Tag Archives: PancakeSwap

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Linear Finance has fallen victim to an attack that resulted in the complete depletion of liquidity in its Linear USD (LUSD) token. Following the incident, Linear Finance’s team apologized to the community and implemented various safety measures. LUSD Price Collapses to Zero On Sept. 21, Linear Finance announced it had experienced a security breach, leading to the complete drainage of all LUSD liquidity on the PancakeSwap and Ascendex...

PancakeSwap launched the play-to-earn game “Pancake Protectors”, integrating their native token CAKE and offering rewards up to 10,000 CAKE for top-ranked players. On May 29th, PancakeSwap, the decentralized exchange (DEX) operating under the automated market maker (AMM) model, announced the launch of the play-to-earn (P2E) game “Pancake Protectors”, powered by GameFi Mobos’ PvP protocol. Pancake Protectors is based on the subgenre of strategy games known as Tower Defense (TD), where...

The PancakeSwap DEX Version 3 also looks to introduce a “VIP” trading rewards program and a position manager feature down the stretch.  PancakeSwap DEX has launched Version 3 on Ethereum and BNB Chain, offering improved performance and lower fees. According to reports, Version 3 introduces four different trading fee tiers of the cheapest on-chain trading fees among the decentralized exchange’s contemporaries. Notable counterparts, in this case, include Uniswap and SushiSwap. PancakeSwap’s...

Last week’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the subsequent contagion appeared to have worked in favor of the decentralized exchanges as trading activity soared to levels not seen since November 2022. According to the latest data from DeFiLlama, the daily trading volume on decentralized exchanges was up by an astonishing 255.36% over the past week and is inching closer to $60 billion, a level last seen four months ago. The figure reached almost $25 billion on March...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) application PancakeSwap has released a governance proposal that details several goals of its native token, CAKE. It garnered a 98.8% majority across 11 million votes in a voting window of a 24-hour period, while opposition accounted for a mere 131K participants. The second iteration of PancakeSwap’s tokenomics roadmap imposes a maximum supply cap of 750 million for the CAKE token. The proposal, which received overwhelming support from the...

The Binance Smart Chain continues to see some of the projects being built on it exploited. The latest was done by someone who had access to the PancakeSwap admin address. The Exploit It’s an age-old problem with smart contracts: randomness. Solidity has no native random function, and all sources of randomness have to be on-chain. Projects use things like block headers, transaction hashes, and more to create legitimate sources of randomness, but none are truly random – they...