MakerDAO Mulls Proposal To Boost DAI Savings Rate

Blend Drives Surge In NFT Lending Activity

Amber Group Denies Allegations Of Insolvency

Vitalik Urges DeFi to Embrace Real World Assets

DeFi and Web3 Startups Attract $3B in Funding in Third Quarter

Chainlink Launches Staking Service as LINK Rallies 32%

ApeCoin Holders Pre-stake $34M Ahead Of Rewards Launch

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On-chain Data Shows $11M In Assets at Trading Firm

The contagion from FTX’s collapse may still be spreading. Lookonchain, an on-chain analyst, 

 that Amber Group, a crypto trading and asset management firm, appears to be on the brink of bankruptcy. Lookonchain said six wallets allegedly owned by Amber have only $9.46M in assets between them — Amber claims on its website to have over $5B “on its platform” and to be responsible for $1T of trading volume.

Ethereum’s Chief Scientist Predicts Stablecoins Will Split Into Three Groups

Embracing one of the thorniest and most promising projects in decentralized finance, Vitalik Buterin, the chief scientist and co-founder of Ethereum, is bullish on the integration of real-world assets into DeFi and stablecoins. Buterin encouraged devs to explore blockchain-based assets tracking traditional financial instruments in a Dec. 5 

What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me.

Elon Musk’s AI-Enhanced Monkey Stock Pickers

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Fundraising is Down 24% But Decentralized Sector Holding Its Own in Harsh Year

No surprise, DeFi and web3 fundraising has taken a hit in a year roiled by a bear market and a series of crypto scandals. Yet what is eye opening is how much investment continues to flow into the burgeoning sector. In the third quarter, venture capitalists and other investors plowed almost $3B into DeFi, NFTs, and metaverse startups, according to CB Insights, an investment data provider. While that’s a 24% drop from the second quarter, it’s still more than the $2.7B investors placed in the decentralized sector in the same period last year.

NFT Collectors Pile Into Pudgy Penguins After Art Basel

Crypto markets might be fretting over Fed meetings and FTX contagion, but that didn’t stop NFT degens from having a good time. By all accounts, Art Basel, the recently concluded NFT conference in Miami, was a smash, and we’ve seen a slew of updates from popular NFT projects over the last two weeks.

Web3 Oracle Provider Offers Tokenholders Native Yields for First Time

Chainlink, the leading web3 data oracle provider, launched support for the beta version of its staking service on Dec. 6, allowing holders of its LINK token to earn a native yield for the first time. LINK holders can now lock up the token in Chainlink’s smart contracts to back performance guarantees for the protocol’s oracle services. The beta release enabled staking to secure Chainlink’s Ethereum mainnet data feed for the price of ETH/USD.

The Internet, Broadband, Mobile Computing… Sweeping Change Takes Time and the Metaverse Will be No Different

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“Most things that succeed don’t require retraining 250 million people.”

 magazine published this line in 1995, in reference to the Internet.

You could apply the same thought to the metaverse. There is a lot of skepticism about this digital ecosystem in the market, and many critics have dismissed the innovation as little more than hype or retrofitted virtual reality, which never took off. Yet the skeptics are wrong. They often start with a flawed premise — that the metaverse is being built from the ground up.

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Amber Group Denies Allegations Of Insolvency

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DeFi and Web3 Startups Attract $3B in Funding in Third Quarter

Chainlink Launches Staking Service as LINK Rallies 32%

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