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DEXs
Balancer Shakes Off Rivals’ Shadow With Novel Strategy
Exchange’s TVL Surges 20% With Play in Red Hot LSD Market
By Owen Fernau

In an industry teeming with drama, Balancer has kept its cool. The decentralized exchange’s community has been content to let Uniswap, Curve, and the volatile SushiSwap grab the headlines. There have been times when Balancer seemed to disappear from the DeFi conversation altogether.
Read the full story in The Defiant
MEV
Flashbots Poised to Offer MEV to Ordinary Investors
Complex Arbitrage Trade Earmarked for Broader Market Amid Regulatory Crackdown
By Samuel Haig

On Wednesday, Flashbots, the leading research team exploring Maximal Extractable Value, outlined a protocol that would let ordinary investors earn a share of the profits generated by the arbitrage bots that quietly reorder blockchain transactions.
Read the full story in The Defiant
TradFi + DeFi
Siemens Issues €60M Digital Bond On Polygon
DeFi Adoption Continues Despite Regulatory Headwinds

German industrial powerhouse Siemens AG has issued a 60M euro digital bond on the Polygon blockchain.
Read the full story in The Defiant
Airdrops
NFT Market Gets A Boost From $400M Blur Airdrop
Trading Volumes On Paradigm-backed Marketplace Surpass OpenSea

Blur, currently the largest NFT marketplace on Ethereum as measured by trading volume, took a critical step toward decentralization this week, sending its users newly minted governance tokens that will give them a say in the protocol’s direction.
Read the full story in The Defiant