DEX
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Trader Joe’s claimed that the crypto platform is benefiting commercially from the well-known supermarket brand and reputation due to similar branding
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Substantial raises by Brine Fi and GenTwo also grabbed the attention of industry watchers this week
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Starting with zkSync, Relic’s zero-knowledge proofs let smart contracts access historical data without intermediaries
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The case was the SEC’s first prosecution of a DeFi project — and its victims claim they’re still waiting to be made whole
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Trader Joe will initially offer stablecoin pools, with plans to expand its offerings in the coming months
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“Let’s stop focusing so much on the infrastructure. It’s time to build better front ends.”
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The latest version puts developers front and center and features ‘hooks’ and customized pools
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The development marks the most extensive deployment of these types of pools to date, the exchange said Thursday
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Blockworks exclusive: V2 will introduce something called “DAO futures,” making it simpler for projects to create liquidity pools using their native tokens
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Exclusive: Gomu CEO Spencer Yang is the public face of Collection.XYZ, which brings AMMs to the NFT industry
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Leading Ethereum DEX, Uniswap, is planning to deploy its V3 exchange on BNB Chain — but a16z is attempting to block it
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Sei recently secured an additional $20 million in ecosystem funding from crypto asset trading platform MEXC
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ThorChain teams up with Trust Wallet to capture millions of potential new DeFi users
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Six months after the idea was first floated, the Uniswap DAO will finally get to decide on implementing a fee switch on select protocol pools
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Fear of centralized exchanges has decentralized protocols seeing huge inflows, but some question if DeFi can handle the next wave of users
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Polychain says it has been deprived of its ability to redeem Shipyard Software shares, a year after it led the DEX provider’s funding round
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Blockworks exclusive: DYdX Trading is also working on the next iteration of its native protocol
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The expansion is part of the exchange’s plan to be fully decentralized by the end of 2022
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The Maiar decentralized exchange has gone offline due to “scheduled maintenance,” although Elrond’s CEO said Sunday it was attributed to “suspicious activity”
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Ethereum-based decentralized exchange Uniswap celebrated the trillion-dollar milestone with a tweet, three and a half years after its launch
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