Astar Network, a parachain or parallel chain of the Polkadot network, has announced the $100 million Astar Boost Program fund to provide liquidity and offer financial support and incentive programs to smart contract developers. The company told CoinDesk that the program was funded through $22 million in fundraising, as well as an allocation of the native ASTR token. Source
Saham Holding, a financial technology and securities firm based in Saudi Arabia, has announced today that it has enhanced its overall trading experience with the launch of the MetaTrader 5 platform on the Saudi Stock Exchange. With the development, Saham has become the first firm to begin providing real Saudi market data through MetaTrader 5. Saham now distributes real-time and historical data for all Saudi financial instruments. The MetaTrader 5 platform is now available to all its traders through desktop and mobile applications. The firm stated it has built its…
MakerDAO has announced that it will begin offering a maximum of $10 million bounty to white hat hackers and cybersecurity specialists who point out legitimate security threats in its smart contracts. Maker’s (MAKER) plan to front-run attacks on its smart contracts is the largest ever on the bug bounty platform Immunefi. In fact if someone claimed the lot, it would equal the total amount of $10 million that Immunefi has paid out to date from active and inactive events. Its website claims the bugs found have averted up to $20…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland — Ambrosus Core, the technical foundation of Ambrosus Ecosystem, has announced the launch of a substantial developer funding program — $10 million for developers deploying decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and other decentralized solutions on the Ambrosus blockchain. Ambrosus is a fully operational Layer 1 EVM-compatible blockchain protocol providing scalability, zero-knowledge proof data security, and unique built-in data storage capacity. In order to support network growth and expand its user base, Ambrosus Core is launching a developers funding initiative. DeFi on Ambrosus has recently seen…
Aave (AAVE), the decentralized finance lending platform, launched the Lens Protocol ecosystem on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain as their way to challenge centralized social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook. What started with an open letter to garner support around the idea that content creators should own and control their digital identities, led to developing a Web3-native social network powered by nonfungible tokens (NFTs). In a Twitter Spaces conversation the company hosted this week, Stani Kulechov, CEO and founder of Aave, described the mission behind Lens Protocol. “We wanted to build a…
The decentralized finance (defi) lending platform Aave has revealed the launch of a Web3 social media platform called the Lens Protocol. According to the team, Lens is a “Web3, smart contracts-based social graph” that is built using the Polygon blockchain. Defi Project Aave Drops the Lens Protocol, Platform’s Intent Is to ‘Empower Creators to Own the Links Between Themselves and Their Community’ For quite some time now, decentralized social media has been a Holy Grail to many cryptocurrency advocates. While it is obvious that social media platforms could leverage crypto…
DAO Maker, a platform for retail venture investing in equity and tokens, has launched Public Strong Holder Offering (SHO) as its latest service to facilitate fundraising for blockchain and cryptocurrency startups. Through this Public SHO, DAO Maker has opened the floodgates to access an unprecedented volume of market liquidity. SHOs are a mechanism or service which utilizes certain procedures to choose genuine investors for funding crypto projects. For example, SHOs analyze on-chain data, user activity, liquidity provider (LP) status, and interaction with previous projects. These data sets help in choosing…
QDFI11 was listed on the Brazilian stock exchange, B3, and tracks the Bloomberg Galaxy DeFi index. Source
Brazilian crypto asset manager QR Assets has launched a decentralized finance exchange-traded funds, or DeFi ETF, on the Brazilian Stock Exchange. The DeFi ETF called QDFI11 would track the Bloomberg Defi index and make 100% of its investment in real DeFi assets. The DeFi index tracks Uniswap (UNI), Aaave Decentralized Lending Pools (AAVE), MakerDao (MKR), Compound (COMP), Yearn.finance (YFI), SushiSwap (SUSHI), 0X (ZRX), Synthetix (SNX) and Curve (CRV). The ETF would be offered through Gemini Fund Solution, a platform built specifically for Crypto ETFs. The ETF would act as a…
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