Rival fandoms abound in pop culture. Marvel vs DC Comics. Pokemon vs. Digimon. So it was only a matter of time before NFT artists and fans divided into two camps. Enter Bored Ape Yacht Club vs. Meebits, two projects that embody the contrasting creeds within the NFT movement, perhaps fated to become natural adversaries.   Meebits…

DeFi infrastructure protocol InstaDapp has launched their governance token, INST, on Ethereum Mainnet.  INST holders will be able to discuss and vote on all future InstaDapp protocol upgrades. InstaDapp has minted 100M INST, allocating 55% for community members and the other 45% for team members, investors, and advisors.  Initially, 10M INST will be available to…

Kwenta, an exchange interface for Synthetix’s derivatives, has declared itself an “independent project operating outside of the Synthetix core contributors,” according to an announcement post. The project will also issue a token, KWENTA, that will be used to participate in governance and to “bootstrap the community and fuel an early development team.” It’s a sign…

A bug was discovered in the Alchemix Finance alETH contract on Wednesday morning, leaving the project undercollateralized by 2,688 ETH, or roughly $6.4M, as users were able to withdraw these funds without repaying their loans first. Alchemix Finance recently launched alETH, a synthetic yield derivative that lets DeFi users borrow 1 alETH for every 4…

In a sign of volatility in the blockchain-derivatives market, liquidations on the Synthetix platform skyrocketed to $19.4M, on June 11, a 30-fold jump from the next highest level on May 13, according to data from The Graph. . As worrisome as that spike might be, the liquidations were right in line with how the system…

Last weekend, Alchemix, which offers automatic repaying loans, shipped a vault that accepts ETH. Alchemix users will now be able to borrow alETH, Alchemix’s token that’s soft-pegged to ETH, using ETH as collateral. The collateralization ratio: 400%. The launch came with a debt cap of 2,000 alETH and it was reached within a day of launch,…

Twenty days after upgrading its “Polygon Bridge” smart contract, Zapper found a vulnerability in its own deprecated version.  According to a tweet, the Zapper project “exploited the vulnerability ourselves and all of the funds have been rescued.” The problem would have affected those with an infinite approval for the bridge contract. Infinite approval is part…

Have you noticed the last few months just how rapidly the AMM and DEX space has been evolving? There has been an explosion of new products and innovations which are helping to move these products into a new era of capital efficiency. Uniswap’s v3 launch was the most eye-catching with the provision of concentrated liquidity…

The World Economic Forum, a bastion of the global establishment and ultra-exclusive club for heads of state, billionaires, and policymakers, is embracing DeFi. Well, sort of. In another sign that decentralized finance has spurred serious study in influential think tanks, the Geneva-based WEF issued a “Policy-Maker Toolkit.” The 38-page white paper explores DeFi’s benefits and…

Curve Finance, long distinguished by its homogenous-asset pools, has taken a walk on the wild side.  The automated market maker (AMM) rocked DeFi yesterday by releasing a pool containing USDT, WBTC, and ETH on Ethereum and another including USDC and DAI as well on Polygon. This was a first for Curve, which had up until…