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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is furthering its plans to bring crypto exchanges under its regulatory purview – including DeFi exchanges.  The agency has announced that it is reopening an old proposal surrounding consumer protection laws to explicitly put digital asset trading within its scope.  Regulating DeFi Per a press release from the SEC on Friday, the reopening reiterates that existing rules governing securities exchanges also apply to digital asset...

Tornado Cash has, once again, found itself as the nexus of pilfered funds from a DeFi protocol. An Ethereum wallet address associated with the exploiter of the DAO Maker breach from 2021 sent $600,000 worth of DAI stablecoin through the controversial coin mixer. According to the blockchain security firm, PeckShield, the wallet had been dormant for more than 200 days. The movement was detected nearly seven months after another wallet linked with the exploiter transferred...

On April 6, Charli3 was launched on Cardano as its first oracle integrator. The platform’s oracles have been integrated by Liqwid, a leading DeFi project on Cardano. Charli3 provides a decentralized node network with the framework for projects to supply secure, accurate, and safe data to their platforms and users. It could be viewed as the Cardano version of Chainlink. Liqwid is an algorithmic liquidity market protocol built on Cardano for lenders and borrowers. The...

Poor cybersecurity practices within the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry present a threat to crypto, consumers, and national security, according to a new report from the United States Treasury Department.  The first-of-its-kind document argues that DeFi’s peer-to-peer nature presents new illicit finance risks that require extra legal supervision to address.  The Risks of DeFi Released on Thursday, the 2023 DeFi Illicit Finance Risk Assessment details how cybercriminals,...

Trust Wallet – a decentralized, non-custodial crypto wallet provider – collaborated with the payment systems – Ramp and MoonPay – to allow customers to convert their digital asset holdings into fiat directly within the application. Users who own over 100 TWT will get a special discount when withdrawing funds. The New Fiat Off-Ramp Feature According to a document seen by CryptoPotato, Trust Wallet shook hands with Ramp and MoonPay to enable users to move in and out of their...

The decentralized lending platform was exploited in a March 13 flash loan attack, causing it to lose $197 million worth of crypto assets. In the late hours of Monday, the Euler Finance hacker finally returned the outstanding sum of $31 million, bringing the recovery efforts to a conclusive end. The decentralized lending platform was exploited in a March 13 flash loan attack, causing it to lose $197 million worth of crypto assets. And shortly after the hack, Euler Finance offered the...

Dfinity Foundation –  a not-for-profit organization that develops the Internet Computer protocol – announced the launch of a “twin” token that is 1:1 cryptographically secured by Bitcoin. Dubbed “ckBTC,” the new token is being touted as liquid and cost-efficient that will enable layer-2 capabilities on Bitcoin by making it faster and cheaper to transact without compromising security. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, Internet Computer aims to...

Injective – a  layer 1 blockchain – announced the first-ever Solana rollup launch for Cosmos. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the “Solana Sealevel Virtual Machine (SVM)” will be deployed within the Cosmos ecosystem with the help of roll-up provider Eclipse. By bringing the Solana development environment to the broader Cosmos ecosystem, the integration is aimed at bolstering growth and user adoption within the two ecosystems Solana-Cosmos...

The hacker behind DeFi protocol Euler Finance’s $200 million exploit earlier this month has publicly communicated through the blockchain to apologize for his crime. The exploiter, going by the name “Jacob,” has gradually been returning funds related to the hack, now totalling $177 million.  In an encoded blockchain message on Monday, the hacker promised to return all of the money he stole, saying he was only delaying out of concern for his own safety.  In a follow-up message,...

The hacker behind the largest DeFi exploit of 2023 continues to demonstrate controversial behavior, as this time, they returned the majority of the funds stolen from Euler Finance. In two separate transactions, the perpetrator sent back over $100 million worth of ETH to the protocol. CryptoPotato reported the flash loan attack, which took place earlier in March, that saw $198 million worth of USDC, staked ether, wrapped BTC, and DAI siphoned off the DeFi lending protocol....