June 7, 2022, marks Cake DeFi’s third anniversary. Reviewing its achievements, the Singapore-based financial technology platform noted that it has managed to record tremendous growth despite the bearish trends, averaging almost 90% quarter-on-quarter since its launch in 2019. Cake DeFi Pays $317M in Rewards to Users Cake DeFi also revealed in a press release that...Read More
Chainlink – a blockchain oracle platform – recently announced that its price feed technology has been launched on the Solana network. This information will help Solana defi developers use live price information for various financial services. The oracle platform has announced that seven price feeds will be made available for Solana developers. These include BTC/USD,...Read More
DeFi Land, a multi-chain agriculture simulation gaming project built on the Solana blockchain, has unveiled its first play-to-earn game created to gamify all aspects of decentralized finance (DeFi). DeFi Land Launches New P2E Game As per the press release shared with CryptoPotato, the game, scheduled to go live on May 18th at 8 PM UTC,...Read More
DoraHacks, a global hacker movement and Web 3.0 developer community, has raised $20 million in a Series B1 funding round to help accelerate the growth of its Web 3.0 platform. DoraHacks Raises $20M The round was led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures, with participation from Circle Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Sky9 Capital, Crypto.com...Read More
Industry analytics firm DappRadar has just released a report on the situation, and it doesn’t look pretty. On May 13, the firm reported that DeFi’s total value locked (TVL) is down more than 40% over the past seven days. It stated that the slump had been caused by investors flipping tokens into stablecoins in preparation...Read More
Since the 21st of November 2021, the team at Polkadot has conducted regular DOT-based auctions for one of the coveted slots in their parachain network. There are plans for 100 parachain slots, give or take. Auctions for the first 41 have already been planned, with one happening roughly every ten days. The 16th auction started...Read More
Prominent decentralized finance protocol, Bancor has announced the launch of its v3, dubbed Bancor 3. The release on the mainnet comes six months after the project first shared the details of features. Bancor 3 Goes Live According to the official blog post, Bancor’s latest version is focused on encouraging broad and sustainable involvement in on-chain...Read More
Famous rapper Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus (aka “ChampMedici”) have partnered with MOBLAND to launch digital weed farm NFTs in the Metaverse. The virtual items will pioneer an all-new “grow to earn” feature, among various other utilities for business buildings and land. The Beginning of NFT 3.0 According to MOBLAND co-founder Roy Liu,...Read More
Nessa Risley, an Uniswap user from North Carolina, invested about $10,400 on low-cap digital tokens such as EthereumMax, Matrix Samurai, and Rocket Bunny between May and July of last year. The trader has since experienced “substantial losses” and thus sought justice through legal action. On April 4, Risley launched the legal proceedings, alleging that Uniswap...Read More
Crypto research and portfolio tracker, CoinStats, raised $3.2 million in the latest funding round led by Alex Pack’s Hack VC. Other participants also included a myriad of other funds, including Mike Dudas’s 6th Man Ventures. The funding will be deployed to develop new features to expand DeFi to millions of users. CoinStats’ DeFi Expansion As...Read More
OpenZeppelin, a security audit company for Coinbase, identified $15B rugpull vulnerabilities in Convex Finance, whose anonymous developers later resolved the risk. The surprising discovery occurred during a security review of the Convex Finance protocol. A Bug Only Exploitable From the Inside The Security Research Team from OpenZeppelin found in late 2021 that a significant bug...Read More
Ronin – an EVM blockchain for play-to-earn games – recently fell victim to one of the largest hacks in the history of crypto. A whopping 173,600 ETH was drained from Ronin bridge within the last week, alongside another 25.5M USDC. According to a community alert issued by Ronin, the hack occurred due to Ronin validator...Read More
Not one, but two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols – Agave and Hundred Finance – were exploited in a fresh case of a “re-entrancy” attack. The hacker reportedly managed to siphon funds worth $11 million in Wrapped ETH, Wrapped BTC, Chainlink, USDC, Gnosis, and Wrapped XDAI on both DeFi protocols on the Gnosis chain using a...Read More
On March 8, Cega Finance announced that it had raised $4.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital Partners. There was also participation from various DeFi and crypto VCs, including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, and Solana Ventures. The platform, founded by former UBS derivatives trader Arisa Toyosaki, now has a valuation...Read More
The Singapore-based financial technology company – Cake DeFi – introduced its corporate venture arm, called Cake DeFi Ventures. With $100 million in earmarked capital, the feature will enable the firm to interact with Web3, gaming, and fintech startups. In addition, Cake DeFi partnered with The Edge of Company to hop on the NFT bandwagon. The...Read More
