Welcome to the 164th 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 1st and October 8th, 2023.
🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
- Stars Arena suffered an exploit, losing $2.9M in $AVAX tokens.
- The CFTC chair, Rostin Behnam, has turned his focus to getting ahead of DeFi.
- The IMF has floated a new crypto risk-assessment matrix in a new paper.
- Tokenized U.S. Treasuries have arrived on Base with Backed’s RWA token issuance.
- Polygon’s co-founder, Jaynti Kanani, has stepped down.
- Yuga Labs experienced layoffs and has refocused more on its metaverse extension amid restructuring.
- Chainalysis is idling 150 employees as crypto winter persists.
- Manifold Finance has rolled out an MEV auction protocol, with the project naming Frax’s founder and 0xMaki as advisors.
- Yield Protocol has announced its shutdown.
- Side Protocol integrated with Neutron as part of a partnership.
- Web3 funding is still down overall as the bear market continues to be in effect, with Wu Blockchain releasing its own report on VC funding.
- CMCC Global has raised $100M in funding, hoping to fund various Hong Kong-based crypto companies.
- Cicada secured $9.7M in pre-seed funding, with the project aiming to launch various lending products with the funds.
- Ostium Labs has closed a $3.5M funding round, with the project hoping to bring DEX perpetual swaps to oil and gold.
💱 DEX Report
- DEX volumes have slumped to their lowest levels since January 2021 over a period of six months.
- Bluefin’s latest version of its DEX went live on the Sui network.
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