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Updated April 17, 2026 · 11:30 AM UTC

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Why dYdX is leaving Ethereum and StarkWare for a native chain on Cosmos

dYdX is moving to a native chain on the Cosmos ecosystem. But why is the DEX ditching Ethereum, the world's most popular Turing complete blockchain?

4 years ago

Interview

Inside THORchain: The cross-chain RUNE DEX offering native coins like BTC and ETH

CryptoSlate spoke to Tyler Bond from Nine Realms to discuss what makes THORchain so different and why cross-chain interoperability is so important.

4 years ago

NFTs

Osmosis unveils a demo NFT builder

The NFT builder will allow users to customize their NFTs and earn accessories as they interact with the ecosystem.

4 years ago

DEX

THORchain achieves mainnet status as ‘fully functional, feature-rich protocol’

THORchain achieves mainnet status after more than 6 months without bugs, loss of funds or network instability. The cross-chain Liquidity Network offers native swaps in BTC, ETH, DOGE and BNB

4 years ago

Wallets

Solend pays users to vote on proposal to liquidate whale wallet OTC and avoid “bad debt”

Solana based lending platform Solend has offered users tokens in reward for voting on a proposal to take over a whale's account holding 95% of their Solana deposits.

4 years ago

DEX

Osmosis back online after fixing bug that caused liquidity exploit

The Osmosis chain on Cosmos has been restarted after several days offline due to required upgrades to fix a bug that created a liquidity exploit.

4 years ago

Hacks

ApolloX suffers $2.8M hack after securing latest seed funding round

Hours after ApolloX confirmed that it had completed a new funding round, a hacker exploited a bug on the network to steal 53 million APX tokens, worth $2.8 million.

4 years ago