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Binance Outflows Slow After SEC Crackdown 

Lido Rides Liquid Staking Wave To Become Largest DeFi Protocol

Ethereum Devs Prime Beacon for ETH Withdrawal

Yearn Finance Releases Permissionless Vault Factory

Withdrawals and Layoffs at Huobi Spark Concern

L2BEAT Report Takes Aim At LayerZero’s Security Model

Crypto Kicks Off The Week With Broad-Based Rally

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LDO, RPL, FXS and SWISE Outperform Broader Markets

Lido Finance briefly topped Maker as the largest DeFi protocol this week amid surging interest in liquid staking protocols.

ETH Stakers May Be Able to Initiate Withdrawals in March

Stakers may soon be able to withdraw Ether from the Beacon chain, with Ethereum’s devs aiming to deliver the long-awaited upgrade this quarter.

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 From “transitory” inflation, to millennial Bernie Madoff 2.0, 2022 was a wildddd ride in the markets. That is, except for 

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Crypto markets are building on the momentum from last week, with most top-20 tokens by market capitalization posting gains over the past 24 hours.

EIP-5988 Poised To Improve ZK-Rollups’ Compatibility With Ethereum

Vitalik Emphasizes Need For Stability Of Ethereum’s Virtual Machine

In a development that may reduce the costs of scaling up Ethereum, momentum is gathering behind a new plan for improving the interoperability between the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and ZK-powered rollups.

Factory Vaults To Include Preset Strategies and Reduced Fees

As DeFi winter grinds on, Yearn Finance, one of the space’s most venerable protocols and a pioneer of yield aggregation with $363M in total value locked, continues to push forward with its roadmap.

Solvency Fears Mount At Yet Another Centralized Exchange

Alongside a slew of rumors, a spike in withdrawals from Huobi, a top-ten crypto exchange by 

, are raising doubts that yet another centralized exchange is on shaky financial footing.

LayerZero, a protocol which enables messaging across blockchains and is used by applications entrusted with hundreds of millions of dollars, drew scrutiny on Jan. 5 for a purported security flaw.

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