The bankruptcy court has given the go-ahead for Genesis Global, a cryptocurrency lender, to repay its creditors with over $3 billion worth of cash and crypto. Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent firm, will not be able to recover from its bankruptcy as a result of this ruling. On May
Pump.fun, a Solana-based token launching platform, suffered an exploit on May 16. According to a post-mortem report on its X account, it identified the exploit to be executed by a former employee who illegitimately gained access to the withdrawal authority by misusing the privileged position. The exploit which occurred at
Approximately $20 million was lost due to an exploit that hit the decentralized lending protocol Sonne Finance on Wednesday morning in Asia. According to the project’s post-mortem analysis, an exploit was found in one of the Compound v2 forks. Using the known donation attack, the hacker was able to breach
Concerning the use of AI in the financial markets, particularly decentralized finance, Kristin Johnson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has suggested measures including increased fines. Johnson expressed her worries on artificial intelligence and its implications for deregulation of financial markets in a speech she gave at the Fintech
Within the Sui ecosystem, decentralized exchange Turbos Finance has announced the introduction of two innovative liquidity strategies. The strategies include a novel Auto-swap feature linked with Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) strategies for easier liquidity provision, and a Sui network-centric automated liquidity management vault for CLMM positions on the Turbos DEX. LPs will be able
In May 2024, there were 7.26 million wallets on the decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap, up from 3.03 million in May 2023, an increase of around 140%, according to statistics from Dune Analytics. The growth in Uniswap’s user base mirrors that of other records on the platform. The cumulative trading volume
DeFi lending protocol Aave announces its plan to release version 4 (V4) by mid-2025, proposing multiple upgrades through the ‘Aave 2030 Roadmap’ on Wednesday. Through V4, the protocol introduces a new “independent and abstracted” architecture to boost efficiency in managing liquidity, capital, and risks for users. To highlight, a ‘Unified
Ethereum-based restaking protocol EigenLayer unveiled the 43-paged whitepaper of its upcoming token EIGEN on Monday, confirming the airdrop and introducing the new mechanisms — “intersubjective” forking and staking. Launching EIGEN token’s prime purpose is to uphold the ecosystem’s Actively Validated Services (AVSs) security. Significantly, the unique and complex mechanisms are
As the biggest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, Lido Finance has achieved one million Ethereum validators. The most liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, Lido Finance, revealed the milestone in a X post on April 29th. Staking becomes more accessible for retail customers with low funds using liquid staking protocols such as
Venture capital company X21 Digital is leading the $3 million initial investment round for Atomiq DeFi, a decentralized finance platform. The world’s first atomic-swap powered decentralized exchange (DEX) on Bitcoin, developed with the help of the Mintlayer layer-2 protocol, will be supported by the recent additional financial infusion. The initiative
