DeFi was the most attacked ecosystem in 2022: Finance Redefined
    14 Jan 2023
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    2023 started on a bullish note for nearly all the top 100 DeFi tokens, as most of them rose to new multi-week highs. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The DeFi ecosystem started 2023 on a bullish…

    Why DeFi should expect more hacks this year: Blockchain security execs
    09 Jan 2023
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    One reason is that “hackers have gotten smarter, gained more experience, and learned how to look for bugs,” according to the founder of a crypto auditing firm. Decentralized finance (DeFi) investors should buckle themselves up for another big year of exploits and attacks as new projects enter the market and hackers become more sophisticated. Executives…

    $3.9 billion lost in the cryptocurrency market in 2022: Report
    07 Jan 2023
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    The report from Immunefi revealed hacks to have been the main cause of related losses. Immunefi, a bug bounty and security services platform for the Web3 ecosystem, published a report on Jan. 6 revealing that the crypto industry lost a total of 3.9 billion dollars in 2022. According to the report, hacks were found to be the main…

    DeFi security losses rose 47.4% in 2022 to hit $3.64B: Report
    06 Jan 2023
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    Over $1.40 billion worth of stolen DeFi funds was reportedly laundered via Tornado Cash during that period. According to a Jan. 5 report published by Chinese blockchain security firm LianAn Technology, decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits across blockchains worldwide totaled $3.64 billion in 2022. This represented a rise of 47.4% compared with the loss of $2.44 billion in…

    10 predictions for crypto in 2023
    02 Jan 2023
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    Expect blockchain adoption to increase in the year ahead, in addition to the culture wars surrounding it – predicts Mahesh Vellanki on Cointelegraph. This year has been a particularly tumultuous one for the crypto market, with many decentralized and centralized entities failing or struggling to stay afloat. It feels as though we are in the…

    Crypto is down bad, but VCs keep pouring money in
    26 Dec 2022
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    After the collapse of FTX, Web3 VCs say they believe in decentralized tech as much as ever. What the hell else can they say? – Ben Munster writes on Decrypt. Given the contagion and chaos we have witnessed since Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX had a sudden multibillion-dollar coronary, you may be tempted to conclude…