DeFi | ForkLog - Part 49

ForkLog 24 14.10.2021

Financial Hardcore: What Is the Future of Decentralized Options

ForkLog has examined the features of decentralized options, identified the reasons for their rising popularity, and learned about the pitfalls of these complex but interesting and promising financial instruments.

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ForkLog 14 12.10.2021

Crypto prime broker SheeldMarket raises $10 million in Series A funding

The prime broker SheeldMarket has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round.

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ForkLog 13 09.10.2021

Divergence Ventures Analyst Earned $2.4 Million via Ribbon Airdrop Exploit

A Divergence Ventures analyst Bridget Harris exploited the Ribbon project's May airdrop exploit and earned more than $2.4 million in RBN tokens.

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ForkLog 10 08.10.2021

Compound to fix governance token distribution error

Community members unanimously approved activating RFP-064 to fix a governance-token distribution error that arose during the previous update to the lending protocol.

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ForkLog 77 07.10.2021

What are cross-chain bridges?

An explainer on cross-chain bridges, how they work and why they matter for DeFi.

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ForkLog 6 05.10.2021

Bank of America upbeat on DeFi and NFT prospects

The digital asset industry could become 'one of the most exciting markets' in the coming years. Analysts from Bank of America's financial division presented this assessment in a research report.

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ForkLog 11 03.10.2021

Compound protocol again loses tens of millions of dollars due to bug in the Comptroller smart contract

Compound could lose more than $160 million due to a bug in the Comptroller smart contract, which has already cost the lending protocol $82 million.

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ForkLog 10 01.10.2021

Cream Finance reports recovery of 5,152.6 ETH after hack; hacker received 10% of the stolen funds.

Three weeks after the hack, the developers of the decentralised Cream Finance protocol confirmed that the project had recovered 5,152.6 ETH (about $16.7 million at the time of writing), identifying the hacker with the help of the community.

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ForkLog 19 01.10.2021

DeFi reboot: how Arbitrum became Ethereum’s leading layer-2 solution

ForkLog examined Arbitrum’s features, the reasons behind the rapid growth of its ecosystem, and the pitfalls of this trendy solution.

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ForkLog 14 30.09.2021

R3 to Launch DeFi Blockchain With Its Own Token

R3, the provider of the corporate distributed ledger technology platform Corda, is exploring the possibility of launching a network for decentralized finance (DeFi) as an Ethereum layer-2 solution with its own token. Ledger Insights reports.

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ForkLog 16 30.09.2021

Compound suffers multimillion-dollar losses due to protocol update bug

The developers of the lending protocol Compound reported a bug in the distribution of governance tokens COMP that arose after the activation of RFP-062. According to founder Robert Leshner, in the worst case the damage could exceed $82 million.

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ForkLog 7 28.09.2021

China’s crackdowns spark interest in UNI, but do not boost Uniswap’s on-chain activity

Total Value Locked on Uniswap remains at August lows, with user activity down to January levels. A fresh wave of pressure from Chinese authorities on the industry spurred a surge in UNI purchases, but did not improve on-chain metrics.

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