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THORChain is the latest DeFi project to be exploited, with estimations showing that the hackers might have swooped up to $7.6 million in digital assets. The team behind the decentralized exchange promised to make whole all affected users and requested the perpetrators to contact them to discuss the return of funds. THORChain highlighted the hack on Twitter earlier on July 16th. The amount stolen remains unconfirmed as the initial estimations showed that it was more than...

Gaming developers employing the services of Community Gaming will be able to take advantage of enhanced scalability through a new collaboration with the popular blockchain-based Layer 2 protocol – Polygon. Community Gaming Partners with Polygon Describing itself as an “all-in-one platform offering esports infrastructure to all key stakeholders in the industry,” Community Gaming is a blockchain-based project providing developers with a scalable network for their goals. In...

ChainSwap, a cross-chain asset bridge and application smart chain, has become the latest victim of the increasingly worrying exploits happening in the DeFi ecosystem that has caused the sector to lose hundreds of millions of dollars since the start of the year. What is ChainSwap? As a hub for smart chains, the ChainSwap protocol acts as a defi bridge for projects and users to seamlessly move assets between different blockchains like Ethereum (ERC20), Binance Smart Chain...

Barely two days since the launch of ShibaSwap, a DeFi platform coming from the popular Ethereum-based meme project, Shiba Inu, more than $1.5 billion worth of assets have been locked on the exchange. ShibaSwap Records $1.5 in TVL As with many DeFi projects, ShibaSwap also introduced a yield farming program that allows users to stake their tokens for rewards. The project’s pseudonymous “Top Dog,” Shytoshi Kusama, noted in a Medium post that the Shiba Inu army can stake either...

In a bid to equip decentralized application (dApp) developers with the necessary tools for maximum production, Ethereum blockchain developer platform Alchemy has announced a partnership with Polygon to enhance the network’s capabilities.  Alchemy Integrates Polygon The firm made the announcement today, stating that the move would supercharge the development of Polygon and the Ethereum network.  Furthermore, the partnership would also provide the necessary tools to dApp...

While a slew of DeFi tokens are surging in value, the ‘Dogecoin Killer’ Shiba Inu has topped the Ethereum network in terms of gas usage, suggesting a strong connection between the two. Shiba Swap and the ensuing DeFi Wave Earlier yesterday, SHIB (the official Twitter account for the SHIBA ecosystem) announced that Shiba Swap had gone live. Shiba Swap is a decentralized exchange developed by the anonymous Shiba Inu team, which also allows traders to stake their SHIB tokens and...

Balancer is one of the pioneers in the DeFi space and a core building block of its infrastructure. The protocol allows for efficient trading by pooling crowdsourced liquidity from investor portfolios while also identifying the best available price. Data from Token Terminal reveals the growth of the platform in terms of total value locked over the past year. Balancer Chart. Source: Token Terminal Before the most recent market-wide slump, which took place in May, Balancer had...

The popular DeFi project Balancer Protocol has joined the fight against high fees by launching on the Layer-2 solution – Polygon. Upon the transition from Ethereum, Balancer also announced new token incentives, which came into effect from June 28th. Balancer Joins Polygon Promising to “turn the concept of an index fund on its head,” Balancer is a DeFi project enabling users to collect fees from traders instead of portfolio managers. The protocol announced its latest...

The bitcoin reserves on BlockFi – the popular lending and borrowing platform enabling users to receive interest – have declined to an all-time low. This, combined with recent reports claiming that whales have started to sell off their positions, raises the question of whether large BTC investors may have averted from HODLing. BlockFi BTC Reserves Decline Founded in 2017, BlockFi allows investors to lend their cryptocurrency assets in order to gain interest. However, it seems...

The field of decentralized finance is one where there’s a non-zero chance of protocol failure. In other words – scams, exploits, rug pulls, and whatnot are something to be constantly vigilant about. Iron Finance becomes the latest protocol to go through a massive exploit, which saw the price of its tokens plummet in what they describe as a ‘bank run.’ What Happened With Iron Finance? Iron Finance is a DeFi protocol with two cryptocurrencies under its belt – IRON and Titan....