🏛 SEC Probing Yuga Labs’ Issuance of NFTs and Token: Report
🏛 SEC Probing Yuga Labs’ Issuance of NFTs and Token: Report
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Bitcoin Lightning Network Misses Block After Enormous Multi-Sig Transaction: Decrypt
Polygon zkEVM Public Testnet: The Next Chapter for Ethereum: Polygon
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Lido Floods Layer 2s with Staked ETH After Launching Incentives Program
Ether Turns Deflationary as Experimental Project Pushes Up Gas Prices
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Crypto Crackdown
🏛 SEC Probing Yuga Labs’ Issuance of NFTs and Token: Report
Regulators Reportedly Examining Bored Ape Studio as Crackdown Intensifies
By Owen Fernau
INVESTIGATED Yuga Labs Inc., the NFT juggernaut behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club and other splashy collections, is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.
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Ethereum Staking
⚡️ France’s State Energy Giant Loves Ethereum
PoS Meets ESG as Utility Embraces Minimal Carbon Footprint
By Samuel Haig
SURPRISE In a surprising development given government skepticism toward cryptocurrencies, Electricite de France, the French state-owned energy supplier, is operating more than 150 Ethereum nodes, according to a report from The Big Whale, a web3 news outlet.
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DAO Governance
🗳 Curve DAO Votes To Enable Permissionless Rewards
Projects Can Now Freely Add Native Token Rewards To Existing Gauges
By Owen Fernau
NEWS Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange (DEX) that is DeFi’s third-largest protocol with $6B locked in its smart contracts, has concluded a governance vote to allow any project to add token rewards to its factory-deployed gauges.
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Defiant Video
📺 Quick Take: Shocking SushiSwap CEO Horse & Fraud Allegations
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🎙📺 Institutions Still Lining Up to Trade Crypto During the Bear
Shoutout
Anthony Hopkins The Eternal NFT Collection
Orange Comet is proud to announce its distinguished partnership with Sir Anthony Hopkins and the launch of his first NFT series, The Eternal Collection
The NFT series will feature an exclusive once-in-a-lifetime IRL event for collectors, giving them access to engage with one of Hollywood’s greatest icons.
DeFi Explainers
🤔 What Is a DAO?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Cooperative Entities at the Heart of DeFi
QUESTIONS Since the dawn of commerce, business leaders have been coping with the problem of governance. Who has the right to run a company, and under what conditions? How much influence should shareholders have over a company’s strategic direction? Or for that matter, customers? And what role should boards of directors have in making sure companies operate in ethical and productive ways?
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Elsewhere
🔗 Bitcoin Lightning Network Misses Block After Enormous Multi-Sig Transaction: Decrypt
Lightning Network's experimental nature, a layer-2 network built on top of Bitcoin that allows for faster, low-fee transactions, is one of the reasons developers have warned users not to risk large amounts when sending and receiving funds.
🔗 Polygon zkEVM Public Testnet: The Next Chapter for Ethereum: Polygon
Ever since we first unveiled Polygon, we have been constantly inspired by Ethereum and its values.
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Lido Floods Layer 2s with Staked ETH After Launching Incentives Program Lido is flooding Arbitrum and Optimism, Ethereum’s most popular scaling protocols, with its staked ETH tokens.
Ether Turns Deflationary as Experimental Project Pushes Up Gas Prices Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a month since The Merge, ETH supply has dropped by more than 2,000 digital tokens, according to ultrasound.money.
SushiSwap’s Grey Hit By Wild Allegations of Impropriety Less than a week after SushiSwap sought to end a period of turmoil with the election of Jared Grey as head chef, the decentralized exchange was engulfed in controversy yet again as a series of extraordinary allegations were leveled at its new hire.
🧑💻 ✍️ Stories in The Defiant are written by Owen Fernau, Aleksandar Gilbert, Samuel Haig, and yyctrader, and edited by Edward Robinson, yyctrader and Camila Russo. Videos were produced by Alp Gasimov. Podcast was led by Camila, edited by Alp.
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