One of the pools drained in the attack contained ether (ETH) and alETH, an ether derivative issued by Alchemix, a DeFi lending platform. Before the attack, the pool held 7,259 ETH and 4,822 alETH, Alchemix said. Then, the exploiter drained the majority of the tokens, leaving only 1 ETH and 3,856 alETH. Source
The 2020s have been a challenging decade so far, yet the transformative power of blockchain technology offers a better path forward. Born from crisis Around the globe, times are tough for many everyday people. Increases in cost of living minimized any growth in wages last year as inflation continues to take its toll. Additionally, world powers such as China and Russia are increasingly challenging the dominance of the USD as geopolitical tensions flare up. In this precarious new world, decentralized cryptocurrencies can potentially be a source of stability and freedom.…
Google Cloud has joined forces with a Web3 startup to develop user-centric developer tools for decentralized finance (DeFi) to lower the barrier of entry into the decentralized world. The DeFi infrastructure provider Orderly Network has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop off-chain components of DeFi infrastructure focused on tackling self-custody and transparency challenges. Orderly will be a DeFi infrastructure provider, available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud told Cointelegraph that the partnership was struck in light of increasing interest from clients exploring blockchain workloads on Google Cloud. Rishi Ramchandani,…
September 13, 2023 – Road Town, British Virgin Islands Premia Blue, the first-of-its-kind DeFi options exchange, is now live on Arbitrum. Designed for traders and liquidity providers across all experience levels, Premia Blue offers unparalleled capital efficiency, user functionality and composability in the DeFi space. Traders are now open to fully customizable European-style crypto options with market-driven pricing and dual trading modes – AMM and Orderbook. It’s the only options platform in DeFi where products are composable no matter the preferred trading method. Premia Blue opens the world to traders…
“More and more, we’re seeing corporations who want to participate on-chain in some way, whether that’s by doing an NFT drop, or, in some cases, even voting in DAOs,” Kevin Johnson, vice president of institutional sales and trading at Coinbase, said Tuesday on CoinDesk TV. “But they need a safe way to do that.” Source
“An important differentiator is what we as a regulated custodian can and cannot do,” Gebbing said. “What you will not find, for example, is that we just connect Finoa wallets to any kind of decentralized app out there, permissionless DeFi and whatnot. It’s really a filtered, curated set of d’apps that you can work with.” Source
A decentralized finance (DeFi) advocacy body has petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to review a patent owned by a company it has accused of being a a “patent troll” — a firm that aims to profit from patent lawsuits. In a Sept. 11 blog post, the DeFi Education Fund (DEF) said on Sept. 7 that it filed an over 90-page petition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a bid to cancel a patent owned by True Return Systems. Granted in 2018, the patent lays…
In its press release, the CFTC was specific about the labels it would have applied to the DeFi apps. Opyn, for instance, a type of decentralized insurance provider, should have had licenses for a “swap execution facility” (SEF) and “designated contract market” (DCM) as well as a “futures commission merchant” (FCM), the agency wrote. Source
One possible reason behind the strong surge in Freind.tech’s user activity is due to several non-crypto personalities joining the platform recently. Decentralized social platform Friend.tech is once again gaining major traction with the total value locked (TVL) shooting to more than $20 million in the last four days. The development comes within two weeks of critics declaring the platform “dead” after the activity on the platform started to “fizzle out”. Nonetheless, Friend.tech has experienced a notable resurgence in activity in recent days, with the app recording a daily trading volume…
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. The past week in the DeFi ecosystem was filled with ups and downs, from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) investigation into multiple DeFi protocols to Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s forecast that DeFi would outgrow centralized finance (CeFi) in the next bull run. While CZ anticipates a bright future for DeFi, a report from the Bank for International Settlements…