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Decentralized exchanges are the lifeblood of decentralized finance (DeFi), allocating billions of dollars worth in total value locked (TVL) into the industry.  Compared to centralized exchanges (CEXs), DEXs only account for a small percentage of the total trading volumes across margin and derivatives trading. However, they’re becoming increasingly more sophisticated with time. They provide some of the same benefits and features found within CEXs but also offer a trustless...

Jump Crypto previously sold hundreds of millions of dollars of ETH. This coincided with ETH’s price not breaking through to the next level, with ETH ETFs debuting in the US and the asset further crashing when the Nikkei experienced a bloodbath. Jump Crypto, trading firm Jump Trading’s crypto vertical, unstaked 17,049 ETH worth $46.44 million, moving the funds to exchange accounts. Many crypto market participants fear the firm will sell these funds, causing ETH’s price to drop again. Jump...

Vitalik Buterin, the famous Ethereum co-founder, has given his blessings for a proposal by DeFi protocols Uniswap and Across aimed at bringing a new Ethereum standard. This proposal, ERC (Ethereum Request for Comment)-7683, will ensure secure and efficient cross-chain decentralized trading. The proposal was posted on the Ethereum Magicians forum and describes how it can make the trading process between protocols operating in the broader Ethereum ecosystem efficient. That includes multichain...

Jump Trading’s crypto vertical Jump Crypto unstaked and sold another 11,501 ETH worth $29 million, leaving it with another $63 million to sell. Out of the $63 million, it has already unstaked $48 million of ETH in preparations to sell. The market maker was heavily called out for unstaking and moving its ETH to exchanges over the past weekend as crypto prices dropped tremendously due to macroeconomic factors. Such large amounts sold by those with significant holdings add tremendous selling...

This Year’s Theme: “On the Move” Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These...

Nexera, a DeFi protocol, was hacked for $1.5 million on August 7, according to blockchain security firm Cyvers. It revealed the exploit in an X post, “Hey @Nexera_Official, Our system has detected a suspicious transaction involving your proxy contract. An address took ownership of your proxy contract and upgraded it. Shortly after, the address used the withdraw admin function to transfer all the $NXRA tokens.” The protocol connects DeFi with traditional finance, enabling the tokenizing of...

This Year’s Theme: “On the Move” Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These...

Nexera, a DeFi protocol, has been affected by a smart contract security breach that resulted in the theft of $1.5 million worth of NXRA tokens. Following the incident, the value of the protocol’s native token plummeted by over 40%. $1.5 Million Stolen and NXRA Token Plummets 43% The exploit was first reported on August 7 by Cyvers, a blockchain security firm, via a post on X that stated, “Our system has detected a suspicious transaction involving your proxy contract.”...

This Year’s Theme: “On the Move” Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These...

The crypto arm of Jump Trading, Jump Crypto, has unstaked about 120,000 ETH worth over $275 million. Jump Crypto will likely sell these assets as it has been moving them to crypto exchanges Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, and Gate.io wallets, according to Arkham Intelligence data. On-chain analyst Ember CN mentioned on X, “Jump Trading may be selling ETH: they are currently redeeming a wstETH (120,000 pieces) worth US$410 million in batches into ETH and then transferring it to exchanges such...