Your Weekly DeFi News in Bite-Sized Fashion
Welcome to the 158th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This weekâs issue covers events between August 20th and August 27th, 2023.
đ„ The DeFi Bulletin
Quantstamp revealed a tool to detect DeFi flash loan vulnerabilities.
A US crypto tax proposal snares some DEXes and lets miners off the hook.
Tornado Cash developers Roman Semenov and Roman Storm were charged with helping hackers launder $1B, with Storm being arrested.
Coinbase has taken a stake in Circle and launched $USDC on six new chains.
PancakeSwap has expanded to the ConsenSys-powered L2 Linea.
A plugin providing âproof of humanityâ for crypto apps was launched by Rarimo.
Vessel Capital raised $55M in funding, and hopes to use the funds to invest in web3 infrastructure.
Binance Labs announced an investment in Pendle Finance, a fixed-yield protocol.
đ NFT News
An Ex-OpenSea manager was convicted for the use of confidential information for profit, marking the first NFT insider-trading case.
Thanks for reading, and be sure to catch the 159th issue of The Defiprime Post out this time next week!