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Solana DeFi Platform Votes to Control Whale Account in Bid to Avoid Liquidation 'Chaos'

Solend users voted to "grant emergency power to Solend Labs to temporarily take over the whale's account."

Solana Hacker House en Miami, abril del 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Katie Haun’s New Fund Leads $32M Round in Lending Protocol Euler

Euler XYZ CEO Michael Bentley discusses the recent $32 million raise in a funding round led by former A16z executive Katie Haun’s Haun Ventures. Plus, Bentley shares his thoughts on the current state of DeFi as several major lenders are facing concerns over liquidity.

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DeFi Protocol Inverse Finance Exploited for $1.2M

Attackers used a flash loan attack to drain the open-source protocol outfit of bitcoin and tether.

Inverse Finance developers paused borrowing functions for users and said they were investigating the incident. (Shutterstock)

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Crypto Market Chaos: No, Lido Is Not ‘the Next Terra’

After over $1 billion in liquidations in just 24 hours, DeFi’s wild west period may be drawing to a close – but not everything’s a sham.

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Chainlink Price Feeds Are Live on Polkadot-Based Moonbeam

Oracle application Chainlink now supports the most active decentralized application (dApp) ecosystem on Polkadot.

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JPMorgan Wants to Bring Trillions of Dollars of Tokenized Assets to DeFi

The bank’s recent tokenization of money market funds with BlackRock dovetails with an institutional DeFi project led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

JPMorgan has ambitious plans for institutional DeFi. (Getty Images)

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Huobi Enters Venture Capital With Ivy Blocks

The exchange's newly formed investment arm will focus on DeFi and Web 3 ventures.

Will More Institutional Exchanges Follow on Huobi's Heels?

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Hop Protocol Airdrops Over 20M Governance Tokens

The Hop Protocol airdrop is currently worth around $3.5 million with 37% of users claiming their tokens.

El lunes fueron distribuidos tokens flare a determinados usuarios de XRP. (Chris Briggs/Unsplash)

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Blockchain Network Cronos Launches $100M Accelerator Program to Support DeFi, GameFi Startups

Cronos, the Crypto.com-developed blockchain network with a focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web 3 gaming, is launching a $100 million accelerator program for early-stage blockchain projects. Ken Timsit, Cronos Chain & Cronos Labs managing director, shares his insights.

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