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Coinbase Introduces Verified Pools For Clearer Onchain Liquidity In Limited Areas
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 7:36pm | 463Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) on Tuesday launched Verified Pools, a new initiative designed to improve transparency and security in decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity pools. The move comes amid growing scrutiny of risks associated with DeFi platforms, particularly regarding opaque...
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Binance Eliminates Some Liquidity Pools, Launchpool Onboards Neutron Staking Opportunity
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 3:04pm | 552Binance announced it is getting rid of more than 10 liquidity pools as well as introducing Neutron (CRYPTO: NTRN) staking. Liquidity Pools Dropped: Binance (CRYPTO: BUSD/USD) announced eliminating selected liquidity pools on Binance Liquid Swap including XRP (CRYPTO: XRP/BUSD),...
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Ethereum-Based DEXs Riddled With Wash Trades: Report Sheds Light On $2B Manipulation
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 2:02pm | 595Crypto-native trade surveillance and risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs on Tuesday identified $2 billion worth of wash trades on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)-based decentralized exchanges (DEXs) since 2020. This alarming revelation underscores the challenges and vulnerabilities present in the rapidly...
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Binance Labs Invests $5M In Curve DAO Token To Propel DeFi Growth
Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 3:31pm | 502Binance Labs, the investment and incubation subsidiary of Binance (CRYPTO: BNB), has announced a $5 million investment in Curve DAO Token (CRYPTO: CRV), the utility token that powers the Curve ecosystem. Curve has a total value locked (TVL) of approximately $2.4 billion and a daily...
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Curve Finance Exploiter Returns A Portion Of Stolen Funds: 'I'm Smarter Than All of You'
Monday, August 7, 2023 - 8:43am | 500Curve Finance (CRYPTO: CRV) has announced a reward of $1.85 million for information leading to the legal conviction of the individual or group behind the recent exploit of their system. The DeFi protocol's team stated on Aug. 6, "If the exploiter chooses to return the funds in...
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Uniswap's V4 Sneak Peek: A New Chapter In Decentralized Exchanges With The Introduction Of 'Hooks'
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 4:36pm | 453Uniswap Labs (CRYPTO: UNI) has unveiled a sneak peek into the draft code of Uniswap V4, which brings to the table an innovative feature called “hooks” or plugins, which empower developers with the ability to design tailor-made liquidity pools. Renowned as the globe’s biggest...
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Decentralized Lender Puts $100,000 Bounty On Recovering 442 Illicitly Drained Ethereum
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 10:42am | 408Sturdy Finance, a decentralized lending platform, has put forth a $100,000 reward in an effort to retrieve the 442 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH) (equivalent to $800,000) that was illicitly drained from the platform on Monday. The founder of Sturdy Finance, Sam Forman, validated the offer through a tweet in...
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DeFi A Grave Threat To US Security: Treasury Department Points To Two Huge Risks
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 2:38pm | 489Decentralized finance (DeFi) services are increasingly becoming a national security concern in the U.S. due to their vulnerability to large-scale thefts and cyberattacks, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. A combination of factors, including the aggregation of funds, lack of...