Tag Archives: DeFi News

The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem is moving fast. Hundreds of projects are created every day — some of them enjoy rapid success in the market due to their quality, uniqueness, communities, originality, art, and vision, while others flop quickly. Talking about rapid success, Azukis — hand-drawn digital samurais and smoking skateboarders — have quickly turned into the next NFT blue chip. In this guide, we take a closer look into the collection and everything there is to...

To many, 2021 was the year that saw tremendous growth in the popularity of non-fungible tokens and launched them into the mainstream. And even though the overall volume of NFT sales declined in 2022, the hype is far from over. During this year, however, the trend seems to have shifted from a fragmented market to one where blue-chip and high-end projects take center stage. And while some projects like the Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Azuki, and others, continue to shadow...

Famous rapper Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus (aka “ChampMedici”) have partnered with MOBLAND to launch digital weed farm NFTs in the Metaverse. The virtual items will pioneer an all-new “grow to earn” feature, among various other utilities for business buildings and land. The Beginning of NFT 3.0 According to MOBLAND co-founder Roy Liu, the weed farms are part of the third generation of NFTs. “NFT 1.0 is about individual character and item, NFT 2.0 is about land and...

Nessa Risley, an Uniswap user from North Carolina, invested about $10,400 on low-cap digital tokens such as EthereumMax, Matrix Samurai, and Rocket Bunny between May and July of last year. The trader has since experienced “substantial losses” and thus sought justice through legal action. On April 4, Risley launched the legal proceedings, alleging that Uniswap has failed to conduct identity checks and impose securities restrictions on “fraudsters” who use the platform to list...

Acala, the Ethereum-compatible DeFi protocol has announced teaming up with Anchor to boost the decentralized stablecoin space of Terra and Polkadot ecosystems. Following Wormhole integration plans, the two parties are all set to bring increased liquidity and yield opportunities for aUSD and UST by serving as gateways into the decentralized finance ecosystems of Polkadot and Terra. Acana-Anchor Network Collaboration Initially, Acala and its Kusama-based parachain – Karura will...

OpenZeppelin, a security audit company for Coinbase, identified $15B rugpull vulnerabilities in Convex Finance, whose anonymous developers later resolved the risk. The surprising discovery occurred during a security review of the Convex Finance protocol. A Bug Only Exploitable From the Inside The Security Research Team from OpenZeppelin found in late 2021 that a significant bug in the protocol could have led to putting the $15B worth of locked assets at risk. The...

Ronin – an EVM blockchain for play-to-earn games – recently fell victim to one of the largest hacks in the history of crypto. A whopping 173,600 ETH was drained from Ronin bridge within the last week, alongside another 25.5M USDC. According to a community alert issued by Ronin, the hack occurred due to Ronin validator nodes and Axie DAO validator nodes being compromised. This led to hacked private keys being used to forge two fake network withdrawals (1 and 2) that absorbed...

On March 8, Cega Finance announced that it had raised $4.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital Partners. There was also participation from various DeFi and crypto VCs, including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, and Solana Ventures. The platform, founded by former UBS derivatives trader Arisa Toyosaki, now has a valuation of $60 million. Cega aims to build the next evolution in DeFi derivatives by introducing “exotic derivative capabilities”...

Ramani Ramachandran, co-founder and chief executive of Router Protocol, believes that the integration will help advance the mission of achieving a multi-blockchain future. Router Protocol – Avalanche Singapore-headquartered Router Protocol has integrated Avalanche network’s C-Chain to its cross-chain messaging protocol. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the development will enable users to leverage the Avalanche network by conducting...

1inch Network – a protocol that unites decentralized projects – launched a spot price aggregator to extract data for assets traded on DEXs on the blockchain. The tool provides a liquidity-weighted average of token spot prices. To avoid issues within transactions, 1inch recommended using it off-chain. 1inch’s Newest Instrument In a recent document seen by CryptoPotato, 1inch explained that the spot price aggregator aims to solve information-related tasks. Such include the...