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What's in a Name? Apricot Finance's Token Surges on Similarity to Aptos Token's Ticker

Trading volumes of the tokens jumped from under $70,000 on Monday to over $2.2 million.

GMX tokens are serving as a proxy bet for Arbitrum investors. (Jason Briscoe/Unsplash)

Tech

FTX-, A16z-Backed Aptos Blockchain Is Off to a Sluggish Start

Transaction speeds and tokenomics disappoint on the first day of transactions for the ‘Solana killer’ chain run by ex-Meta employees. Can this protocol gain the trust of investors?

Aptos Labs CEO Mo Shaikh (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

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Solana-Based NFT Marketplace Magic Eden Switches to Optional Royalty Model

Solana's leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden is moving to an optional royalty model, following in the controversial trend set by X2Y2 and others. "The Hash" team discusses what this means for the world of digital collectibles.

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NFT Marketplace Magic Eden Moves to Optional Royalty Model

Solana’s top NFT marketplace is the latest platform to switch to a no-fee model, following in the controversial trend set by X2Y2 and others.

Magic Eden's booth at the Solana Hacker House in Miami, April 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Market Manipulation Leads to $100M Exploit on Solana DeFi Exchange Mango

A rogue crypto trader utilized millions of dollars to manipulate the prices of Mango’s MNGO tokens on the namesake Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) to eventually drain over $116 million in liquidity from the platform. "The Hash" panel discusses the details of the hack and revelations about the vulnerabilities of DeFi.

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Centralized or Decentralized?

BNB Chain and Solana outages raise questions around the centralization of blockchains. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Markets

How Market Manipulation Led to a $100M Exploit on Solana DeFi Exchange Mango

The trader capitalized on a lack of liquidity by manipulating the price of MNGO on decentralized exchange, Mango.

Attackers drained all liquidity from the affected QuickSwap pool. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Mango Markets Exploiter Provides Ultimatum: ‘Repay Bad Debt’

Hacker proposes to send back stolen MSOL, SOL and MNGO if Mango Markets promises to pay back bad debt using USDC available in its treasury.

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Finance

Solana-Based Decentralized Finance Platform Mango Hit by $100 Million Exploit

Mango's MNGO token was down over 40% after suffering from the latest massive decentralized finance exploit.

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

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GSR Markets Exec on Crypto Buying Opportunities

"It's becoming clear that there are more and more buying opportunities for [crypto protocols] which are revenue generating ... similar to the kind of TradFi opportunities that followed the great financial crisis in 2009," GSR Markets Global Head of Product Benoit Bosc says, naming Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and NEAR.

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