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☠️Mystery Wallet Exploit Targets Crypto Veterans
GM Defiers! An unknown wallet-draining exploit has security researchers perplexed after siphoning over $10M over the past five months. MetaMask and other wallet providers are investigating. Meanwhile, decentralized exchange KyberSwap discovered a critical bug in its Elastic platform and asked users to withdraw their assets. ✍️ In today’s newsletter: 📈 Markets in last 24 hrs:…
Ethereum Name Service: Nick Johnson’s Journey from Google to Ethereum, ENS Roadmap, and Cancel Culture
Today we are joined by the ma behind ENS – the Ethereum Name Service. Since we last chatted with Nick Johnson in 2021, he has made ENS a household name across the crypto industry and beyond. Nick and I get into the details behind the ENS roadmap, including the latest V3 announcement, what it was…
Shapella Activated: DeFi Week of Apr. 9
Happy weekend Defiers! Here’s what we covered this week!
Bringing Institutions and Businesses to DeFi: Maple Finance’s Sidney Powell
Sidney Powell is the co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance. Maple is a DeFi platform that offers uncollateralized loans and facilitates interactions between institutional borrowers and lenders. In our conversation we dive into Sidney’s background, how uncollateralized loans work, how the bear market affected Maple, the benefits of blockchain-based financial systems and more. We begin…
🐸Meme Coins Rally Like It’s 2021
GM Defiers! We have a regulation-heavy newsletter today. But first, we take a look at the recent rally in memecoins like PEPE, which has rallied over 500x in just a few days. SEC chair Gensler dodged the question of whether ETH is a security while testifying on Capitol Hill. The SEC has sued crypto exchange…
🐸NFT Traders Turn To Flipping Memecoins
GM Defiers! NFT traders appear to be turning their attention to memecoins. A subsidiary of Societe Generale, one of Europe’s largest banks, has launched a euro-pegged digital asset called EUR CoinVertible. And finally, we delve into the surge in volume on the decentralized derivatives exchange Synthetix, as users trade for the chance to earn Optimism…
📬 Inbox Dump #99
Welcome to Inbox Dump where we include the updates and announcements that flood our DMs each week and didn’t make it to The Defiant’s content platforms.
☠️ Most DeFi Protocols Don’t Recover from Hacks
GM Defiers! We have a sobering analysis for you today — according to data we crunched, DeFi protocols that suffer hacks rarely recover, even if they keep building. In better news for open source development, Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev will be released on April 26 after spending 9 months in jail without a trial.…
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Gensler & Memecoins: DeFi Week of April 17
GM Defiers and happy weekend.