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CoinspeakerMakerDAO Unveils ‘Endgame’ Project to Transform Lending Platform and Boost Dai Supply The Endgame launch will occur in phases, starting with the “Launch Season” in summer 2024. This phase will introduce a new brand identity and two new tokens, NewStable and NewGovToken MakerDAO Unveils ‘Endgame’ Project to Transform Lending Platform and Boost Dai Supply

S&P Global Ratings senior analyst Lapo Guadagnuolo believes that the growth of stablecoins does not mean that they are immune to risk factors. The S&P Global Ratings introduced a stability assessment for stablecoins on Tuesday. According to S&P Global, the idea is to determine how truly “stable” the coins are in maintaining their pegs to whatever fiat they are tied to. In total, the producer of the S&P 500 assessed eight stablecoins. They include Dai (DAI), Gemini (GUSD),...

CoinspeakerBalancer Loses $900,000 to Security Vulnerability Despite Prior Warning The attacker managed to transfer Dai stablecoins twice. The initial transfer was $636,812, followed by a subsequent transfer of $257,527, aggregating to a total stolen amount of around $900,000. Balancer Loses $900,000 to Security Vulnerability Despite Prior Warning

The new blockchain called NewChain will be closely linked with Ethereum, promising increased governance security of the ecosystem. MakerDAO, the issuer of the DAI stablecoin, has revealed its plans for a major update it calls the “Endgame”, this follows after the platform recently published a detailed roadmap of the upcoming update. According to the May 11 announcement, the update will take place in five phases and will effect changes that will use artificial intelligence (AI) tools and...

The Kokomo Finance protocol has been found to be an elaborate exit scam after developers used wrapped Bitcoin to steal user funds worth $4M. According to reports, developers behind crypto lender Kokomo used Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) to perpetuate a $4 million exit scam. A CoinDesk report alleges developers pulled off the scam over the weekend after manipulating tokens to steal millions in user funds. The report further stated that these developers attacked the smart contract of wrapped...

Coinbase Wallet, Ethereum Domain Service and mainwallet sync – one of the biggest companies in the industry just rolled out a significant update to its mobile app. Users are allowed to purchase ENS domains via in-app Dapp browser.When Coinbase established its own cryptocurrency wallet, its aim was to offer a possibility to send payments to the ETH-based domain names. But users of Ethereum wallets tend to send payments not only to the long, inconvenient to remember addresses. They also like...

Coinbase is looking to make it easier for retail merchants to accept cryptocurrencies as means of payment.Coinbase and Dai Working to Bring Retail ChangeThis week, the company announced that it had integrated Dai – a cryptocurrency released by Maker DAO – into its Coinbase Commerce retail merchants’ division, so that stores and similar business establishments could accept Dai in the future as payment for goods and services. Companies on platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce are now eligible...

DeFi not only attracts major talent and interest but also large sums of money in the form of digital assets. The number of companies in this sphere is constantly growing but let’s look at the most prominent of them.There’s no time like the present to talk about DeFi.Short for “decentralized finance,” this buzzword simply refers to making conventional financial services (like loans or credit) available via cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It’s a niche within the cryptocurrency niche,...

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Be thankful for your life, your family and, hopefully, your wallets. Hope you had a nice dinner and it prepared you for the Christmas holidays.  However, today is Black Friday and even though it should remind us on the awful things done to the slaves in the U.S. back in time, it should remind us that, except this should never happen again, we could use this date to do something good – for someone, or for us (‘cause you have to love yourself,...

Decentralized finance’s (DeFi) meteoric rise has been accompanied by a slew of advances in financial technology, sparking a wave of P2P lending protocols and liquidity pools. The increasing competition of borrowing/lending, stablecoins, derivatives, and even cross-chain CDPs mark a new era in fintech innovation and have bred some intriguing externalities. Many DeFi lending protocols offer interest rates that are significantly more appealing than rates offered by banks and low-risk fixed...