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Tech

Solend Says Investor at Center of Solana DeFi Controversy Started to Move Funds

The lending platform said that may avert the risk of contagion in case of a liquidation.

Binance Labs recauda $500M para invertir en Web 3 y blockchain. (Giorgio Trovato/Unplash)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Solend Passes Governance Vote to Reverse ‘Emergency Powers’

An emergency governance vote has been passed as Solend plans to take less drastic measures on the liquidation of a large Solana borrower.

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Finance

Solend’s Whale Liquidation Crisis Prompts Second Vote to Reverse ‘Emergency Powers’

The Solana-based borrowing and lending service is going back to the ballot box.

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Tech

Solana DeFi Platform Votes to Control Whale Account in Bid to Avoid Liquidation 'Chaos'

Solend users voted to "grant emergency power to Solend Labs to temporarily take over the whale's account."

Solana Hacker House en Miami, abril del 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Videos

SINO CEO: Layer 1 Will Have Five to Eight Winners and Solana Will 'Probably' Be There

At #Consensus2022, Sino Global Capital CEO Matthew Graham discusses why he thinks Solana could be one of the five to eight winners of Layer 1, and what Solana needs to do to get there.

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Videos

Solana Commits $100M to Support South Korean Crypto Projects

Solana will pump up to $100 million into South Korean crypto startups as it looks to penetrate a developer market still reeling from last month’s Terra ecosystem collapse. “The Hash” team discusses the investment and why Solana is courting South Korea’s crypto games development sector.

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Finance

Solana Commits $100M to Support South Korean Crypto Projects

The fund, created by Solana Ventures and the Solana Foundation, will focus on virtual gaming and will invest in NFT and DeFi projects.

GameFi skeptics say that these games are not fun. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Layer 2

Cell Protocol Wants to 'Democratize' Liquidity in DeFi

The team, finalists during Web 3 Pitch Fest, wants to expand the network "horizontally and vertically" across exchanges and blockchains.

To preserve the anonymity of some of its founding members, Cell Protocol is using non-fungible tokens. (Cell Protocol, modified by CoinDesk)

Videos

‘Move-to-Earn’ App Stepn Suffers Cyber Attack After Upgrade

Stepn, a “move-to-earn” application on the Solana blockchain that rewards users in crypto from walking or jogging, suffered multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks following a recent upgrade. “The Hash” panel discusses the significance after users were recommended to “get some rest.”

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