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Developers Excluded From Broker Label in New DCCPA Bill Draft

Stakeholders say that this latest draft of the bill tempers language that would be detrimental to DeFi.

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Mercados

Decentralized Exchange Token GMX Surges After Binance, FTX Listings

GMX gained popularity for defying this year’s crypto rout, and it nearly hit its previous all-time high after the listings news.

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Vídeos

Native USDC on Cosmos to Fill Vacuum Left by Terra’s UST Stablecoin

Circle said on Wednesday that it plans to launch its USD coin (USDC) stablecoin – the second-largest dollar-backed stablecoin by market capitalization – natively on Cosmos in early 2023. Jelena Djuric, ecosystem lead at Cosmos Research, discusses what this means for the Cosmos ecosystem and decentralized finance.

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Cryptocurrency Market Maker Wintermute Lost $160M in Hack

Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute lost $160 million in a hack relating to its decentralized finance (DeFi) operation, but the company’s lending and OTC operations have not been affected. “The Hash” panel breaks down the details.

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Opinión

In Crypto, Base Layer Security Isn’t Enough

Blockchains are only as secure as the applications they run.

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Opinión

As Government Takes on the Tornado Mixer, It May Reap a Whirlwind

Tornado Cash isn’t a company, a service or a person – it’s a series of words, and likely protected by the U.S. First Amendment.

Detail of the tomb of monk Johannes Trithemius, author of one of the first Western works on cryptography - and one of the first to be blacklisted. (Wikimedia)

Mercados

Former Terra-Affiliated Project Kujira to Issue Stablecoin

The USK token is set to maintain its price peg by combining overcollateralization of ATOM tokens with trading incentives.

Stablecoin. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

DeFi Protocol Voltz Could Bring 150% Interest Rate on Ether Deposits

As the Ethereum blockchain's Merge approaches, traders and venues are seeing the event as an opportunity to pocket fat yields – possibly signaling a renewed appetite for risk in crypto just months after its big market crash.

With memories still fresh from this year's crypto market crash, the Voltz protocol is already looking for ways to let traders use leverage to take more risk. (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Uniswap Token Rallies After Being Added to Robinhood’s Crypto Trading Menu

Offering UNI sent the token higher Thursday afternoon.

UNI got major liftoff from its listing on Robinhood's platform. (OsakaWayne Studios/Getty images)

Layer 2

Cell Protocol Wants to 'Democratize' Liquidity in DeFi

The team, finalists during Web 3 Pitch Fest, wants to expand the network "horizontally and vertically" across exchanges and blockchains.

To preserve the anonymity of some of its founding members, Cell Protocol is using non-fungible tokens. (Cell Protocol, modified by CoinDesk)