Optimism Challenges Arbitrum with ‘Superchain’
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News
- Optimism Forges ‘Superchain’ to Challenge Arbitrum for Supremacy in Layer 2 Market
- ‘Counter-Exploit’ Claws Back $202M From Hacker
- MakerDAO’s Plan To Enable MKR As Collateral For DAI Draws Comparisons To UST
- Collector Sells $18M in NFTs on Blur — Then Buys Some Back
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DeFi Alpha
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News
L2 Wars
Optimism Forges ‘Superchain’ to Challenge Arbitrum for Supremacy in Layer 2 Market
Optimism Wins Over Coinbase as It Gains Ground on Arbitrum
The competition between Ethereum’s Layer 2 blockchains will soon become a full-blown contest for supremacy in scaling the No. 1 smart chain network. The L2 wars have begun, and escalation is imminent.
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Exploits
‘Counter-Exploit’ Claws Back $202M From Hacker
U.K. Court Orders Oasis.app to Retrieve Stolen Assets from DeFi Heist
By Aleksandar Gilbert and Samuel Haig
It may be an unprecedented event in crypto — the counter-exploit. And it just took place thanks to a British judge’s ruling linked to the second-biggest hack in DeFi history.
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DeFi Lending
MakerDAO’s Plan To Enable MKR As Collateral For DAI Draws Comparisons To UST
Proposed Change Forms Part Of Co-Founder Rune Christensen’s Controversial ‘Endgame’ Plan
By Owen Fernau
A potential change to one of DeFi’s oldest and largest protocols is raising concerns in the crypto community.
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NFT Trading
Collector Sells $18M in NFTs on Blur — Then Buys Some Back
Machi Sells 1,000 Bored Apes, Mutant Apes, and Other NFTs in Wild Weekend
By Samuel Haig
An NFT collector roiled the marketplace over the weekend in a series of trades that left investors’ heads spinning.
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Market Action
Traders Speculate on Goerli Even as Ethereum Devs Move On
Action Mounts on Goerli ETH Despite Switch to Holli Testnet
By Samuel Haig
The Goerli testnet may have given way to a new one, but that hasn’t stopped traders from speculating on the price of Goerli ETH.
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Opinion
Ethereum Scaling
The Zero-Knowledge Moment Has Arrived
A Rundown on the Slew of ZK Developments Coming This Year
By Evan Shapiro
Zero-knowledge rose to prominence within crypto last year primarily as a tool for enhancing scalability, particularly within the Ethereum ecosystem.
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