In a boost to AMPL farmers, the Ampleforth Foundation has announced a fresh yield farming scheme scheduled to go live next week. The first initiative caused an exponential rise in AMPL’s valuation, and this one could do the same.

Leading crypto derivatives exchange, BitMEX announced that it would soon be launching four new “Quanto” futures contracts for Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), EOS (EOS), and Tezos (XTZ).

MetaMask has finally released a mobile version of its Ethereum wallet for mobile users, as announced yesterday on Twitter.

Announcing the launch of MetaMask Mobile! Download the App and take Web3 with you, wherever you go. Browse and interact with decentralized applications, trade digital assets, play games and more

FTX’s new non-custodial crypto exchange, Serum, mobilized Jump Trading to provide liquidity on the exchange. This move ensures Serum has the liquidity to scale adoption to a wider audience.

The chances of Serum’s success, a DEX on Solana, are improving by the day. In the latest, he nascent crypto exchange roped in one of the top market makers in crypto.

CipherTrace has announced a Monero tracing tool, which can allegedly identify the users behind private transactions. Monero researchers, however, doubt that the tool is truly effective.

CipherTrace’s tool is reportedly capable of tracing Monero transactions simply by “visualiz[ing] Monero transaction flows.”

Intelligence units from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in South Korea have raided Bithumb offices to execute search and seizure orders based on fraud allegations, according to Seoul Shinmun. 

Hegic is an options trading protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain. Users can buy or sell call and put options using Hegic. It is entirely on-chain, permissionless, and non-custodial – as all DeFi products should be.

Options are a vital building block of financial services. They are the foremost form of market insurance and allow traders to implement robust risk management strategies.

DeFi lending project Teller Finance has announced its upcoming integration with Chainlink. The oracle provider will provide Teller with three cryptocurrency price feeds via its Price Reference Data oracle networks.

Teller is an open-source protocol that interacts with consumer data to calculate default risk and offer unsecured crypto asset loans.

StaFi, a DeFi application built on Polkadot, has locked staking tokens worth $205 million bonded across 1,767 addresses.

The project allows PoS token holders to stake their assets and provides them with tokens that represent these staked positions. ATOM tokens become rATOM, Polkadot’s DOT tokens become rDOT, and many other PoS blockchains. 

Despite the pullback below $400 last week, unprecedented growth in DeFi pushed Ethereum’s price above $470, with a 9.58% rise on a daily scale. The euphoria around the yETH launch is acting as a timely catalyst for a renewed bull-run in Ethereum. 

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