Curve’s Stablecoin Trades Within 0.5% Range For First Month

MakerDAO Mulls Proposal To Boost DAI Savings Rate

CZ Strives to Show Binance is Different From FTX

As Skeptics Dance on Crypto’s Grave the Fed and Big Banks Launch Digital Ledger Project

Layer 2s Defy Market Angst as Matter Labs Raises $200M

Businesses Can Now Accept USDC With Apple Pay

Crypto Users Jump to DeFi Platforms in Wake of FTX’s CeFi Crash

Let’s Revamp Tokenomics to Make DeFi More Useful and Valuable

Unsecured DeFi Lenders Look Shaky in Face of FTX Contagion

Markets Rally After Binance Proposes ‘Industry Recovery Fund’

Solana Discloses Losses From FTX Collapse

The Path Forward with Ryan & David: Bankless

Proof of Reserves: Could it Have Prevented the FTX Meltdown?: CoinDesk

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Binance Begins Disclosing Wallet Assets in Transparency Push

 Just like FTX, Binance maintains billions of dollars worth of its own tokens on its balance sheet. So is the globe’s No. 1 cryptocurrency exchange vulnerable to the same type of bank run that poleaxed Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange last week?

 That’s a pertinent question as Binance, which does $14B in 

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Nansen Data Show Double-Digit Jumps in Users at MakerDAO, Aave, and Other Protocols

 Don’t look now, but the FTX collapse has spurred a wave of interest in decentralized finance platforms. DeFi protocols are experiencing double digit increases in the number of users over the past week, according to data from Nansen, the blockchain analytics platform.

Liquity’s Chicken Bonds enhanced yield with DeFi Saver

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Liquity, interest-free borrowing protocol built on Ethereum, recently introduced a novel product offering 

. Chicken Bonds are a new, innovative form of bonding mechanism in DeFi.

 to those willing to bond their Liquity native stablecoin LUSD. In exchange for depositing and bonding LUSD, users accrue boosted LUSD (bLUSD), derivative token.

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continues its devoted support with dedicated Chicken Bonds dashboard and advanced protocol actions and strategies. Alongside basic actions, DeFi Saver offers users options to Claim and Sell bLUSD or Rebond (Claim, Sell and create new bond). DeFi Saver team is even preparing automation options for the new Liquity innovation.

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Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and MasterCard Test DLT to Connect Deposits

 Even as the crypto industry grapples with a year-long bear market and the collapse of FTX, global financial institutions just can’t say no to blockchain-related technology. On Tuesday, a lineup of top-shelf firms — Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Fargo, and MasterCard, among others — joined forces with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to explore using distributed ledgers to connect deposits.

Zero-Knowledge Powered Rollup Garnering Momentum in Race to Scale Ethereum

 In a sign of momentum for Layer 2s, Matter Labs, the team behind the nascent zkSync 2.0 network, raised $200M in a Series C round led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly, the venture announced on Nov. 16.

Circle’s Move Comes as Stablecoin Has Been Losing Market Share

 Circle, the issuer of the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin, hasunveiled an integration with Apple Pay, the payment service with over half a billion 

 around the globe. Merchants will be able to accept USDC as payment using this new feature.

It’s Imperative to Provide Real Value to Tokenholders, Not Just Governance Tools

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 In the midst of a harsh bear market, crypto investors are asking tough questions: “What actually drives value to this token, and why would I want to own this?”

 I see it first-hand when people ask the same things about 

, the protocol I helped launch in 2021. The market downturn is forcing the crypto community to become much more discerning.

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CZ Strives to Show Binance is Different From FTX

As Skeptics Dance on Crypto’s Grave the Fed and Big Banks Launch Digital Ledger Project

Layer 2s Defy Market Angst as Matter Labs Raises $200M

Businesses Can Now Accept USDC With Apple Pay

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