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SushiSwap Drains Uniswap Liquidity. Still, Everyone Won
DeFi experienced what seemed like its first-ever hostile takeover today, except instead of stock buyouts and management shakedowns, it was driven by users switching platforms following their own economic incentives. Crypto capitalism at its finest. 1) well the migration is done; sushiswap is livehttps://t.co/c2JGZJ65Ch — SBF (@SBF_Alameda) September 9, 2020 SushiSwap, a fork of Uniswap,…

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SushiSwap's Vampire Scheme: Hours Away and With $1.3B at Stake
Decentralized finance is living through what may become one of its most defining moments. In less than 48 hours, a two-week upstart will attempt to drain liquidity from DeFi’s largest exchange, in a never-before attempted vampire-like attack, which right now has $1.3B in tokens at stake. Here’s a quick summary: An anonymous developer copied Uniswap…

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DeFi – Greatest $MEME Ever Told
This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.

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A Deep Dive Into DeFi Venture Funding: VCs are Stronger Than Ever
Decentralized finance keeps hitting new highs in its most popular metric, total value locked. But there’s another, lesser-known milestone it also reached: DeFi projects just crossed half a billion dollars raised in venture capital funding. The 34 DeFi Companies listed on DeFi Pulse have together raised just over $500M from more than 100 VC funds.…

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Degens Pioneer NFT Mining With $3M Actual Meme Coin
At the height of degen farming, where new food coins are quickly diminishing the reputation around liquidity mining, there’s at least one project that shines through the rough thanks to a tight-knit citadel banding around the very thing that drives farming forward: memes.This is a story of Meme Protocol – a community-conceived project spawned out of a Telegram airdrop…

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The Great Governance Wars of DeFi: Curve vs 1inch
This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.

DeFi
The Curious Case of the Curve Launch
This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.

DeFi
The Ultimate Guide to Yield Farming in DeFi
Yield Farming is the hottest thing in blockchain right now drawing in millions of dollars in collateral as traders and investors look to capitalise on high interest rates and advantageous secondary token rewards. What’s really going on here and is it sustainable? In the [updated] first of a new weekly series Harmony’s Creative Director Robin…

Research & Opinion
DeFi Needs a Safety Net to Make Banking Dinosaurs Extinct
Today’s guest post starts with a great question: Why do we still use banks? If you’re reading this newsletter, it’s likely you agree with me and the author that the current financial system is a relic and you know there’s a better alternative being built. So why aren’t savers taking their money from bank vaults…





