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Aave (AAVE) price has been on an absolute tear for weeks and today the DeFi-token rallied to a new all-time high at $288.90. The decentralized finance protocol is one of the most popular in the market and the recent rally in the DeFi sector is one of the driving forces behind
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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter to warn his followers not to take personal loans to purchase cryptocurrencies. Source
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Oasis Labs has announced the successful launch of its Oasis Network mainnet, with more than 70 independent validators already live.Oasis is a privacy focused Layer 1 network that claims a throughput of 1000 transactions per second designed to support decentralized applications. In June 2018, Oasis raised $45 million from crypto
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Nine months ago, in a Denver convention center, a booth sat empty.Littered with token stickers, the table was supposed to hold the physical representatives of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol bZx. It remained empty, however, as the team struggled to make sense of the digital forces twisting their young project. bZx, as
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The dream of every borrower is to get loans without collateral and Flash loans in DeFi allow you
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Since the beginning of the year, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has rapidly grown to more than $12 billion in total value locked. With this exponential growth, incentives have increased for malicious actors to manipulate and attack vulnerable DeFi protocols, often at the expense of regular users. One of the more
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A coalition of Ethereum OGs is tackling the so-called “lockup” issue, whereby the first generation of participants staking crypto on the transitioning Eth 2.0 blockchain must commit their coins to a restrictive multi-year contract.Announced Wednesday, LiquidStake, which is being launched by crypto trading firm DARMA Capital, will allow ether (ETH)
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Flash loans can be used for more than just siphoning funds out of poorly put-together decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.That’s one lesson investors can learn from Israel-based startup BProtocol’s manipulation of flash loans to sway election results on DeFi legacy project MakerDAO earlier this week.According to the MakerDAO community forum, on
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The cryptocurrency industry has been constantly evolving since Bitcoin made its first appearance over a decade ago. What
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Ethereum users are paying through the nose while miners profit. Coinbase is offering bitcoin-backed loans and nearly a quarter of the Tor Network may be compromised by a crypto-loving scammer. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You
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