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The beginning of 2023 raised hopes that the blockchain industry was on the path toward recovery, but weaker-than-hoped financial performance and a bout of negative news in February have cast doubts on this outlook. However, these headwinds do not affect all sectors of the industry uniformly. Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and
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The funding frenzy and competitive landscape speaks to the growth of the on-chain security landscape. While once only inhabited by tracing companies that retroactively follow the money, it's now buzzing with smart contract auditors, economic risk analysis firms, white hats and monitoring platforms that seek to mitigate the damage. Source
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Coinbase might be set to integrate several other protocols with Base, starting with Aave and Uniswap. American crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) is reportedly making moves to bring decentralized finance applications Aave and Uniswap to Base. According to a CoinDesk report, the plans were revealed by a source who
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The U.S. Treasury Department is close to releasing a risk assessment analyzing criminal use of decentralized finance (DeFi), according to Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Elizabeth Rosenberg. Source
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Decentralized apps have held up well amid the turmoil that is currently afflicting the crypto industry. While Coinbase is among the largest and most influential of the centralized crypto trading platforms, the firm clearly understands the value attached to ecosystems, hence the drive to incubate a decentralized blockchain network. Source
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“The immense research invested into Aztec Connect will be usable and indeed critical to the development of our next-gen product," wrote the Aztec team in a Medium post. "Having an encrypted rollup live and in production gives us confidence in our shift to focusing on a fully programmable version." Source
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Contagion from the Dec. 12 flash loan attack against Euler has spread far and wide, resulting in frozen or lost funds for 11 different decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, according to Dec. 13 reports from each of them on Twitter. Balancer, an Ethereum protocol with over $1 billion total value locked
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FRC and EUL’s price actions underscores how investors' perceptions of market events can be more influential than the actual events themselves. First Republic has not defaulted, gone insolvent or been seized by the government; in fact, it raised $70 billion over the weekend to shore up its liquidity. Meanwhile, Euler
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Rootstock, a censorship-resistant and permissionless Bitcoin sidechain, added seven DeFi protocols, integrated new tools, and removed the BTC/rBTC two-way peg as they move closer to complete decentralization, a press release on Mar. 10 shows. Rootstock added, among others, Qredo Wallet, a non-custodial wallet; Paydece, a trustless platform for swapping tokens for
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Gate.io, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges supporting over 1,400 coins and stablecoins, will list Mintlayer’s ML token from Mar. 21, 2023. Mintlayer is a layer-2 solution that opens Bitcoin to decentralized finance (DeFi) and more. Users can autonomously swap bitcoin (BTC), through automatic swaps, for other tokens minted on the
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