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Andrey Shevchenko
Andrey is the Technology Editor at Cointelegraph. 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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Maker community scrambles to fix long-standing vulnerability to flash loans A relatively benign attack highlighted the potential threat of flash loans.
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Finance Redefined: The curious case of Harvest Finance, Oct. 21-28 Money Legos can be dangerous, especially when you focus on semantics.
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This social media platform gives you the option to make your posts undeletable The CEO of Minds thinks that others will follow suit.
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DeFi devs may save months of work with OpenZeppelin’s operations platform Defender simplifies the task of deploying and administering smart contracts.
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CertiK releases blockchain with real-time smart contract auditing The security company wants to build a formally secure blockchain for DeFi
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The unluckiest DeFi protocol? A personal take on bZX’s tumultuous year The platform got hacked not once, but thrice, putting the team through a trial by fire.
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Anonymous devs behind a DeFi yield farm could steal $1B in 12 hours A lot of trust is required to put money in Harvest Finance.
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Paul Tudor Jones says Bitcoin is 'like investing early in Apple or Google' It scores highly among the possible options to counteract inflation.
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Finance Redefined: Is DeFi really a threat to centralized finance? Oct. 14-21 If you look at its governance, definitely not.
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Waves sets up $3M grant fund to promote cross-chain interoperability It’s not just for projects building on Waves though.
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PayPal to offer crypto payments starting in 2021 The rumors are now fully confirmed.
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Kraken’s Cryptowatch ships desktop trading terminal for expert traders One desktop app, many exchanges.
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Bitcoin’s Taproot is ready to go, but it's unlikely to be included in the next release Developers don't want to move too fast.
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USDC set to land on Stellar in 2021 Stellar joins the ranks of Ethereum and Algorand.
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Yearn Finance’s founder says he ‘doesn’t build for speculators’ Andre Cronje's "I test in prod" statement is not as bad as it seems.
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Bancor updates DEX to try a new approach against impermanent loss There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, however.
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Finance Redefined: Can DeFi and on-chain governance change human nature? Oct. 7-14 Decentralized community governance isn’t always so decentralized.
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Exclusive: Bithumb set to launch DeFi platform as a Polkadot Parachain This one won't just be another instance of CeDeFi, the exchange reassures.
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Former Steem devs believe CPU mining is the key to a fair launch for their ‘blockchain 3.0' Steemit veterans vow to improve blockchain upgradeability and avoid damaging hard forks
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Bitcoin has a ‘dark forest’ of its own, and it has to do with brainwallets Using weak seed phrases means instant loss of funds on the Bitcoin network.
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Second Ethereum 2.0 launch rehearsal puts it on track for 2020 release No participation issues this time as much fewer bugs are reported.
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Aztec launches private smart contracts as Ethereum rollup Aztec 2.0 is both a scaling and a privacy solution rolled into one.
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Solana set to launch decentralized Ethereum bridge to power DeFi Ethereum liquidity will no longer have to go through FTX to reach Solana.
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Finance Redefined: DeFi party’s over, back to building now, Sept. 30—Oct. 7 DeFi tokens suffered massive losses this week, and they could continue.
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UK FCA derivatives ban signals disapproval of crypto as a whole, CoinShares exec says The FCA covered everything it could with the ban, CoinShares' Townsend Lansing says.
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RSK Bitcoin sidechain ports Dai to connect with Ethereum DeFi Interoperable DeFi platforms can help with Ethereum's high transaction fees.
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UK's FCA bans retail crypto derivatives after year-long consideration CoinShares' pleas last year went unheard as crypto futures and ETNs will be soon banned.
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Many yield farmers lost more than they bargained for when they trusted this DeFi dev Some UniCats users saw their entire token balances drained due to a malicious contract.