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Videos

Coinbase’s New Listings, Robinhood Adds SHIB, SOL, And More

Coinbase has announced an extensive list of ERC-20 tokens that will be added to the crypto exchange’s offerings, and Robinhood will now include shiba inu, Solana, MATIC, and Compound tokens.

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Finance

Money Market Platform Burrow Raises $5M to Launch on NEAR

Burrow is a non-custodial liquidity pool platform similar to Aave and Compound.

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Tech

Tron’s Justin Sun Accused of ‘Governance Attack’ on DeFi Lender Compound

Crypto think tank GFX Labs says a prominent whale may be attempting to swing a vote in his favor.

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Finance

Grayscale Adds Flexa’s AMP to DeFi Fund, Removes BNT, UMA in Quarterly Rebalancing

The world’s largest digital asset manager announced the updated weightings on Monday, following reconstitution of the CoinDesk DeFi Index (DFX).

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Most Influential 2021: Robert Leshner

The Compound founder expects the bridge between DeFi and traditional finance to narrow next year.

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Tech

Which Comes First: DeFi Utility or Yield?

Also: Tackling Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on Ethereum

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Videos

E-CNY Chat Wallet to Launch, Korean Illegal Crypto Transactions Surge

China giants team up to offer e-CNY wallet in a chat application. Korea sees a surge in the amount of virtual assets used in illegal foreign transactions. DeFi protocol Compound’s technical woes continue. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Finance

$22M Drained From Compound Contract That Was Hit for $80M Last Week

About $66 million – and counting – was recently added to the still vulnerable contract, thus making more funds available for exploit.

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Tech

Compound Founder Says $80M Bug Presents ‘Moral Dilemma’ for DeFi Users

While Robert Leshner seemed to briefly threaten users with the IRS, the reality is that he – and the rest of the Compound Labs community – are now relying on the goodwill of users.

Compound founder Robert Leshner shoots a shotgun. (Robert Leshner)

Videos

Compound Founder Begs Users to Return $90M Funds Mistakenly Given Away

DeFi staking protocol Compound erroneously paid out approximately $90 million in liquidity mining rewards following an update to one of its smart contracts. The founder is now pleading to users to return the tokens and issuing a few potential threats.

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