DeFi, like crypto as a whole, features brilliant and questionable projects in equal measure. As 2020 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest crypto developments and the wild ride the sector took investors on. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin (BTC) was hovering just above $7,000, and the…
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A handful of DeFi tokens are producing double-digit gains as Bitcoin price fights to turn $19,500 to a strong support level. The world’s negative-yielding debt has soared to over $18 trillion according to Bloomberg. In such times, it is no surprise that the decentralized finance space, a place where mouth-watering yields can be found, has…
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The Uniswap rival manages to fend off an attack in a matter of hours. As exploits and hacks run rampant across the DeFi ecosystem, at least one project appears to have fended off the worst of an attack — the once-maligned “vampire” AMM (automated market maker) exchange Sushiswap. Observers noticed last night that Sushiswap —…
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Almost 40% of liquidity on leading DEX Uniswap has left the platform with the end of UNI rewards for liquidity providers The total value of assets locked in leading decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has plummeted by 38% in 24 hours amid the conclusion of its UNI liquidity rewards program on Nov. 17. Meanwhile “vampire” clone…
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New data shows that one month after SushiSwap’s vampire mining attack Uniswap is the real beneficiary. SushiSwap is widely thought to have syphoned liquidity from Uniswap but new data from Flipside Crypto, a cryptocurrency on-chain analytics resource, suggests that the decentralized exchange’s launch mechanism actually benefited Uniswap by bringing new money into its liquidity pools.…
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Food themed DeFi project Hotdog dumps from $4,000 to $1 in five minutes. The latest high-yield, food-flavored DeFi meme project, Hotdog, appears to have crashed and burned just hours after it was launched. The newly cloned DeFi protocol called Hotdog promised insane returns up to one million percent APY in order to lure liquidity providers.…
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As yield farmers race to reap fast returns from the next hot Uniswap clone, security researchers caution about the risks of unaudited smart contracts. Blockchain security firm Quantstamp has published a security review of hyped DeFi protocol SushiSwap, identifying ten issues with the platform. The good news is the issues with the Uniswap fork aren’t…
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Was the Uniswap fork that created SushiSwap a good thing for the DeFi sector? Crypto startup investor and IDEO Managing Director Ian Lee has revealed how DeFi protocols can avoid being cloned and drained of liquidity by improving upon their design and governance from the start. When SushiSwap forked from Uniswap on Friday, August 28,…
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