The Aragon Association has pulled plans to give ANT holders voting rights over its DAO in the wake of the attack. Aragon, an open-source framework designed to launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has pulled plans for its native Aragon (ANT) token holders to be given voting rights over the future direction of the organization. The…
A memecoin whale who purchased roughly $3 million worth of the Pepe token just days ago is now sitting on an unrealized loss of around $600,000. The price of new memecoin Pepe (PEPE) has plunged more than 42% only days after reaching its all-time high on May 6, leaving at least one investor with hundreds…
The attacker targeted both the BNB Smart Chain and the Arbitrum network. CoinMarketCap data shows that DEI price dropped 30% following the security incident. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol DEUS has lost over $6 million due to a security breach on its stablecoin DEI. The hacker exploited a vulnerability in the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) on…
April was a month of hacks, exploits and rug pulls, resulting in over $100 million in net losses across DeFi platforms. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. April saw several hacks, exploits and rug pulls…
Staked ETH, BNB, ATOM, SOL and MATIC will be usable on Tenet as “restakes” to gain further rewards. A new Cosmos-based blockchain called “Tenet” will use liquid staking coins from other networks to secure its transactions, potentially allowing the new network to inherit the security of older ones, according to a May 3 announcement from…
The proposed regulatory changes seek to simplify how DeFi returns are taxed and reduce the “administrative burden” for taxpayers. The tax treatment of lending and borrowing on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols could soon be changed in the United Kingdom as the taxation arm of the Treasury is seeking input on a possible new regime. An…