Welcome to the 64th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This week’s issue covers events between October 10th and October 17th, 2021.
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🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
- Indexed Finance was recently exploited for more than $16M.
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The SEC has approved the Bitcoin Futures ETF, with ProShares aimed to launch trading on the 18th of October.
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Ethereum Bangkok is to be held on the 29th of October, with names like Aave, Metamask, Alpha Finance, and more at the event.
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The payments company Stripe has recently said it’s reentering the crypto market to help build out the “future of Web3 payments”.
- ConsenSys has reportedly held funding round talks which value itself at $3B, with the company also looking to raise $250M in the funding round.
- Uniswap Labs has recently hired the senior spokesman for the ‘08 Obama Campaign amid the regulatory scrutiny.
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KyberDMM also launched Dynamic Trade Routing, with the aim of helping users source liquidity across different DEX’s to help achieve the best price.
- There has been a recent proposal to launch Aave V2 on the Fantom Opera blockchain.
- XDEFI Wallet has recently released public version 7.0 of its wallet Optimised for EIP-1559.
- Futureswap has recently raised $12M from lead investors Ribbit Capital, Framework, and Placeholder. Futureswap has also announced its V4 launch of the protocol.
- Aurora, an EVM for scaling dapps on NEAR, has recently raised $12M in its first private funding round.
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Nova Finance raised $3M in an investment round, with the lead investor being Solana.
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FIAT DAO raised $2M in seed funding recently, with the goal of empowering DeFi fixed income.
💱 DEX Report
💎 NFT News
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