As of July 17, 2023, the decentralized finance (defi) sector has been witnessing a great deal of consolidation with total value locked (TVL) figures standing at $44.19 billion. Throughout most of the year in 2023, except for a brief period of seven days in April, the TVL in defi has consistently remained below the $50…
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Over the course of the previous 63 days, there’s been a notable 16.98% surge in the quantity of ethereum (ETH) held in liquid staking derivatives protocols, with a substantial addition of roughly 1,507,285 ETH across 23 different platforms. Data reveals that Lido Finance dominates the market, commanding a 74% share of the liquid staked ether…
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All-in-one infrastructure solutions may be what is needed to drive the adoption of Web3, but such solutions might turn out to be complex and not as flexible, Rob Viglione, the co-founder and CEO at Horizen Labs, has argued. In addition, Viglione believes that such comprehensive infrastructure solutions “may not be as compatible with tools that…
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On July 7, 2023, the digital asset manager Grayscale Investments published an update on three of its funds — the Digital Large Cap Fund, the Defi Fund, and the Smart Contract Fund. Although no new tokens were added to two of the funds, Grayscale revealed that it added Lido DAO’s native cryptocurrency and governance token,…
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Users of the cross-chain protocol Multichain were on July 6 informed of an abnormal transfer of lockup assets on the Multichain MPC address to an unknown address. While the Multichain team has urged users to stop using the cross-chain protocol, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) told his followers that the incident does not affect Binance…
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The Ethereum scaling solution Starknet has rolled out the testnet for its layer-2 network. The roll-out, conducted by the Israel-based development firm StarkWare, is the first step towards bringing the upgraded solution, dubbed Starknet Quantum Leap, to the mainnet around July 13, provided it passes a community vote, a recent blog post from StarkWare said….…
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With centralized exchanges coming under increasing scrutiny, Henrik Andersson has touted the promise of decentralized derivatives. On-chain derivatives are set to become the next big growth sector in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, says Henrik Andersson, the chief investment officer of Australian crypto investment firm Apollo Crypto. In a wide-ranging interview with Cointelegraph, Andersson said…
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