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Also documented by Wu Blockchain, the accusations of FTX users having their accounts frozen came from a series of tweets from a handful of accounts.
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REX a staking token, with smart contracts offering advanced and extended staking functions. All of this to make staking management easier, more flexible, and fully decentralized.
Aave developers believe that no Ethereum fork running on an alternative consensus can effectively sustain a viable Aave market.
By locking liquidity to provide cross-chain routing (as almost every bridge does right now), bridges have placed themselves in a competition they’re bound to lose.
Users regain access to Aave's front end after compliance API flagged Tornado Cash-dusted wallets.
Decentralization may be under attack as Aave, Uniswap, Balancer and more reportedly ban wallets which have interacted with Tornado Cash. A centralized dataset created by TRM Labs appears to be responsible for the accounts being banned.
The front end exploit of Curve Finance has been resolved but not all DNS records have yet been propagated so caution is advised
Over $500k has been stolen from Curve finance as the front end is compromised through an attack taking control of its nameserver.
Despite negative market conditions, the price of SNX—the native token of Synthetix—has been in a constant uptrend since mid-June.