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steal $6.2 million worth of BUSD, the Binance native USD-pegged stablecoin converted to ETH via 1inch DEX and partially withdrawn from Binance Smart Chain onto Ethereum.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
Huobi Group, the holding company of the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi Global, has recently launched a new subsidiary geared towards decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and mergers and acquisitions. Huobi Devotes $100M to DeFi In a Thursday press release shared with CryptoPotato, the company noted that it has already deployed $100 million to...Read More
deFIRE is a decentralized smart order routing engine being built for the Cardano ecosystem incubated and supported by Occam and powered by the industry leader in cross-chain liquidity provision, Changelly. It offers execution services across decentralized exchanges (DEX) such as token swaps, order routing services across DEXs, and providing intermediary services between order flow originators...Read More
E-commerce giant eBay has become the first in its industry to catch the non-fungible tokens (NFT) mania, as the company is now allowing the sale of NFTs on its platform. According to Reuters on Tuesday (May 11, 2021), eBay said that it would enable the sale of NFTs for digital collectibles such as video clips,...Read More
The automatic market maker (AMM) running on top of Ethereum, Balancer, announced that Version 2 of its platform is already live. It promises lower gas costs, a redesigned interface, and an enhanced user experience. Balancer V2 Arrives Built on Ethereum, Balancer is a DeFi protocol enabling users to trade ether and ERC-20 tokens in a...Read More
QANPlatform – a project that is on a mission of building a quantum-resistant hybrid blockchain protocol, secured investment from various venture capital funds to build a DeFi ecosystem. QAN Successfully Closes a Funding Round of $2.1 Million The question of whether or not existing blockchain-based PoW networks would stand the test of a quantum computer...Read More
DeFi protocol Rari Capital plans to reimburse its affected users after a hacker managed to exploit its liquidity pool, draining 10 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) – around 60% of users’ funds. Jai Bhavnani, Rari Capital CEO, said the protocols’ core contributors have agreed to return 2 million of their $RGT —which was initially allocated...Read More
Ethereum layer-two protocol, Metis, announced that they’ve successfully closed $4 million in a brand new funding round. $4 Million of Funding for ETH Layer Two Solution Metis Metis is an Ethereum layer-two protocol. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the company managed to raise another $4 million in a growth round that was...Read More
May 5 is the day that Uniswap announced for the launch of its latest version 3 upgrade. The new version will introduce a number of new features targeting capital efficiency. Layer 2 scaling is not included in this upgrade but will be launched soon according to Uniswap Labs. Some of the upgrades in version 3...Read More
Reef Finance, the cross-chain DeFi operating system, has launched its platform for initial DEX offerings (IDOs) called ReefStarter. The new product will focus on projects from the decentralized finance space, allowing them to swap tokens cheaply and rapidly. ReefStarter Going Live Describing itself as the “first cross-chain DeFi operating network,” Reef Finance enables traders to...Read More
Spartan Protocol, a DeFi project on Binance Smart Chain, was exploited for over $30.5m. The hacker’s whereabouts are unknown, and a second version of Spartan Protocol is currently being rebuilt with implemented bug fixes. What is/was Spartan Protocol? Spartan Protocol provided a platform for incentivized liquidity and synthetic assets. The SPARTA token had an internal...Read More
The Binance Smart Chain powered DEX has surged in popularity in recent months as DeFi newbies flock to the platform to avoid paying heavy gas fees on Ethereum. Figures from on-chain data providers indicate that the record figures for BSC and PancakeSwap have indeed surpassed that of the Ethereum network, despite its record price high...Read More
As the bull market rages on, it’s easy to get caught up in success stories. However, it’s paramount to know that it’s not all rainbow and butterflies – losses happen, and they hurt, especially if you’re not prepared or overtrade. An investor tweeted about how he lost his entire $185k portfolio in just 3 weeks....Read More
Jigstack, a DeFi project aiming to govern high-quality revenue-generating network solutions on Ethereum, has successfully raised $3 million in private and public funding rounds. The protocol plans to utilize the funds to build the DAO of the decentralized finance sphere. Jigstack Raises $3M in Funding Rounds Describing itself as the “missing piece of DeFi,” Jigstack...Read More
Polygon, an easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, has recently launched a $100 million fund intended to improve the accessibility of the decentralized finance (DeFi) space to more users. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the fund, known as “#DeFiforAll,” is geared toward effectively introducing millions of users to the various...Read More
$50 million worth of various cryptocurrencies has disappeared from the automated market maker platform running on the Binance Smart Chain – Uranium Finance. While the team behind the project claims the funds were stolen, the cryptocurrency community speculates of a possible rug pull. $50M Gone From Uranium Finance The DeFi project took it to Twitter...Read More
Reef Finance has announced that its Substrate-based mainnet will see the light of day in May 2021. Called Reef Chain, it promises to “make DeFi easy” by enabling developers to use a highly scalable and fully EVM-compatible network that’s integrated into the Polkadot ecosystem. Reef Chain Coming in May Reef Finance is a cross-chain DeFi...Read More
There has been no denying the surge in popularity for the largest platform running on Binance’s Ethereum rivaling blockchain. PancakeSwap continues to pull in new DeFi users and those that are making smaller transactions. A Dappradar report on April 21 stated that the DEX has now surpassed the entire Ethereum network for transactions in a...Read More
French game publisher Ubisoft has partnered with Tezos, becoming an official corporate validator node on its blockchain. Nomadic Labs, a research and development team within the Tezos ecosystem, announced the partnership via Twitter. 🎮@Ubisoft is exploring #Tezos technology by becoming a corporate baker. 👋 Welcome to the ecosystem!Read the announcement: https://t.co/ZM1IzBTVCM#blockchain #DigitalTransformation #crypto #Ubisoft pic.twitter.com/6wKCQIFAOJ...Read More
The ecosystem of the Binance Smart Chain continues to expand. With a range of available applications spanning various segments of the industry, BSC has recently reached another milestone, with its daily transactions being 200% more than these on Ethereum. The ecosystem is bound to expand even more following the recent inclusion of KeyFi to the...Read More
Deutsche Telekom has invested in Celo, an open-sourced proof of stake (PoS) blockchain designed to allow mobile phone access to decentralized finance projects. The German telecommunication giant is the first such company to join the Celo network. Deutsche Telekom Invests in The Future of DeFi Founded in 1995, Deutsche Telekom is the largest telecommunications provider...Read More
DAO Maker, whose token sale launchpad has incubated a wave of heavily oversubscribed IDOs, is bringing its model to the TRON network. A partnership between TRON and DAO Maker will bring the latter’s formula to the blockchain network founded by Justin Sun and now centered around DeFi. Token launchpads have been one of the biggest...Read More
The popular blockchain investment company Hashed has taken part in the seed round of Contxts – the operator of the NFT portfolio manager NFTBank. $1.4 Million Investment in NFTBank NFTBank is a platform that provides asset management services of NFT assets from various projects such as League of Kingdoms, Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, and so forth. It...Read More
In an announcement on April 13, the Switzerland-based non-custodial crypto company stated that it was now fully integrated with THORChain, enabling users to trade native Bitcoin with Litecoin and Ethereum for the first time. The move is a big deal because it is the first time a decentralized exchange has enabled crypto asset swaps across...Read More
The popular multi-asset DeFi platform powered by Kava Labs has optimized its network with the release of the Kava 5.1 upgrade. The company cited enhanced earnings from lending and decreased risks as the main benefits from the update. Kava 5.1 Arrives The software protocol enabling its users to utilize multiple crypto assets to borrow and...Read More
IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain. Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as...Read More
