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Aleksandar Gilbert

Brooklyn

DeFi Correspondent at DL News

Reporter @DLNewsInfo. Priors: crypto @defiantnews, local government and education in the South @mdjonline and @ijindexjournal. New Yorker.

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  • Ripple eyeing ‘multiple acquisitions,’ Ethereum-like upgrades to XRP Ledger blockchain

    1 day ago | dlnews.com | Aleksandar Gilbert

    Ripple is in talks for ‘multiple’ acquisitions, according to an executive. The company already purchased prime broker Hidden Road for $1.25 billion this year. Future upgrades to its XRPL blockchain include increased ‘programmability’ and a new lending protocol. Ripple, the company behind XRP, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies, made waves when it purchased prime broker Hidden Road earlier this year. It won’t stop there, according to Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz.

  • DeFi arbitrage trading raises censorship risks, study finds

    4 days ago | dlnews.com | Aleksandar Gilbert

    More than 9,000 crypto addresses engaged in cross-chain arbitrage worth $868 million in a 12-month span, according to a new study. That trading was highly concentrated, with four wallets accounting for half the recorded volume. The intricacies of onchain arbitrage could lead to greater censorship risk, according to the authors. A version of this article appeared in our The Decentralised newsletter on June 24. Sign up here.

  • New Hyperliquid protocol goes full throttle with 1,000x leverage trades

    1 week ago | dlnews.com | Aleksandar Gilbert

    ExclusiveOpt.fun caters to traders’ desire for 'extraordinary amounts of upside.'Venture aims to cash in on Hyperliquid's popularity with traders. Procotol to offer one minute expiry on trades. It’s a mind-bending proposition, even by the standards of the self-styled degenerate traders who revel in crypto’s lightning-fast markets. A new protocol called opt.fun is set to debut on the Hyperliquid blockchain on Thursday.

  • Ethereum to $80,000? An unabashed booster makes his case

    1 week ago | dlnews.com | Aleksandar Gilbert

    Ethereum, enjoying a rare rally, picked up support in a widely circulated paper. If Bitcoin is digital gold, Ether is digital oil, its authors argue. Ethereum will become more valuable than Apple and Microsoft. Really. A group of the blockchain’s more prominent boosters made that argument in a paper published June 12. They said the world’s second biggest cryptocurrency will not only hit $8,000 in the short term, but that the price will eventually crest $80,000.

  • An interview with 0xngmi on DefiLlama’s new Pro dashboard

    1 week ago | dlnews.com | Aleksandar Gilbert

    DefiLlama’s paid subscription service now features custom dashboards. Pseudonymous dev 0xngmi sat down to discuss the motivation behind the new feature and the never-ending work that goes into the broader DefiLlama product. DefiLlama data isn’t just for the self-proclaimed degenerates making leveraged bets on volatile crypto markets.

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