DeFI

In a blog post on Sept 21, a16z‘s Miles Jennings discusses how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) can avoid power centralization by applying Machiavelli‘s principles.

At a recent event, the SEC announced plans to go after even more crypto platforms, regardless of their size.

The hackers have moved a portion of the stolen funds to the MEXC exchange and bridged funds to Ethereum and Bitcoin.

DeFi Protocol Balancer Faces Another Security Breach After Being Exploited for $2M a Month Ago

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Blockchain Capital concludes two funding pools, securing investments for infrastructure, gaming, DeFi, consumer, and social technologies.

Base is building an economic moat thanks to a resurgence in Friend.tech activity and the launch of new DeFi applications.

A network of 35,000 sound sensors via smartphones was deployed on the peaq ecosystem to collect hyper-local noise pollution data for wellbeing.

By inheriting Ethereum’s security, Canto will be more decentralized and will enable trustless guarantees when bridging assets over, Polygon Labs said.

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Bittrex Exchange Bankruptcy: Customers Leaving Money Behind – Here‘s the Latest

Bosch and the Peaq network explain how the future of the Internet of Things and the Economy of Things will come via decentralization and on-chain automation.

Chinese Central Bank Updates Digital Yuan App – Here’s the Latest

Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang is aiming for a community-driven decentralized immutable scaling solution for Ethereum.

Europol strongly criticizes the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector due to its significant involvement in criminal activities

$2B worth of wash trades found on Decentralized Exchanges

NFT marketplace Magic Eden believes that lowering the costs in NFT production creates an "easy access point" for new users to try NFTs.

Brazil‘s Central Bank Pix Joins Ramp Network‘s Payment Solutions

3LAU noted that there risks were necessarily high, but that he has a “responsibility” to avoid any regulatory gray areas.

Matter Labs has announced its decision to delegate the management of the zkSync ecosystem portal to DappRadar, a blockchain analytics firm specializing in decentralized finance and decentralized applications.

MakerDAO’s Rune Christensen says appropriate regulation will see stablecoins become mainstream, but the real opportunity is in decentralized stablecoins.

Brian Armstrong argued that the CFTC shouldn‘t be taking action against DeFi protocols, and that the courts would likely "uphold rule of law."

In a DEX, users trade without surrendering custody of their assets. (Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

Chainalysis recently published its fourth annual research synthesis work, featuring its Global Crypto Adoption Index. The research report shows a range of on-chain data and real-world data on countries leading in grassroots crypto adoption.