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May 15, 2024

$20 Million Exploited From Sonne Finance on Optimism

Sonne Finance has paused all markets on Optimism after an attacker exploited a common vulnerability in forks of Compound Finance, draining an estimated $20 million from the protocol’s smart contracts.

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Erik Voorhees' New Venture: Why AI Desperately Needs Privacy and Uncensorability - Ep. 645

Episode #645 | May 14, 2024

Erik Voorhees’ New Venture: Why AI Desperately Needs Privacy and Uncensorability

Erik Voorhees’ latest venture, Venice, is a private, uncensorable, open-source AI agent run on decentralized computation.

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April 11, 2024

Empire DAO: A New Blockchain Approach to Co-Working Spaces?

Mike Fraietta, founder of Empire DAO, wants to transform how people interact with each other in the home office era.

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Bitcoin

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 9, 2024

Digital Asset Lender Ledn Processed Record $690 Million in Loans in Q1 2024

The explosive growth of loans facilitated by Ledn can be attributed to BTC’s price surge, which increased the borrowing power of bitcoiners, as well as the SEC approving several spot BTC ETFs earlier this year.

May 7, 2024

Bitcoin Miner Revenue Per Terahash Weekly Moving Average Hits All-Time Low

Despite a short run of increased profitability after the fourth halving, Bitcoin miners are now seeing reduced profitability as hashrate remains near historical highs.

May 6, 2024

Bitcoin Has Processed One Billion Transactions

The Bitcoin network has processed one billion transactions, 15 years, four months, and four days after Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block.

Business

May 14, 2024

Tron’s Justin Sun Has Become Quite the Airdrop Farmer of Late

Sun has received airdrop allocations from crypto projects such as EigenLayer and EtherFi, and is also earning points from his deposits into Swell and Puffer Finance.

May 14, 2024

Erik Voorhees’ New Venture: Why AI Desperately Needs Privacy and Uncensorability

Erik Voorhees’ latest venture, Venice, is a private, uncensorable, open-source AI agent run on decentralized computation.

May 14, 2024

Coinbase Investigates System Wide Outage

Coinbase assured users that funds are safe as its team investigates a system wide outage.

May 12, 2024

$68 Million Stolen in ‘Dust’ Attack Returned to Victim

The victim of an address poisoning attack has recovered the entirety of WBTC tokens that were stolen after successful recovery efforts led by Match Systems and Cryptex.

DeFi

May 14, 2024

Tron’s Justin Sun Has Become Quite the Airdrop Farmer of Late

Sun has received airdrop allocations from crypto projects such as EigenLayer and EtherFi, and is also earning points from his deposits into Swell and Puffer Finance.

May 14, 2024

8 Reasons Why LayerZero’s Upcoming Airdrop Could Be the Most Complex Ever

How will LayerZero manage its airdrop amid falling crypto prices, millions of users, and several stakeholders?

May 13, 2024

EigenLayer Early Adopters Claim $359 Million Worth of EIGEN in 3 Days After Airdrop

Of the roughly 108,000 wallet addresses that have claimed their airdrop allocation, just over 76,000 decided to stake their EIGEN tokens.

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

Ethereum

May 15, 2024

$20 Million Exploited From Sonne Finance on Optimism

Sonne Finance has paused all markets on Optimism after an attacker exploited a common vulnerability in forks of Compound Finance, draining an estimated $20 million from the protocol’s smart contracts.

May 13, 2024

EigenLayer Early Adopters Claim $359 Million Worth of EIGEN in 3 Days After Airdrop

Of the roughly 108,000 wallet addresses that have claimed their airdrop allocation, just over 76,000 decided to stake their EIGEN tokens.

May 13, 2024

Linea Delays LXP Mint After Detecting Sybil Activity

Linea has paused distributing LXP tokens after detecting Sybil activity that bypassed issuers and attained attestations as if they are genuine users.

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

NFTs

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 3, 2024

Weekly Recap: CZ’s Sentence, DeFi Tokens Tumble, and Tether’s Triumph

This week in crypto: Stablecoin regulation stalls, Hong Kong debuts spot ETFs, a16z buys into Optimism, FTX unloads Solana holdings, and more!

April 26, 2024

How OpenSea’s Weekly NFT Volumes Plummeted From $1 Billion to $20 Million in Just 2 Years

Magic Eden recently surpassed OpenSea in weekly trading volume for the first time, highlighting how the competitive landscape among NFT marketplaces is continuing to shift. 

April 26, 2024

Weekly Recap: DOJ Action on Samourai Wallet, SEC Attorneys Resign

This week in crypto: Renzo’s ezETH depegging crisis, Changpeng Zhao faces SEC penalties, Grayscale introduces Bitcoin Mini ETF, and more!

Regulation

May 14, 2024

What President Biden’s Crypto Politics Might Really Be About

The Administration’s anti-crypto policies risk alienating voters of both parties. But the bigger, albeit also potentially misguided, picture may be about preserving America’s global economic power. 

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 9, 2024

Could the SEC Have a Case Against Liquid Staking Protocols?

With Consensys receiving a Wells notice from the SEC alleging it operated an unregistered securities broker — via MetaMask Staking — does that also put its partners, Lido and Rocket Pool, in the firing line, too?

May 9, 2024

Is It Fair That Crypto Bankruptcies Are Denominated in Dollars? Here’s a Solution to Dollarization

The proposed recovery plan for FTX customers reveals the inadequacies of current US bankruptcy laws when applied to crypto cases.

Tech

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 7, 2024

Horizontal Scalability Is the Solution to L2 Fragmentation

The proliferation of Layer 2 projects on Ethereum has compromised the easy exchange of assets and data among them, but there’s one obvious solution.   

May 3, 2024

Weekly Recap: CZ’s Sentence, DeFi Tokens Tumble, and Tether’s Triumph

This week in crypto: Stablecoin regulation stalls, Hong Kong debuts spot ETFs, a16z buys into Optimism, FTX unloads Solana holdings, and more!

May 1, 2024

Farcaster Wants to Win Over Crypto. Here’s How It’s Different From ‘Crypto Twitter’

As “casters” descend on Venice Beach for FarCon, Unchained looks at how discussions on Farcaster are kinder and gentler than the often rough-and-tumble dynamic on X (Twitter). Here’s what to know and who to follow.

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Episode #639 | May 2, 2024

The Chopping Block: EigenLayer Airdrop Fallout, Shkreli vs. Io.net, and CZ’s Sentencing

Navigating EigenLayer’s Airdrop Fallout, Shkreli’s Crusade on Io.net, and CZ’s High-Profile Crypto Sentencings!

For Beginners

us-stablecoin-bill

May 8, 2024

What Is the Newly Proposed US Stablecoin Bill?

The Clarity of Payment Stablecoins Act of 2023 aims to regulate stablecoins and their issuers in the United States.

EIP-3074

May 7, 2024

What Is the EIP-3074 Proposal on Ethereum?

EIP-3074 is an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that aims to improve account management for Ethereum users.

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