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DEXs

Balancer Shakes Off Rivals’ Shadow With Novel Strategy

Exchange’s TVL Surges 20% With Play in Red Hot LSD Market

By Owen Fernau

In an industry teeming with drama, Balancer has kept its cool. The decentralized exchange’s community has been content to let Uniswap, Curve, and the volatile SushiSwap grab the headlines. There have been times when Balancer seemed to disappear from the DeFi conversation altogether.

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MEV

Flashbots Poised to Offer MEV to Ordinary Investors

Complex Arbitrage Trade Earmarked for Broader Market Amid Regulatory Crackdown

By Samuel Haig

On Wednesday, Flashbots, the leading research team exploring Maximal Extractable Value, outlined a protocol that would let ordinary investors earn a share of the profits generated by the arbitrage bots that quietly reorder blockchain transactions.

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TradFi + DeFi

Siemens Issues €60M Digital Bond On Polygon

DeFi Adoption Continues Despite Regulatory Headwinds

By Tarang Khaitan

German industrial powerhouse Siemens AG has issued a 60M euro digital bond on the Polygon blockchain.

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Airdrops

NFT Market Gets A Boost From $400M Blur Airdrop

Trading Volumes On Paradigm-backed Marketplace Surpass OpenSea

By Aleksandar Gilbert

Blur, currently the largest NFT marketplace on Ethereum as measured by trading volume, took a critical step toward decentralization this week, sending its users newly minted governance tokens that will give them a say in the protocol’s direction.

Read the full story in The Defiant