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How Falcon got the edge Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? SUBSCRIBE Thank you for subscribing to Morning Dispatch Well soon meet in your inbox. / Morning Dispatch Hello everyone, It’s Samidha. Today we have a packed edition of the ETtech Morning Dispatch. Along with a deep dive on how Falcon Edge became one of the most active investors in the buzzy technology investing space, we continue with our in-depth crypto coverage and a few scoops from our reporters. Also in this letter:...

Polygon ($MATIC) Sees 75K Active User Growth Reading Time: 3 mins read Dapps are continuing to shine recently. As if the chart wasn’t enough to convince you, $MATIC has been a star performer too. Data released this week from DappRadar shows a substantial uptick in Polygon-based decentralized applications. This follows our piece from just a few weeks ago, highlighting $MATIC’s big rally. Let’s recap some of DappRadar’s findings.  The Polygon Network The data out from DappRadar shows a n...

What Is Polygon (MATIC)? by Oluwapelumi Adejumo · 6 min read Photo: Depositphotos You have successfully joined our subscriber list. With the guide, you will get a clear understanding of the Polygon (MATIC) network that has ambitions of alleviating the problems of the Ethereum network whilst also promoting true and routine blockchain interoperability. Ethereum (ETH) remains the most actively used blockchain in the world. This decentralized, open-source blockchain rapidly gained popularity af...

Place/Date: - May 14th, 2021 at 8:39 pm UTC · 4 min read Contact: AscendEX, Source: AscendEX AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, congratulates PlotX – a cross-chain prediction market protocol on their v2 Mainnet launch on the Polygon Network on May 14 at 12:00 p.m. UTC. PlotX Version 1 (“v1”) was launched in October 2020 as a decentralized non-custodial prediction market protocol on the Ethereum ...

Globally, crypto criminals ran away with $432 million as of end-April, according to the CipherTrace report. About 56% of that, or $240 million were DeFi-related, a record peak.

For the whole of 2020, losses in the crypto sector through fraud and crime were $1.9 billion. In 2019, crypto crime losses hit a record $4.5bn. Cryptocurrencies are once again in the spotlight with the surge in prices for the second-largest token, Ether, and social media darling Dogecoin. The drop in crypto crime reflects some maturity in the industry, as infrastructure improved and companies and exchanges boosted security systems. DeFi, however, is another story. The value locked – the total...

Cryptocurrency Crime Declines But ‘DeFi’ Fraud Soars: CipherTrace Losses from cryptocurrency theft, hacks and fraud fell sharply in the first four months of the year, but crime in the booming “decentralized finance” space hit an all-time high, a report from crypto intelligence company CipherTrace showed on Thursday. DeFi applications are platforms that facilitate crypto-denominated lending outside traditional banking, using an open-source code with algorithms that set rates in real time...

Huobi Eco Chain, better known as Heco, is about to gain its first dedicated AMM courtesy of MakiSwap. While a handful of existing defi projects hav...

3 Min Read NEW YORK (Reuters) - Losses from cryptocurrency theft, hacks and fraud fell sharply in the first four months of the year, but crime in the booming “decentralized finance” space hit an all-time high, a report from crypto intelligence company CipherTrace showed on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Customers talk against a backboard with signs of cryptocurrency during 2020 Taipei International Finance Expo in Taipei, Taiwan, November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang DeFi applications are platforms th...

FinanceEXCLUSIVE Crypto crime down in 2021 through April, but DeFi fraud at record -CipherTrace Gertrude Chavez-dreyfuss 1/2 A representation of virtual currency Bitcoin is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken January 8, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Read More Losses from cryptocurrency theft, hacks and fraud fell sharply in the first four months of the year, but crime in the booming "decentralized finance" space hit an all-time high, a report from crypto intelligence company Ci...