Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. In this week’s newsletter, September became the […]
The team behind the new Friend.tech-inspired protocol Stars Arena has dismissed what it called “coordinated FUD” after patching an exploit that saw attackers escape with $2,000 from the Avalanche-based decentralized social media platform. In an […]
The Stellar Development Foundation, developers of the Stellar network, released a financial inclusion framework for judging the efficacy of emerging market blockchain projects. The framework was developed in cooperation with consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) and […]
Crypto and Web3 projects suffered a 153% increase in attack incidents from July to September 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to a report from blockchain security platform Immunefi. In Q3 2022, […]
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has reduced its headcount by another 15% this week, citing the need to reduce expenses due to continued bear market blues. On Oct. 3, Chainalysis confirmed to Cointelegraph that it had […]
Crypto startups keep raising capital despite tight liquidity and adverse macroeconomic conditions. September saw major developments in the space, such as Farmville co-creator Amitt Mahajan raising $33 million to create Web3 games, and Animoca Brands […]
Over 214 million Brazilians will soon be using blockchain technology for digital identity, the government recently announced. Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, and Paraná will be the first states to issue identification documents on-chain through a […]
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has contested the significance of exposed Slack messages presented as evidence. The chat involved a discussion with his co-founder, Daniel Shin, about manipulating transactions to attract investors. The United States […]
PayPal made major progress toward creating its own blockchain ecosystem by filing a patent application for a nonfungible token (NFT) purchase and transfer system. The application, filed in March and published Sept. 21, describes a […]
Decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap is seeking an on-chain vote to approve the second tranche of the $74 million funding for its developer, Uniswap Foundation. According to the Sept. 27 announcement, the second tranche of funding, […]