This week in Web3 - 140th Edition
Hex founder charged, Binance to Dubai, SpartaDEX goes live, Ondo launched $USDY, Curve Finance pool rekt, $BALD rug pull, fundraises, jobs, and much more🤯
Major Highlights 🤯
Yuga Labs to acquire Roar Studios for AI expertise. Learn more
SEC charges Hex founder Richard Heart of misusing millions in Investor Funds. Learn more
Binance receives an operational MVP License in Dubai. Learn more
KuCoin pool to temporarily shut down operations citing business strategy reasons. Learn more
New Launches 🚀
Celo to launch on Ethereum as a part of a makeover into a Layer-2 protocol. Learn more
Balancer launches on Avalanche, to support liquid staking growth. Learn more
Coinbase's layer 2 Base to launch all access versions on August 9th. Learn more
SpartaDEX, the first gamified DEX on Arbitrum, goes live. Learn more
Evmos 2.0 launches on mainnet, cosmos interoperability to be unlocked. Learn more
GMX V2 Beta launches on Arbitrum and Avalanche mainnets. Learn more
Ondo Finance launches $USDY: World's first tokenized Note secured by US treasuries and bank deposits. Learn more
Worldcoin launches the World ID SDK and plans to scale Orb operations globally. Learn more
Fundraises 💰
Blockchain payments platform Orbital raises $6.5 million venture round. Learn more
Conic Finance raises $1 million angel investment led by Michael Egorov. Learn more
Rekt 🚨
Over $47M siphoned from Curve Finance pools in an exploit caused by reentrancy vulnerability. Learn more
Base’s $BALD rug pulled $23 million of users funds within 24 hours of its launch. Learn more
Kannagi Finance, a yield aggregator of zkSync, rug pulled users of $1.1 million. Learn more
DeFiLabs rug pulled $1.6 million via backdoor functionality in the staking contract. Learn more
$848K USD rekt due to attack on unverified Arbitrum contract. Learn more
Read, Watch, Listen 🎙
Why Puma sees Web3 and metaverse as the next great opportunity. Read here
State of Web3 growth tech 2023. Read here
How to find alpha in crypto conferences. Watch here
How did CeFi implosions grow DeFi. Listen here
Telegram bots landscape Aug 2023. Read here
Bounties 💸
Mufex bug bounty: $500K. Learn more
MetaStreet bug bounty: $50K. Learn more
Magpie Protocol bug bounty: $50K. Learn more
Rubic bug bounty: $25K. Learn more
Request Network bug bounty: $20K. Learn more
Jobs 👨💻
Product manager at P2P.org. Apply here
Marketing specialist and content creator at SubQuery. Apply here
Chain operations engineer at Agonic. Apply here
Senior Front-end engineer at GammaSwap Labs. Apply here
Senior growth lead at Keyp. Apply here