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Coin Center Says Biden Administration ‘Criminalized’ Open Source Code

SushiSwap’s Grey Rebuts Accusations Made ‘Without Any Substantial Evidence’

Blockchain Indexing Startup nxyz Raises $40M In Funding Led By Paradigm

Attacker Behind $116M Mango Markets Exploit Eyes $65M Bounty

Why MEV Matters and Other Post-Merge Revelations

Wintermute’s David Micley Says Institutional Investors Are Here To Stay

Laura Shin’s ‘The Cryptopians’ In The Works As Drama Series From ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ Producer Playground: Deadline

Arbitrum Builder Offchain Labs Buys Prysmatic Labs, a Core Team Behind Ethereum’s Merge: CoinDesk

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SushiSwap’s Grey Hit By Wild Allegations of Impropriety

Curve DAO Votes To Enable Permissionless Rewards

SEC Probing Yuga Labs’ Issuance of NFTs and Token: Report

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Advocacy Group Sues Treasury Department for Outlawing Tornado Cash

 The crypto industry’s fight back has begun. Coin Center, a non-profit advocacy organization representing the web3 industry in Washington D.C., sued the U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday for sanctioning the smart contracts of decentralized crypto mixing protocol, Tornado Cash.

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Jared Grey Lays Out Detailed Defense of His Record as He Takes Up Post at DEX

 Jared Grey has said his piece. And yes, he addressed the horse. In a 

 published on Thursday, SushiSwap’s new head chef rejected the extraordinary allegations leveled against him this week and defended his record and reputation.

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Aims To Tackle Web3’s ‘Biggest Pain Point’

 It isn’t sexy. It isn’t a brand-new blockchain or a celebrity-backed NFT collection. But five-month-old crypto firm nxyz has lined up a host of prominent venture capital firms behind its promise of “fast, reliable blockchain indexing.”

In What May Be A New Record For DeFi, Mango Markets, Temple DAO and RabbySwap All Exploited On Oct. 11

 Mango Markets, a margin trading and lending platform on the Solana blockchain, was 

 to the tune of $116M on Oct. 11, the venture said on Twitter. The attacker managed to inflate the price of the platform’s native MNGO token and drain all the liquidity from the protocol, according to 

, Head of Derivatives at Genesis Global Trading.

PoS Ethereum Will Create Hidden Value But Block Construction is Vital

 walks us through the many changes in Ethereum’s blockchain since the shift to Proof of Stake…

 The Merge was undoubtedly the most significant Web3 network upgrade to date, with implications that go beyond switching consensus mechanisms and reducing energy consumption. In fact, this upgrade was the first step towards a future in which your Ethereum wallet pays you to use it.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to the Staking Powerhouse

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Offchain Labs, the firm behind Ethereum layer 2 network Arbitrum, said it was acquiring Prysmatic Labs, one of the core engineering teams behind Ethereum’s 





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Less than a week after SushiSwap sought to end a period of turmoil with the election of Jared Grey as head chef, the decentralized exchange was engulfed in controversy yet again as a series of extraordinary allegations were leveled at its new hire.

Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange (DEX) that is DeFi’s third-largest protocol with $6B locked in its smart contracts, has concluded a governance 

 to allow any project to add token rewards to its factory-deployed gauges.

Yuga Labs Inc., the NFT juggernaut behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club and other splashy collections, is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bloomberg News 

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