Tech

Uniswap

Uniswap May Re-Up Rewards as SushiSwap Angles to Catch Itinerant Yield Farmers

A new governance vote would continue liquidity mining rewards for certain asset pairs as the original allocation ends.

Tech  ·  16 November 2020
MakerDAO

MakerDAO Loans Can Be Gamed to Hold Out Funds From Liquidation, Startup Finds

A loophole in MakerDAO’s collateralized debt market enables positions to be closed far more leniently than intended due to an oversight in the auction process.

Tech  ·  16 November 2020
Blockchain Voting

New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes

Encryption inventor and head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.

Tech  ·  16 November 2020
Ethereum

Developers Debate Disclosure Protocols After ‘Accidental’ Ethereum Hard Fork

Ethereum’s largest client Geth hard-forked after a bug was tripped Wednesday. Developers are now weighing the merits of security disclosures methods.

Tech  ·  13 November 2020
Funding Rounds

Algorand-Linked Axelar Raises $3.75M in Seed Funding to Help Blockchains Communicate

Axelar is a decentralized protocol designed by the founding members of Algorand to make it easier for dapps to work across blockchains.

Tech  ·  13 November 2020
DeFi

DeFi Project Akropolis Drained of $2M in DAI

Decentralized finance platform Akropolis’ yCurve pools have been drained resulting in the loss of $2 million.

Tech  ·  12 November 2020
Chainlink

Brent Crude Oil Futures Now Tradable on DeFi Exchange Synthetix

One of two global oil benchmarks, Brent Crude Futures are now available through DeFi exchange Synthetix.

Tech  ·  12 November 2020
CoinFlash

Israeli Firm Unveils Tech Allowing Users to ‘Undo’ Erroneous Ether Transactions

Kirobo has repurposed its bitcoin transaction reversal feature to work on Ethereum.

Tech  ·  12 November 2020
Exchanges

Hackers, Scammers Have Stolen $7.6B in Crypto Since 2011

Billions of dollars have been stolen through exchange hacks and scams, according to a new report from blockchain analytics firm Crystal Blockchain.

Tech  ·  12 November 2020
Ethereum

Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced Hard Fork’ Was Trying to Prevent the Very Disruption It Caused

A hard fork that split Ethereum’s chain in two was activated on purpose, calling into question Ethereum’s client coordination.

Tech  ·  11 November 2020
MakerDAO

MakerDAO’s DAI Stablecoin Breaks $1B Market Cap

The stablecoin dai (DAI) broke a market capitalization of $1 billion on Wednesday, a major milestone for the DeFi pioneer.

Tech  ·  11 November 2020
DeFi

Flash Loans Aren’t the Problem, Centralized Price Oracles Are

Flash loans attacks have received a lot of press attention. But they're not DeFi's biggest vulnerability, says Chainlink's CMO.

Tech  ·  11 November 2020
CoinFlash

Ethereum Service Providers Scramble to Update Software After ‘Unannounced Hard Fork’

Platforms using an older version of the Ethereum client Geth experienced an accidental split of the chain Wednesday morning.

Tech  ·  11 November 2020
Ethereum

Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Tops $22.5M One Week After Launch

The deposit contract for Ethereum’s 2.0 upgrade now holds over 50,000 ETH – 10% of the threshold needed to activate the watershed update.

Tech  ·  10 November 2020
Wallets

Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)

Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets that require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.

Tech  ·  10 November 2020