The latest in the industry is the hacking of Lympo, a sports NFT platform and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. Through hot wallet hacking, the platform just lost about 165.2 million LMT tokens, equivalent to $18.7 million during the time of this hack. Cryptocurrency hacking, though not frequently experienced, remains of the risks that some…
Popular decentralized automated market maker (AMM) Uniswap will deploy its smart contracts on Polygon, the Ethereum scaling solution, Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain. The announcement was made via Twitter by the official handle of Uniswap Labs after the completion of a community vote. Related Reading | Uniswap Community Reacts Against The New Proposal, Here is Why The…
The decentralized nature of Uniswap (UNI) will be put to the test. Earlier, it was revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened an investigation on Uniswap Labs, the company behind the protocol. Immediately after the news broke out, the price of UNI, Uniswap’s governance token, took a hit and dropped as much as…
The Uniswap community is debating against a new proposal that favors Flipside Crypto to the tune of $25 million in funding. The funding is for two years, but the arguments against it are numerous. Many DeFi protocols such as Uniswap provide governance tokens for people to participate in core decisions on their network. The recent…
The DeFi exchange SushiSwap would have joined the many projects that lost millions to the dubious activities of online hackers. For instance, Poly network lost $600 million in a similar hack one week ago. The good news is that the miscreants have returned many of the assets. It could have been a terrible blow if…
Software development studio Uniswap Labs (UL) announced the restriction of certain tokens via the app.uniswap.org domain. The company claims to be taking part in “creating a better” financial system and has taken the decision after reviewing the regulatory landscape and the actions of other “DeFi interfaces”. The token removed from the domain represented a “very…
There has been a lot of debate around decentralized exchange Uniswap and the DeFi Education Fund (DEF). This entity received $20 million or 1 million UNI, the protocol’s native governance token, to be lobby and increase the DeFi sector level of adoption. The funds are to be liquidated in 4 to 5 years. The proposal…
Uniswap’s UNI gained momentum and traded to a new all-time high near $45.00 against the US Dollar. The price is likely to continue higher above $45.50 and $46.00 in the near term. UNI started a fresh increase after forming a base above the $40.00 level against the US dollar. The price is trading nicely above…
With a tentative deployment date set for May 5th, 2021, the third iteration of decentralized exchange Uniswap is amongst the most hype projects in the crypto space. Its newest features offer its user more flexibility to leverage earning strategies. However, the creator of Uniswap, Hayden Adams, claims there is much more to the update. Via…
International body Financial Action Task Fork (FATF) has issued new guidance for decentralized applications (DApps). Its implications could directly affect the DeFi sector and could have consequences for DApp “operators” such as Uniswap, Sushiswap, and others. If you're a shareholder of Uniswap (or MakerDAO), then you're likely a VASP. And VASPs (i.e. Virtual Asset Service…