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Rune Christensen Makes Rallying Cry for MakerDAO to Help Fix Climate Change
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Rune Christensen Makes Rallying Cry for MakerDAO to Help Fix Climate Change

Climate change is the unifying challenge of the era and the biggest problem humanity is running out of time to solve — and MakerDAO can help. That’s the case Rune Christensen, the founder of MakerDAO, makes in a long essay he released today called “The Case for Clean Money,” where he articulates a vision for…
The Defiant Guide to Pak – Part I
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The Defiant Guide to Pak – Part I

There is only one way to approach an understanding of Pak. You have to do the work. Be passive and it will pass you by. So, Pak, I accept your challenge. I am not a poet, my medium is film, but I am well aware that you appreciate pop culture, film language, symbolism and above…
Wintermute Wants to Become MKR Market-Maker Via Governance Vote
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Wintermute Wants to Become MKR Market-Maker Via Governance Vote

Market-making deals are usually sorted out in private, but DeFi might be making headway for transparency. Wintermute proposed a market-making deal with MakerDAO on Friday via the MakerDAO governance forum. It requested a loan of 10,000 MKR ($24M) from the DAO in order to provide market-making services for both DAI and MKR, across all kinds…
Jam Session #7: Frontends
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Jam Session #7: Frontends

We’ll be talking with a stellar collection of DeFi powerhouses about what it takes to create the next frontier… of frontend. What are the challenges they face when looking at UX/Ui within DeFi? What are the risks when going decentralized? And what will it take to get the next BILLION users on board this DeFi…
SocGen Wants To Borrow 20M Dai on MakerDAO Using Tokenized Bonds as Collateral
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SocGen Wants To Borrow 20M Dai on MakerDAO Using Tokenized Bonds as Collateral

There’s a meme on crypto Twitter that calls DeFi the “future of France” as a play on the phrase the future of finance. Well, there may be more truth to the meme than many expected. Société Générale, the third-largest bank in France, has proposed to borrow Dai in MakerDAO using bonds it issued on the…
New 1inch Feature Seeks to Keep US Users Away
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New 1inch Feature Seeks to Keep US Users Away

1inch, a decentralized exchange aggregator, introduced a feature which pushes its users to verify whether they are US residents.  The feature requires users to sign an agreement with their cryptocurrency wallet stating that they are not in the United States. While the signature doesn’t go directly onto the blockchain, 1inch could post it there if…
Visa Sketches a Global Network of Central Bank Digital Currencies With Itself at the Center
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Visa Sketches a Global Network of Central Bank Digital Currencies With Itself at the Center

You may never be able to send a message from Telegram to a friend on WhatsApp, but you might be able to send dollars from a digital wallet issued by the U.S. Treasury to a wallet from the People’s Bank of China, only the recipient will receive the payment in yuan. That’s the vision that…
NFT Profile Pics on Twitter: Will @Jack’s DeFi Move be a Game Changer?
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NFT Profile Pics on Twitter: Will @Jack’s DeFi Move be a Game Changer?

A growing category of social media users now prefers using cartoons rather than their own photos to identify themselves online. They especially like cartoons that are as unique as their real faces.  Non-fungible token (NFT) technology makes it easy for a person to know they are the only person who owns such an image. The…
Compound Finance Pays Out Millions in Excess COMP After Buggy Update
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Compound Finance Pays Out Millions in Excess COMP After Buggy Update

Compound Finance’s smart contracts paid users an excess of millions of dollars in COMP tokens after a protocol update was deployed with a flaw in the code.  The impact of the bug is limited to 280K COMP tokens and does not affect user deposits or loans, founder Robert Leshner said in a tweet. Just over…
dYdX Now Accounts for More Than All Other DEX Trading Combined
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dYdX Now Accounts for More Than All Other DEX Trading Combined

Non-custodial exchange dYdX has climbed to the top of the DEX rankings by trading volume, beating out Uniswap, for the first time. More than $9B  has been exchanged on the trading platform in the last 24 hours, according to data provider CoinMarketCap. Uniswap’s V3 lands in second at $1.2B, the only other DEX to trade…