Today in DeFi - Infura Down, Aave V2 Testnet, And More

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Infura Down

Nikita Zhavoronkov @nikzh

(1/2) Ok, so what happened today on #Ethereum🦄: 1. At some point Ethereum developers introduced a change in the code that led today to a chain split starting from block 11234873 (07:08 UTC) 2. Those who haven’t upgraded (@Blockchair, @infura_io, some miners, and many others)…

Infura went down yesterday, along with blockchair and other projects dependent on it, such as Metamask. The culprit was a silent hard fork in ethereum. While hard forks happen quite often on the Ethereum blockchain, this one broke older versions of Geth, such as the one Infura was running.

David Mihal @dmihal

Today's Infura outage sent users scrambling to find an alternative RPC provider. I just threw together ethereumnodes.com to be a central list of public, free RPC endpoints & their current status.

ethereumnodes.comEthereum NodesList of free Ethereum JSON-RPC endpoints

The downtime in many projects led to developer David Mihal putting together a website listing a few popular RPC endpoints which users or projects can connect to in the case Infura or their current endpoint goes down. Users can do so by following the instructions here, using the RPC endpoint URL of their choice.

Yesterday highlighted the importance of node robustness. I encourage readers to look into how to run a node themselves. Projects like DappNode make it easy, and projects like Pocket Network help incentivize decentralized node infrastructure.

Aave V2 Testnet

Aave @AaveAave

👻Aave V2 is now on the Kovan testnet! Read more👇 medium.com/aave/aave-v2-i…

medium.comAave V2 is Available on Public Testnet!A while ago, the Genesis Team released this plan outlining some features to expect with Aave V2, making finance a more seamless experience. Today, Aave V2 is live on the Kovan testnet, and you can…

Aave V2 is now on testnet. See the list of changes in V2 here. At a glance, the changes seem like they should make the protocol more efficient.

Thorchain Testnet

THORChain ⚡️(ᚱ) @thorchain_org

THORChain unveil the highly-anticipated public Bitcoin testnet — swaps and pools with native Bitcoin. Users are invited to test it out. This represents a monumental leap in DeFi on #Bitcoin - the first ever decentralised peer-to-pool BTC protocol.

medium.comTHORChain release multichain testnet feat. Bitcoin supportTHORChain contributors are pleased to announce multichain testnet1 #MCTN1 is live for community testing with support for Bitcoin and Binance Chain. Users can swap between Binance Chain and Bitcoin…

THORChain, a cross-chain swap protocol has just released its multichain testnet MCTN1. Users can swap between Bitcoin and Binance Chain assets, and provide Bitcoin or BNB liquidity.

DFD Uniswap Rewards

DefiDollar @defidollar

- DFD/DUSD and DFD/ETH Uniswap incentives are about to begin. - App has been updated, it's already possible to stake LP tokens (no vesting for any pools now) - 80,000 DFD weekly incentives for EACH pool will be added at Nov 11, 1600 UTC.

app.dusd.financeDefiDollar - AppDUSD is a metastable asset that provides a hedge against volatility.

Uniswap incentives are beginning soon for DeFiDollar. DeFiDollar is a stablecoin index backed asset project that uses Defi primitives to stay near the dollar mark.

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