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View More NewsStablecoinX appointed former Franklin Templeton digital asset executive Christopher Jensen as CEO, putting him in charge of the largest corporate holder of Ethena’s ENA token.Jensen succeeds Ted Chen, who led StablecoinX through its public listing in June and will remain chairman of the company’s board.StablecoinX, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker USDE, is a publicly listed company focused on the Ethena ecosystem. Ethena issues USDe, a synthetic dollar that ranks as the fifth-largest stablecoin with nearly $4.4 billion in circulation, according to DefiLlama data. ENA, Ethena’s governance token, gives holders voting rights over changes to the protocol.StablecoinX holds about…
In brief Cronos says it reversed approximately $111.2 million tied to the Tectonic exploit by rolling back its blockchain. The intervention discarded 1 hour 54 minutes of transactions, including activity unrelated to the attack. Approximately $9.19 million left the network before validators halted it and remains unrecovered. Cronos, a blockchain network backed by Crypto.com, erased nearly two hours of transaction history to reverse approximately $111.2 million tied to an exploit of lending protocol Tectonic, according to a network post-mortem on Monday.According to the developers behind Cronos, validators reversed completed transactions to protect roughly 92% of affected funds still on the…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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