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Galaxy Digital Posts $134M First-Quarter Profit on Strong Showing for Crypto Market
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How Deus Finance Was Exploited for $13.4M on Fantom
On the other end, liquidity pools, such as the USDC and DEI pool on Deus, rely on so-called oracles to ensure they are correctly priced at all times and any borrowing is within limits that don’t exceed the total value of those pools. Oracles are blockchain-based tools that provide smart contracts with trusted external information. These are required because blockchains can immutably store data, but can’t verify if the input data are accurate. Source
Bybit donates $134M to BitDAO and integrates Arbitrum
The news about crypto derivatives exchange Bybit was two-fold Thursday, as the company announced via Twitter its $134 million contribution to the BitDAO Treasury in the form of Ether (ETH), Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), as well as the completion of the integration of Ethereum layer-2 solution Arbitrum. Currently, BitDAO has one of the largest decentralized treasuries and it recently funded a $200M zkDAO to further build on zkSync and scale Ethereum. Bybit’s investment attests to its confidence in BitDAO to lead and support DeFi projects. Bybit joins other…
Decentralized design platform Moralis raises $13.4M in seed funding from EQT Ventures
Moralis, a platform that powers decentralized applications, or DApps, announced Thursday that it has received a $13.4-million investment from EQT ventures. The company said that it expects to use this seed capital for product development and corporate expansion. Moralis seeks to provide the blockchain space with a unique user-friendly interface solely for front-end development, while the company and its developers handle the entire back end. The software can also provide complex services such as node management, authentication and transaction indexing — which are needed for cross-chain networks, layer-two solutions and Web…
Pantera Raises $134M for Its Bitcoin Fund
Cryptocurrency firm Pantera Capital has raised $134 million for its bitcoin fund, according to a form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Formed in 2013, the Pantera Bitcoin Fund Ltd. was the first U.S.-based bitcoin fund. In an investor letter at the end of 2017, Pantera boasted a 25,004% return on the fund, mainly due to the bitcoin bull run of that year. Recently, CoinDesk discovered that Pantera’s venture funds hadn’t fared well in comparison to the S&P 500. The venture funds Pantera Capital raised in August…