šŸ¦¹šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø Poly Network Hacked For Over $600M In Biggest DeFi Exploit Ever

Hello Defiers! Here’s what we are covering today, News Poly Network Hacked For Over $600M In Biggest DeFi Exploit Ever Auction of Monet NFT Spurs Questions About Authenticity and the Future of Art Tutorial Defiant Degens: How to Farm Up to 755% APR wi...

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Hack

šŸ¦¹šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø Poly Network Hacked For Over $600M In Biggest DeFi Exploit Ever

TLDR At 6am ET on August 10, over half a billion dollars worth of crypto assets were stolen fromĀ Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol that facilitates token swaps across multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon.

RECORD With the total drained at $600M, this is the biggest DeFi hack in history, dwarfing the $59MĀ EasyFi exploitĀ that held the unenviableĀ recordĀ until now.

STEAL According to theĀ project, the attacker was able to ā€œexploit a vulnerability between contract callsā€ and steal $270M worth ofĀ Ethereum-based assets, $250M of assets onĀ Binance Smart Chain, and nearly $85M USDC onĀ Polygon.

šŸ‘‰READ THE FULL STORY IN THE DEFIANT.IOĀ šŸ‘ˆ

NFT Feature

šŸŽØ Auction of Monet NFT Spurs Questions About Authenticity and the Future of Art

TLDR Michelangelo drew inspiration from the Greco-Roman statues of Classical antiquity to sculpt his masterpieceĀ David. Van Gogh paid homage to the vibrant colors in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige. Great artworks of the past live beyond their creators to inspire great artworks of the future. Digital art and NFTs are no exception.

BUNDLED But there’s a difference between drawing inspiration from art history and drawing over historical art. Now, as the NFT market continues to gain traction in the mainstream art world, some people are using the opportunity to create NFTs based on famous works from the past. In some cases, these NFTs are even being bundled with the originals.

ORIGINAL This brings up a few important questions: Would attaching an NFT to a physical artwork alter the value of the original? Is there any real utility for an NFT linked to a historic artwork? And who has the right to mint an NFT of an artist’s work when the original artist is long-deceased?

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Tutorial

šŸ‘ØšŸ»ā€šŸ« Defiant Degens: How to Farm Up to 755% APR with Tokemak TOKE Rewards

In this week’s installment, the indomitable DeFi Dad shows us how to use a new protocol called Tokemak.

Background on Protocol: A new DeFi protocol calledĀ TokemakĀ recently launched its ā€œDeGenesisā€ event to distribute the native token TOKE. This token will govern its protocol devoted to single-sided liquidity provisioning.

To understand Tokemak, it helps to familiarize yourself with Bancor’s pioneeringĀ single-sided LPs, which launched almost a year ago. Single-sided LPs allow liquidity providers to lend a single asset to be paired with other assets in AMM (automated market-maker) liquidity pools, and hence avoid the dilemma of impermanent loss.

šŸ‘‰READ THE FULL STORY IN THE DEFIANT.IOĀ šŸ‘ˆ

Research

šŸ“ˆ Market Maker Flaws Open Door to Middleware Providers in Race for Liquidity

In this week’s Research piece, Kieran Smith examines how automated market makers are turning into ā€œfinancial zombiesā€ chomping on liquidity to stay active, and how that’s paving the way for a new powerful entrant in DeFi — Middleware providers. Often overlooked as basic infrastructure plays, middleware software makers play a vital role in tech ecosystems.

The yield farming revolution has been one of the biggest stories in DeFi over the last year, thanks largely to automated market makers (AMM). Operating behind the scenes, these protocols attracted billions of dollars into smart contracts. Spurred by incentives in the form of newly minted tokens, investors dove into AMM’s liquidity pools and changed the DeFi landscape.

Yet while the trading volume of AMMs almost put them on par with centralized crypto exchanges, they have an inherent flaw: They have to be kept alive artificially like the walking dead.

To navigate fit the bottleneck of blockchain throughput, AMMs reduce the market making mechanism for crypto assets to two liquidity pools and an exchange rate that naturally adjusts based on relative demand. This primitive model is similar to a merchant in an ancient marketplace, swapping grain and beans between two piles on request.

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Video

šŸ“ŗ Tuesday Tutorial: How to buy and sell digital PFP collectible NFTs | PART 2

Links

šŸ”— A SPAC and Quantum Computing Led AMC President to Adopt Bitcoin: Decrypt

Movie theater chain AMC Entertainment revealed plans to acceptĀ BitcoinĀ for movie tickets by the end of 2021, the company’s CEO and president Adam Aron said during aĀ quarterly earnings call.

šŸ”— DraftKings Charts NFT Long-Game With Marketplace Debut: CoinDesk

Sports betting site DraftKings is getting into the non-fungible token (NFT) game with an in-house NFT platform itĀ unveiled Monday. A collaboration with Tom Brady’s NFT side hustle,Ā Autograph, the DraftKings Marketplace will begin ā€œdroppingā€ NFTs featuring the U.S. football Buccaneers quarterback on Wednesday.

šŸ”— The Art and Science of Native Token Liquidity: Mechanism Capital

Fundamentally, having liquidity for a token is important so far as it allows new investors to easily buy into a project and inactive ones to exit. Any less will not derail a strong project and any more is just in vain.

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