Tag: finance

Magnate Finance on Base rug-pulls users of $6.5M, as predicted by on-chain sleuth

Magnate Finance, a lending and borrowing platform on Coinbase’s layer-2 protocol, Base, has rug-pulled its users of $6.5 million hours after on-chain sleuths like ZachXBT warned about the possibility of an exit scam due to several actions of the founders of the project. Earlier on Aug. 25, the Magnate Finance protocol deleted its Telegram group and took its website offline, raising concerns among users of a possible exit scam. Magnate Finance also deleted its X account and removed all possible social media presence. ZachXBT had notified that the Magnate Finance…

Num Finance launches Colombian peso stablecoin on Polygon

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Argentina-based Num Finance has announced it has gone live with a n stablecoin pegged to the Colombian peso, the company announced Aug. 24 in an X post. The stablecoin — called nCOP — is an overcollateralized, Polygon-based stablecoin and is aimed at the remittance market.  Colombia receives over $6.5 billion a year in remittances, Num stated in a blog post. Remittances are one of the key use cases for stablecoin. The nCOP logo. Source: Num Finance The nCOP incorporates the “Num yield feature,” which allows user rewards to be paid…

Maple Finance Raises $5M From BlockTower, Tioga; Restarts on Solana (SOL)

“This funding round marks a pivotal moment in our evolution as we embark on a strategic expansion into the APAC (Asia-Pacific) region as part of a comprehensive growth plan for Maple,” CEO Sidney Powell said in a statement. “The network is poised to further scale its technology and forge partnerships that enable compliant and seamless lending and borrowing adoption across the APAC region, specifically in Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Korea,” Powell added. Source

Curve Finance to reimburse users, another DeFi hack, and ConsenSys launches L2: Finance Redefined

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. Over two weeks after Curve Finance’s multiple pool exploits, the DeFi protocol has assured the hack victims that it is assessing each impacted user for reimbursement. This comes after the exploiter returned 73% of the stolen funds. The DeFi ecosystem moved beyond the Curve dilemma only to face another set of exploits this past week, with Zunami Protocol seeing its stablecoins pools…

eToro co-founder Yoni Assia’s life in finance led him to adopt crypto early

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Yoni Assia, co-founder and CEO of eToro, entered the finance industry early. After receiving stock as a bar mitzvah gift, he became a successful trader while still in high school. Those profits largely disappeared as the dot-com bubble burst just as he was beginning his military service. That would turn out to be the first of a number of dramatic highs and lows Assia has seen in his career. In this episode of Cointelegraph’s Crypto Stories, Assia recounts the early days of eToro and the launch of crypto trading on…

Renowned Finance Author Says Bitcoin Price Will Reach $1 Million If This Happens

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Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, created Bitcoin in response to the 2008 financial crisis as an alternative to government-controlled money. Since then, Bitcoin has gone to spearhead the crypto industry, with many investors calling it digital gold. Now, renowned finance author Robert Kiyosaki has argued that Bitcoin price could reach $100,000 soon and go as high as $1 million. Bold Prediction On Bitcoin Robert Kiyosaki, best known for his bestselling book ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad,’ is known to make very bullish predictions on the price of Bitcoin. In a recent post…

Curve Finance vows to reimburse users after $62 million hack

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Curve Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for lending stablecoins, has officially stated its intention to reimburse users who were impacted by the recent breach resulting in a $62 million loss from the system.  According to a post by Curve Finance, ongoing investigations are yielding progress, with approximately 79% of the funds successfully recuperated. The platform further emphasizes its current priority, which revolves around assessing the proportional portions of each impacted user. This evaluation aims to ensure an equitable distribution of resources. The incident, which occurred on July 30, involved…

DeFi tries to recover from Curve hack, but exploits continue: 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 DeFi ecosystem is yet to recover from the crisis brought on by the Curve Finance hack, and even though the issue seems contained, another set of exploits hit the DeFi ecosystem this past week. DeFi protocol Steadefi is the latest victim of an ongoing exploit as the ecosystem was still recovering from the Curve crisis. Binance came forward to invest $5…