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Fans of the Aerodrome Deposit $150M on the First Day of the Base Blockchain

Just one day after being live, a platform that, among other advantages, allows users to swap tokens for rewards and cheap fees attracted $150 million, increasing the overall value of the DeFi ecosystem on the Base blockchain by 80%.Developed in partnership with Base developers, Aerodrome is a product by Velodrome that aims to serve as a “business development protocol” for the Base ecosystem by assisting with project launch, onboarding new projects and tokens, and producing liquidity for the ecosystem. Its developers want to replicate the success of Velodrome, one of the most popular platforms on the Optimism network, which has over $288 million in locked value.Similar to Velodrome, Aerodrome pays out its AERO tokens to platform users that make swaps, offer liquidity, or take part in governance. According to developer papers, there are 500 million AERO tokens overall, of which 450 million are locked for four years.The 50 million tokens set out for voter rewards and initial liquidity are the only AERO that are liquid at launch. How it works The fact that awards emitted are linked to overall liquidity rather than trading volume, which produces fees for the protocol, is a major issue for decentralized exchanges.To counter this, services like Aerodrome enable owners of its native AERO token to lock their holdings for a period of time ranging from one week to four years, resulting in veAERO, a vested AERO token. The user’s veAERO, which gives them more voting power on governance issues, increases with the length of the lock.The Velodrome has a similar technology.These locked veAERO are represented as NFTs, and these NFTs can be sold on various NFT exchanges.In place of purchasing tokens, locking them up, and managing that position, other users can then buy these NFTs to acquire direct exposure to the ecosystem. The veAERO tokens allow users to participate in platform governance and, more crucially, to influence the incentive structures of the trading pools the platform offers.In exchange, these voters get 100% of all fees and kickbacks collected by the particular pools they choose. By attracting users to prizes, encouraging them to buy more AERO, and allowing them to vote on which projects’ tokens to promote, add, and further reward, these features provide a flywheel of liquidity that keeps the network functioning. And so far, the strategy appears to be effective.According to data, the Optimism project Velodrome generated over $3 million in platform profits in the last month, of which $1.3 million was distributed as fees to VELO holders and users.

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Wintermute asks Yearn DAO for a $1.98 million YFI loan.

The Yearn community has been approached by Wintermute Trading with a request for a 12-month loan from the DAO’s treasury in the amount of 350 YFI, or $1.98 million. If approved, the loan would have a 0.10% interest rate that would be due at the end of the term. Wintermute intends to allot up to

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Users of Pendle Finance can now profit from assets in the real world.

Pendle Finance, a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform that provides users with returns in the form of tradeable tokens, is capitalising on the rising real-world assets (RWA) trend with a new offering that generates profits from established industries. In addition to Arbitrum, BNB Chain, and Optimism networks this year, Pendle was first introduced on Ethereum in

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DeFi protocol In fact, there were two separate hacks of Harbour.

Recently, a new wave of attacks targeted the DeFi ecosystem, with the Exactly protocol compromised for almost $7.3 million, but Harbor’s team is currently assessing the amount stolen. According to blockchain security companies DeDotFi and PeckShield, two independent and ostensibly unconnected assaults recently compromised the DeFi protocols Exactly and Harbour. According to on-chain data, 4,323.6

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Coinbase Ventures Funds Rocket Pool, a Decentralised Ethereum Staking Pool

Rocket Pool, a decentralised Ethereum staking pool, has received a strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures, the investment division of the well-known cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Through a series of tweets on August 10, 2023, Coinbase Ventures announced the news. The Rocket Pool team sold an undisclosed quantity of RPL tokens to Coinbase Ventures. With this purchase,

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Looter behind the $61 million Curve hack begins returning assets, giving recovery hope

