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FTX Ventures Bets Lens

FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine

Crypto exchange titan FTX’s venture arm, FTX Ventures, invested in the Lens Protocol, a new base layer for Web3 social media applications created by the team behind decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Aave, Fortune has learned.

bit.lyScoop: FTX Ventures bets on Web3 social media with investment in Lens ProtocolFTX Ventures launched earlier in 2022 with a $2 billion fund to invest in crypto and Web3 projects.

FTX Ventures is reportedly to invest in Lens, the social media protocol built by Aave.

PancakeSwap Live on Aptos

PancakeSwap 🥞 #BSC @PancakeSwap

🫡 Attention: Aptos Trading Pairs! 🥞 Ahead of our deployment of incentivized Farms, @CelerNetwork assets are now tradeable on PancakeSwap Aptos: APT-USDC WETH-USDC USDT-USDC & ✨BNB-USDC✨ 🐰 More pairs and CAKE incentives to follow! 👉 Trade now: aptos.pancakeswap.finance

PancakeSwap has enabled trading for a few USDC pairs on Aptos and will launch incentivized farms soon.

Chainlink Low-Latency Oracle

ChainLinkGod.eth @ChainLinkGod

#Chainlink just announced a new oracle solution for DeFi derivatives 👀 Price oracle updates are attached directly to user transactions to mitigate frontrunning and reduce latency Pretty massive for protocols like @synthetix_io 🙌 blog.chain.link/low-latency-or…

blog.chain.linkA Low-Latency Oracle Solution for the DeFi Derivatives Market | ChainlinkThis post introduces an innovative, low-latency Chainlink oracle solution to help secure DeFi derivatives markets against frontrunning and other risks.

Chainlink introduces a new oracle solution for derivatives markets that will reduce latency, prevent front-running, and lower gas costs.

ApeCoin Approved Bug Bounty

ApeCoin @apecoin

The author of AIP-134 has indicated the program will last roughly 3 weeks, suggesting a postponement of the launch until November 24, 2022. This timeline is explained on Discourse:

forum.apecoin.comApe Staking & Bug Bounty ProcessWe wanted to provide some clarification on how the bug bounty program proposed in AIP-134, which is up for vote on Snapshot from Thursday 27 October - Wednesday 2 November, relates to the launch of staking. As a reminder, the ApeCoin staking smart contracts have been built by Horizen Labs via AIPs…

The ApeCoin DAO has approved a $4.4m bug bounty program. The program is expected to go live aiming to identify security issues in ApeCoin’s upcoming staking system. The staking system is expected to go live in early December.

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