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Owen Fernau

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Staff Reporter at The Defiant

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  • Sep 8, 2023 | thedefiant.io | Tarang Khaitan |Owen Fernau |Samuel Haig

    Regulator Charges Popular DeFi Protocols 0x, Opyn and Deridex With Offering Illegal Digital Asset Derivatives To U.S. CustomersThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has initiated enforcement actions against three Delaware-based DeFi companies, accusing them of offering illegal digital asset derivatives to U.S. customers.

  • Sep 7, 2023 | thedefiant.io | Tarang Khaitan |Owen Fernau |Samuel Haig

    Leading crypto wallet provider MetaMask has launched a new feature that allows users to sell their crypto and receive payments in USD, EUR, or GBP directly in their bank or PayPal accounts. As of now, the ‘Sell’ feature supports ETH transactions on the Ethereum mainnet, with plans to extend support to Layer-2 blockchains in the future. The service is available to users in the US, the UK, and parts of the European Union.

  • Sep 5, 2023 | thedefiant.io | Tarang Khaitan |Samuel Haig |Owen Fernau

    Stake, a leading Australian-Curaçaoan crypto gambling platform, has resumed operations after losing $41 million in a hot wallet exploit. The company said that user funds remain unaffected and that users who transacted during the hack will be reimbursed. The stolen assets included ETH, USDC, USDT, and DAI, spanning across Ethereum, Polygon, and BNB Chain. Stake had earlier confirmed that an unauthorized entity had made transactions from its ETH and BSC hot wallets.

  • Sep 1, 2023 | thedefiant.io | Owen Fernau |Tarang Khaitan |Samuel Haig

    Study Details Experiments In Tokenized Asset Transfers With Over A Dozen Participating Financial Institutions Swift, the global interbank messaging service, released a report on August 31 that showcased how over a dozen major financial institutions and infrastructure providers utilized Web3 oracle provider Chainlink’s Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol to securely and scalably transfer tokenized assets between blockchains.

  • Sep 1, 2023 | thedefiant.io | Owen Fernau |Tarang Khaitan |Samuel Haig

    As the bear market grinds on, blockchain teams are looking for new ways to attract developers. One example is a startup studio formed as a partnership between Argent, a crypto wallet, and the Starknet Foundation, an organization founded in November 2022 to support the Starknet ecosystem. With its parent company StarkWare Industries having raised $273M, Starknet is a major player in the Ethereum scaling space.

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owen @ofernau
11 Apr 25

RT @ournetwork__: JUST IN: Layer 2s 🚅 | OurNetwork #329 🌐 Sector Update | @growthepie_eth 🏛️ @Arbitrum | @BFreshHB 🔴 @Optimism | @katerina…

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owen @ofernau
28 Mar 25

RT @ournetwork__: JUST IN: DePIN Pt. 2 🛜 | OurNetwork #325 🏗️ Sector Update | @KoschigRobert ☁️ @AethirCloud | @0xNicky 🔑 @LitProtocol | @…

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owen @ofernau
20 Mar 25

lol @paradigm using a Gary Gensler quote to prove a point about public blockchains' efficacy in their TradFi report. More seriously, cool to see financial professionals looking to streamline back office processes with DeFi. https://t.co/alwN7AlzGY