers, letting them interact with Aleo’s ZK-based apps. Aleo is ...

Boosting financial inclusion is one of crypto’s strongest value propositions. Yet, ironically, the banking crisis has effectively de-banked the crypto industry itself, at least in the United States.How things panned out with Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature — the t ...

The Bitcoin network is home to a variety of data that can offer investors, academics and fans useful insights. However, those without significant IT abilities might find it difficult to obtain this data. The good news is that anyone may explore Bitcoin network data without having substantial tech ...

The amount of cryptocurrency lost to "rug pull" or "exit scams" — where founders suddenly up and leave with investors’ money — had outpaced the amount stolen from decentralized finance (DeFi) projects in May, a blockchain security firm has revealed.A June 1 report from Beosin said in May t ...

Circle recently announced plans for a June 8 launch of a new native version of its USD Coin stablecoin on the Arbitrum network.1/ Circle is launching USDC natively on @Arbitrum on June 8th! Keep scrolling or read the blog t ...

A new program from the Fantom Opera network (FTM) team will pay developers for the gas fees they generate from users, according to a May 31 announcement. Specifically, the “Gas Monetization Program” will pay eligible developers 15% of the total gas fees their apps generate. ...

Security specialists PeckShield reported that the administration of DeFi Ede Finance (EDE) acknowledged the actual possibility of manipulating the prices of crypto-assets and called the decision reckless. EDE says the company planned to create a tool to combat potential h ...

A user nicknamed Res, who described himself as a white hacker, claimed to have uncovered a trick by the El Dorado Exchange project team to eliminate any position. The hacker said on Twitter that he discovered the backdoor and managed to withdraw about $580,000 worth of as ...

Analysts at PeckShield, a company specializing in the security of cryptocurrency projects, reported on the hack of a service for decentralized finance Jimbo's Protocol. Hackers withdrew 4,090 ETH ($7.5 million). The hack was due to a lack ...

Worldcoin raised the most money at $115 million Four of the projects did not disclose the amount of investment The most active funds this week were Polygon Fund, OrangeDAO, gmjp All of them participated in two rounds of funding Here is the ...

Circle announced that its Euro Coin Stablecoin (EUROC), pegged to the euro, is supported by the Avalanche ecosystem. This will allow any transactions with EUROC between the Avalanche and Etherium networks. EUROC Stablecoin appeared ...

American billionaire and reality TV star Shark Tank offered a way for cryptocurrency issuers to avoid SEC harassment. Mark Cuban believes that cryptocurrency issuers could immediately issue their assets and use them to provide liquidity through decentralized finance (DeFi), ...

This is part of a new IRS-CI program It launches next month The IRS Investigations Division (CI) is introducing a cybercrime pilot program in June. They will send their representatives (cyber-attaches) to four continents. These specialists will fight tax and f ...

Popular decentralized exchange Uniswap conducted a survey of 1,860 American citizens. It turned out that the main obstacle to using DeFi was the complexity of the work. The report reports that many users of centralized platforms are interested in decentralized finance (De ...

Crypto exchange Bitget published its quarterly report, which outlines the company's achievements and successes in the first quarter. Bitget increased its staff by 30% and the number of BGB token holders by 146%. ...

This rule requires service providers to share customer data The FATF believes this will solve the problem of tax defaulters The bloc is expected to present a draft global regulatory framework for cryptoassets in June The Group of Seven (G7) met in Nii ...

The MRHB.Network announced that the project team has been focused on creating so-called halal and ethical decentralized DeFI products for customers from the Islamic world for the past year. In 2022, MRHB launched three halal DeFi. ...

It will include former U.S. lawmakers The council will play a key role in working with regulators Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced an advisory board that will consist of former United States lawmakers. Current members include former Senator Patrick T ...

They previously introduced the Ultimate crypto wallet And are preparing a Euro stablcoin The German startup Unstoppable Finance launches Europe's first fully regulated DeFi bank and its own stablcoin. The Berlin-based cryptocompany has been working on the mass ...

German crypto startup Unstoppable Finance announced its intention to create Europe's first fully regulated bank offering crypto assets and DeFi services to customers. The Unstoppable team announced that the bank, along with a suite of traditional financial services, will ...

