DeFi | ForkLog - Part 52

ForkLog 13 19.09.2021

Charles Hoskinson warns of bubbles forming in DeFi and NFT markets

The sectors of decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens are at a stage of development where the market struggles to price them fairly. That view was voiced by Charles Hoskinson, head of IOHK, the company behind Cardano.

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ForkLog 25 18.09.2021

Venus Project developers cancel vote to regain control of the project

The developers of the Venus Project lending protocol on the Binance Smart Chain cancelled the vote to hand the project to an external team.

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ForkLog 12 17.09.2021

99% of Cardano smart contracts deployed remain inactive

2,352 smart contracts were deployed on the Cardano network, but 2,333 of them are timelocked, according to smartcontracts.vercel.app

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ForkLog 8 16.09.2021

Opinion: SEC stance on cryptocurrencies politicised

The stance of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding digital assets reflects someone's political agenda and hinders innovation as well as consumer protection. This view is shared by Adam Cochran, a partner at venture firm Cinneamhain Ventures.

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ForkLog 28 16.09.2021

MDEX: The DeFi Locomotive of the Huobi ECO Chain

In December 2020 the Huobi ECO Chain mainnet launch took place, followed a month later by the decentralized exchange MDEX on this blockchain. Here we discuss MDEX's features, its Initial MDEX Offering platform, and the MDX governance token.

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ForkLog 23 15.09.2021

Senator Elizabeth Warren discussed the crypto market crash with Gary Gensler

The crypto market crash and the related outages on bitcoin exchanges underscore the need for regulation of the industry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Senator Elizabeth Warren expressed that view at a Banking Committee hearing.

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ForkLog 23 13.09.2021

DeFi project on the Avalanche blockchain hacked for $3.2 million

The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Zabu Finance on the Avalanche blockchain announced a hack. The attacker siphoned off crypto assets worth about $3.2 million.

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ForkLog 10 13.09.2021

Arbitrum’s Ethereum layer-2 TVL hits $2.2 billion

The total value locked (TVL) in Arbitrum, the Ethereum layer-2 solution, rose by more than 3,200% in a week and hit a record $2.2 billion.

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ForkLog 17 09.09.2021

dYdX developers uncover bug in the Safety Staking Pool smart contract

On September 8, the non-custodial trading platform dYdX issued a governance token and unveiled the Safety Staking Pool. Shortly after its launch, developers discovered an error in the deployment of its smart contract.

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ForkLog 11 09.09.2021

Opinion: The DeFi sector weathered volatility on September 7

Decentralised finance (DeFi) is increasingly resilient to market volatility. Coinbase developer Elias Simos, using data from Dune Analytics, demonstrated the sector's state in light of the September 7 dump. 7/ DeFi is getting better and better at stomaching aggressive volatility. I put together a dash that displays the metrics above granularly (activity in the last 24h to 48h). …

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ForkLog 21 08.09.2021

Cream Finance DeFi protocol hacker returns $17.6 million

The hacker behind the Cream Finance DeFi protocol reimbursed the funds stolen in the recent attack, totaling 5,152.6 ETH ($17.6 million at the time of writing). This was noted by PeckShield Inc., a blockchain-security firm.

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ForkLog 13 07.09.2021

Avanti CEO criticises New York Times article on the crypto industry and DeFi

The founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency bank Avanti, Caitlin Long, rejected the NYT article's conclusions regarding digital assets and the decentralized finance (DeFi) space.

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