November 12, 2020

Hello Defiers! Here’s what’s going on in DeFi,New Defiant video on social tokensA recap of Shanghai blockchain weekLiquidStake wants to give you USDC in exchange for staked ETH and here’s what CEO Jame Slazas said about the loan’s interest ratePieDAO launches a new DeFi token index Zerion adds P&L analysis Read more … … More

Level up your crypto finance game five times a week. Get on the Bankless Program.Subscribe nowDear Bankless Nation,One day on Discord, Ryan sent me a link to this blog post titled ‘Squad Wealth’, written by three individuals with who I wasn’t familiar with. I immediately fell in love with the ideas discussed in the piece, as well as the jovially facetious writing style and highly relatable memes. To me, Squad Wealth is the pushback to the individualistic lifestyle tha… … More

My apologies to everyone. It looks like the Google Finance data that I was looking at this morning is inaccurate. I have no clue how that happens on Google, but I won’t be using that data any more when writing.Grayscale’s GBTC traded over $18 this morning, but the all-time high is actually just over $29 per share. a.image2.image-link.image2-778-1456 { padding-bottom: 53.434065934065934%; padding-bottom: min(53.434065934065934%, 778px); wi… … More

To investors,The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) hit an all-time high today on the market open. The previous high was $18 on March 2nd of 2018. At the moment, the ticker is trading at $18.12. I figured this would be a good time to breakdown the Grayscale business, along with explain why this specific fund has been an integral part of the Bitcoin adoption… Read more … … More

We are excited to announce that through our partnership with Chainlink, sOIL is now live on Synthetix! sOIL is a Synthetic asset that mirrors the price movement of oil using a Chainlink decentralised oracle network. As usual, there will be two versions of this token available: sOIL will enable users to capture a long position while iOIL will enable users to capture a short position. sOIL is available on Kwenta and Synthetix.Exchange and can be traded for any Synth with infinite liquidity and zer… … More

a.image2.image-link.image2-645-1456 { padding-bottom: 44.29945054945055%; padding-bottom: min(44.29945054945055%, 645px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image2-645-1456 img { max-width: 1456px; max-height: 645px; } Yesterday’s incident involving Infura and Geth highlighted one very important thing within the Ethereum community – we need much better and mor… … More

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Critical patch for CVE-2020-28362 – Summary Versions of geth built with Go <1.15.5 or <1.14.12 are most likely affected by a critical DoS-related security vulnerability. The golang team has registered this flaw as ‘CVE-2020-28362’. We recommend all users to rebuild (ideally v1.9.24) with Go 1.15.5 or 1.14.12, to avoid node crashes. Alternatively, if you are… … More