DeFi

DeFi

Financiën

Hacked Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Has $200M in Outstanding DeFi Debt

The firm's CEO described the company as solvent following the $160 million hack.

Evgeny Gaevoy, Wintermute CEO (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Video's

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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Financiën

DeFi Platform Maple Finance Aims to Help Struggling Bitcoin Miners With $300M Lending Pool

The DeFi platform is launching its first fully collateralized, industry-specific lending pool with up to 20% interest rate as bitcoin miners are finding it tough to raise capital.

A Bitfarms mining facility in Washington State. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Financiën

Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Hacked for $160M, OTC Services Unaffected

Wintermute's lending and OTC operations have not been affected despite the hack.

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Markten

DeFi Trader Nets Over $500K by Using DEX GMX to Manipulate Avalanche Token

GMX developers capped open interest for Avalanche tokens to prevent a repeat of the strategy.

Zipmex is to release tokens to users' wallets in the next week after blocking customers from direct custody of their coins last month. (Jose Miguel/Pixabay)

Financiën

Two Sigma Ventures Raises $400M for Two Funds, Plans Crypto Investments

The firm invests about 15% of its capital to crypto and Web3 projects

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Financiën

Blockchain Tool Developer Infura Plans to Launch Decentralized Protocol

The company will begin an open-source initiative to decentralize its offering, which easily connects dapps to the Ethereum blockchain.

Infura plans to launch decentralized protocol (tadamichi/Getty Images)

Markten

La red Ethereum PoW recibe quejas en el primer día en medio de un fallo de datos

Los usuarios dijeron que no pudieron acceder al servidor de la blockchain utilizando la información pública y que los intentos de enlazarlo a una billetera de criptomonedas fallaron.

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Financiën

DeFi Mobile Wallet Railway Wallet Launches

Railway Wallet is the first zero-knowledge DeFi mobile wallet to operate directly on chain.

Zipmex is to release tokens to users' wallets in the next week after blocking customers from direct custody of their coins last month. (Jose Miguel/Pixabay)

Technologie

Ethereum PoW Network Sees Complaints on Day 1 Amid Data Goof-Up

Users said they weren't able to access the blockchain's servers using the public information and attempts to link it to a crypto wallet failed.

Ethereum PoW users are reporting network issues. (Karla Hernandez/Unsplash)