Sushi to test Bitcoin swaps and Opyn DeFi protocol founders cave to CFTC pressure: Finance Redefined

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 ...

Sushi taps into ZetaChain to begin testing native Bitcoin DeFi swaps

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 ...

Fantom Developers Introduce Monetization Program for Cryptocurrency Projects

Fantom developers said that cryptocurrency projects that use this blockchain and contribute to high fees will now receive 15% of the transaction fee. Fantom-based projects will need to submit a special application for additional monetization. The developers stressed th ...

Fantom Foundation Temporarily Withdraws from SushiSwap Liquidity Pools Over Multichain Security Concerns

Director of Fantom Foundation announced that the fund has temporarily withdrawn from liquidity pools on SushiSwap due to security concerns with the Multichain Bridge. Andre Cronje stated that "if something negative does happen, it will affect USDC, DAI and wBTC issued in ...

Fantom Foundation Withdraws $2.4 Million from MULTI Amid Multichain Uncertainty

Foundation withdrew $2.4 million of MULTI André Cronje said it was due to the uncertainty surrounding Multichain He added that the tokens are sitting on the wallet, no one has sold them The protocol is currently still idle Director of Fant ...

Allbridge Hack Victims Begin Receiving Refunds for Stolen Funds

According to the Allbridge project team, users who were affected by the hack that occurred in early April are now receiving their funds back. The team announced that the first round of return payments was completed between April 5 and 9. For those who were not included in this first round, the ...

South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Gdac Hacked, Loses $14 Million

Reports indicate that Gdac, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, was the target of a recent cyberattack. The hackers managed to withdraw around $14 million, which accounts for 23% of the total assets that the exchange holds. The stolen funds included 61 BTC, 350.5 ETH, 10 million Wemix toke ...

Tether Blacklists Address of Hacker Who Stole $25M in Cryptocurrencies

Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has taken steps against an attacker who recently stole $25 million worth of cryptocurrencies from MEV bots through the use of a Sandwich method attack. The hacker took advantage of a security vulnerability in the decentralized exchange Uniswap on the Eth ...

SushiSwap Hacked: Hackers Withdraw More Than $3.3M in Smart Contract Breach

The decentralized exchange SushiSwap recently experienced a security breach resulting in hackers exploiting a vulnerability in the RouteProcessor2 smart contract. The hackers were able to withdraw over $3.3 million from the platform before the issue was identified. The CEO of SushiSwap, Jared ...

Reunit Wallet Launches Public Token Sale for Its Cross-Chain Wallet

After a successful beta testing and completion of a private token sale, the team behind Reunit Wallet, founded by a former Sushiswap protocol developer, is now launching a public token sale. This groundbreaking project claims to be the first-ever omni-chain wallet that uses technology from the cr ...

Decentralized Exchange SushiSwap and CEO Subpoenaed by SEC

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a subpoena to the CEO and the decentralized exchange SushiSwap. The exchange's chef announced the news and stated that they are cooperating with the SEC and will not be commenting on any ongoing legal investigations. To cover legal cos ...