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The Trump Organization, in collaboration with Saudi-based developer Dar Global, has announced plans to build what could become a groundbreaking landmark in both hospitality and real estate investment—the world’s first tokenized luxury resort in the Maldives. Named the Trump International Hotel Maldives, the high-end destination will feature 80
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1inch has introduced a new liquidity protocol called Aqua, a project the team believes could reshape how capital flows across decentralized finance. The announcement came during Devconnect in Argentina, where developers and researchers gather each year to showcase technical progress across the Ethereum ecosystem. Aqua is now available in early
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MoonPay, the New York–based crypto payments firm, is making a major move into the stablecoin market with the launch of a new issuance and management service designed for enterprise clients. The initiative comes amid surging global interest in dollar-pegged digital assets, driven by fresh U.S. regulatory clarity and
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Uniswap is rolling out a new mechanism designed to bring more clarity and fairness to early token markets. On Thursday, the decentralized exchange unveiled Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), a permissionless auction framework built for Uniswap v4 that aims to reshape how projects launch tokens and establish liquidity onchain. CCA conducts
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Robot Ventures has announced a $5.2 million seed investment in Sprinter, a blockchain infrastructure startup pioneering what it calls “solving-as-a-service.” The round also drew backing from A Capital, Atka Capital, Bond St Ventures, Topology, and Uniswap Labs Ventures, alongside prominent angel investors such as Ameen Soleimani (0xbow), Eva Beylin
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has released a preliminary incident report confirming that a rounding error in its swap logic caused the Nov. 3 exploit that drained over $128 million from its liquidity pools across multiple blockchain networks. The attack targeted Balancer’s Composable Stable Pools (CSPs), affecting deployments on
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Monad is gearing up to launch its high-performance Layer-1 blockchain mainnet on November 24 at 9 a.m. ET, marking one of the most anticipated network debuts of the year. The rollout will coincide with the token generation event (TGE) for its native MON token, which is set to list
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Independent DeFi researchers have uncovered a sprawling network of potential financial exposure following Stream Finance’s $93 million loss, revealing that as much as $285 million in loans, collateral, and liquidity positions could be indirectly impacted across multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. According to an analysis from YieldsAndMore (YAM) — a
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Berachain has temporarily halted its network to perform an emergency hard fork aimed at recovering user funds tied to the massive $128 million Balancer V2 exploit. The coordinated pause, confirmed by Berachain validators, comes as developers move to roll back affected transactions and patch vulnerabilities in the platform’s decentralized
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer is under scrutiny after on-chain data revealed what appears to be a large-scale exploit draining over $116 million in crypto assets from its vaults. UPDATE: The attack is ongoing. The estimated loss is ~$88M on multiple chains https://t.co/tu7d5SKYy7 — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) November 3,
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Flutterwave, one of Africa’s leading fintech innovators, is gearing up to introduce stablecoin-powered payments for businesses across the continent — a move set to transform how money moves within Africa. The initiative aims to make cross-border transactions faster, more affordable, and less dependent on traditional payment systems that often come
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Ether.fi, a leading Ethereum-based restaking protocol, has put forward a proposal to allocate up to $50 million from its treasury for buying back its native token, ETHFI, whenever it trades below $3. The move makes Ether.fi the latest major DeFi project to use token repurchases as a mechanism