Arbitrum airdrop hype grips DeFi world: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.

The much-awaited airdrop of layer-2 scalability protocol Arbitrum has dominated headlines throughout the week. The hype around the token has led to exploits, fake airdrops and even a significant surge in volume for other layer-2 protocols.

Apart from the Arbitrum hype, the Euler Finance hack has also seen some new developments. The person or group behind the attack returned a portion of the funds after the protocol developers put a million-dollar bounty on their heads. Some of these funds were also moved to blacklisted North Korean addresses.

While we all read a lot about DeFi exploits now and then, a recent report shed light on the millions of dollars in insurance payouts in 2022. Ninety percent of all DeFi insurance claims paid out since inception were distributed in 2022.

In another development around Ethereum staking, MetaMask Institutional has introduced a new staking marketplace to give institutional users access to solo Ether (ETH) staking.

The top 100 DeFi tokens had a mixed week in terms of price action. A majority of them traded in the green on the weekly charts, while a few others lost some gains during the market volatility toward the end of the week.

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum’s upcoming ARB token airdrop appears to have become a popular target for scammers, with the community warning of hundreds of phishing scams aimed at tricking crypto users. The hype around the airdrop has led to more than a few attempts from scammers to set up fake token airdrops aimed at stealing funds from victims ahead of the official event.

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