DefiLlama Official Round Up

13 Feb 2024 22:47

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund ploughed $200m back into Bitcoin and Ether after $1.8bn cash-out

DefiLlama Official Round Up

13 Feb 2024 17:40

Two booming DeFi protocols published similar code. Was it copied?

DefiLlama Official Round Up

12 Feb 2024 23:28

Bitcoin hits $50,000 as BlackRock leads best ETF launch in 30 years

DefiLlama Official Round Up

12 Feb 2024 11:10

Daily news round-up with the 🦙

DefiLlama extension update: aggresive phishing tweet detection algo fixed
https://x.com/0xngmi/status/1755959635784147441

News📰

L1 Mainnet Dencun upgrade date: 13 March 2024
https://x.com/protolambda/status/1755600174943191283

Sealed releases gasless edition minting on mainnet
https://x.com/sealed_art/status/1756167164321554897

Meson temporarily pauses cross-chain swaps to Merlin
https://x.com/mesonfi/status/1756217028766282006

Introducing Agoric Orchestration
https://x.com/agoric/status/1755619487666086082

M^0 whitepaper
https://x.com/LucaProsperi/status/1755605821969641962

Sunsetting Gnosis VIP
https://x.com/gnosischain/status/1755212750421192896

Ex Consensys product lead Ben Edgington joins OP Labs
https://twitter.com/benjaminion_xyz/status/1755248488516915403

Tea Protocol: 250k Grant for Open-Source Developers
https://x.com/teaprotocol/status/1753799876582797645


Threads🧵

Layer 1 & 2⛓

Universal Plasma and DA challenges
https://x.com/donnoh_eth/status/1755980215484870773

Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call #127 Writeup
https://x.com/christine_dkim/status/1755979973377077657

Polygon Introducing the Type 1 Prover
https://x.com/0xPolygon/status/1755654150010855802

StarkWare & Herodotus unveil launch of Cairo Verifier for Layer 3 appchains
https://x.com/Starknet/status/1755615017335193783

Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report 02-06-24
https://solana.com/news/02-06-24-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-report

Solana & Ethereum Transaction Fee Mechanisms: Proposals to Improve Solana’s TFM
https://x.com/EclipseFND/status/1755698799824031794

LayerZero V2: Explaining DVNs
https://x.com/LayerZero_Labs/status/1756041825817640971

DeFi🏦

Introducing TAP
https://x.com/tapioca_dao/status/1755741222906351833

Oracle Risk Assessment on RedStone Oracles
https://twitter.com/prismarisk/status/1755939711271714872

Introducing the ETH staking yield rate Oracle
https://x.com/sparkdotfi/status/1755699131769593957

Introducing Beraborrow
https://x.com/beraborrow/status/1755988678864765244

Hybrid Theory: Rocket Pool's Middle Way Between Native Liquid Restaking and Pure Staking
https://x.com/drjasper_eth/status/1755448475851129309

Synthetix 2024
https://x.com/kaiynne/status/1755423368344698916

BGD. Aave <> Celo. Infrastructure/technical evaluation
https://x.com/bgdlabs/status/1755939729676128426

MEV⚡️

Introducing mevAuction
https://x.com/mevdotio/status/1755977924136816685

Preconfirmations: The Fulfillment-Delivery Paradigm
https://x.com/primev_xyz/status/1755287788746932733

Consider the ePBS
https://x.com/mikeneuder/status/1755429454367555645

The Language of Value: Formally Expressing MEV Opportunities
https://x.com/mteamisloading/status/1756402402146537823

Front-running Attack in Sharded Blockchains and Fair Cross-shard Consensus
https://x.com/aniketpkate/status/1756057161694667145

Tips💡

Introducing Eject
https://x.com/ZheSolworks/status/1755399247510323209

Reads📚

Ask security questions - Vitalik
https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1755917287583080530

Verifiable evaluations of machine learning models using zkSNARKs
https://x.com/ezklxyz/status/1756046793597419802

