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Weekly Roundup 8/31 - How you can earn yield from Polygon validators with Lido MATIC Staking

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 native USDC support on 6 new chains launching in September/October: Optimism, Base, NEAR, Noble (Cosmos Appchain), Polkadot and Polygon POS

 its Starknet blockchain and all users that didn’t upgrade their wallet have lost all their funds, totaling $550,000. Starkware has 

 to those accounts in light of user complaints. 

 a vulnerability last week in its v2 pools, and while >90% of funds could be saved, attackers have discovered the exact vulnerability and have 

 against the SEC in their fight to turn the futures ETF into a Bitcoin spot ETF – rallying the market up to 5%

 an SEC complaint about Uniswap’s liability when actors use it unlawfully. A big win for permissionless protocols

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