Decentralized Finance

Gelato Network raises $11 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly Capital

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 9:00 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Gelato Network, a protocol that helps automate smart contract execution on Ethereum and other blockchains, has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round.Dragonfly Capital led the round, with ParaFi Capital, Nascent, IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, also participating. This was a token sale round and the fresh capital will help support more blockchains, Gelato co-founder Hilmar Orth told The Block. Gelato Network currently supports Ethereum, Polygon, and Fantom blockchains and it is looking to add support for Arbitrum, Optimism, Binance Smart Chain,

White hat hacker paid DeFi’s largest reported bounty fee

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 8:55 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Belt Finance, an automated market maker (AMM) protocol operating a yield optimization strategy on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), claims to have paid the largest bounty in the history of decentralized finance (DeFi) to a whitehat hacker who averted a $10 million bug crisis. Industry whitehat programmer Alexander Schlindwein discovered the vulnerability in Belt Finance’s protocol this week and reported the news to the team. For his efforts, Schlindwein received a generous compensation of $1.05 million, the majority of which ($1 million) was granted by Immunefi, with the additional $50,000 offered by

Crypto Job Hiring Sees Huge Demand as Industry Grows

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 8:50 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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The number of jobs related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have skyrocketed, according to data from several job listing websites.Sponsored Sponsored While crypto searches more than doubled on Indeed.com in the past year, US job postings with “cryptocurrency” and “blockchain” as keywords were up over 600% on LinkedIn. Additionally, growth in paid listing at CryptocurrencyJobs.co increased nearly 1,500% since last year. “Everyone is hiring right now” Daniel Adler, founder of CryptocurrencyJobs.co, provided some insight into the growth that’s occurred. He noted that some teams who were looking to double at

DeFi protocol run by ex-Coinbase dev just did $3.6 billion in daily trading volume

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Time Stamp: September 28, 2021 5:00 AM - Modified On: September 28, 2021 - Published By:
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dYdX (DYDX), a decentralized derivatives exchange that runs on Ethereum (ETH), has surpassed Coinbase’s volume for the first time, executing over $3.6 billion in trades in a 24-hour period.The protocol’s success came in the midst of Beijing stepping up its clampdown on crypto, which spurred the recent interest in decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and other decentralized finance (DeFi) products among Chinese users.Ethereum Layer-2 DEX doing more volume than Coinbase“5 years ago I left Coinbase and eventually founded dYdX. Today, for the first time, dYdX protocol is doing more trade volume than

COTI to Issue New Stablecoin on Cardano Network

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Time Stamp: September 27, 2021 4:40 AM - Modified On: September 27, 2021 - Published By:
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COTI introduced a new algorithmic stablecoin called Djed for Cardano this weekend in an effort to expand decentralized finance (DeFi) on the network.Sponsored Sponsored The Djed stablecoin was announced at a Cardano Summit in Wyoming on Sept 26 by IOHK founder Charles Hoskinson. The enterprise-grade fintech platform COTI will be the official issuer of Djed which will use the new Cardano smart contracts to ensure price stability, the announcement added.Sponsored Sponsored Djed will be entering an already crowded stablecoin market that is dominated by Tether and USD Coin, however, its

Ethereum, Uniswap Price Analysis: September 27, 2021

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Time Stamp: September 27, 2021 1:10 AM - Modified On: September 27, 2021 - Published By:
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By John Isige Published 8 hours ago Updated 6 hours ago Ethereum leads altcoins into recovery after rebounding from last week’s crash to the 100-day SMA. Uniswap gains 35% in 24 hours, testing the $25 hurdle after leaving support at $17.5 in the rearview. The crypto market is making a comeback in the green with a bang as the week takes off. Trading over the week mainly favored the bulls after they defended crucial support levels last Friday. Volatility shot up following news that China has revolutionized crackdown on crypto

Trading Giant eToro Launches DeFi Portfolio

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Time Stamp: September 24, 2021 4:25 AM - Modified On: September 24, 2021 - Published By:
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Multi-asset trading platform eToro has launched a portfolio offering clients exposure to decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.Sponsored Sponsored Announced on Sept 23, eToro’s “DeFiPortfolio” is an index-type investment comprised of 11 decentralized finance assets. These are Ethereum (ETH), Uniswap (UNI), Chainlink (LINK), Aave (AAVE), Compound (COMP), Yearn Finance (YFI), Decentraland (MANA), Polygon (MATIC), Algorand (ALGO), Basic Attention Token (BAT), and Maker (MKR).Sponsored Sponsored The new product offers an easy way to diversify and gain exposure to the decentralized finance ecosystem and automatically stay ahead of decentralized financial innovation through periodic rebalancing,

pNetwork suffers from cyberattack

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Time Stamp: September 23, 2021 7:15 AM - Modified On: September 23, 2021 - Published By:
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pNetwork, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has recently announced on Twitter that its platform has been compromised and suffered from a major cyber attack.  “We’re sorry to inform the community that an attacker was able to leverage a bug in our codebase and attack pBTC on BSC, stealing 277 BTC (most of its collateral),” pNetwork tweeted.  But even if the platform came under attack, pNetwork clarified that all the other funds under its care remained unaffected. The company said that it has already identified the exact damages that were done

Pledge: NFT-based fixed lending protocol announces successful Fundraise

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Time Stamp: September 14, 2021 4:15 AM - Modified On: September 14, 2021 - Published By:
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Pledge Finance, an algorithm-driven, multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, is announcing the launch of an NFT-powered structured collateralized lending platform targeted at the traditional financial sector. The Binance Smart Chain (BSC) based platform will be fully interoperable with other public chains, meaning other DeFi platforms will be able to interact with Pledge’s numerous product and service offerings.  Pledge Bridges the Gap Between DeFi and Finance Pledge Finance will include liquidity pools which will act as money markets so that users can exchange cryptocurrencies without the need for a centralized exchange.

Trader Joe Raises $5M for DeFi on Avalanche

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Time Stamp: September 3, 2021 2:01 AM - Modified On: September 3, 2021 - Published By:
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Avalanche-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Trader Joe has become the latest to secure a round of funding from venture capital giants.Sponsored Sponsored In an announcement on Sept 2, the DeFi trading platform revealed that it raised $5 million in a strategic sale led by Defiance Capital, GBV Capital, and Mechanism Capital. Several other venture capital firms, angel investors, and industry leaders including Three Arrows Capital, Coin98 Ventures, Delphi Digital, Avalanche Foundation, and Aave founder Stani Kulechov, also contributed. Trader Joe plans to expand its team with the cash injection and