Blockchain data reveals that the exploiter in charge of syphoning off $61 million in assets held on the decentralised exchange Curve Finance has returned some of the stolen cryptocurrency after speaking with one of the victims on Friday. Alchemix, one of the robbery victims, was asked to confirm the protocol’s address so that the looter may return the stolen goods in a message attached to an Ethereum blockchain transaction. The blockchain data on Etherscan reveals that shortly after, he sent about $10 million in ether (ETH) and alETH in numerous transactions to Alchemix’s multisignature wallet. The transactions give rise to optimism that the majority of the stolen assets will be returned to victims in one of the most shocking cryptocurrency exploits of the year. An unidentified hacker used a code flaw to plunder several trading pools, costing Curve, Metronome, and Alchemix $61.7 million in cryptocurrency assets over the weekend. The impacted protocols announced on Thursday a 10% reward for recovering the assets by August 6th. The Curve vulnerability caused havoc in the decentralised finance industry as worried investors withdrew their holdings as a safety measure. In the aftermath, the price of the CRV token dropped by as much as 31% to 50 cents. The fall left Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve, at risk of having to liquidate the $168 million CRV used to back his loans. With tens of millions in bad debt, a liquidation would have put lending organisations like Aave in dire straits. In order to pay off creditors and avert the near-catastrophe, Egorov sold about $42 million of his CRV hoard, including to cryptocurrency inventor Justin Sun, creator of the Tron network.

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Suspicious’ Multichain Wallet Disposes of $1.8 Million in WOO Network Tokens; the Price Falls by 8%

The price of the WOO Network (WOO) dropped by 8% as a result of the Ethereum wallet funded by a Multichain hack victim selling $2.4 million worth of chainlink’s token (LINK) and $1.8 million worth of WOO Network (WOO) tokens on Uniswap. The wallet, which was established on Friday morning, received money from an address

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Ethereum Now Has Fixed Rate Lending Thanks to DeFi Platform Term Finance

DeFi’s variable rate loans, which can swing rapidly during crypto’s frequent liquidity events, are shielded from borrowers via term financing.According to a weekly auction model, neither borrowers nor lenders will ever borrow at an interest rate higher than their maximum cap or lower than their minimum cap.The Ethereum mainnet now supports Term Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that provides short-term, fixed-interest loans. According to Dion Chu, CEO of the platform’s creator Term Labs, the protocol aims to close the gap between centralized crypto lenders and also provide customers with an alternative to variable rate borrowing.The multiple notable breakdowns that occurred last year have had a negative impact on centralized finance.The DeFi industry, which is controlled by companies like Aave and Compound, has remained mostly unfazed in comparison. Aave and Compound are sort of “DeFi banks,” Chu said, with a kind of “ultimate liquidity.” Meanwhile, Term Finance operates more like certificates of deposits, where users agree not to withdraw for a specified length of time. “They’re both kind of necessary primitives in DeFi. So Aave and Compound can always play the

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Fireblocks integrates with Astar Network to increase institutions’ access to secure DeFi.

The leading blockchain in Japan, Astar Network, has now been merged into the Fireblocks digital asset management platform, expanding the company’s safe services for institutional investors. With the new connection, more than 650 banks and financial institutions can now use Fireblocks to trade, exchange, and lend digital assets on Astar and access its growing DeFi

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Disputed Vote on Future of $70M Treasury Taken by DeFi Project Parrot

