DeFi

Cardano, the world’s 5th-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $15 billion, successfully deployed a highly-anticipated upgrade – ‘Vasil’ – on Sept. 23, aiming to improve network throughput and smart contract performance for DeFi Apps. The performance improvements are expected to benefit decentralized finance applications (dApps) built on Cardano, and some of them are set…

A white hat hacker has discovered a bug within the latest upgrade for Arbitrum, an Ethereum scaling network, that could have led to the theft of over $530 million. A bug in the latest upgrade for Arbitrum had been live for almost three weeks but had not yet been exploited. Arbitrum builder OffChain Labs earlier…

Algorithmic market maker service Wintermute suffered a hack on Sept. 20, with a loss from the platform’s portfolio of around $160 million across 90 assets. Wintermute stated that it has no solvency concerns, calling the hacker to engage in a “whitehat” response. Evgeny Gaevoy, Wintermute founder and CEO, said on Twitter that “we’ve been hacked…

DeFi product builder Coin98 Labs is rolling out the Coin98 Dollar (CUSD), the fully collateralized decentralized stablecoin for the Coin98 cross-chain ecosystem. Coin98 sees CUSD as the default exchange unit across all Coin98 Finance products, with distant plans to gradually expand it into other DeFi ecosystems. As the world of multi-chain expands, it significantly drives…

Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Sept. 10–16, 2022): VC firm Bloccelerate is raising $100 million for its second crypto-focused fund Venture capital firm Bloccelerate is looking to raise $100 million for its second fund, according to a filing with the US SEC on Sept. 9. The Bloccelerate VC Fund…

Easing monetary policies, the decline of inflation, the change in Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, and growing confidence in DeFi are factors that point to a renewed surge for crypto prices, writes Cronos managing director Ken Timsit on Cointelegraph. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen tremendous growth since its inception, expanding by more than 1,200% in 2021 in…