Happy Tuesday, Blockfolians
The Lede
In what has got to be one of the fastest and strangest about faces in hacking history, the person who exploited dForce over the weekend to make off with $25m has…..given it all back.
Apparently, the hacker accidentally left traces of identifiable information that then allowed authorities in Singapore to trace their IP address. Returning the money then became a way to lesson future punishment?
All in all, a weird, weird saga. It’s great for dForce and their users that the locked value was returned, but is still a reminder of how early - and how fragile - DeFi is.
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Highly Relevant Reading
ConsenSys spin off Gnosis has gone live with a new COVID-19 related predictions market
Multichain DeFi protocol Kava raises $750k from Framework Ventures.
Argentina’s central bank is trialling a blockchain-based system for interbank settlement
Dutch central bank wants eventually European digital currency to be smart contract programmable
Community Commentary
Slow Ventures and Open Money Initiative’s Jill Carlson brings the heat with this narrative violation
Ari David Paul tackles one of the most important issues in crypto today - dollarization
A Really Big Number We Should Be Paying Attention To
$3,000,000,000
That’s the growth in stablecoin issuance in the last six weeks alone, with the total market reaching $9B. Crypto-dollarization is a real phenomenon.
Final Thought
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