DeFining news: June 16th, 2023 📢

▪️Lens protocol raised $15M in seed funding and released an Open Governance Framework.

▪️A new DeFi options trading platform, Synquote, is using social logins and undercollateralized trading.

▪️Tether dipped as low as $0.994 ahead of potentially damaging news.

▪️An AWS outage took down or slowed down a number of Web3 services.

▪️A little-known crypto firm, Prometheum, is giving Congressional testimony on crypto regulation (while also having ex-regulators on their staff).

▪️Polygon has unveiled its 2.0 Roadmap and it’s definitely zk-powered.

▪️Uniswap’s v4 code preview: Limit Orders, Auto-compounding, Dynamic Fees, and TWAMM.

▪️Is Aaave’s proposal to limit a particular wallet from accumulating too much debt a violation of DeFi principles?

▪️US Republicans are trying to push out the SEC Chairman.

▪️NFTs backed by staked ETH are now a thing, thanks to Ether.fi.

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