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Top 4 DeFi Security Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities in DeFi contracts led to 44 separate incidents of eye watering losses in 2022. Read about the top four classes of vulnerabilities.
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Crypto Winter: 3 Fundamental Problems on why Crypto/DeFi is still failing
The crypto winter is upon us again. The prices of the primary DeFi building blocks, Bitcoin and Ethereum, have dropped by 70% and 78% respectively since highs in November of 2021. Moreover, we’ve witnessed the spectacular implosion of Luna – a ‘stable’ coin that was pegged to the US Dollar via financial and algorithmic trickery. While much of the rise in 2020 and subsequent fall in crypto prices track with the massive cash injections into the world economy, crypto has shown little resilience in the face of the downward pressure. Investors in crypto/DeFi startups are realizing that crypto still has three fundamental problems that make it unattractive. Until these problems are solved, the crypto winter will continue.