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Investors Pile Into Opyn’s ‘Crab Strategy’ to Profit from a Sideways Market

A new way to play a sideways crypto market drew a lot of investors this week.

Cardano’s SundaeSwap Dex is Here. Does It Work? | Sundaeswap First Look

SundaeSwap is a Decentralized Trading Protocol on Cardano. It’s a native, scalable decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol.

NFTs & Web3

Messaging App May Bolster NFT Market by Connecting Ethereum Users

Blockscan allows Ethereum users to chat with each other.

NFTs & Web3

Cancel Your Old OpenSea Listings Or Risk Your Precious NFTs Being Spirited Away

Over $1M worth of NFTs were bought at huge discounts due to a listing bug.

DeFi

Polymarket Shuts Out U.S. Traders to Comply with CFTC Settlement

Polymarket has complied with a CFTC settlement and blocked U.S. residents from its prediction market.

NFTs & Web3

Startup Aims to Give Crypto Investment Clubs a Web3 Makeover

A startup is helping crypto investors form clubs to play the markets with web3 technology.

Hacks

NFT Scams – How To Avoid Them

In this tutorial we demonstrate a number of different methods to be wary of NFT scams.

Markets

DeFi Investors Brace for Liquidations as MakerDAO and Aave Call in Collateral

Key DeFi platforms are liquidating collateral amid the selloff in crypto tokens.

Podcast

Synthetix's Kain Warwick: What it Takes to Scale an Ethereum DeFi Protocol

This week, we sit with Kain Warwick, DeFi OG and founder of Synthetix. In some ways, last year wasn’t a great one for the synthetic assets protocol. As many DeFi projects boomed, SNX’s price and TVL dropped. Kain says he was too optimistic about how soon Synthetix would be able to scale with optimistic roll-ups. If he…