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DeFi
New AMM Saddle Had Bit of a Rocky Start
Everybody hates slippage. That’s the problem Saddle, the freshly launched dApp “designed to enable efficient trading between pegged value crypto assets,” aims to tackle. And while the project quickly reached its initial deposit cap, it wasn’t without a couple of hiccups. Saddle is a new automated market maker (AMM) that intends to provide liquidity for…

DeFi
Synthetix Introduces Layer 2 Staking on Optimism
Things are hopefully about to speed up and get cheaper in Ethereum land, as Synthetix, the synthetic asset issuance protocol, deployed its staking code from Ethereum to Optimism, a Layer 2 scaling solution on Jan. 15. Now, users can migrate their Synthetix Network Tokens (SNX), used to mint the protocol’s synthetic assets, to Optimistic Ethereum’s…

DeFi
Kyber Network Shows Signs of Life as DeFi Booms
As decentralised finance protocols (DeFi) take on a more prominent role in driving total cryptocurrency market cap, Kyber Network eyes the $2 high last seen in August 2020. Currently exchanging hands at $1.33 (Binance), KNC surged 35% in 7 days. The KNC token had been in a period of consolidation since October, but the tables…

DeFi
Ethereum Making ATHs Beyond Just the Price
It’s time to buy a fire suit, because ETH is super hot. As Ether makes headlines surging past its previous high, other less flashy metrics are also near records, signaling the Ethereum network is strengthening not just in price. ETH hit a new all-time high of $1439.33, topping the previous record of $1432.88 reached during…

Education
The 2 EASIEST Ways to Start Staking on #Ethereum 2.0
There are multiple ways with varying difficulties and requirements to stake your ETH. This week we’re covering the most user-friendly, easiest, and fastest ways to start staking.

Research & Opinion
Building the Investable Layer of Music, by 3LAU
A Creator’s Perspective: Music & Distributed Ledger Tech Tokenizing music is still in experimental stages but my long-term vision is that digital collectibles will evolve into true fractional ownership in a song’s master recording rights, allowing artists to disintermediate the music industry and fans to gain from their success. After brainstorming for months on a…

Podcast
"I'm Imagining a World Where Every Song Has an Investable Layer:" DJ 3LAU
In this week’s podcast, we interview Justin Blau, better known as 3LAU, one of the world’s top DJs, who is also at the forefront of the intersection between music and crypto. He became interested in blockchain technology because it can provide a means for fans to provably to own digital content, and for artists to better…

CeFi
Algorithmic Stablecoins: Sexy AF or A Load of Pants?
While your regular crypto asset will fling you around like a ragdoll and reduce your life expectancy by double digits at least twice a month, stablecoins wrap us in a warm embrace and whisper in our ears that maybe, just maybe, things will be okay. They’re an anchor, a refuge and they too come in…

Hacks
Ledger Suffers Another Data Leak
Ledger customers’ data has been leaked yet again, putting the state-of-the-art hardware wallet company into another compromising position. Ledger announced on Twitter that it has been targeted by rogue Shopify team members who exported over 200 merchants’ customer databases in April and June of 2020. 292,000 customers have been affected, and Ledger says that while…

DeFi
A Blockchain Expert Might be the New SEC Head
Joe Biden’s new SEC chair may be, if not an advocate, at least very knowledgeable on blockchain technology. President-elect Joe Biden will be appointing MIT professor Gary Gensler as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Reuters reported. Gensler is a Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at MIT’s Sloan School…




