Tag: Redefined

CRV exposure risk throws a curveball at the DeFi ecosystem: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The $47 million Curve Finance exploit on July 30 had a domino effect on the DeFi ecosystem, mainly due to the $100 million loan taken out by the Curve founder against the platform’s native Curve DAO (CRV) token. Several lending protocols have rushed in with new governance proposals to minimize CRV exposure risks as the token price fluctuates. On Aug. 3, the…

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Centralized exchanges will become gateways for DeFi: Finance Redefined

coiner

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The past week in DeFi saw new advancements in zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) as a scaling solution as more DeFi protocols embraced the technology. A new United States Senate DeFi bill attracted a lot of scrutiny — though not necessarily of the positive kind — as many stakeholders came out to slam the “unworkable” legislation. The CEO of the dydx Foundation made a…

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Etherscan launches AI-powered Code Reader: Finance Redefined

coiner

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The past week in DeFi was filled with artificial intelligence (AI)-centered developments on Etherscan, Polygon’s latest security update and on-chain sleuth ZachXBT’s ongoing lawsuit supported by multiple crypto personalities. Etherscan launched an AI-powered code reader to retrieve and interpret the source code of specific contracts, while the Polygon co-founder proposed a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) upgrade to improve the protocol’s security.…

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