The DeFi sector will continue to grow in the future despite the difficulties that the industry has faced since the beginning of 2020, but be careful by choosing whom to trust. Decentralized finance, or DeFi for short, became a buzzword in 2019 following the valuations of MakerDao and Compound after both companies raised sizable rounds…
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One analyst suggests staking may trigger a bull run for ETH, but how likely is ETH 2.0 to generate this amount of demand? Ethereum 2.0 has dragged its feet. But when it does finally ship, it could provide the “largest economic shift in society” — or so it’s believed. The launch of ETH 2.0 is…
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Bancor claims liquidity providers would risk losing value in their stake due to an issue called impermanent loss. On April 29, the Bancor (BNT) project revealed its plans for the V2 upgrade of its platform. The overhaul addresses some of the major usability issues that have plagued the project since its launch in 2018. With…
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Coinbase gets into the DeFi space by launching a crypto price oracle. Coinbase is trying to fix the broken DeFi industry with stable price oracles. In an April 23 announcement, Coinbase introduced the Coinbase Price Oracle — “a critically important service to the DeFi ecosystem” that will be available through the CoinbasePro API. Both existing…
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DeFi platform PegNet appears to have suffered a 51% attack in which four of the network’s top miners fraudulently created $6.7 million in stablecoins. Drama continues to plague decentralized finance (DeFi), with Factom-based stablecoin network PegNet appearing to suffer a 51% attack that resulted in $6.7 million worth of the USD-pegged stablecoin pUSD being fraudulently…
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Details of the dForce hack led to many in the DeFi community to question the security practices of the firm, which many believe cloned Compound’s code. The hacker who stole $25 million in crypto on April 19 from decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol, dForce, has since returned the money. Most signs indicate that this was…
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Some crypto analysts and experts believe the ETH 2.0 revamp will transform DeFi and trigger a major bull run. With the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 due to launch within months, some analysts and experts believe it could trigger a major bull run and transform finance as we know it. Adam Cochran, a partner at…
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The hacker behind the recent theft of $25 million from DeFi platform Lendf.me has leaked important data about himself, and is already signaling for peace. The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) suffered yet another incident on April 19 as Chinese lending platform Lendf.me, part of the dForce network, was drained of almost all of its…
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Leading Chinese DeFi protocol has lost 99.95% of locked funds in a nearly $25 million hack. Chinese decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol dForce has been exploited in a $24.95 million hack that has resulted in its Lendf.Me lending platform going offline. According to DeFi data aggregator DeFi Pulse, the total value of funds locked in…
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New DeFi consortium backed by veteran crypto investor, Polychain Capital, hits 51 members to bolster cross-chain DeFi solutions. After decentralized finance, or DeFi, markets collapsed in late March 2020, a number of industry players joined forces to support emerging fintech. Today, the Ren Alliance, a new DeFi consortium backed by veteran crypto investor, Polychain Capital,…
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