Binance jumped in with a $5 million Curve token investment to help with efforts to minimize the risk of contagion.
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi)
insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.
The DeFi ecosystem is yet to recover from the crisis brought on by the Curve Finance hack,
and even though the issue seems contained, another set of exploits hit the DeFi ecosystem this past week.
DeFi protocol Steadefi is the latest victim of an ongoing exploit as the ecosystem was still recovering from the Curve crisis.
Binance came forward to invest $5 million in the Curve token as the hacker partially
returned the funds to manage the risk associated with the Curve token price.
In other news, Aptos has partnered with Microsoft to collaborate on multiple Web3 solutions,
helping its token soar in double digits. Coinbase became the first publicly listed company to launch a
decentralized layer-2 platform called Base, which has already attracted significant interest from the DeFi community.
Binance invests $5 million in Curve token as hacker partially returns funds
Binance Labs, the venture arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has invested $5 million
in Curve Finance (CRV), the namesake token of the decentralized stablecoin trading platform.
“Curve is the largest stableswap and second-largest DEX [decentralized exchange],
with approximately $2.4 billion in total value locked and $215 million in daily volume at the time of
writing,” Binance Labs said in the Aug. 10 announcement. Yi He, Binance’s co-founder and head of
Binance Labs, said the firm is pledging its full support to the DEX “given recent events that have impacted the protocol.”
Aptos token rises 11.6% after Microsoft deal to marry AI with blockchain
Aptos APT
$7.14
, the cryptocurrency powering the layer-1 Aptos Network, is up approximately 11.6% since announcing
it will leverage Microsoft’s suite of artificial intelligence tools to advance Web3 adoption among banks and financial enterprises.
This will be achieved by enabling the Aptos Network to tap into Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service to
explore innovations in asset tokenization, on-chain payments and central bank digital currencies, Aptos said in an Aug. 9 statement.
Breaking: ‘All funds are at risk’ — Steadefi exploited in ongoing attack
DeFi app Steadefi was exploited for at least $334,000 on Aug. 7 in an ongoing attack. The app’s
development team said in a social media post that the attack currently “puts all funds at risk.”
The app’s total value locked has plummeted due to the attack, according to data from DefiLlama.
The Steadefi team posted a message to X (formerly Twitter) stating: “NOTICE: Steadefi has been
exploited and all funds are currently at risk.” The team also confirmed that an on-chain message had
been sent to address 0x9cf71F2ff126B9743319B60d2D873F0E508810dc on Ethereum in an attempt to
negotiate with the attacker. Blockchain data reveals several large inflows on the
Avalanche chain came into this address, beginning at 4:41 pm UTC on Aug. 7.
Thanks for reading our summary of this week’s most impactful DeFi developments.
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