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Paribus: Mainnet Ver.1 Live

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Time Stamp: March 28, 2023 4:19 PM - Modified On: March 28, 2023 - Published By:
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The creators of a brand new cross-chain decentralized borrowing and lending protocol are set to release their Mainnet v1 today, March 28th. The launch marks the first step in their journey to be the go-to borrowing and lending platform for NFTs. Initially, the protocol will offer wBTC, ETH, and USDT, however, engineers are currently working on integrating NFTs into the next iteration of the protocol. The unique approach Paribus takes toward these more exotic assets is to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems to assess an accurate

Poly Network hacker returns less than 1% of the $600M theft

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2021 12:07 PM - Modified On: August 11, 2021 - Published By:
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These transfers have occurred across the three wallets associated with the Poly Network hacker across the Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Polygon networks. Poly Network confirmed receipt of the returned funds via a tweet issued on Tuesday.Details from Etherscan show that $2 million worth of Shiba Inu (SHIB) and $616,000 in Fei USD (FEI) tokens are being returned.So far, we have received a total value of $4,772,297.675 assets returned by the hacker.ETH address: $2,654,946.051BSC address: $1,107,870.815Polygon address: $1,009,480.809 pic.twitter.com/bPFAQk4mvS— Poly Network (@PolyNetwork2) August 11, 2021Data from BscScan also shows the

Surging Interest in ‘Yam’ Yield Farming — But Is It Too risky?

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 11:38 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The latest craze in the DeFi sector is a new yield farming protocol called Yam which promises ‘equal opportunity’ staking with no premine, no founder shares, and a zero value token at launch.The experimental Yam Protocol is the talk of Crypto Twitter right now — with many excited about the big potential returns, while others worry about the risks. The recently launched project offers an elastic supply token, similar to Ampleforth, that can expand and contract depending on market conditions, with the aim of seeking eventual price stability and a peg

Cardano, EOS, Dash Price Analysis: 10 August

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 12:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Cardano, EOS, and Dash, all seemed to be consolidating/range-bound, with their prices waiting to break out on the charts, at the time of writing. However, in the short-term time frame, all the aforementioned cryptos seemed to be expecting a short decline in the near-term.Cardano [ADA]Source: ADAUSD TradingViewCardano [ADA] no longer holds the eighth position on CoinMarketCap’s charts, with its position taken over by Litecoin [LTC]. At press time, ADA had a market cap of $3.7 billion, having registered a 2.15% decline over the last 24 hours. With Cardano’s PoS blocks

What is Wrapped Bitcoin? A Guide to WBTC

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 12:24 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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WBTC is a way for Bitcoin to run on the Ethereum blockchain. Performing quick and affordable transactions using Bitcoin (BTC) has long been a problem of the community ever since it became more popular. This is why there have been many developments planning to address this issue.  But what if we can make our BTC coins functional on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain? Would there be a difference? Wrapped BTC (WBTC) is a multi-institution project that aims to solve common BTC problems by creating its ERC-20 token counterpart. And in the

Curve Finance Guide – How to Make Money with Curve (CRV)

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Time Stamp: August 7, 2020 11:59 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The Curve Protocol is one of the largest and most used projects in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. It is integrated with most DeFi protocols and has seen rapid adoption in a short window. It’s essentially the most competent automated market maker (AMM) out there for stablecoins and wrapped tokens. Curve’s most valuable accomplishment has been giving people incentive to contribute liquidity and earn rewards over their idle assets. A community-based project, the protocol innovates continuously and is now progressing towards total decentralization.  In this guide, we take a look

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 5:54 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are