Andrew Thurman

Andrew Thurman

Andrew Thurman was a tech reporter at CoinDesk. He formerly worked as a weekend editor at Cointelegraph, a partnership manager at Chainlink and a co-founder of a smart-contract data marketplace startup.

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DeFi Users Fret ‘Contagion’ Risk Amid Possible Stablecoin Depegging
Can the collapse of one stablecoin bring down a string of others?
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How Did a Former Quadriga Exec End Up Running a DeFi Protocol? Wonderland Founder Explains
As the Wonderland DAO votes on whether QuadrigaCX co-founder Michael Patryn should remain treasurer, Daniele Sestagalli breaks down how we got here.
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Liquidity Mining Is Dead. What Comes Next?
Once DeFi’s top growth hack, a wave of new projects is reconsidering a yield farming staple.
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Cosmos Exchange Osmosis Expands to Ethereum Assets With Gravity Bridge
Connecting Osmosis with the leading smart-contract chain could give the Cosmos automatic market marker another boost in total value locked.
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Near Raises $150M From Major Crypto Investment Firms
Near’s latest raise brings some of the space’s highest-profile investors into the fold as the network gears up for a major DeFi push.
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin speaks at NEARCON 2021. (NEAR)
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Pay-to-Play Governance Builds Steam as Bribe Raises $4M
Is the future of DeFi governance rule by the highest bidder?
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One Day After Launch, OpenSea Competitor LooksRare Sells Over $100M in NFTs
Is the long-awaited decentralized OpenSea finally here or is LooksRare propped up by wash trading?
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EPNS Goes Live in Bid to Bring Notifications to Web 3
Ethereum Push Notification Service provides the basic alert functionality that powers much of the online experience.
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Axie Infinity’s Gaming Sidechain Is Bigger Than Many Major Layer 1s by Volume: Nansen
If the future of blockchain is multi-chain, then Axie’s Ronin is leading the way, according to new research.
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Polygon Stakes Claim to Fastest Zero-Knowledge Layer 2 With ‘Plonky2’ Launch
Th project’s co-founder cites new technology from one of its recently acquired scalability labs.
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