During the height of Solana, Parrot Finance raised almost $80 million through a public token sale.A vote is being held by the protocol to buy out its investors two years after it first attempted to disrupt the crypto lending sector.According to the latest proposal, Parrot’s so-called governance token will be abolished through a redemption scheme in which $50 million from its treasury, valued at $0.0045 per PRT owner, will be distributed to PRT owners.With such a price, Parrot’s plan to create a potent stablecoin and loan markets for the Solana blockchain would be completely destroyed.Despite the fact that Parrot’s Treasury kept $73 million, or only 12% of what they invested, IDO investors still stand to recover a tenth of their money. However, investors upset by the idea claim that Parrot’s team, which never made good on its pledge to give PRT owners control over the protocol and has been accused of being missing from the protocol’s driving seat, might walk away with tens of millions of dollars.The circumstance demonstrates the disadvantages of funding crypto systems through unrestricted token offers at a time when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a more aggressive stance.Instead of the protocol that Parrot’s proponents promised, the community is being urged to leave with pennies on the dollar. Two years after its launch, Parrot’s plans haven’t materialized.Its token is far below the sale price, and its total value locked (TVL) putting it in the lower tier of Solana DeFi.Parrot’s TVL has stalled out while other protocols have rallied with user incentive systems and liquid staking token integrations.At the height of the Solana DeFi bull run in 2021, Parrot.fi raised $84.7 million by selling 10% of all PRT tokens to the general public in September and October of that year.According to Cryptorank, those tokens have since lost at least 88% of their value.The project’s treasury is still in the tens of millions of dollars. Investor estimates state that Parrot’s redemption plan would return around $50 million of its nearly $73 million treasury to PRT investors.The remaining $21 million would remain with insiders: $6.3 million for the project’s “runway” over seven years, $8.3 million in LP tokens that are difficult to sell, and up to $10 million in questionable private investments made by the team.The investors who pushed for a repurchase are annoyed by those numbers.But since there are no participation restrictions under Parrot’s redemption scheme, insiders could potentially withdraw money from the redeemable treasury. Investors claim that in November, when the Parrot team unilaterally unlocked a sizable tranche of unvested team and venture capital tokens two years ahead of schedule, the odds were even more in their favor.As a result of this action, insiders now have significant influence over Parrot’s redemption vote and, in the opinion of investors, a higher effective redemption price.

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Federal Reserve’s ‘FedNow’ Launch Fuels New Digital Dollar Speculation

The U.S. Federal Reserve disputes any connection between its brand-new fast payments program, FedNow, and the world of digital assets.However, according to analysts, the new mechanism might create the foundation for a prospective central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States.The revelation this week has therefore given rise to new cautions about the privacy and control problems associated with a digital dollar.The service, which replaces the current method of transmitting money from account to account, which normally takes a few hours or days, was officially launched by the Fed on Thursday. Because the FedNow project adopts a crucial objective of the digital asset sector—moving money around freely and rapidly, at any time of day or week, even when banks are closed—some cryptocurrency fans regarded the announcement as a sign of approval.Every day of the week, FedNow will be open. “This is a payment system, not a digital token or a CBDC, but it is something that can be used to facilitate the creation of a CBDC,” said Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research. But some of the same worries that are looming over CBDC growth might also apply to the FedNow.Republican politicians and political figures in particular have voiced fears that a CBDC may be subject to government surveillance or that the government may be able to restrict transactions.For instance, Republican presidential candidate and current governor of Florida Ron DeSantis has frequently stated that he would outlaw a CBDC if elected president because he views it as a sort of “government-sanctioned surveillance.” “If FedNow does indeed become a programmable CBDC, then it could theoretically be used to block payments for

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StarkWare’s Crypto Liquidity Network Paradigm Expands Into DeFi

With the addition of Paradex, a decentralised perpetuals platform, Paradigm, a provider of liquidity to institutional crypto derivatives traders, is expanding into decentralised finance (DeFi). Paradex is a hybrid derivatives exchange that combines the liquidity and performance of centralised finance (CeFi) with the transparency, trustlessness, and self-custody of DeFi, according to Paradigm, a different entity

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Conic Finance DeFi Protocol 1,700 ethereum was stolen

Protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi)Conic Finance announced on Friday that one of its Omnipools had been compromised by an exploit that allowed an attacker to take over 1,700 ether (ETH), which is worth more than $3.6 million at the current exchange rate.The attack’s primary cause, according to security company BlockSec, was price manipulation brought on by “read-only reentrancy.”Reentrancy is a widespread flaw that lets attackers fool a smart contract by repeatedly calling a protocol in order to take money.A call is a request to interact with a user’s wallet address from the smart contract address. Users can now deposit tokens into Conic Finance’s Omnipools, a new product that increases payouts while diversifying exposure across the Curve ecosystem. Omnipools became live on March 1.Shortly after being live, the protocol garnered millions of dollars in investment, indicating tremendous demand for such a product.Each Omnipool distributes a single asset’s liquidity among various Curve pools.To increase the earning potential of Curve’s (CRV) incentives, all Curve liquidity provider (LP) tokens are staked on Convex.Both Conic (CNC), the native token of Conic, and Convex (CNX), another token in the Curve ecosystem, are rewarded. Conic Finance’s engineers tweeted that they were still looking into the exploit’s underlying causes and consulting with the appropriate parties.The programmers also said that they had shut down the problematic pool that had allegedly enabled the hack.“We have disabled ETH Omnipool deposits on the Conic front end,” they stated.

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DeFi pain points are to be eliminated with a new Uniswap feature.

The largest decentralized cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Uniswap, recently released the “UniswapX” blockchain technology for trading across automated market makers (AMMs) and other liquidity sources.Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams was scheduled to make the announcement on stage Monday at the EthCC conference in Paris. Information about the project was released in a press release. According to the website DefiLlama, Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) in the world with over $3.8 billion in collateral or “total value locked,” claims that UniswapX solves many of the problems associated with on-chain trade and self-custody switching.According to the press release, features include “better prices” by combining liquidity sources, gas-free exchanging, security against maximal extractable value, or MEV, and no fees for unsuccessful transactions. According to the business, UniswapX will eventually support gas-free cross-chain swaps.Uniswap is introducing UniswapX in “opt-in beta” on the Uniswap Labs interface for the primary Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other chains and the Uniswap wallet “in the near future.”When a final version would be made accessible was not specified by the company. The liquidity pools provide a lifeline for swappers when conducting trades on DEXs, yet these pools can occasionally run empty. By working with third-party fillers that immediately fill swaps or send users to the proper AMM pools, UniswapX aims to alleviate this issue.Price reductions for traders would result from these third-party fillers having to compete with Uniswap.Along with removing the necessity for swappers to possess a blockchain’s native network currency, such as ETH or MATIC, to engage in trade, fillers will also pay the gas fees on their behalf, shielding swappers from any financial liability for failing transactions. Fillers, according to Uniswap, factor gas fees into swap rates as a whole, but they also have the ability to save transaction costs by combining several orders, encouraging bidding wars for the best possible price.Last but not least, Uniswap asserts that UniswapX will assist in preventing MEV, a practice that is typically despised by swappers and in which network operators profit from their capacity to preview queued transactions. In order to prevent sandwich attacks and arbitrage transactions from seizing MEV, UniswapX encourages fillers to use private transaction relays, which keeps things hidden from MEV bots.

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DeFi Protocol to Shut Down with 55% of Algorand Value

A “confluence of events” rendered Algofi, the largest decentralized financial protocol on layer-1 blockchain Algorand, incapable of being maintained to the highest quality, and it announced its impending shutdown.The lending, borrowing, and trading website will soon switch to a withdrawal-only mode, according to a blog post.Algofi continued in the article, “To this day, our belief in the power of Algorand’s technology and revolutionary consensus algorithm has not wavered. Before the crypto markets underwent a protracted drop that saw ALGO fall as low as $0.09 last month, Algofi was established at the height of the previous bull market, when algorand (ALGO) was trading at $1.85.The decline, combined with the SEC’s (Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States) tough posture following its recent designation of algorand as a security, has slowed the development of DeFi ventures on the once-hyped blockchain. According to DefiLlama data, the total value locked (TVL) on Algorand is currently $59 million, a significant decrease from the more than $200 million in February.Algofi still makes up more than half of the value on the Algorand blockchain, which now has the lowest value since the beginning of 2022, despite seeing its TVL decline by more than 10% since the announcement.

