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Four hacks in one day might be a new record 🤯
More than $115M was stolen from DeFi protocols TODAY.
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🔥
@mcuban
on the Defiant podcast
"ETH has an advantage over BTC as a store of value"
"Smart contracts enabling friction-free banking changes everything"
“America 2.0 is going to be built on blockchain. A big part of that is going to be DeFi”
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.
@PulsechainCom
, a recently launched Ethereum fork, has seen a 50% growth in the past 24h, reaching a TVL of $513 M. ❓
Interestingly, it seems that
@PulseXcom
is driving all the chain activity. 🤔
Are you currently using Pulse Chain? Share your thoughts in the comments. ⤵️
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⛓️
@Coredao_Org
is bringing native staking to Bitcoin with its Core Chain.
The EVM-compatible blockchain enables non-custodial native BTC staking, with rewards paid out in CORE tokens.
Read more:
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BREAKING: Wrapped versions of $BTC and $ETH on the Solana blockchain have depegged 🚨
$soBTC & $soETH are trading at a >40% discount from their native assets
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⚛️The
@cosmos
ecosystem is heating up and is now
#2
by TVL behind Ethereum.
@terra_money
@cronos_chain
@osmosiszone
are currently the largest blockchains, and are connected via Cosmos' Inter-Blockchain Communications (IBC) protocol.
@OFernau
reports👇
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💥
@FlareNetworks
upcoming Songbird blockchain aims to be "as trustless as
#Bitcoin
, as fast as
@cosmos
, and as smart as
#Ethereum
", according to CEO
@HugoPhilion
💰
@Ripple
$XRP token holders of record can expect an airdrop of $SGB
@BradyDale
reports👇
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What selloff?
🌕
@terra_money
's $LUNA powers to a new All-Time High of $77.5, making it the 9th most valuable cryptocurrency according to
@CoinMarketCap
🚀
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In today's Defiant we bring to you:
🔥 The Definitive Guide to Decentralized Finance
Share this w/ anyone you think would benefit from learning about the future of finance & how to start taking control of their assets (so pretty much every one ;))
Dive in.👇
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🧙♂️
@MIM_Spell
and
@terra_money
are teaming up to take on the centralized stablecoins that currently dominate
#DeFi
.
“Decentralised Yields require a pair, $MIM and $UST are the power couple of Stablecoin Yields” -
@danielesesta
@yyctrader1
reports👇
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📈
@AxieInfinity
has surpassed
#Ethereum
in terms of network fees with over $300M in the last 30 days💰
Revenue has skyrocketed after the rollout of their Ronin sidechain, which has greatly reduced transaction costs for players.
@BradyDale
dives in👇
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JUST IN:
@0xPolygon
has announced the world's first zero-knowledge-based EVM-equivalent rollup, pushing the envelope for Ethereum scaling.
zkEVM will support all existing Ethereum smart contracts, developer tools, and wallets.
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The MOST Crypto Friendly Nation In Europe?
This week's podcast features a number of interviews we conducted in Romania, during the
@xDay2023
conference hosted by
@MultiversX
We spoke with:
-
@beniaminmincu
, Founder of
@MultiversX
- Bogdan Ivan, Romanian Minister of…
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👀
@Polkadot
is About to "Fundamentally Change," Said Web3 Foundation's New CEO
@FabianGompf
Gompf said he's betting Polkadot is a bout to get a boost from upcoming tech upgrades and from a just launched $45M grants program.
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🧙♂️
@MIM_Spell
is a
#DeFi
lending platform that lets you leverage your
@ConvexFinance
LP positions, among others.
In this tutorial,
@yyctrader1
shows you how to supercharge your $CRV and $CVX rewards👇
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🚀$FTM is up 144x in 2021 and hit an all-time high of $2.48 yesterday.
“Established
#Ethereum
projects can be moved over and traded with
@FantomFDN
's sub-second finality and for gas fees of just a few cents” -
@ftm_ecologist
@OFernau
reports👇
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a platform that combines the
@DefiantNews
content that you know and love, with all the
#DeFi
data and metrics a Defier could ask for?
