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Ledger vulnerability put entire DApp ecosystem at risk: Finance Redefined

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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 DeFi saw an unprecedented chain of events unfold on Dec. 14 when a malicious actor exploited a vulnerability in the Ledger hardware wallet’s connector library. The exploit put the entire decentralized application (DApp) ecosystem at risk. On-chain analysts and DApps like SushiSwap and MetaMask advised users not to interact with their wallets at all. Ledger released a patch…

Security engineer pleads guilty to Nirvana Finance exploit and one other hack

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A software engineer pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud in connection with the hacking Nirvana Finance and an unnamed decentralized cryptocurrency exchange in the Southern District Court of New York on Dec. 14. The United States Attorney’s Office said the case was the first-ever conviction for hacking a smart contract. Shakeeb Ahmed, described as a “senior security engineer for an international technology company,” was arrested in July in connection with the hack of the unnamed exchange on or about July 2 and 3, 2022. According to the U.S.…

Kyberswap comes to the rescue of hack victims, Platypus hacker walks free: Finance Redefined

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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. Cointelegraph interviewed Velvet Capital’s CEO on the challenges facing DeFi and the key barriers it needs to overcome to go mainstream. Cosmos-based Umee and Osmosis merge to create “DeFi Hub,” where Umee’s UX Chain code will be reimplemented on the Osmosis chain, combining features of the two networks. The Platypus hacker has managed to evade accountability for the $8.5 million exploit on…

Moody’s launches quantum-as-a-service platform for finance

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According to the Moody’s Analytics website, QFStudio is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that will serve as “a continuous integration, benchmark, and delivery platform” for quantum computing solutions. Quantum computing for finance The burgeoning quantum computing sector is expected to experience steady growth over the next few decades. A recent forecast predicted that quantum computing technologies would grow from a market capitalization in the United States of about $138 million in 2022 to $1.2 billion by 2030. Currently, most of the focus in quantum computing is on research and development. Companies…

ParaSpace to continue NFT lending as it rebrands to Parallel Finance

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Despite rebranding to Parallel Finance for a greater focus on the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, the nonfungible token (NFT) lending protocol ParaSpace will continue to focus on its core product amid sector woes. In a conversation with Cointelegraph, Yubo Ruan, founder and CEO of ParaSpace (now Parallel Finance), explains that the protocol uses a combination of diversified liquidity pools, dynamic loan-to-value ratios and price-discovery partnerships to mitigate the risks associated with high volatility, which can often result in a lack of bidders on the underlying asset. “Despite the market downturn,…

Over Two Dozen Indian Crypto Service Providers Have Registered With Financial Intelligence Unit, Finance Ministry Says

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KyberSwap hacker wants control, law firm says Aussie DeFi tax rules ‘non-binding’: Finance Redefined

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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 hacker who stole over $46 million from the DeFi protocol KyberSwap has released a list of demands, including total control over the Kyber company and all its assets. The hacker specified a deadline for the Kyber team to fulfill the demands. A law firm in Australia described the DeFi tax guidance released by the country’s finance regulator as “toilet paper.” Cadena…

Digital Finance Firm SoFi Hands Its Crypto Business to Blockchain.com

SoFi’s transition away from directly offering crypto services may be tied to its decision to become a bank holding company. The U.S. Federal Reserve, as part of that approval, told the company that its crypto activities were not permissible under banking rules, though it would be allowed to continue them for two years, with the possibility of extensions, according to a regulatory filing. (Bloomberg reported on SoFi’s decision to close and the link to banking regulation earlier Wednesday.) Source

The Driving Force of DeFi’s Growth and the Future of LST Finance

Decentralized applications (dApps), such as Lybra, Prisma, Sommelier, Enzyme, that use these types of tokens are part of the LSTfi (LST finance) category of finance (allowing users to stake their LSTs in a form of collateral, or for other DeFi use cases). In other words, LSTfi is the use of LSTs in DeFi. LST finance (LSTfi) exploded after Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade on April 12 2023, which enabled staked ETH withdrawals. Source