Mainnet crypto staking on the Matic network went live on June 29, 2020. Delegators need a minimum of one Matic token to participate, and with a current price of just under two cents, the barrier to entry is low.Matic’s co-founder and CEO, Sandeep Nailwal took to Twitter to give an update on how the rollout…
Automated market maker protocol Balancer lost over $450,000 in a hacking incident on Sunday.The firm’s co-founder and CTO, Mike McDonald, confirmed that hackers drained at least two of their pools that contained deflationary tokens STA and STONK.He admitted that hackers exploited security vulnerabilities in those tokens to trick their pools into selling them Ether, WBTC,…
Ethereum’s budding decentralized finance ecosystem has gone parabolic over recent weeks.The value of cryptocurrencies locked in DeFi applications has skyrocketed to $1.65 billion, 65% higher than this metric was just 12 days ago. Simultaneously, the number of users leveraging applications like Compound, Maker, and Synthetix has skyrocketed.Unfortunately, a purported hack just took place that may…
There’s no doubt Ethereum decentralized finance (DeFi) has been a hot trend over recent weeks. Nothing shows this as well as the value of cryptocurrencies locked inWith DeFi gaining steam, there have been new voices chiming in. One such voice commenting on DeFi is Ross Ulbricht, one of the earliest known Bitcoin adopters and the…
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most other cryptocurrencies have largely stalled over the past few weeks. That’s in terms of price.But data shows that the two leading blockchains are seeing rapid growth in usage. This comes in spite of fears that a second leg to the 2020 bear market/trend is on the horizon.Related Reading: Buying Bitcoin at $8k…
The number of daily transactions on the Ethereum blockchain network surpassed 1 million, a level unseen since January 2018.In recent months, network activity on Ethereum surged as a result of rising demand for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and growing anticipation towards ETH 2.0.Why is Ethereum Daily Transaction Volume Climbing So Rapidly?Since January 2020, within six…
The past few days and weeks have seen Ethereum’s decentralized finance ecosystem erupt higher.As Camila Russo, a former Bloomberg journalist turned Ethereum publicist, accentuated this when she noted on June 19th that the past week has seen the value of tokens locked in DeFi applications surge by 40% to $1.4 billion.Some are skeptical that the…
Decentralized finance has been branded as one of Ethereum’s — and crypto’s — killer use cases over recent months. But from a dollar perspective, this market segment has not seen as much market penetration as its proponents would believe is “fair.”Yet while DeFi continues to gain steam as other blockchains seemingly stall, Ethereum and its…
HackMoney Hackathon, a 30-day virtual Aave hackathon organized by Ethereum developer group ETHGlobal, has announced its three winning projects—Learn&Earn, a gamified online learning platform, YieldHero, a suite for managing Aave, and MagicBet, a no-loss betting platform that enables users to stake DAI.Hacking Lending and Money Maker Protocol AaveOrganized by ETHGlobal, an organization focused on onboarding…
Ethereum’s budding decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem took a heavy beating after the March capitulation crash.As I detailed in an analysis for LongHash, what happened was that MakerDAO became unstable due to what some say is an erosion in trust in the protocol. Ethereum investor Parafi Capital wrote in a blog post:“We believe this lack of…