The team behind the Binance Smart Chain has decided to launch another season of the Most Valuable Builder program. It aims to accelerate the developments in several sectors, including DeFi and GamingFi, and ten projects will have the chance to receive funding. BSC MVB Program Season Three Ever since the launch of the Binance Smart...Read More
According to the Poly Network, the hackers behind one of the industry’s largest-ever crypto heists have returned more than a third of stolen $613 million loot. In a tweet on August 12, the DeFi protocol announced that it had received $260 million returned from the attackers. It also stated that there were $353 million outstanding...Read More
The interoperability protocol PolyNetwork has been exploited on Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Ethereum. The perpetrators have set a record within the decentralized finance space by swiping more than $600 million from at least three wallet addresses. Earlier on August 10th, PolyNetwork announced on its Twitter account that it had experienced a security breach. Important...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission has targeted the Cayman Island-based Blockchain Credit Partners (BCP), along with Gregory Keough and Derek Acree, for selling unregistered securities from February 2020 to February 2021. $30 Million Trough Token Sales According to a recent press release, the executives allegedly used smart contracts to sell two types of tokens that...Read More
Although he made his fortune trading penny stocks and manipulating the markets, Jordan Belfort, the trader who inspired the iconic movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is currently not very happy with a lot of what’s going on with the crypto industry. In a recent interview he explained in detail what excites him and what...Read More
The banking giant filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 26 for a DeFi ETF that would offer exposure to public companies. According to the filing, the proposed fund called the “Goldman Sachs Innovate DeFi and Blockchain Equity ETF”, seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond to the...Read More
Ampleforth – the algorithmic stablecoin with elastic supply – has been introduced in Aave’s lending ecosystem. Ampleforth (AMPL) Now Included in Aave While most stablecins have a stable peg, Ampleforth (AMPL) is doing things differently. It’s designed in a way where the algorithm chases a target price and readjusts the overall supply. If the price...Read More
The cross-chain DeFi protocol THORChain suffered another major hack for $8 million. Last week the protocol was drained with a further $8.3 million in a separate attack. THORChain Got Hit Again The decentralized cross-chain exchange THORChain experienced a “sophisticated attack” on its ETH Router. The protocol announced on Twitter that this time the perpetrators drained...Read More
The Acala Foundation has recently announced the launch of its decentralized exchange (DEX), Karura Swap on the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystem, with its so-called “first trustless trading pair” KSM/KAR already available for trading. Over $3.4M in TLV In a Friday announcement, Acala noted that the KSM/KAR pair currently has over $3 million in Total Value...Read More
Both crypto traders and investors are concerned about the current state of the crypto market. SHIB desperately requires institutional backing to survive in this environment for a longer period of time, as the community and sentiments are proving insufficient. The entire crypto market, on the other hand, was on the edge of collapse before hitting...Read More
Wyre, a blockchain payments provider, announced today that developers around the world are now able to provide USDC stablecoin to customers in the Polygon ecosystem. The feature was made possible through a partnership with Polygon. Wyre Integrates With Polygon Wyre said in a press release shared with CryptoPotato that the integration of its Checkout API...Read More
Tether, the company behind the biggest stablecoin by means of total market cap – USDT – has announced that CREAM Finance has become the first DeFi protocol to support their Euro-pegged EURt token. According to a recent press release, CREAM Finance – a well-known DeFi protocol, has become the first to integrate Tether’s EURt stablecoin...Read More
The popular digital asset exchange CryptoCom has introduced a new testnet of its EVN chain called Cronos. The project is the company’s DeFi-oriented child aiming to scale the ecosystem by enabling developers to port apps from Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains. CryptoCom Announces Cronos According to the press release shared with CryptoPotato, the Ethereum Virtual Machine...Read More
Grayscale announced the release of its latest product called Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund to enable institutional investors to receive exposure to assets from that particular space. Some of the tokens represented in the fund will be Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE), and Compound (COMP). Launched in 2013, Grayscale has become the largest digital asset manager with...Read More
Spores Network, a new creator-centric NFT and DeFi platform, has announced that it raised about $2.3 million from investors in a just-completed funding round. Cardano’s First Full-Stack DeFi Platform In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Spores noted that it is stepping up its game to become the first full-stack NFT and DeFi platform to...Read More
