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Is it time to find another name for this phenomenon?
Andrey Shevchenko
Based in Italy with Russian roots, Andrey discovered the world of crypto by hunting for cybersecurity bounties. He worked at several blockchain startups before turning to journalism, almost by chance. He’s passionate about technology and business in equal measure, and sees blockchain as a potential driver of deep societal change.
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Ethereum cumulative fees in 2020 eclipsed Bitcoin’s for the first time One type of "flippening" finally happened, but only miners are feasting.
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Did a class-action suit play a role in Maker's refusal to compensate March crash victims? The community had originally voted in favor of compensation, but the final tally showed a different outcome.
Preliminary tests suggest Nvidia RTX 3000 series may take AMD’s mining crown The RTX 3080 is apparently twice as fast as the previous generation.
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Finance Redefined: Uniswap’s bang ends in whimper, Sept. 16-23 DeFi users got a fat stimulus check, but Uniswap’s token fell short of the community’s inflated expectations.
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Polkadot’s Substrate 2.0 integrates oracles at a protocol level The blockchain can now see its environment.
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First ICO mandating buyers to ‘use’ tokens is successful, collects $5M The average contribution was just over $1,300.
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Tron legitimized a project that pulled an exit scam, community says Tron’s primary DeFi project whitelisted what looks like a scam.
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Polkadot DeFi developers may soon get a new oracle provider with historic data Polkadot snatches yet another oracle provider from a different blockchain.
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Binance sued for allegedly facilitating money laundering with 'lax KYC' Binance’s lax KYC requirements are creating more legal problems for the exchange.
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FATF hints at Binance as example of an exchange avoiding regulation The FATF doesn’t seem to like frequent jurisdiction hoppers, notably Binance.
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DeFi platform bZX sees new $8M hack from one misplaced line of code bZX made all the right moves, but it wasn’t enough.
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Framework’s Michael Anderson: ‘Ethereum is where DeFi will continue to be’ One of DeFi’s most active, successful investors shares his thoughts on yield farming, the origin of LINK Marines, and how DeFi will evolve.
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Crypto.com latest to bank on DeFi hype with Uniswap-based exchange Centralized Decentralized Finance may not make a lot of sense, but it is coming.
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Binance makes aggressive push on in-house DeFi with $100M fund It is no secret that Binance’s vision of DeFi involves many centralized aspects.
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FTX CEO: SushiSwap probably wasn’t a ‘long-planned heist’ Chef Nomi seemed sincere to Sam Bankman-Fried, but greed probably took over.
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Mastercard launches virtual testing environment for central bank currencies Is Mastercard trying to show some central banks the folly of their ways?
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Maker seemingly gives up on Dai peg as interest rates are raised above 0% It seems zero interest rates were not enough to keep DAI stable.
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Band Protocol denies any role in the mysterious origins of SushiSwap Band Protocol may share hosting with SushiSwap, but so do hundreds of others.
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A new enterprise blockchain features private real-life identities, but not without controversy Combining privacy and auditability requires unconventional solutions.
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Blockstream’s Liquid pushes for DeFi with new decentralized exchange Bitcoin DeFi is coming, but it’s not really on Bitcoin.
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Dev finds major governance bug in SushiSwap, but no threat to the project yet A massive bug cannot be exploited yet as pool migration is set to continue.
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Ethereum devs discuss gas optimizations, but it will probably be too little too late Developers see the problem, but there is little they can do right now.
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Three birds, one stone: Enhancing DeFi with political parties Political parties on the blockchain could soon become a reality for the DeFi space.
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Nvidia teases a massively improved RTX 3080, but will it be good for mining? The performance gains probably won’t be enough to overcome Nvidia’s mining disadvantage.
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Maker community thanks Yearn for seemingly restoring DAI peg A massive yield farming strategy finally provides a mechanism to push the DAI price down.
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Scaling DeFi with Optimistic Rollups is not the best option, says Matter Labs CEO Ethereum needs to scale with layer-two in the short-term, and ZK Rollups can pick up the slack.
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Uniswap founder dismisses copycat that could ‘steal’ 75% of its liquidity SushiSwap has all but declared war on Uniswap, and Hayden Adams appears to be returning the favor.
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Binance launches Ethereum-compatible blockchain to pursue DeFi Binance wants to stay ahead of the DeFi trend.
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Using a DeFi protocol now costs more than $50 as Ethereum fees skyrocket The situation is eerily reminiscent of December 2017.