A new blockchain search engine Ora emerges from Solana hackathon

A new blockchain search engine called Ora emerged from Solana’s summer camp hackathon to help bring blockchain technology to non-technical users by allowing them to search on-chain data using a natural language.... Read more »

Celer Network cBridge resumes operation after suffering DNS exploit

Celer Network has confirmed the cBridge frontend is up and running after halting its activities following a DNS poisoning attack on August 17 that stole $240,000 of users’ funds. Celer earlier notified... Read more »

ENS reaches 2 million names created

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has reached a milestone of 2 million “.ETH” addresses minted. The landmark comes just three and half months after the service reached 1 million addresses. ENS addresses... Read more »

Aave DAO urges members to commit support for Ethereum’s PoS merge via governance proposal

DeFi protocol Aave has requested its token holders to participate in an Aave Request for Comment (ARC), requiring them to commit to Ethereum’s (ETH) POS merge. Aave Companies have proposed this ARC... Read more »

LunarCrush launches new API to aggregate data on over 4,000 crypto assets

Crypto-focused social analytics company LunarCrush launched its new API that collects and organizes social media data on more than 4,000 crypto assets, over 300 NFT collections, and several exchanges, influencers, and LunarCrush... Read more »

Vitalik wants to burn the staked Ethereum of sanction complying validators

In a recent Twitter poll on Ethereum censorship, Vitalik Buterin revealed that he voted to punish validators complying with censorship requests by burning their staked tokens. Ethereum co-founder champions censorship-resistant approach The... Read more »

Let’s stop trying to be liquidity protocols

After a number of large-scale exploits of bridges, a lot of oxygen is being given to the narrative that cross-chain technology is inherently flawed — that cross-chain interoperability means risk. With an... Read more »

FatManTerra questions integrity of Do Kwon’s first interview since Terra collapse

On August 15, the Coinage platform will air the first video interview with  Do Kwon since the collapse of the Terra ecosystem. FatManTerra, who has risen to prominence by attempting to uncover... Read more »

Aave confirms TRM Labs API blocked “dusted” Ethereum wallets

Aave has confirmed that the ban list provided by TRM Labs included Ethereum wallets that had been “dusted” with 0.1 ETH through Tornado Cash. The falsely flagged wallet addresses have now been... Read more »

DeFi protocols Aave, Uniswap, Balancer, ban users following OFAC sanctions on Tornado Cash

Several decentralized applications on the Ethereum network have implemented code changes to revoke access from “sanctioned” addresses. The currently identified protocols are Aave, Uniswap, Ren, Oasis, and balancer. Banteg from Yearn identified... Read more »