THORChain is the latest DeFi project to be exploited, with estimations showing that the hackers might have swooped up to $7.6 million in digital assets. The team behind the decentralized exchange promised to make whole all affected users and requested the perpetrators to contact them to discuss the return of funds. THORChain highlighted the hack...Read More
Details were thin on the ground in Dorsey’s July 15 tweet, but the company CEO said that it would launch a platform for developers to create non-custodial decentralized finance projects built around Bitcoin. Twitter CEO Dorsey added that the project will be completely open-source, just like its new Bitcoin hardware wallet. He continued to state...Read More
Gaming developers employing the services of Community Gaming will be able to take advantage of enhanced scalability through a new collaboration with the popular blockchain-based Layer 2 protocol – Polygon. Community Gaming Partners with Polygon Describing itself as an “all-in-one platform offering esports infrastructure to all key stakeholders in the industry,” Community Gaming is a...Read More
Barely two days since the launch of ShibaSwap, a DeFi platform coming from the popular Ethereum-based meme project, Shiba Inu, more than $1.5 billion worth of assets have been locked on the exchange. ShibaSwap Records $1.5 in TVL As with many DeFi projects, ShibaSwap also introduced a yield farming program that allows users to stake...Read More
In a bid to equip decentralized application (dApp) developers with the necessary tools for maximum production, Ethereum blockchain developer platform Alchemy has announced a partnership with Polygon to enhance the network’s capabilities. Alchemy Integrates Polygon The firm made the announcement today, stating that the move would supercharge the development of Polygon and the Ethereum network. ...Read More
While a slew of DeFi tokens are surging in value, the ‘Dogecoin Killer’ Shiba Inu has topped the Ethereum network in terms of gas usage, suggesting a strong connection between the two. Shiba Swap and the ensuing DeFi Wave Earlier yesterday, SHIB (the official Twitter account for the SHIBA ecosystem) announced that Shiba Swap had...Read More
Following another drop to around $33,000, bitcoin has bounced off and neared $35,000 once again. The alternative coins, especially some connected to the DeFi sector, have seen more substantial gains, with Uniswap rising 11% and Aave and Compound jumping by more than 20%. DeFi Coins Surge by Double-Digits After marking minor losses yesterday, most of...Read More
Balancer is one of the pioneers in the DeFi space and a core building block of its infrastructure. The protocol allows for efficient trading by pooling crowdsourced liquidity from investor portfolios while also identifying the best available price. Data from Token Terminal reveals the growth of the platform in terms of total value locked over...Read More
The popular DeFi project Balancer Protocol has joined the fight against high fees by launching on the Layer-2 solution – Polygon. Upon the transition from Ethereum, Balancer also announced new token incentives, which came into effect from June 28th. Balancer Joins Polygon Promising to “turn the concept of an index fund on its head,” Balancer...Read More
The billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has gone big into crypto and DeFi. In a blog post titled “The Brilliance of Yield Farming, Liquidity Providing, and Valuing Crypto Projects,” he has simplified the process of liquidity provision and yield farming. DeFi yield farming exploded onto the scene in mid-2020 when the Compound Finance protocol...Read More
The Federated Byzantine Agreement-based (FBA) network, Flare, has announced the completion of another funding round in which it raised over $11 million. Kenetic Capital led the investment as some of the notable names that participated included Digital Currency Group, Coinfund, LD Capital, Wave Financial, and Borderless Capital. Flare Raises $11M Built as a scalable, decentralized...Read More
The hacker managed to steal $6.2 million worth of BUSD, the Binance native USD-pegged stablecoin converted to ETH via 1inch DEX and partially withdrawn from Binance Smart Chain onto Ethereum. This hack was comparatively benign: only $6.2 million was stolen from Belt Finance’s massive $2.6 billion total value locked (TVL). The beltBUSD vault uses four...Read More
Another protocol employing the Binance Smart Chain has suffered a security breach. This time, it was the decentralized exchange BurgerSwap, and the perpetrators stole over $7 million through a flash loan attack. $7.2M Drained From BurgerSwap Launched earlier this year, BurgerSwap is a DeFi project enabling users to swap between tokens issued on the BSC...Read More
Speaking to Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano, the Shark Tank star said that DeFi will play a key role in the future of crypto and that he is deeply interested in the space. The revelations were made in Pomp’s May 24 Bitcoin podcast and were picked up by mainstream media highlighting that another investment...Read More
Blockchain-based project Revuto has entered into a strategic partnership with Cardano and will launch its decentralized application on top of the latter’s blockchain. Both parties aim to enhance recurring DLT-based payments for various subscriptions, including movies, music, cosmetics, food, and more. Revuto Goes on Cardano By utilizing blockchain technology, Revuto enables its users to “save...Read More