Crypto exchange analysts CoinEx studied the ecosystems of crypto-assets SUI and APT, and prepared an overview of the most important characteristics of blockchains, as well as their comparative analysis. Aptos and Sui are derived from the Facebook Diem blockchain project. ...

The main leveraged asset here will be the DAI And the interest rate is chosen by vote The platform goes live today MakerDAO introduced a DeFi-like credit platform called Spark. It is based on the Aave V3 protocol, and promises unique credit solutions ...

It will be called the Civilization Kit (Civ Kit) And it will offer quick plug-and-play identification The founders already predict "the next evolution of bitcoin." Jack Dorsey's crypto company TBD partnered with Ray Youssef, co-founder of Paxful. They ...

DeFi Deus Finance project has another problem - this time hackers managed to find a vulnerability in DEI steblecoin smart contracts and withdrew $1.3 million in BSC network and over $5 million in Arbitrum network. The vulnerability was discovered in the burnFrom function. ...

Round led by Coinbase Ventures Funds are being used to launch mainnet It is planned for the third quarter of 2023 Layer-2 network zkLink announced the closing of a $10 million strategic funding round led by Coinbase Ventures. ...

CertiK, a cybersecurity and auditing firm, says more than $103 million was stolen from cryptocurrency projects during April as a result of hacking attacks. CertiK specialists tweeted a report on exploits, fraud and hacks on cryptocurrency platforms. Since the beginning of ...

Trading volume reached the $50 million mark last year The company was able to make the top 10 dApps on NEAR and Aurora Trading platform Spin, built on the Near network, is celebrating its one-year anniversary in Near Protocol mining. The team writes that they ...

GM! Binance returns to Russia, memcoins flourish on the market, and LUNA is not recognized as a security, Binance bursts into a liquid stacking with a native token, KuCoin users had $22 thousand stolen. phishing, and 4 billion Trust Wallet wallets at risk. We're also in the midst of a memcoin tre ...

The CertiK team The protocol developer took advantage of a "loophole" and withdrew 269 million OFI from the pool Probabilistic damage of around $1 million The platform was launched in late February this year The administration has now close ...

Bitget, one of the leading exchanges for trading crypto derivatives and copy trading, has released an updated version of the BGB White Paper. The new paper introduces innovative features of the BGB token, such as a burn mechanism and a BGB raffle. Bitget is also increasing the liquidity and av ...

The IRS has announced its intention to deploy its staff to multiple countries as part of its efforts to investigate cryptocurrency and DeFi-related crimes. Under a pilot program that runs from June to September 2023, the agency's crypto and cybercrime agents will be working closely with law enfor ...

Over the weekend, Hundred Finance's multi-chain lending protocol was targeted by hackers, resulting in a loss of $7 million. The PeckShield analytics platform reported that the attacker used a technique where they donated 200 WBTC to manipulate hWBTC's rate and subsequently drained the lending po ...

PeckShield, a cybersecurity agency, has reported that hackers have breached the DeFi Yearn.Finance protocol and made off with $11 million worth of cryptocurrency assets. Reports earlier indicated that the Aave V1 protocol had been hacked, but Aave developers clarified that the protocol was not co ...

On April 13th, the Ethereum developers initiated the Shanghai update on the main network, which successfully enabled the withdrawal of coins from staking. Despite initial concerns, this development did not negatively impact the value of ETH. Currently, there is approximately $32 billion worth of ...

Sei Labs, a leading Tier 1 blockchain developer, has recently raised $30 million in its latest funding round, valuing the company at $800 million. Notable investors such as Jump Crypto, Distributed Global, Multicoin Capital, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Flow Traders, Hypersphere Ventures, and Bix ...

Fortune, the renowned American business magazine, has created the Crypto 40 rating to recognize the 40 companies that have made the most significant impact on the cryptocurrency industry. These organizations have been divided into eight categories, including CeFi, TradFi, NFT, Infrastructure, Ven ...

A DeFi project called Terraport Finance was recently targeted by hackers, resulting in the theft of 9.5 million TERRA, 15 billion LUNC, and 5.5 million USTC tokens, totaling $4 million. The team behind Terraport Finance took to Twitter to inform its community of the breach and that they are activ ...

The US Department of the Treasury recently released a report that shed light on the DeFi risk assessment carried out by its agency. According to the report, such services do not comply with the necessary regulations and laws that govern traditional finance systems. Analysts from the agency poi ...

