🐓 Investors Plow $28M Into LUSD Chicken Bonds
Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today: News Investors Plow $28M Into LUSD Chicken Bonds Coinbase’s 1.5% APY is Half the Savings Rate Offered by Banks Deribit Freezes Withdrawals and Deposits After $28M Exploit Podcast Video Daily Defiant: ...
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News
- Investors Plow $28M Into LUSD Chicken Bonds
- Coinbase’s 1.5% APY is Half the Savings Rate Offered by Banks
- Deribit Freezes Withdrawals and Deposits After $28M Exploit
Podcast
Video
DeFi Explainers
Elsewhere
- Crypto Exchange Deribit Loses $28M in Hot Wallet Hack, Pauses Withdrawals: CoinDesk
- MakerDAO co-founder Nikolai Mushegian dies at 29 in Puerto Rico: CoinTelegraph
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- Record $760M Stolen in Exploits During ‘Hacktober’
- Aave Rolls Up its Sleeves With Only 5% of Goals Met
- Multichain Questioned About Management of Millions in User Funds
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DeFi Yields
🐓 Investors Plow $28M Into LUSD Chicken Bonds
Liquity Increases Protocol-Owned Liquidity By Nearly $500,000
By Owen Fernau
YIELDS As yields across DeFi continue to slide lower, the use of a recently-launched novel mechanism is going up. Enter Chicken Bonds, a new product from Liquity that offers users an enhanced yield over a period of time in exchange for bonding the LUSD stablecoin.
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DeFi Rates
💰 Coinbase’s 1.5% APY is Half the Savings Rate Offered by Banks
Offering Comes After Last Week’s Partnership With MakerDAO
APY Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US, has announced that its users residing in the US, the U.K. and the European Union, excluding Germany and Italy, can now earn up to 1.5% APY on their USDC stablecoins.
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Exploits
🥶 Deribit Freezes Withdrawals and Deposits After $28M Exploit
Exploiters Rip Off Hot Wallets at Exchange
LOST Deribit, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, has lost $28M in an exploit, the firm said Wednesday in a Twitter thread. The exploiter managed to compromise Deribit’s BTC, ETH, and USDC hot wallets shortly before midnight, Nov. 1, the exchange said.
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The Tube
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Podcast Video
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DeFi Explainers
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Ethereum-based Applications
SMART CONTRACT A decentralized application (dApp) is software program hosted on a blockchain network and run by a smart contract. Unlike regular apps one uses on a mobile phone or a laptop, dApps are powered by multiple servers.
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Elsewhere
🔗 Crypto Exchange Deribit Loses $28M in Hot Wallet Hack, Pauses Withdrawals
Cryptocurrency options and futures exchange Deribit has been hacked, with $28 million being drained from its hot wallet.
🔗 MakerDAO co-founder Nikolai Mushegian dies at 29 in Puerto Rico: CoinTelegraph
Nikolai Mushegian, co-founder of the cryptocurrency lending platform MakerDAO and the decentralized Dai stablecoin, was found dead in Puerto Rico last week.
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Trending in The Defiant
- Record $760M Stolen in Exploits During ‘Hacktober’ Call it Hacktober.The crypto market suffered a record $760M in exploits in October, according to PeckShield, a blockchain security company which lists MakerDAO, DeFi’s largest protocol, as a customer.
- Aave Rolls Up its Sleeves With Only 5% of Goals Met A v3 deployment on Ethereum, a stablecoin, and a debit card. Aave, the trailblazing DeFi lending protocol, has a lot of work to do.
- Multichain Questioned About Management of Millions in User Funds The vast majority of crypto lost to hacks this year was stolen from bridges, the technology that allows users to transfer digital assets between blockchains.
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