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Bitcoin DeFi, Bitcoin on Ethereum: We explore the ways DeFi and Bitcoin intersect. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.Today the crypto world is celebrating Bitcoin’s new all-time high. We did it guys! We’re back to $20,000 after three grueling years.So for this reason, this will be a bit of a Bitcoin-themed newsletter. How is Bitcoin related to DeFi, you ask? Well, for one thing, DeFi’s total value locked has a delta of about 0.2 to Bitcoin’s price. This means that for each 1% that BTC price goes higher or lower, DeFi TVL....
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The Alpha Homora hack is still rippling through markets. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.The Alpha Homora and Cream Finance hack has made a gigantic mark in the DeFi space this week.It is the largest single hack in DeFi history at $37 million in funds stolen. It is also one of the most complex, apparently leveraging several honest-to-God vulnerabilities in Alpha Homora. A few missing input checks in very specialized conditions allowed the hacker to abuse Alpha Homora’s privilege of borrowing an unlimited amount of funds....
Everyone’s trying to jump ship from Ethereum’s layer one, apparently. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.It seems that this week, finally, the community has had enough of Ethereum’s gas fees.That is obviously a bit of hyperbole, as gas fees are high precisely because people are willing to pay such a premium for Ethereum block space. But we’re seeing a kind of “applied trickle-down economics,” where a few brave degens are venturing outside to see what else exists in the world.The effect has been particularly pronounced on....
Hackers run wild, but DeFi marches on — all that and more in this week's Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest iteration of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.Just as quickly as the summer departed from our calendars, millions of funds were hacked from the wallets of Cream Finance. This has been another jam-packed week in the DeFi space. Here are some top picks for the biggest stories in what is my debut appearance as Finance Redefined’s newsletter writer.What you’re reading is the shorter, snappier version of the newsletter. For the full roundup of DeFi developments....
Pickle Finance got hacked so badly on Saturday that its developers asked to be merged into Yearn. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph’s weekly DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.On Saturday, we saw one of the most complex smart contract hacks yet affecting Pickle Finance, a yield optimization protocol very similar to Yearn — an important point for later.PeckShield provided a technical explanation for it, but I think only Solidity developers can really understand it. The high-level take is that the hacker found two textbook examples of code vulnerabilities in....
Fees are a DeFi user’s nightmare. How can you pay less? This is a repost of Finance Redefined's latest installment, where Cointelegraph unpacks the latest developments in DeFi. The newsletter is delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.DeFi was reasonably quiet in terms of major fundamental developments, instead letting prices do the talking. Many tokens rallied, both the popular and the almost forgotten. Save for a few hiccups due to Bitcoin’s shaky price action, we are still well into DeFi season.This price action, unfortunately, means that using DeFi is pretty much impossible. Ethereum....