🙏🙏We have closed a $1.4M preseed round from amazing investors and angels
Funding secured👇
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💰More than a quarter of $AXS circulating supply worth nearly $2.5B has been staked since
@AxieInfinity
launched staking rewards two weeks ago.
Stakers are enjoying triple-digit yields🤑
@BradyDale
reports👇
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⚖️
@enjin
, the
#blockchain
software company that co-created the ERC-1155 token standard, will be launching two scaling solutions intended to remove gas fees and provide cross-chain support for NFTs.
Read more here.
👇
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🧙♂️
@MIM_Spell
has deployed a cross-chain yield farm connecting
#Ethereum
and
@terra_money
, says founder
@danielesesta
#DeFi
users will be able to deposit $UST as collateral and leverage the yield offered by
@anchor_protocol
💰
@yyctrader1
reports👇
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🔥$10M worth of $ETH has now been burned since EIP-1559 went live a little over 15 hours ago.
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🔴Nine
@Polkadot
parachain teams have teamed up to launch a $250M Ecosystem Fund aimed at boosting aUSD adoption.
The fund will support early-stage startups building apps that support the
@AcalaNetwork
stablecoin, which can be minted against $DOT.
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🌕
@terra_money
continues to shrug off the crypto market selloff as its $LUNA token hits a fresh all-time high of $81🚀
It's now surpassed
@BinanceChain
to become the 2nd largest network with $17.7B in TVL.
@samuel_haig
reports👇
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🏦 BlackRock Tokenizes Fund for Accredited Investors on Ethereum Blockchain
The BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund has the token ticker BUIDL
Read more:
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Presenting The Defiant!
Our mission is to provide impartial, data-driven journalism with a focus on DeFi. We filter the noise so you can stay informed.
Curious to learn more about us? Delve deeper by watching this short message from our founder and CEO,
@CamiRusso
. 💚
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BREAKING: Hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing out of
@FTX_Official
wallets into one wallet, with current totals surpassing ~$390M
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💸
@avalancheavax
has announced over $200M in available funding for entrepreneurs, with backing from
@polychaincap
, 3 Arrows Capital and, of course, the Avalanche Foundation and Ava Labs.
@BradyDale
reports👇
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EXCLUSIVE:
@coinbase
,
@circle
,
@AaveAave
, and others have formed the Tokenized Asset Coalition to accelerate institutions' use of real world assets.
The other founding members are
@centrifuge
,
@goldfinch_fi
,
@rwa_xyz
,
@Credix_finance
, and
@BuildOnBase
.
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🍣 vs 🦄: DeFi's first-ever hostile takeover
SushiSwap is about to attempt its vampire attack on DeFi's largest DEX, with untested code and $1.3B at stake.
The story of a disgraced Chef, a reigning Unicorn and a shrewd CEO.
Here's all you need to know:
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Are we going to get a lot of crap for this one? Hhmmm 🤔
Welp, here we go. Let's talk
@PancakeSwap
.
📺 Watch today's
#TuesdayTutorial
episode below.👇🏾
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Seven of
@Polkadot
’s leading projects have joined forces to support open-source development standards and expose bad actors ✍️🔍
The Polkadot Alliance was founded by
@AcalaNetwork
,
@AstarNetwork
,
@InterlayHQ
,
@Kiltprotocol
,
@MoonbeamNetwork
,
@PhalaNetwork
, and
@subscan_io
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⛓️ SWIFT, the global interbank messaging service, is exploring support for interconnected CBDCs through
@chainlink
's CCIP.
Research involves tokenized asset transfers with numerous financial institutions involved.
Read more 👇
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💱
@pangolindex
, the dominant decentralized exchange on
@avalancheavax
, is having its best week ever in terms of trade volumes📊
Traders have swapped over $1B worth of tokens on the exchange in the last 7 days.
@BradyDale
reports👇
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🎮Play-to-Earn leader
@AxieInfinity
plans to add a new dimension to the game with virtual land.
🏝️“Land is another game mode built in the Axie universe,” says
@Jihoz_Axie
@BradyDale
reports👇
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BREAKING: Fidelity Adds Staking To Spot Ethereum ETF Application
Read more:
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🔥
@NEARProtocol
Overtakes Ethereum and Bitcoin in Key Activity Metrics
NEAR is beating BTC, ETH & SOL in daily active addresses, driven by KAIKAINOW and
@SweatEconomy
.
