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NFTs & Web3
Elon Musk's NFT Tweet is Selling for Over $1M
The NFT of an Elon Musk tweet about making a song about NFTs to sell as an NFT is selling for over $1M. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. To break it down, Elon Musk tweeted that he had made a song about NFTs that he would sell as an NFT. The NFT of Elon Musk’s NFT…

DeFi
New Aave AMM Market Allows Users to Borrow Against Liquidity Provider Tokens
Aave launched a market yesterday which will allow users to deposit liquidity provider (LP) tokens from automated market makers (AMM) and use them as collateral for borrowing. The market, called AMM Market, initially accepts deposits for 14 of Uniswap’s, and two of Balancer’s LP tokens. It has over $5M currently locked in its smart contracts…

DeFi
Ethereum Proposal to Raise Block Reward Draws Criticism
A new Ethereum proposal, EIP-3368, meant to increase miner rewards, has generated major pushback from the cryptocurrency’s community members like Aftab Hossain, who thinks the proposal distorts Ethereum’s “minimum viable issuance” monetary policy which aims to keep mining rewards as low as possible without compromising security. EIP-3368 proposes to increase the Ethereum block reward from…

DeFi
Pancakeswap, Cream Finance, Suffer DNS Attacks
Hackers compromised PancakeSwap’s and Cream Finance’s websites yesterday. The Domain Name Service (DNS) attack modified the affected protocols’ website to display a request for the user’s seed phrase, which, if submitted, would compromise their entire account. PancakeSwap and Cream urged their users to stay away from their URLs as they scrambled to regain control of…

DeFi
Social Tokens Get Rolled On
Social money issuer Roll was hacked for nearly $5.7M of creator tokens held in hot wallets on the platform over the weekend. Using Roll’s private keys, the hacker made off with tokens from 400+ creators on the platform. They immediately sold into Uniswap pools created around the vulnerable social tokens and transferred the ETH via…

DeFi
Tale of Lost MoonCats NFTs Spurs Buying Frenzy
Long, long ago, four billion MoonCats were lost in space. For years, these poor digital cats were doomed to languish in the wasteland of forgotten blockchain projects…until now. MoonCats to the Moon If you’ve followed OpenSea’s NFT ranking list over the past few days, you may have noticed a new, mysterious project called “Wrapped MoonCatsRescue”…

Research & Opinion
Decentralized Reputation is About to Open a New Web3 Frontier: Kevin Owocki
As a developer building on the bleeding edge of the web3 ecosystem, I can’t help but feel we have just begun to explore this design space. We are still discovering all of the completely new ways this technology will change the world. I see one trend in particular that will unlock a ton of value: Decentralized…

Podcast
"I Don't Think We're in a Bubble. We Had a Bubble in ‘17; Now We're in a Movement:" Mike Novogratz
In this week’s episode we speak with Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and then led a macro hedge fund at Fortress, which was shuttered in 2015. He then went all-in on crypto, in part thanks to convincing from his college roommate Joe Lubin, and founded Galaxy Digital,…

NFTs & Web3
The Greatest NFT Film Ever Made
It’s official. NFTs have exploded. Prompting a wild free for all on one side with numbers you can scarcely believe and deep and justified skepticism on the other. But the problem is most have only the most rudimentary understanding of what NFTs are and what they can do. So I set myself the goal of…






