An emerging cryptographic technology may provide help with two gaping 21st-century needs: Privacy and truth. Features

[TheDefiant] Lens, the highly anticipated social networking graph from Aave, announced it will begin onboarding a wider base of users. On Oct. 10, Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave and…

[TheDefiant] Spark Protocol, MakerDAO’s first subDAO and a DAI-focussed fork of Aave v3, is now live on Gnosis Chain. The launch marks Spark’s first deployment beyond the Ethereum mainnet. Gnosis…

[TheDefiant] Ether is now trading at a 15-month low against Bitcoin amid speculation regulators may soon greenlight a spot BTC ETF and anticipation for next year’s Bitcoin halving. Meanwhile, monthly…

[TheDefiant] Deribit, the leading centralized cryptocurrency options exchange, announced plans to launch products for Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), and Polygon (MATIC). Deribit announced the news via tweet on Oct. 9,…

[TheDefiant] Alex Shevchenko is the CEO of Aurora Labs, which is a Layer 2 scaling solution built on Near. Alex has a doctoral degree in math and physics. Today we…

[TheDefiant] Disclaimer: This is neither a recommendation nor an endorsement to buy or trade any token(s). yyctrader has been using friend.tech since August and holds many of the keys mentioned.…

Sam Bankman-Fried trial is underway, Alex Mashinsky trial data is set, and Binance’s market share shrinks. Hodler s Digest

[TheDefiant] Stars Arena, the Avalanche blockchain-based SocialFi upstart, lost about $3M of user funds in exploit, less than two weeks after is launch. Stars Arena said via a tweet that…

[TheDefiant] Yuga Labs, the team behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and CryptoPunks NFT collections, announced it's undergoing a restructuring process and focusing its efforts around core priorities. The…

3AC co-founder Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore, leaving several disgraced blockchain executives’ entrepreneurial ventures in disarray. Asia Express, Columns

[TheDefiant] THORSwap, the THORChain-based DEX, has paused trading services researchers identified illicit funds moving through the exchange. In an Oct. 6 tweet, THORChain said it consulted advisors, legal counsel, and…

[TheDefiant] Oku, a Uniswap Foundation-backed interface for the Uniswap decentralized exchange, is now live on the surging Layer 2, ZkSync Era. Oku offers advanced features including order books, charting, and…

[TheDefiant] A new report from Glassnode is the latest example of web3 researchers sounding the alarm on the rising dominance of Lido over the supply of staked Ethereum. According to…

[TheDefiant] The Avalanche blockchain is getting a boost from Stars Arena, a new social media platform built on the network. Transactions on the Avalanche network spiked to 585,000 on Oct.…