DeFi

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Robinhood Revealed to Be Third-Largest Bitcoin Holder With $3B in BTC
Robinhood transferred some 118,300 bitcoin to the wallet from several other smaller wallets over a three-month period.
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Pepecoin Says 'Bad Actors' on Team Stole $15M PEPE
Unprecedented transactions out of a multisig wallet spooked Pepecoin watchers last week.
Pepe the frog (Studio Incendo/Wikimedia Commons)

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Tokenization News Roundup: Resource Extraction, Social Media Monetization and Real World Connections
A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.
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PancakeSwap Version 3 Goes Live on Ethereum Layer 2 Linea Mainnet
PancakeSwap v3 introduces advanced Swap and Liquidity Provision functionalities, enabling users to trade tokens seamlessly and maximize capital efficiency.
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Pendle Finance Users Can Now Profit From Real World Assets
Pendle will use MakerDao’s boosted Savings (sDAI) and Flux Finance’s fUSDC in its first real-world assets (RWA) based product.
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Chart shows surge in buyers on Base's Friend.tech app after the project announced it had received an investment earlier this year from the crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm. (Messari/Dune)
The Protocol: Coinbase Blockchain's Viral Use Case Puts Focus on Optimism's Tech
The week in blockchain tech: Crypto-fueled social marketplace Friend.tech goes viral on Coinbase's new Base blockchain, Shiba Inu community's "Shibarium" network aims for fresh start, and Ethereum experts handicap the competition between leading technologies for layer-2 networks.
Chart shows surge in buyers on Base's Friend.tech app after the project announced it had received an investment earlier this year from the crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm. (Messari/Dune)

Curve Crisis Reveals Cracks in Decentralized Risk Management
Curve Crisis Reveals Cracks in Decentralized Risk Management
The 70 million hack on Curve one of the largest decentralized crypto exchanges revealed cracks in the De Fi promise The hack set off a Rube Goldberg esque series of events that pushed De Fi lending to its limits threatening to send the price of a key De Fi asset into a downward death spiral [...]
Curve Crisis Reveals Cracks in Decentralized Risk Management

DeFi's Total Value Locked Slumps to Lowest Level Since February 2021: Data
DeFi's Total Value Locked Slumps to Lowest Level Since February 2021: Data
Data compiled by DefiLlama shows that the amount of money stashed in decentralized finance protocols has dwindled to the lowest level since February 2021. "The Hash" panel weighs in on the potential reasons behind the decline of total value locked (TVL) in DeFi.
DeFi's Total Value Locked Slumps to Lowest Level Since February 2021: Data

DeFi total value locked, or TVL, has dwindled (DefiLlama)
DeFi Shrinks to Multiyear Low as the Crypto-Fueled Future of Finance Falters
The total value locked in DeFi protocols has slumped to the lowest level since February 2021 even as ETH, which underpins the market, has soared this year.
DeFi total value locked, or TVL, has dwindled (DefiLlama)

Wormhole Foundation EVP: We're Simply Here to 'Connect and Enable Web3'
Wormhole Foundation EVP: We're Simply Here to 'Connect and Enable Web3'
Wormhole Foundation EVP and head of operations Dan Reecer discusses the Wormhole Foundation officially launching on Monday, their mission, and what it means for the broader crypto ecosystem. Plus, a closer look at DeFi's vulnerabilities and Wormhole's security measures. 
Wormhole Foundation EVP: We're Simply Here to 'Connect and Enable Web3'