While most of the DeFi community had their eyes glued to the ETH rally over the weekend, hackers took the opportunity to steal mooning assets through several protocol exploits. From Wednesday through Saturday, exploits occurred across three different protocols—Rari Capital, Value DeFi, and within Larva Labs’ Meebits NFT project—resulting in over $22M worth of stolen…

Ethereum’s cryptocurrency has shot up, almost doubling in price in one month and piercing through a record $4,000 on Monday. But some traders are preparing for a pull-back. Short interest is at the highest since the depths of the bear market, while options traders are buying contracts to protect against a drop. ETH has been…

By Marina Spindler and Paulina Rodriguez According to a recent study, the total number of global cryptocurrency users has surpassed 100 million for the first time. The highly specialized crypto landscape is increasingly diverse. Exchange platform surveys indicate women make up 15-55% of crypto users, depending on the region.  Tonya Zhang, head of marketing of Hong…

DeFi Saver is an advanced one-stop management solution dashboard for decentralized finance protocols, including MakerDAO and Compound. It offers options to create instantly leveraged positions in DeFi lending protocols, as well as tools to leverage, deleverage or fully close down a position in 1-transaction. It also includes loan shifting or refinancing tools for anyone looking…

In this week’s podcast we interview Santiago Siri, who has been working on improving the way democracy works for over a decade. He started from the inside, co-founding a political party in Argentina, his home country, but realized traditional politics would change him before he could change politics. So he started building better representation for the…

Let’s start with a story, Jean was just chilling on a Sunday afternoon and her phone buzzes, she picks up his phone and sees a bunch of messages by her friend who’s a so-called crypto expert.  After some more back and forth with her friend, she finds out that they offer 1% daily compound interest.…

I bet you’re wondering… what the hell is a Meebit? Well, I will tell you. It’s a collection of 20,000 3D characters, each unique but assembled from a randomly generated collection of attributes of varying degrees of scarcity and hence desirability. Sounds like CryptoPunks? Well that’s the idea. That model has been the undeniable party…

As a teenager, I was mostly concerned with getting decent grades, obtaining terrible liquor, and attracting girls with a rock band despite only playing the saxophone. Today, teenagers are running multi-million dollar DeFi protocols. Jai Bhavnani, 19, David Lucid, 20, and Jack Lipstone, who just turned 20, founded Rari Capital in April 2020, less than…

On-Chain Markets Update by IntoTheBlock Almost a year since the initial release of COMP fueled DeFi Summer, Aave’s governance voted to implement a similar incentive program. The effects were just as momentous. Aave’s total value locked more than doubled within less than two weeks.  As of May 5, 2021 through IntoTheBlock’s DeFi Insights This sharp…

Want to play tennis with serial entrepreneur and tech investor Gary Vaynerchuk?  You’ll have to snag a VeeFriends non-fungible token. Gary Vaynerchuck, also known as Gary Vee, is working on a new project combining collectible NFTs with social token utility. The result is a novel project with big potential benefits for Vaynerchuk fans, including annual…