The Sentiment DeFi liquidity protocol team has recently made a public announcement regarding a significant hacking incident that took place on their platform. According to the team, the perpetrator of the cyberattack was able to successfully steal over $500,000 worth of digital assets. However ...

According to data on the Ethereum blockchain, Sentiment's DeFi liquidity protocol was compromised by attackers who managed to withdraw over $500,000 worth of cryptocurrency. The Sentiment team acknowledged the "potential issue" on Twitter and took steps to limit the risk of further loss by restri ...

An unidentified individual had managed to penetrate Allbridge's bridge and extracted digital assets worth $573,000. However, the perpetrator was willing to give back the majority of the funds to the initiative. The developers received 1,500 BNB (approximately $465,000) from an anonymous donor, wh ...

According to data from PeckShield, cyber attackers managed to steal a total of $211.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies and $10.9 million worth of NFTs in March of this year. One of the most significant attacks occurred at Euler Finance DeFi, where hackers exploited a vulnerability in the protoco ...

The editors of BeInCrypto have compiled a list of the five most promising altcoins in April. Upcoming events in their ecosystems can support the positive dynamics of these coins The list of the most promising altcoins in April includes Ethereum (ETH), PancakeSwap (CAKE) and iExec RLC (RLC), which ...

The DeFi protocol Euler Finance has experienced an unexpected twist in the history of its hacker attack. The hacker responsible for the breach has issued an apology and promised to return all the stolen funds. In a message added to the transaction, the hacker wrote, "I screwed up. I didn't want t ...

Disney Corporation has recently closed its Metaverse division as part of a wider restructuring plan. The company aims to reduce operating costs by $5.5 billion and cut 7,000 jobs within the next two months. Reports suggest that the Metaverse Research Department, which employed approximately 50 pe ...

The group responsible for the hack of DeFi lending platform Euler Finance and the theft of $197 million has reportedly recovered most of the stolen assets. As of March 25, the hackers had returned 51,000 ETH, which is equivalent to about $88 million, and another transfer was made on the same day ...

The Avalanche project has encountered dual issues as both Network C and Network X are facing problems simultaneously. Network C, which supports DeFi applications, experienced an hour-long outage, while Network X, dedicated to transferring funds, is encountering transaction delays. The uniquene ...

Euler Finance, a DeFi lending platform that operates on the Ethereum blockchain, could be inching closer to retrieving the funds that were stolen during a hack, as negotiations with the hackers have reportedly commenced. Back in March, Euler Finance fell victim to a hack in which hackers were abl ...

Bitget, a Seychelles-based exchange that specializes in cryptocurrency derivatives, has recently announced an expansion of its partnership with the BitKeep decentralized multi-chain wallet development team. By combining their strengths in both DeFi and CeFi solutions, the two partners aim to enha ...

BlockSec security experts successfully thwarted an attempted theft of 2,900 ether worth $5 million from Paraspace's decentralized lending protocol, which allows users to lend and borrow crypto assets on the Ethereum blockchain. The vulnerability in the platform's lending protocol allowed hackers ...

DefiLlama, a blockchain data analytics platform, has hit a rough patch as its team members have split over disagreements on the launch of its native token. The platform had hinted at a possible token giveaway after hitting a trading volume of $5 billion. However, some employees rejected the plan, ...

Euler Labs, a DeFi protocol, has fallen victim to a recent hack, resulting in the loss of almost $200 million. In an attempt to recover some of the stolen funds, the developers of the protocol have made a bold move by approaching the hacker directly. The developers requested that 90% of the fu ...

The DeFi protocol smart contracts of the Hedera project have suffered a significant loss of $5 million following a recent hacker attack and the subsequent suspension of Hedera's services. DeFiLlama's analysts reported a 16.8% decrease in Hedera's total value locked (TVL) from $29.6 million to $24 ...

The unanimous approval of the proposal to freeze BUSD reserves in the Ethereum Aave V2 pool took effect on February 27th. According to comments posted on the official DeFi AAVE protocol resource, the decision to block Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoins was made despite the fact that BUSD is not a borrow ...

On Monday, February 20th, the world's largest crypto exchange made an announcement regarding the delisting of three tokens from its platform - Anchor Protocol (ANC), Mirror Protocol (MIR), and Aion (AION). The news caused a rapid decline in the value of these cryptocurrencies. Binance stated that th ...