DeFi


Finance

Kyber Network Advises Liquidity Providers to Withdraw Funds Amid Vulnerability, Token Drops 2%

Kyber's Elastic product's total value locked has plunged to $61 million from $108 million a day earlier.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Attractive Yields Drive Millions Into DeFi Liquidity Manager Gamma

The protocol's native token has risen to 33 cents from a low of 7 cents this year.

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Finance

Olympus DAO Votes to Buy More ETH for Treasury Backing OHM Token

The rebalancing comes as ether rallies off a successful Shapella upgrade.

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Videos

Potential Implications as U.S. SEC Moves Toward DeFi Oversight

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be coming for decentralized finance (DeFi) as it considers reopening a 2022 proposal that would now explicitly target platforms for those crypto transactions as exchanges that need to be regulated. "The Hash" panel discusses the SEC's latest move and how this might shape future crypto regulation.

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Videos

How Regulators Around the World View DeFi

The U.S. Treasury Department and the French central bank recently published reports looking at decentralized finance (DeFi) risks and providing recommendations for mitigating them. CoinDesk Global Policy and Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De discusses how world regulators are looking at DeFi and the broader crypto markets.

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Policy

U.S. SEC Moves Toward DeFi Oversight as It Reopens Proposed Regulations

The Securities and Exchange Commission is confirming crypto industry worries that, yes, the proposal last year to widen its view of securities exchanges will fold in DeFi.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Tech

Developers Block Potential ‘Eight-Figure’ Exploit Involving Cosmos-Based Ethermint

Ethermint enables the use of Ethereum smart contracts within the Cosmo ecosystem and is employed by several chains, including Cronos, Kava and Canto.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Balancer Cuts Budget, Slashes Headcount Ahead of Strategy Pivot

The protocol’s service providers have let go of two front-end engineers as they focus on overhauling the platform’s brand. 

Ratings company S&P Global has started ranking stablecoins' ability to hold their pegs. (eswaran arulkumar/Unsplash)

Finance

Ondo Finance Plans Yield-Generating Stablecoin Alternative for Institutional Investors

The new stablecoin-like token, OMMF, will be backed by conventional money market funds and is available only to qualified purchasers and accredited investors. But retail investors can lend against the tokens via Ondo’s DeFi protocol Flux to indirectly access the yield.

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Finance

Solana Dog Token Darling Bonk Inu Releases BonkSwap DEX

Bonk inu was one of the hottest Solana tokens earlier this year, leading a frenzied market at the time.

Bonk Inu developers say they want to showcase Solana's capabilities. (Bonk Inu)