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The anonymously operated yield farm Pickle Finance has cut a deal to merge with Yearn, the latter’s lead developer, Andre Cronje, posted on Medium Tuesday.“Pickle and Yearn developers have worked out a structure to allow the two projects to work together in symbiosis. This is done to reduce duplicate work,
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Ethereum developers are weighing changes to publicly disclosing critical bugs following the Nov. 11 “accidental hard fork.” Geth had fixed the bug in early October following a disclosure, but it still existed in prior versions of Geth. The bug temporarily caused nodes that had not updated to the correct version of
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Quick take:OKEx has halted all crypto withdrawalsOne of the exchange’s private key holders is currently with authorities regarding an investigationCrypto outflows from OKEx are at zeroThe current incident is a reminder to crypto users that storing funds in CEXs is risky because they don’t own their private keysDeFi could benefit
Read MoreLitecoin (LTC) has relaunched its MimbleWimble testnet — a protocol designed to enhance privacy and obfuscate the traceability of distributed ledger transactions.MimbleWimble is a modified implementation of the proof-of-work algorithm underpinning Bitcoin (BTC) in which blocks appear as a single large transaction, preventing the individual inputs and outputs relating to
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When the DeFi degens caught wind of a new pre-release Andre Cronje project they piled in, only to get $16 million hacked away in a flash.DeFi is one of the breakout crypto categories of 2020. Indeed, yield farming and the grand game of “money legos” has been so profitable that
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Recapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI. Source
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A new breakout cryptocurrency all-star following in the footsteps of Chainlink has been on an insane over 380% rally over the last three weeks alone. But what goes up, must come down, and the over 30% correction in Band protocol may result in a blow of top. Here’s why.Decentralized Oracle
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Ren, a decentralized finance protocol friendly to Ethereum that enables inter-blockchain liquidity, has announced the launch of the RenVM mainnet. The company said that RenVM will bring cross-chain assets to the Ethereum ecosystem. This will begin first with the introduction of BTC, BCH, and ZEC, and later with other digital
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As the new decade unreels, a new wave of disruption seems to be coming to the shores of the global financial system. That wave is called decentralized finance protocols.Decentralized finance, or DeFi, simply refers to financial software that is built on the blockchain to make it easy for anyone
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Gitcoin, BCash and Zcash all try different paths to fund public protocol development, plus the latest in CBDCs from Japan and Cambodia and Andrew Yang on crypto.The best way to fund open-source projects remains a question,and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher
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