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Chainlink Becomes NUVA’s Sole Data Provider as HELOC-Backed nvPRIME Goes First
NUVA, a real-world asset marketplace co-created by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has appointed Chainlink as its exclusive data infrastructure provider. The partnership aims to bring institutional real-world assets to decentralized finance, with the first asset, nvPRIME, offering exposure to short-term financing backed by U.S. residential housing loans and HELOCs. Chainlink's oracle network will provide the necessary on-chain data to value and price these assets as collateral within DeFi protocols.
How a 5-Second Binance Move Turned Polymarket Settlements Into an $8.2M Payday
Researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management University have identified that 821 accounts exploited settlement windows on Polymarket's prediction markets, extracting $8.2 million through market manipulation. The exploit involved manipulating prices on Binance during settlement windows to ensure favorable contract resolutions. Polymarket has since updated its settlement mechanics to a time-weighted average price (TWAP) to prevent future manipulation, a change that took months of trader complaints and academic research to implement.
WBTC’s $7.7B move: BitGo drops LayerZero, makes Chainlink CCIP its sole bridge
BitGo is migrating over $7.7 billion of Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), designating it as its sole cross-chain infrastructure provider. This move signifies a departure from LayerZero, the previous provider, and follows a significant exploit of a LayerZero bridge in April. BitGo cited institutional security requirements as the primary reason for choosing CCIP.