Read More:
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☎️Telecom giant Vodafone partnered with
@chainlink
on a pilot program to study how blockchain technology can revolutionize global trade🚢
The companies used Chainlink's CCIP to securely transfer digital bills of lading.
Read more:
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🎙 “The Biggest, Clearest Bet of All is
#Ethereum
" - says
@RaoulGMI
The
@RealVision
founder speaks to
@CamiRusso
about why he's bullish $ETH and how he believes that
#NFTs
and social tokens have the potential to disrupt every business🚀
Listen here👇
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👨🌾Yield aggregator
@iearnfinance
has expanded to
@FantomFDN
with the launch of 4 new vaults for $FTM $USDC $DAI $MIM
@BradyDale
reports👇
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🚀
@AxieInfinity
's $AXS token is up 223x this year, making fresh ATHs after staking rewards went live on October 1.
@LucasOutumuro
of
@intotheblock
dives into the numbers behind the torrid growth of the play-to-earn game👇
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🌕
@terra_money
's $UST has become the first decentralized stablecoin to hit a market cap of $10B🚀
icymi,
@BradyDale
was all over it👇
Data:
@coingecko
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@BitcoinCom
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Transaction volumes on
@avalancheavax
surged to new highs in Q3🔺📈
$AVAX processed 68M txns during September, up 51% from August.
During Q3, the leading subnet
@DefiKingdoms
Chain processed 1.1M txns daily, compared to 120K to 240K txns executed on the C-chain each day.
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💥 EXCLUSIVE: Synthetix's founder
@kaiynne
has announced Infinex, a new exchange designed to compete with the likes of Binance and other centralized exchanges. The team behind Infinex prioritized the user experience above all other factors in their design.
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Polygon is working to become a 'true Layer 2'🧬
In its current state,
@0xPolygon
is a separate blockchain from $ETH that is less secure and far less decentralized
Polygon co-founders
@anuragarjun
&
@MihailoBjelic
recently confirmed work is underway to turn Polygon into a rollup
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🌕
@terra_money
's plan to build a $10B
#Bitcoin
reserve for its UST stablecoin has made allies of LUNAtics and Bitcoin maxis.🤝
$LUNA just hit an ATH of $110 amid a broader market rally that's seen BTC rise 12% in the past week.
@OFernau
reports👇
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Introducing engage-to-win ✨
1/ We've partnered with
@sparkwave_xyz
, a web3 project that allows us to track, identify and reward our loyal Twitter followers using a proprietary algorithm.
👇
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BREAKING
Asset manager Franklin Templeton has filed an application for an Ethereum ETF
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What is
@NEARProtocol
? | A Comprehensive Overview & Future Prospects with
@ilblackdragon
Chapters
Who is Illia Polosukhin?
NEAR’s design
Mini Blockchains
Consensus mechanism
NEAR token
Participating in NEAR Network
Physical shards…
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⚔️Katana, the new
@AxieInfinity
AMM running on the Ronin sidechain, has attracted more than $1.2B in liquidity since launching just 4 days ago🚀
#DeFi
users are piling in to earn $RON tokens.
@BradyDale
reports👇
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🤑Offer tokens and they will come.
Total Value Locked on
@avalancheavax
has risen 14x to $4.55B since a liquidity mining program was announced in August.
#DeFi
heavyweights
@AaveAave
and
@CurveFinance
have now deployed there.
@OFernau
reports👇
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BREAKING:
@Ethereum
’s Ropsten testnet merge is complete ⛓️
Ethereum has completed The Merge on a public testnet for the first time, accomplishing a major milestone in its roadmap towards Proof-of-Stake.
@samuel_haig
reports 🔗👇
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We're devoted to being your most trusted
#DeFi
information source.
For 2 years, we've focused on content and spreading the word of this financial revolution.✊
Very soon, we'll be delivering on the data front.
🖥️Introducing the Defiant Terminal
🧵👇
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It's confirmed.
@LensProtocol
is a new web3 social media effort from the
@AaveAave
team.