Ramani Ramachandran, co-founder and chief executive of Router Protocol, believes that the integration will help advance the mission of achieving a multi-blockchain future. Router Protocol – Avalanche Singapore-headquartered Router Protocol has integrated Avalanche network’s C-Chain to its cross-chain messaging protocol. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the development will enable users to...Read More
1inch Network – a protocol that unites decentralized projects – launched a spot price aggregator to extract data for assets traded on DEXs on the blockchain. The tool provides a liquidity-weighted average of token spot prices. To avoid issues within transactions, 1inch recommended using it off-chain. 1inch’s Newest Instrument In a recent document seen by...Read More
Helsinki-based Sulake is set to leverage Ethereum’s layer 2 scaling solution – Immutable X. The main objective behind the move is to foster the NFT experience for its online community of over 500,000 monthly active Habbo users across the world. Web 3 And Carbon Neutral NFT Experience According to the press release shared with CryptoPotato,...Read More
Open source and decentralized protocol ssv.network has received $10 million in funding from its DAO partners to ramp up the decentralized staking infrastructure for Ethereum 2.0 ahead of the upcoming Merge. ssv.network Receives $10M ssv.network said in a press release that it received the funds through its DAO Partner Program, an initiative the project launched...Read More
The 1inch Network launched a new investment tool called 1inch Earn, in hopes of incentivizing liquidity providers. The protocol asserted in a press release shared with CryptoPotato that the new feature will provide more efficient use of capital compared to AMM pools. How Does 1inch Earn Liquidity Pool Work? A set of liquidity pools optimized...Read More
Following its successful launch on the Polkadot Mainnet this week, Acala, an Ethereum-compatible DeFi protocol for scaling dApps, has revealed what lies ahead for the project. Acala’s Core Products Coming Soon The Acala team noted in an official press release seen by CryptoPotato that it intends to begin launching all of its core products soon....Read More
Continuing with its push for “the best deals across the blockchain space,” the 1inch Network has announced the deployment of its latest aggregation and limit-order protocols on Avalanche and Gnosis Chain. Conquest of the DeFi The DEX aggregator termed the new partnerships a continuation of its conquest of the DeFi space. In a press release...Read More
The decentralized finance protocol OlympusDAO collaborated with Balancer to set up OHM as a liquid asset within the latter’s network. CopperLaunch and PrimeDAO will facilitate the front end of the Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs) by adding OHM as a collateral token. The Specifics of The Project According to a document seen by CryptoPotato, the decentralized...Read More
Quantum-resistant Layer 1 hybrid blockchain platform, QANplatform, has announced the launch of its public TestNet, making it the first Ethereum compatible quantum-resistant blockchain platform. World’s First Quantum-Resistant Blockchain According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, users can now add the QAN TestNet to MetaMask and transact with testnet tokens due to the network’s compatibility...Read More
Itheum, a metaverse project based on the Elrond network, recently secured $1.5 million in funding from a single investor – Morningstar Ventures. This seed round would enable the project to pursue its roadmap. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the funding round is part of a $15 million initiative from Morningstar, which launched...Read More
Animoca Brands subsidiary, Lympo, an NFT platform that specializes in the minting of sports-related collectibles, has lost $18 million to a hack of several of its hot wallets. According to a Medium post that announced the breach of security, the team stated that it lost 165.2 million LMT tokens after a hacker gained access to...Read More
According to a Friday PR, Gaming platform Overwolf is making an investment in SYN CITY, a blockchain-based Mafia Metaverse gaming platform, which is formally opening on January 8. With over 95,000 creators, Overwolf is a significant player in user-generated gaming content. SYN CITY is a brand new platform built on blockchain and intends to offer...Read More
Mintverse, an NFT aggregator and marketplace consisting of several peer-to-peer features, outlined a new version of its digital collection tracking solution. The project promised to enhance the global adoption of non-fungible tokens through some of the platform upgrades. Mintverse’s Community Driven Metadata Version The statement shared with CryptoPotato reads that the “revamped” version of Mintverse’s...Read More
In an announcement on Dec. 22, Uniswap Labs reported that it had launched the DEX on the Polygon network. Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic submitted a proposal to Uniswap governance in November to deploy Uniswap v3 on Polygon, and it was voted in last week. It had overwhelming support, with more than 72 million UNI tokens...Read More
The funding round will help SPACE Metaverse to develop an economic backbone of Metaverse. Metaverse is the word for 2021. As the concept slowly moves closer to reality, high-profile establishments are betting big on it. Capital is flowing at a rapid pace. In the latest development, SPACE, a metaverse dedicated to arts and commerce, has...Read More
