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Cronje’s Exit Hits Yearn and Fantom as Defenders Scramble to Shore up Confidence

BitDAO’s War Chest Quietly Grows $2M Per Day After Token Sales to Thiel and Pantera

Evmos Chain Paused After Going Live With Highly Anticipated ‘RektDrop’

Axie Infinity Hikes Marketplace Fees to Reward Game Players with ‘Creator Codes’

IntoTheBlock: How Swapping and Staking on Curve Drives High User Engagement

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EXCLUSIVE NFT startup Immutable valued at $2.5 billion in Temasek-led financing: Reuters

Ukraine Is Buying Bulletproof Vests and Night-Vision Goggles Using Crypto: CoinDesk

Using Crypto Tech to Promote Sanctions Compliance: Coinbase

Calling Artists to Feature Their NFTs at Avalanche Summit: Avalanche

DiCaprio has Ukrainian roots – his grandmother was born in Odesa in southern Ukraine: Alona, UkraineDAO

Polkadot’s Gavin Wood on Building a Layer 0 to Underpin the Entire Blockchain-Based Economy

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 The crypto markets have been punished recently, but tokens associated with 

 have taken an extra beating in the wake of news he is quitting DeFi.

 While the star DeFi developer has previously 

 knee-jerk pronouncements of retirement, a March 6 Twitter 

 from Anton Nell of the Fantom Foundation suggests the pair are now resolute in their desire to walk away.

 Nell announced that he and Cronje will “close” their respective “chapter[s] of contributing to the DeFi/crypto space,” noting they will hand over all existing responsibilities with roughly 25 projects by April 3. He added that their decision “has been coming for a while now.”

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 In a move to crank up tokenomics, Axie Infinity launched a new program today to share the wealth with game players. The leading play-to-earn game, plans to increase its marketplace fees to 5.25% and distribute the extra revenue to Axie’s community of content creators, the project said last week.

 will go live on March 7 in tandem with the launch of “creator codes”. When users transacting on the Axie marketplace supply a creator code, they will collect 1% of the transaction’s value. If a creator code is not supplied, the Axie Community Treasury will claim the full 5.25% fee on transactions in the marketplace.

 Axie says the increased marketplace fee is intended to “provide a sustainable source of funding for marketing and growth initiatives going forward.” Kookoo Crypto TV, a community manager at play-to-earn collective 

 and a social media influencer with more than 100,000 followers, said introducing incentives “a good move for any game.” But he warned that the team must be selective about which creators they onboard.

 The BitDAO treasury is the largest for a DAO you’ve never heard of. According to

, BitDAO currently has $1.8B in it, making it the second largest treasury of any publicly viewable treasury on Ethereum, following that of 

 holds the number 2 spot largely thanks to its governance token, BIT, which accounts for about $1B of that treasury. Its governance token currently trades for around $1.06. That treasury also grows at a pace of roughly $2M per day without diluting BIT holders.

 “I think people in crypto have been excited about coordinating capital better than you can as an individual,” Jonathan Allen, of 

, the exchange that managed spinning up the BitDAO concept, told The Defiant.

 Last year, it seemed like every blockchain compatible with the 

 (EVM), the rules which dictate how transactions get processed, had its time in the sun. Layer 1s like 

ain launched nine-figure growth funds to bootstrap their DeFi ecosystems.

 Now, there’s a new EVM chain in town that was 

 as of Mar. 6. Called Evmos, it’s airdropping tokens to assorted stakeholders in the Cosmos and Ethereum ecosystems.

 n solidarity with those who have suffered major losses in the dark forest of web3, also known as those who have been “rekt,” Evmos is calling its airdrop the “Rektdrop.” “The end goal of Evmos is to bring together the Cosmos and Ethereum community and thus the Rektdrop has been designed to reward past participation in both networks under this theme of ‘getting rekt,’” reads the 

How Swapping and Staking on Curve Drives High User Engagement

On-Chain Markets Update by Pedro Negron 

 Curve Finance was launched in 2020 with the initial purpose of creating an automated market maker (AMM) exchange for assets pegged to one another. By using efficient algorithms they soon experienced incredible growth, offering some of the lowest fees, slippage, and impermanent loss in the DeFi space.

 Since their focus was on stable assets, fees for liquidity providers (LPs) tended to be smaller. This created the need for the protocol to offer incentives to its liquidity providers. These incentives were given in the form of CRV which also works as a governance token for the Curve DAO. This article analyzes Curve’s high user engagement on the swapping and staking side of the protocol.

 Volume traded is an important indicator to understand DEXes. They show the platform’s usage. IntoTheBlock gathers all daily volume traded on Curve’s pools on Ethereum and aggregates it into a single indicator.

Coming of Age: Indices and the Phuture of DeFi

“Aiming for average” may not seem particularly exciting, but the rise of crypto indices that leverage the power of DeFi indicates at least three developing trends in crypto investing.

Index funds generated controversy when first proposed. Today, they don’t seem particularly new or radical; funds like the Dow Jones Industrial Average are everyday names even to non-investors.

In this vein, the rise of crypto index funds demonstrates a maturing industry. DeFi is still only a small part of crypto – but it’s currently worth over $103 billion with room for growth.

Aiming for average with an index fund brings much-needed stability to the world of crypto investing. Individual tokens may still be subject to wild swings in value, but larger swathes of the market remain stable. Projects like Phuture encourage stability by automatically rebalancing on the go and by boosting liquidity through token-incentivized programs.

Index funds mark a shift towards passive crypto investment vehicles, tools that open the DeFi and crypto worlds to a broader audience. The Phuture model leverages both approaches, with the goal of launching macro index products that will be relevant for years. The result is a 

 to crypto investing in line with similar approaches to the stock market.

Australian NFT startup Immutable has raised fresh funding from investors led by Singapore’s Temasek in a round that values it at $2.5 billion, the company said on Monday, as it taps a surge in interest in cryptocurrency and NFT ventures.

Some of Ukraine’s weapons suppliers are accepting payments directly in crypto, a senior official told CoinDesk Monday.

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Avalanche is looking for up-and-coming or established artists to be featured Art & NFT partners at Avalanche Summit!

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