DeFi Dev News -Fuel Launches $50k Grants, DeFi comes to Bitcoin, $2M Bug Bounty for SEI
Grants and Accelerators
- Fuel launched their Q1 2024 grant program – 10 projects will get up to $50K to build new web3 use-cases on Ethereum, powered by the FuelVM. Applications are open from Nov. 27th to Dec. 10th.
Tooling
- Axiom launched V2 on Goerli. V2 allows smart contracts to trustlessly compute over the entire history of Ethereum, including transactions and receipts.
- Ackee Security launches Wake, a Python-based Solidity development and testing framework with built-in vulnerability detectors and printers.
Infrastructure
- Botanix, the first EVM equivalent L2 on Bitcoin & powered by Spiderchain, launches a testnet.
- Succinct Labs partners with Avail to develop Vector X, a ZK light client that secures Avail’s data attestation bridge to Ethereum.
- Sei plans to release V2 in the first half of 2024. The upgrade will add EVM support on Sei, making it simple for dApps currently built on any EVM to deploy on Sei.
- Circle launches Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol on Noble Chain, giving easy access to USDC for all IBC connected(Cosmos) chains.
- Dencun will be the last fork deployed on Goerli and client & testing teams will be exiting their validators in the months after it activates. Application and tooling developers are encouraged to use Sepolia to test decentralized applications, smart contracts, and other EVM functionality. Stakers and infrastructure providers concerned with protocol-level testing are encouraged to use the newly launched Holesky testnet,
Security
- Curve Finance's obsolete stableswap oracles are not safe to use as an attacker only needs a single extra block in most pools to manipulate the Curve price_oracle 10x-500x higher.
MEV
- Eden Network introduces Eden Public Data, a collection of public datasets stored in BigQuery and collected using a variety of ETL processes.
- Chainbound introduces Echo, an aggregated builder API tailored for MEV searchers, quant shops, bot operators, and blockchain hedge funds alike.
Bug Bounties
- Sei is a Layer 1 blockchain about to launch V2. Sei provides rewards in USDC and has a KYC requirement for bug bounty payouts.
- Bounty
- Blockchain: 1,000-2,000,000
- Website: 1,000-100,000
- Bounty
- Li.Fi is a cross-chain bridge aggregation protocol that supports any-2-any swaps by aggregating bridges and connecting them to DEX aggregators.
- Bounty
- Smart Contract: 200,000-1,000,000
- Website: 10,000-25,000
- Bounty
- Inverse Finance develops and manages the FiRM fixed-rate lending protocol and DOLA, a debt-backed decentralized stablecoin.
- Bounty
- Smart Contract: 1,000-50,000
- Website: 20,000-50,000
- Bounty
- Drips is an Ethereum protocol and web app that makes it easy for organizations and individuals to provide direct financial support to developers of free and open-source software (FOSS).
- Bounty
- Smart Contract: 20,000-100,000
- Website: 10,000-100,000
- Bounty
- LandX is a protocol that closes the gap between farmland owners and crypto investors through blockchain-based perpetual commodity vaults.
- Bounty
- Smart Contract: 5,000-10,000
- Bounty
- Stellar is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides a framework for developers to create applications, issue assets, and connect to existing financial rails.
- Bounty
- Blockchain: 1,000-250,000
- Bounty
- Dodo V3 is a vault maintained jointly by LPs (Liquidity Providers) and SPs (Strategy Providers), with LPs providing funds to the pool and SPs offering strategies. Both LPs and SPs share the fee income.
- Bounty
- Smart Contract: 1,000-10,000
- Bounty
- C3 is a self custodial DEX that offers functionalities of CEXes, including instant execution, high throughput, REST APIs, Websocket connectivity, advanced order types and support for all networks,
- Bounty
- Smart Contract: 1,000-100,000
- Website: 1,000-50,000
- Bounty
Product Launches
- Yearn V3 Live on Polygon
Yearn V3 introduces Tokenized Strategies, allowing for standalone, single-strategy vaults that are ERC-4626 compatible. V3 is now on Polygon and will be rolling out slowly, with new Vaults and strategies added over time ahead of launching on other chains. - Rage Trade V2 Beta Live
Perp aggregator Rage Trade launches v2 public beta (needs invite). V2 aggregates GMX v1/v2 and Synthetix, offering better funding/prices and new perp strategies. - Wildcat Live on Ethereum
Lending protocol Wildcat is live on the Ethereum mainnet. Wildcat “enables undercollateralized, on-chain credit facilities which borrowers can parameterize however they wish. Lenders benefit from novel interest rate and withdrawal mechanisms.” - DFlow Swap Live on Ethereum
DFlow Swap, a swap aggregator, is live on Ethereum. DFlow fills swap orders at the best available prices by searching for the best prices on major CEXes and DEXes. - SDX Live on Solana
Solana Derivatives Exchange (SDX) launches on Solana. SDX enables options trading on Solana, with mSOL as the first supported option market. - Econia Live on Aptos
Econia, a Dragonfly-backed on-chain order book, launches on Aptos mainnet. Econia provides the infrastructure and allows users to trade with their frontend partners such as Aries Markets, Gator Trade, KanaLabs, etc. - Hyperliquid NFTI
Hyperliquid launches NFTI, an index of blue-chip NFT collections, including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, DeGods, Pudgy Penguins, and Milady Maker. - StakeWise V3 Live
StakeWise V3 is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. V3 introduces a new approach to liquid staking, “any node operator and staker on Ethereum can mint osETH, a liquid staking token, to represent ETH staked on their nodes.” V3 also comes with a marketplace of staking offers through smart contracts called Vaults. - Cryptex V2 on Arbitrum
Cryptex launches V2 (Pi) on Arbitrum. Pi has a perpetual DEX that allows users to long or short on multiple assets with up to 100x leverage. The v2 platform is built on Perennial Labs’ infrastructure.
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