DeFi

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BREAKING: Optimism’s $OP Token Could Be Imminent
Crypto users are speculating that Optimism could drop its OP token as early as tomorrow.

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Seth Green Could Air TV Show Without Stolen Ape, Lawyer Says
A hacker stole Seth Green’s Bored Ape just weeks before the NFT was set to star in a TV show the Family Guy actor had written about the JPEG. But the show could air even if Green can’t get it back, Jordan Teague, co-founder of web3 law firm The Antifirm, told The Defiant. Green said…

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Mirror Taps Optimism for New Writing NFTs
Web3 blog platform Mirror now lets writers sell their essays as NFTs. Mirror, a kind of Medium meets Web3, lets bloggers publish essays on the Ethereum blockchain, then vote on the best ones with the platform’s governance token. Upstart writers could already sell NFTs on the platform and hold crowdsales – they’ve raised $15.36M since…

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Outdated Node Clients Cause Blockchain Reorg on Eth2 Beacon Chain
The Eth2 Beacon Chain’s validators fell out of step on May 25 after a client update boosted some clients but caused confusion among validators who hadn’t bothered to upgrade. The incident, called a blockchain reorganization, happens when nodes disagree on the order of the most recent block. Blockchains order blocks – batches of transactions –…

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a16z Raises $4.5 Billion For Its Largest-Ever Crypto Fund
Web3 gaming, DeFi, zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized social media, self-sovereign identity and layer 1 and 2 infrastructure are among the fund’s areas of focus.

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WeWork’s Adam Neumann Raises $70M for Crypto Startup
Flowcarbon has raised $70M in a token sale led by a16z. It will offer crypto-based carbon credits.

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Optimism Foundation Cracks Down On Airdrop Farmers
17,000 addresses have been disqualified from the Optimism airdrop with 14M OP tokens reallocated.

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Ethereum Rollup Startup StarkWare Closes Series D At $8B Valuation
Even though the price of ETH has fallen by about 50% since early April, Ethereum scaling solutions continue to secure huge amounts of funding to address the bottlenecks that slow down the blockchain and make it expensive to use. On May 25, StarkWare, an Israeli startup building Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum, announced the…

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Catalog is the Deadpool of DEX's
Catalog is a secure, decentralized platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more.

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Vitalik Proposes Soulbound Tokens as Web3 Credentials of the Future
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin recently proposed a new kind of token standard that will help users gain insights into others’ real-world activities, accomplishments, likes and dislikes.



