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Sushi to test Bitcoin swaps and Opyn DeFi protocol founders cave to CFTC pressure: Finance Redefined
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.A new DeFi report has highlighted that a…
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Former Bithumb chair faces 8-year imprisonment
Lee Jeong-hoon, the former chair of Bithumb, one of South Korea’s major cryptocurrency exchanges, is at the center of a legal battle and might face an eight-year prison sentence, with a verdict scheduled for Jan. 18, 2024.According to…
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ENS developers urge Unstoppable Domains to drop patents or face lawsuit
The founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Nick Johnson, is urging blockchain domains company Unstoppable Domains to drop a recently awarded patent or face a lawsuit, according to an open letter shared on X (formerly…
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Boosting blockchain adoption by keeping tech on the back end
Understanding the difference between the front and back end is crucial with Web3 technology. The term “front end” describes the portion of Web3 applications that consumers interact with directly. This includes the technology’s…
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Layer 2 networks hit $13B TVL, but challenges still remain
Ethereum layer-2 networks reached a new milestone on Nov. 10, reaching $13 billion of total value locked (TVL) within their contracts, according to data from blockchain analytics platform L2Beat. According to industry experts, this trend…
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OKX launches Ethereum layer-2 testnet using ZK-based Polygon CDK
Crypto exchange OKX has launched a testnet for an upcoming Ethereum layer-2 network named “X1,” according to a Nov. 14 announcement. The network is being developed using the Polygon chain development kit (CDK) and will use zero-knowledge…
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DeFi vulnerability leading to $6.7M exploit ‘not detected’ by auditors
Decentralized U.S. dollar stablecoin protocol Raft claims that despite multiple security audits, the firm still suffered a security exploit leading to the loss of $6.7 million last week.According to the project's Nov. 13 post-mortem…
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JPMorgan rolls out programmable payments for institutional blockchain platform JPM Coin
Multinational banking firm JPMorgan has rolled out a programmable payment feature for institutional users of its private blockchain platform, JPM Coin.Naveen Mallela, head of JPMorgan’s bank-led blockchain platform Onyx, shared details…
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Why the service industry needs blockchain, explained
The need for blockchain technology in the service industry Blockchain technology has the potential to completely transform the services sector by improving efficiency, security and…
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3 theses that will drive Ethereum and Bitcoin in the next bull market
After 2021, we entered an era in cryptocurrency where people stopped talking only about financial decentralization and started to broadly discuss the tokenization of everything, thanks in part to nonfungible tokens (NFTs).This shift…
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