Research
Stablecoins
USDN loses peg again as Neutrino upgrade to “stabilize protocol” goes live
Stablecoin USDN fell 4% as network upgrade is confirmed as "urgent measures" are implemented
Behind Waves USDN depeg and how Sasha Ivanov worked to restore the peg by taking on $500M in debt – SlateCast #16
Waves founder Sash Ivanov spoke to CryptoSlate about how it feels to be called a Ponzi, corruption within web3, the depeg of USDN, and how it felt to take on $500M in debt to attempt to save the ecosystem.
Ethernal labs building AAA metaverse on top of Ethernity ecosystem with Nick Rose – SlateCast #15
CryptoSlate's Akiba spoke to Ethernity and Ethernal Labs founder Nick Rose about the upcoming Exorians Metaverse and other Ethernal Labs projects.
Censorship
Could Gitcoin Grants address be under sanctions from the U.S. amid Tornado Cash saga?
A smart contract written by Martin Köppelmann, Co-founder of Gnosis has revealed evidence of miner censorship on the Ethereum blockchain.
People
Alameda Research Co-CEO quits crypto in pursuit of “happiness”
Sam Trabucco announced he will step down as Co-CEO of Alameda to focus on "traveling, visiting friends and family, working on "myself" and whatnot"
Legal
Celsius sues KeyFi, alleges Jason Stone stole over 1,000 ETH of investor funds for NFTs
Celsius hits back at Jason Stone claiming he used client funds to buy CryptoPunks while losing 30,000 ETH in a bad DeFi trade.
Censorship
SWIFT considered ‘neutral’ on sanctions; debate sparked on whether Ethereum is the same
Global payment messaging service SWIFT claims to be "neutral" regarding sanctions. Can Ethereum make the same claim?
Hacks
NEAR Rainbow Bridge defends weekend attack costing hacker 5 ETH
NEAR/ETH bridge defended an attack in 31 seconds over the weekend that resulted in the attacker losing funds and no loss of user funds.
Research
Research: Will reducing US inflation from 8.3% to 2% compare to Bitcoin and Ethereum?
U.S. inflation rates have yet to fall but Ethereum will drop its inflation massively in September, while Bitcoin's inflation is baked into the code — how do these compare to a 2% FED inflation target?
Adoption
ByBit report claims Solana had strong network growth in Q2 on the back of GameFi, DAOs
Headline price figures do not necessarily tell the full story when it comes to network scaling. Is Solana seeing stealth growth amid a 46% drop against BTC?
Censorship
Largest Ethereum miner, Ethermine, stops processing sanctioned transactions
Ethermine is no longer processing blocks that include Tornado Cash transactions creating censorship at a protocol level
Censorship
Aztec responds to claims FTX froze user funds for interacting with the protocol
Also documented by Wu Blockchain, the accusations of FTX users having their accounts frozen came from a series of tweets from a handful of accounts.