“Lens Protocol helps developers to build web3 native social media, without creating the user base from scratch" -
@StaniKulechov
@BradyDale
reports👇
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Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services has inked a deal with
@avalabsofficial
to encourage development on $AVAX 🔺🤝
@awscloud
will contribute “substantial amounts of AWS credits to projects looking to deploy subnets on
@avalancheavax
,” - Ava Labs founder & CEO
@el33th4xor
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⚡️RUNE is one of this year's best-performing DeFi assets, rallying 300% in the past month🚀
The cross-chain network processed over $1.7B of trades in the past week on increasing usage of its 'streaming swaps' feature.
Read more:
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⚡️
@THORChain
processes record volume after introducing ‘Streaming Swaps’.
Ignoring a brutal selloff across the markets, $RUNE is up 40% this week.
Read more 👇
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🌕 UPDATE:
@terra_money
founder
@stablekwon
is facing an onslaught of emergency government investigations, lawsuits, and a $78M fine for tax evasion from the South Korean government
A 🧵 of events 👇
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ERC-404, a token standard combining the features of NFTs and fungible tokens, is gaining attention on Ethereum.
PANDORA, the first ERC404, has soared over 5000% since launching on Feb 2.
Read more:
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💵 RWA Protocol
@OndoFinance
Brings Treasury-backed Stablecoin to Layer 1 Chain
@Aptos_Network
Lending protocol
@ThalaLabs
will integrate USDY as a collateral asset.
Read More:
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yearn's
@AndreCronjeTech
will keep on building DeFi
We discuss:
📈$YFI success was beyond anything he imagined
✊The power & risk of owning your money
☠️The paralyzing fear when building money protocols
🔥How he overcomes it to keep coming back
More:
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📨
@Polkadot
has completed an upgrade allowing parachains to message each other via XCM “cross-consensus messaging”.
“A massive innovation not only for the Polkadot ecosystem, but for the entire crypto industry” -
@danreecer_
@samuel_haig
reports👇
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As the rivalry between the Ethereum and Solana communities heats up,
@BNBCHAIN
quietly beat both in terms of trading volume.
@PancakeSwap
continues to dominate trading activity on BNB Chain, processing over $1.3 billion worth of trades in the last 24 hours.
Read more:…
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🏦 20% fixed yield on $UST from
@anchor_protocol
🧙 Loans that repay themselves from
@AlchemixFi
🌀A stablecoin purportedly designed to weather all market conditions
@gyrostable
How is such monetary magic possible?🤔
@DirSchmidt
dives in👇
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📷
@OndoFinance
introduces Ondo Global Markets, a platform that tokenizes securities while maintaining liquidity off-chain.
"We're very focused on enabling these public securities to be used in on-chain financial systems," said
@nathanlallman
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Imagine...
A social network where users are NOT the product 😱
This is what
@StaniKulechov
is building at
@LensProtocol
🌱
Stani is the founder & CEO of
@AaveAave
, and his latest mission is to reimagine how social networks are built
He explains how in this week's podcast 🧵👇
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🎙 "We're Lifting Barriers For Outside Users; If You Allocate Capital in a Vacuum, It's Kind of Meaningless" says
@d0h0k1
#DeFi
can be daunting for beginners, but
@terra_money
has managed to attract non-crypto users.
How did they do it?
📺Listen now👇
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Around 3-6M transactions/week are processed on StarkNet (more than $BTC some weeks!) 😱
Using ZK-STARK technology, $ETH could surpass the txn speeds of
@Visa
within just a few months
Here’s how
@StarkWareLtd
founders
@EliBenSasson
&
@ukolodny
plan to level up Ethereum scaling👇
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🚨BREAKING🚨
@AaveAave
has launched its $GHO stablecoin on Ethereum mainnet with a debt ceiling of $100M.
V3 users can now borrow GHO against their collateral assets at a fixed interest rate of 1.5%.
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🎙️Hello Defiers!
In this week’s
@DefiantNews
podcast episode, we interviewed
@MetaKovan
, the pseudonymous investor who holds the largest known
#NFT
collection in his
#Metapruse
fund, which he leads with his (also pseudonymous) partner
@twobadour
.
🎧Listen now👇🏽
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Swift, the global interbank messaging system, is partnering with major banks to trial cross-chain tokenized asset transfers, potentially revolutionizing the financial industry.
