🦹🏻♂️ Phishing Exploit Pinches 60 NFTs From Top Collector
Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today: News Phishing Exploit Pinches 60 NFTs From Top Collector Crypto Tourists Exit Amid Bear Market Bummer, Search Data Suggests DeFi Primers What is Uniswap? Everything You Want to Know About the Decentrali...
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- Phishing Exploit Pinches 60 NFTs From Top Collector
- Crypto Tourists Exit Amid Bear Market Bummer, Search Data Suggests
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- Exclusive: FTX buys Good Luck Games in quest to convince gamers to love NFTs and blockchain: ZDNet
- APECOIN—Bullish or Bearish for CryptoPunks?: Bankless
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🦹🏻♂️ Phishing Exploit Pinches 60 NFTs From Top Collector
Victim Publishes Hacker's Wallet to Retrieve Looted Works
By Samuel Haig
NEWS The perpetrators of a sophisticated hack have stolen more than 60 NFTs from noted collector Arthur Cheong, the founder of DeFiance Capital. Works from the valuable CloneX and Azuki collections were among those lost to the attackers.
CARELESS “Received a spear-phishing email that really seems to be sent by one of our portco with content that seems like general industry-relevant content,” Cheong tweeted on March 22, referring to a portfolio company. “Was being careless on this one since it comes from 2 seemingly legitimate sources.”
BLACKLISTED Cheong fired back by publicly posted the hacker’s wallet address so that it can be blacklisted. However, many of the tokens have already been sold to unsuspecting collectors. DeFiance Capital is a leading investor in the web3 space, having backed top protocols including Aave, dYdX, and Lido, and major networks such as Solana, Terra, and Avalanche. It also supports blockchain gaming and metaverse projects.
STOLEN A longtime crypto investor, Cheong said that after opening the file it looked like a normal PDF document. His antivirus software failed to identify the files as being malicious. According to blockchain security firm PeckShield, the stolen tokens were sold for a whopping 233 Wrapped Ether (roughly $700,000). Fortune magazine estimated the looted NFTs to be worth $1.7M.
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Crypto Mood
👋🏻 Crypto Tourists Exit Amid Bear Market Bummer, Search Data Suggests
Google Searches for Ethereum and Bitcoin Down 50%
By Samuel Haig
EXITING Is crypto boring again? That may be one interpretation of search data The Defiant examined this week. Key search terms relating to crypto have been declining since January, suggesting that retail traders and DeFi tourists are exiting the sector.
COOLING According to Google Trends data, searches for crypto keywords have since been in a steady decline across the board. Volume for ‘NFT’ has dropped by two-thirds from its January peak, suggesting the nonfungibles market is seriously cooling down. Traffic for Ethereum and Bitcoin has also halved since January, and is currently trending at their lowest level since December 2020.
TRADING No surprise, really. The crypto markets have been more volatile than usual since the all-time high of last November. The last two years have seen crypto capture the imagination of ordinary investors and Wall Street institutions alike as the Covid-19 pandemic spurred unprecedented state-backed stimulus money and zero-commission platforms like Robinhood made trading super easy.
Google search traffic for ‘DeFi’, ‘Ethereum’, ‘NFT’, ‘Bitcoin’, and ‘Dogecoin’ over 5 years. Source: Google Trends
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The Defiant Primer
🦄 What is Uniswap?
Everything You Want to Know About the Decentralized Crypto Exchange
INTERMEDARIES In 2021, the GameStop/AMC short squeeze episode demonstrated how traditional finance is full of obfuscation. Retail traders expected their trades to execute immediately. However, it turned out that an investor’s trade goes through several intermediaries, multiple congressional hearings and lawsuits later showed.
TRADING DATA Brokers, clearinghouses, and market makers are intertwined with overlapping interests, best exemplified by Robinhood’s payment for order flows (PFOF) business, which sells its trading data to hedge funds on the side.
DECENTRALIZED As an automated market maker (AMM), Uniswap does away with obfuscation and centralization. Embracing decentralized finance (DeFi) instead of centralized finance (CeFi), Uniswap has exploded in popularity. Its total value locked (TVL) has multiplied 137 times since February 2020, to $7.5B. (TVL shows how much cryptocurrency is committed to a protocol and is a key measure of its strength.)
Uniswap’s total value locked within smart contracts over two years. Source: DeFiLlama.com
Let’s take a closer look at Uniswap’s mechanics:
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Links
🔗 Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Investing in Crypto Fund: Sources: CoinDesk
Bridgewater Associates is preparing to back its first crypto fund.
🔗 Exclusive: FTX buys Good Luck Games in quest to convince gamers to love NFTs and blockchain: ZDNet
FTX is acquiring Good Luck Games, makers of the card-based auto-battler Storybook Brawl.
🔗 APECOIN—Bullish or Bearish for CryptoPunks?: Bankless
In a massive week for Bored Ape Yacht Club studio Yuga Labs, they acquired CryptoPunks & Meebits from Larva Labs, as well as releasing their community token $APE.
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- A Radical Proposal to Revive MakerDAO Roils Community MakerDAO, the trailblazing DeFi lending and savings project, has reached a crossroads.
- Why Do Gamers Hate NFT’s? Part 2! In part one, we took a look at the state of gaming and some of the reasons why gamers are hating on NFT’s so much. Today we conclude this deep dive investigation into the topic and look at the final and fundamental reasons for this seething hate.
🧑💻 ✍️ Stories in The Defiant are written by Owen Fernau, Samuel Haig, DeFiDad, and yyctrader, and edited by Edward Robinson, yyctrader, and Camila Russo. Videos are produced by Robin Schmidt, Alp Gasimov and Daniel Flynn. Podcast is led by Camila, edited by Alp.
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