Finance Redefined: Hacker bungles DeFi exploit, dYdx's decentralization goals...
DeFi space saw the resurgence of Andre Cronje nearly a month after his departure announcement while dYdX has pledged to go fully decentralized by the end of the year. The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was filled with ups and downs —mostly the latter— this week, with two very distinct hack attempts and a heartbreaking departure of a DeFi veteran. In this week’s newsletter, we will also look at derivative exchange dYdX’s plans to go fully decentralized by the end of the year. The price momentum of the DeFi tokens remained neutral, with several tokens registering a bullish surge.....
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DYdX volume tops Coinbase for the day, Cardano enables a new stablecoin, and a DeFi bounty hunter is highly rewarded — all coming to you this week in Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter.DYdX surpassed Coinbase in daily trading volume for the first time this week. Read on to discover why this was a seminal moment for the project’s founder.What you’re about to read is the concise version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments over the last week — released with more anticipation than a layer-two....
Majority of the DeFi tokens in the top-100 had a mixed week as several tokens traded in red while a few others managed to make double-digit gains. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.This past week, there were some major developments in the run-up to the upcoming Ethereum Merge slated for Sept. 15. Bitfinex became the latest crypto exchange to throw its support behind the chain split token.While DeFi bridge hacks have become a norm this year,....
The Cream Finance hacker gained $18.8 million by exploiting a reentrancy bug in the AMP token in a set of 17 transactions. Cream Finance, a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol focused on lending, has suffered a major exploit, with a hacker stealing nearly $19 million from its platform.An unknown hacker has managed to gain $18.8 million in the latest flash loan exploit of the Cream Finance protocol through a reentrancy bug introduced by the Amp (AMP) token, according to an investigation by blockchain security firm Peckshield.Announcing the news Monday, Cream Finance said that the....
dYdX said that it is looking at full decentralization to offer its users advantages of DeFi that centralized services can’t. Ethereum Layer 2-based crypto derivatives trading platform dYdX has vowed to become “100% decentralized by EOY” via the protocol's V4 update. dYdX primarily offers perpetual contracts, which are derivatives products that borrow elements from both spot margin trading and futures trading but do not have an expiry date. At present only certain components of dYdX are decentralized, including its Ethereum smart contracts, governance and staking. However its “orderbook and....
The protocol chose Cosmos as the best fit as it would not only need decentralization but also the ability to handle and scale 1,000 orders per second. On Thursday, crypto derivatives platform dYdX, which is currently built on Ethereum layer 2, announced that it would be moving to a standalone blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint proof-of-stake consensus for its v4 update. The firm cites the Cosmos blockchain's decentralization and performance as reasons for being a "best fit" for building dYdX for v4.We’re excited to announce that dYdX V4 will be developed as a standalone....