DeFi | ForkLog - Part 10

ForkLog 19 17.03.2025

Aave Founder Rules Out Token Launch for Horizon Initiative

The launch of a token under the Horizon initiative, focused on integrating RWA and DeFi, is not planned. This was stated by Aave founder Stani Kulechov, citing DAO consensus on the matter. Overall consensus across the Aave DAO is that there is no interest on other tokens. The consensus will be respected, Aave DAO is […]

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ForkLog 77 14.03.2025

World Liberty Financial Raises $590 Million Through Dual Token Sales

The Trump family’s DeFi project, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), has completed its second round of token sales, bringing the total funds raised to $590 million. Initially, the crypto platform aimed to raise $300 million from the sale of 100 billion WLFI tokens. These tokens serve as the project’s governance tokens on Ethereum. In January, the […]

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ForkLog 42 13.03.2025

Sandwich-attack victim swapped $732,583 for $18,636

A cryptocurrency trader swapped about $732,583 in USDC for about $18,636 in USDT across six separate swaps, falling victim to a large sandwich attack. Unknown entity got sandwiched for 714k today on six separate USDC -> USDT swaps. (Traded with 100% slippage allowed.) They swapped 732583.429405 USDC for 18636.232611 USDT. A promised ?: pic.twitter.com/0rFNE4DfoP — […]

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ForkLog 38 12.03.2025

Experts Suspect Whale Activity as Potential Attack on Hyperliquid

Experts at EmberCN have identified unusual whale behavior on Hyperliquid, which may suggest a test of the perpetual derivatives DEX’s liquidation mechanism. In the past 24 hours, Hyperliquid’s HLP Vault has lost over $4 million, and the losses are still growing. According to @EmberCN, a whale opened a long position of 175,000 ETH (valued at […]

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ForkLog 29 12.03.2025

Tokenomics with Vladimir Menaskop: no code required

Which tools should you reach for if you want to design a project’s tokenomics without writing code? Web3 entrepreneur Vladimir Menaskop shares his proven stack in the latest instalment of this primer. From the author Good tokenomics will not necessarily feed you for two or three years—or even 30—but bad tokenomics will wreck your project […]

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ForkLog 18 11.03.2025

Whale Dodges $16 Million Penalty Amid $75 Million DeFi Liquidation

A major Maker user narrowly avoided a ~$16 million penalty on a loan of ~$75 million taken in 2021 by promptly sending 2000 ETH and 1.5 million DAI. Prior to sending additional ETH, the liquidation price was approximately $1932.08. The debt-to-collateral ratio of 65,675 ETH had dropped to 176%. These actions reduced the liquidation level […]

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ForkLog 66 06.03.2025

World Liberty Financial Expands Crypto Holdings Ahead of Summit

On the eve of the White House crypto summit, the DeFi project of the Trump family, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), acquired ETH, WBTC, and MOVE. Analysts from the Nansen platform noted this development. Hours ago, Trump’s project @worldlibertyfi made a $25M crypto play $10M $ETH$10M $WBTC$1.5M $MOVE More to come? pic.twitter.com/lQY56l88hO — Nansen ? (@nansen_ai) […]

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ForkLog 116 26.02.2025

Ripple Unveils Institutional DeFi Infrastructure on XRP Ledger

Ripple has announced the development of institutional-grade decentralized finance infrastructure based on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). For institutional DeFi to scale, it needs compliance-ready, interoperable infrastructure: https://t.co/cOBE583aT0 The XRP Ledger delivers with: ➡️ AMM trading & onchain price oracles➡️ Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs)➡️ Decentralized identity (DID) for secure transactions… — RippleX (@RippleXDev) February 25, 2025 […]

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ForkLog 68 26.02.2025

A phantom reborn: Sonic, a revamped network from the ‘father of DeFi’

In December 2024, following a rebrand, the Sonic mainnet was launched—an EVM-compatible layer-1 (L1) blockchain. The ‘father of DeFi’, Andre Cronje, has taken the helm of the new direction for the old Fantom project. In February 2025, attention to the Sonic ecosystem and token rose sharply. Several forces are at work: users’ anticipation of a […]

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ForkLog 20 25.02.2025

Bernstein Predicts Liquidity Shift from Meme Coins to DeFi and NFTs

Analysts at Bernstein anticipate that as the regulatory environment evolves, liquidity in the crypto market will begin to flow back from meme coins to DeFi projects, NFTs, and gaming tokens. This is reported by The Block.

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ForkLog 29 24.02.2025

Berachain Surpasses Base and Arbitrum with $3.2 Billion TVL

The total value locked (TVL) in Berachain has risen to $3.24 billion, placing the network in sixth position, ahead of Base ($3.21 billion) and Arbitrum ($2.91 billion). Over the past seven days, Berachain’s TVL increased by 20% amidst a general downturn among its competitors. Source: DeFi Llama. Berachain hosts 33 protocols. The leading platform is […]

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ForkLog 46 24.02.2025

Infini Stablecoin Bank Hacked for $49.5 Million USDC

On February 23rd, the stablecoin bank Infini suffered a loss of $49.5 million USDC due to a hack. Analysts from Lookonchain pointed out the suspicious transactions. It seems that the stablecoin bank @0xinfini was hacked and 49.5M $USDC was stolen. The hacker swapped 49.5M $USDC for 49.5M $DAI and bought 17,696 $ETH. The 17,696 $ETH […]

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