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The Merge is LIVE 🎉🎉🎉
Ethereum's Proof-of-Work mainnet has officially merged with the Proof-of-Stake Beacon Chain 🐼
Hello, 90% reduction in $ETH issuance 👋
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Ousted
@Wonderland_fi
co-founder
@0xSifu
has launched a new token.
🤔While the purpose of the $SIFU token remains unknown, one user has purchased $490K worth.
@OFernau
reports👇
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$BNB has soared almost 25% since Oct. 28 after
@binance
helped finance
@elonmusk
's recent acquisition of Twitter 📈
TVL on
@BNBCHAIN
grew 15% to $9B over the past week.
Over the same period, TVL of the largest decentralized exchange on
#BNB
@PancakeSwap
grew over 12% to ~$3.3B.
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👨💼 .
@AndreCronjeTech
: Co-founder of
@FantomFDN
, founder of
@iearnfinance
, and a key figure in the
#DeFi
space.
🎙️ From rockstar to controversy, he's seen it all. But let's hear his backstory: How did he get into crypto and why DeFi?
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🔺
@avax
On-chain Activity Doubles in 2023
🚀
@traderjoe_xyz
,
@StargateFinance
, and
@_WOOFi
Drive Growth
Learn the details! 👇🏻
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🔮 Chainlink to Power Polygon zkEVM’s Data Feeds
@0xPolygon
developers will now be able to tap into
@Chainlink
’s live data points to power dApps, liquidity protocols, and decentralized exchanges.
Read More:
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💰 Dexalot receives a $3M grant from Avalanche Foundation.
$AVAX tokens are set to be distributed via an incentive program in the coming 12 months.
Read more 👇
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BREAKING: U.S. Attorney announces $3.36 BILLION cryptocurrency seizure in connection with Silk Road
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🎙️In today's Defiant
©️
@AaveAave
Latest
#DeFi
Protocol to Delay Open Source and Lock Down V3 Code
🏰
@DefiKingdoms
Challenges Axie’s
#GameFi
Supremacy with
#NFT
Play
🎬
#FirstLook
: Basis trading using perps, stables and a whole lotta
@LemmaFinance
👇
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To clarify:
💰 0x650d spent +$6M to buy over 90 CryptoPunks on the LarvaLabs page
🤯 and not only that, but they bribed an Ethereum miner to buy all Punks in one block, so as to not wake any MEV bots or start a bidding war
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⛓️
@loopringorg
has announced its deployment on the
@taikoxyz
testnet, marking the first step towards a Layer 3 (L3) implementation.
L3 blockchains offer enhanced scalability, customization, and privacy for dApps, building on the features of Layer 2.
Is it the start of L323? 👀
We are excited to share Loopring L3 is now officially live on
@taikoxyz
alpha-3 zkEVM testnet 💙🥁
This marks the beginning of our L3 journey towards achieving greater scalability & highly optimized experiences tailored for our smart wallet and decentralized applications
🧵/👇
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🚨EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
@0xSifu
Speaks!🚨
The ousted
@Wonderland_fi
co-founder has launched a new fund built around the $SIFU token unveiled last month.
@yyctrader1
reports👇
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🚀 ETH crossed $3k for the first time since May.
Seems that EIP-1559 was not priced in and nobody is selling the news -- they're not selling the infrastructure bill either.
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👨🎓It's Tutorial Tuesday!
@MetisDAO
is another Ethereum Layer-2 rollup platform that's been gaining traction lately.
Today,
@IamSuperMassive
shows you how to bridge assets from
#Ethereum
to Metis and LP on
@netswapofficial
💱
Watch now👇
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🦄 UNI Instantly Becomes DeFi’s Third Most Widely Held Token Less than 24hrs After Launch
Proof that retroactive incentives are a clear path to decentralization.
"It's safe to say that food coins just got served,"
@Cooopahtroopa
writes.
Read 👇
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Ethereum Classic finds new life as the Merge fast approaches 🚀
$ETC has rocketed 174% since July 13, as investors and traders speculate that the Merge will redirect a significant portion of hashing power to the PoW chain.
🔗:
@samuel_haig
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