liquidity
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This week’s biggest funding round saw Jump Trading, JPMorgan contribute to the round
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If we tokenize all assets in a speculative rush, the risk of creating illiquid markets and trapped value will manifest on a large scale
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The NYSE went down yesterday after a glitch caused a string of erroneous trades. Does DeFi fix this?
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Plus, Zeta Markets has released a litepaper for the “Zeta X” layer-2 it’s hoping to send to mainnet in early 2025
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97.5% of swappers with trades under $125,000 did better on layer-2s than on Ethereum mainnet
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Outside of EVM smart contract deployments, general contract deployments are most commonly seen on Polygon and BNB chains
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clARB, clOP and clSUI will be available for purchase and trade at Clone’s public mainnet launch tomorrow
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Loss versus rebalancing remains a major centralizing force today, but CoW AMM is designed to solve this problem
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The real transformation is just beginning — RWAs will be, by many multiples, the largest category in DeFi
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Nexus uses zk-SNARKs to enable tokens to be easily transferred between one zero-knowledge rollup to another
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zkSharding, the =nil; Foundation’s entry into the layer-2 race, aims to help reduce liquidity fragmentation on-chain
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The collateral backing the DAI stablecoin’s peg dipped below intended levels — and it took multiple days to deploy backup funds
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“You don’t want to become riskier as you get bigger,” Kazemian says. “That’s not a recipe for a good ending”
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Experts are tracking one of the largest exploits in crypto history as the attacker attempts to launder their funds
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Bitcoin’s appeal is driven by its reputation as ‘digital gold’ and the growing excitement over possible spot bitcoin ETFs, according to one analyst
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The real estate stablecoin project de-pegged this morning after a series of DAI redemptions dried up available exit liquidity
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Crypto volatility has reached its lowest point in years by the end of September, while liquidity remains concentrated in a few markets
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Bitcoin is eyeing a return to $30,000 — but traders on Binance.US have been shown a very different price
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The 7-day average trading volumes for bitcoin have dropped to their lowest level in two and a half years alongside a muted derivatives market
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Dominance of blue-chip crypto assets and stablecoins USDT and USDC, now make up a staggering 78.5% of the total market cap
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