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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Compounding problems: $65m more COMP at risk as devs wait for time-locked bug fix

While Compound’s developers submitted a fix for the protocol’s bug on Sept. 30, the update won’t take effect until a seven-day time-lock on code updates has passed.

Major DeFi money market Compound’s woes are worsening, with nearly $150 million worth of COMP now at risk due to a buggy upgrade to the protocol that went live last week.

On Sept. 30, Cointelegraph reported that a bug had resulted in between $70 million and $85 million worth of COMP tokens being mistakenly offered to users as rewards after an update intended to fix bugs and “split COMP rewards distribution” went awry.

Despite the reward distribution error being identified quickly, Compound’s week-long delay on enacting new governance measures meant that the error will not be fixed until Oct. 7.

On Oct. 3, Compound founder Robert Leshner tweeted that 202,472.5 COMP (worth approximately $65 million) had been placed at risk after the protocol’s drip function was called for the first time in roughly two months.

The drip function makes tokens held in Compound's Reservoir available to users, with 0.5 COMP being accumulated by the Reservoir per block. Leshner noted that “the majority of COMP reserved for users” is held in the Reservoir.

SushiSwap developer Mudit Gupta took to social media to criticize the use of time-locks on governance, asserting that roughly 100 people were aware of that the threat posed by the drip function since the Sept. 30 bug was discovered but they were unable to act due to the time-delay on updating the protocol.

Gupta also warned of the risks associated with upgradable smart contracts, asserting they are inappropriate for “large [DeFi] primitives.”

“I've come to see upgradability as more of a bug than a feature,” he added.

While Leshner’s tweet revealed that roughly 117,000 COMP worth $37.6 million had been returned to the protocol following the initial incident, Yearn Finance developer Banteg estimated that one-third of the funds placed at risk by the drip function had already been claimed by users at roughly 3:30 pm UTC on Oct. 3.

Banteg tallied the total value of COMP tokens placed at risk by the protocol’s bug to now be $147 million.

Related: Hackers exploit MFA flaw to steal from 6,000 Coinbase customers — Report

Despite the bug’s initial identification causing the price of COMP to quickly crash 3% from $330 to $286 on Sept. 30, the token quickly recovered and traded above $340 on Oct. 2, according to CoinGecko.

COMP has shed 7% of its value since tagging a local high of $347.5 on Oct. 3, last changing hands for $322 at the time of writing.

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