Finance Redefined: Swindling the lender and a $100M pot, Aug. 30–Sept. 3

Finance Redefined: Swindling the lender and a $100M pot, Aug. 30–Sept. 3

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....


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