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Struct Finance Introduces a Product with Customizable Interest Rates for DeFi Users

Struct Finance has made available its interest rate vault and “tranching” mechanism, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables investors to exchange customized structured financial products tied to cryptocurrencies. According to the recent press release, the company will use a variety of tokens, tokenized derivatives, vaults, and pools permissionlessly to create new products that are

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AMF, France top Markets Regulator supports Global Rules for DeFi

The leading French market regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), stated that it favors globally coordinated regulations for decentralized finance (DeFi). The AMF, which grants licenses to cryptocurrency exchanges wishing to operate in the nation, recently offered its “preliminary thinking on the regulatory issues” created by the decentralized and “disintermediated” protocols that make up the

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Three DeFi-Focused Venture Capital Firms have filed a lawsuit Against Egorov, CEO of Curve Finance

The chief executive officer of the decentralized finance (DeFi) company Curve Finance, Michael Egorov, is being sued for fraud in the United States by the venture capital firms ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures, and 1kx.According to a complaint lodged in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco, Egorov is accused of stealing trade secrets from the three venture capital firms and defrauding the firms out of almost $1 million while misleading the investors about the possibility of owning a stake in Curve. Egorov allegedly relocated to Switzerland to protect himself from the unavoidable legal repercussions, according to the April lawsuit.Since 2020, the three businesses have been suing Egorov and his company Swiss Stake in Switzerland for breach of contract.According to DeFi Llama, Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange built on the Ethereum blockchain, is one of the largest DeFi trading platforms with almost $4.07 billion in total locked value.A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), Curve is run by the CRV token, which may be purchased or earned by making contributions to its liquidity pools. According to the lawsuit, Egorov allegedly “engaged in a brazen, multi-faceted scheme to defraud” Framework Ventures, ParaFi Capital, and 1kx over a six-month period beginning in early 2020.Egorov allegedly “misappropriated” the companies’ “trade secrets,” according to the venture capitalists, including “information that proved to be critical to the development of Curve, such as key industry contacts, potential investors, and knowledge of how to manage an investment round – all while falsely promising that Plaintiffs would benefit from the fruits of their labor, not just Egorov.”Additionally, the VCs assert that Egorov offered to sell Plaintiffs shares of Swiss Stake for nearly $1 million (claiming that a total of $925,233.54 in USDC was paid to a wallet designated by Egorov), but had no intention of following through. In a filing on May 22, Egorov’s attorneys claimed that the claims of fraud stem from the dissolution of a contract between the VCs and Swiss Stake and that the allegedly misappropriated “trade secrets” were really the names of well-known investors.Swiss Stake allegedly made a prompt offer to repay the nearly $1 million invested funds, according to Egorov’s side.According to a May 22 filing by Egorov’s attorneys, “To explain their apparent forum shopping, Plaintiffs invented a new and convincing story casting Egorov as a terrible villain who deceived three naive VC companies into handing over “trade secrets.” The argument made against Egorov is “nothing more than a clever narrative,” according to his lawyers. It is sorry that this has come to the point of litigation, but we firmly feel the facts are on our side, according to a statement emailed to CoinDesk by the law firm Latham & Watkins on behalf of the three venture capital firms.The lawsuit speaks for itself in that regard.The goal of our clients is to hold Michael Egorov fully accountable for his actions.

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Turbo finance presents smart routing for Stablecoins on sui

Turbos Finance, a non-custodial decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the newly live layer 1 Sui blockchain, is now lrlvidiysmart-routing for stablecoin swaps on the network, creating multiple USDC variant liquidity pools. However,The initiation will allow clients to seeamlessly trade any variant of bridged USDC assets wrapped by the Wormhole bridge against native Sui assets, the

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