2024 Halving: This Time It’s Actually Different
https://x.com/Grayscale/status/1756012074411642924

Watch📺

Vitalik Buterin: making sense in a changing world
https://x.com/sinahab/status/1756001756935245866

Raises💰

Superform Labs $6.5M Seed
https://x.com/superformxyz/status/1755592417552826617

Flood $5.2M Seed
https://x.com/TheBlock__/status/1755592345817403644

fuzzland $3M Seed
https://x.com/hackthedefi/status/1755725820637888566

UniSat closed Pre-Series A Round
https://x.com/unisat_wallet/status/1755964477399597457

DEXTools Seed
https://x.com/DEXToolsApp/status/1755607546684187037

Security🛡

Bitflip attacks on Solana
https://x.com/blowfishxyz/status/1756079297344020927

Development⚙️

Vyper's O(1) selector tables
https://x.com/harkal/status/1756604912488640625

Encrypted Mempool Open Source for Madara
https://x.com/radius_xyz/status/1755487924811173983

DefiLlama Official Round Up

08 Feb 2024 15:49

Montenegro appeals court overturns ‘incomprehensible’ Do Kwon extradition decision

DefiLlama Official Round Up

08 Feb 2024 00:42

Wormhole prepares for token airdrop after three long years for the Jump-incubated crypto bridge

DefiLlama Official Round Up

07 Feb 2024 16:32

How Bitcoin will fare when Genesis dumps $1.4bn in GBTC to pay creditors

DefiLlama Official Round Up

06 Feb 2024 23:03

Daily news round-up with the 🦙

smolrefuel.com
https://x.com/0xngmi/status/1754243629588087072

DefiLlama: unlocks now display both % of total and % of float
https://x.com/0xngmi/status/1754726723931799846

1/2 News📰

Dencun activation on Holesky testnet incoming tomorrow at 6:34 AM (ET)/11:34 (UTC)
https://x.com/christine_dkim/status/1754926030094061848

Dymension mainnet is live
https://x.com/dymension/status/1754904362470580249

Dymension fails to reach consensus on mainnet
https://x.com/jake_xbt/status/1754853344458256691

Synonym Mainnet is live
https://x.com/synonymfinance/status/1754901488172982477

Haiko is live on StarkNet Mainnet
https://x.com/haikoxyz/status/1754781521771462860

Restake Finance is live on Eigenlayer
https://x.com/restakefi/status/1754953829416857788

Plume Network launching on Arbitrum Orbit
https://x.com/plumenetwork/status/1754890292782583913

Amulet testnet is live
https://x.com/AmuletFinance/status/1754882938880024581

Introducing Succinct Network
https://x.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1754937412520902721

Announcing Kyoto, an Arbitrum Orbit chain integrated with the Gibraltar testnet
https://x.com/EspressoSys/status/1754915840548372576

Introducing Citrea, Bitcoin's first ZK Rollup
https://x.com/citrea_xyz/status/1754883284893356368

Launching Lilith, a high-performance backend system for zero-knowledge proof generation at scale
https://x.com/ezklxyz/status/1754610538095530368

HAI Airdrop on Feb 13
https://x.com/letsgethai/status/1754914657964589556

Introducing Boost
https://x.com/Flynnjamm/status/1754952706005893318

Announcing the Celestia Foundation Delegation Program
https://x.com/CelestiaOrg/status/1754927968055656881

TrueUSD: BNB Beacon Chain Decommission — Action Required for BEP2-TUSD Holders
https://x.com/tusdio/status/1754807262609342856

ThinkSui Launches, Rewarding Sui Builders and Content Creators
https://blog.sui.io/thinksui-app-nft-rewards-thrive

MetaMask adds Robinhood Connect integration
https://x.com/MetaMask/status/1754885148242321588

ENS partners with GoDaddy to link domain with ENS name
https://x.com/ensdomains/status/1754508567321981219

SEC introduces rule that potentially means all DEX liquidity positions above $50M must register with SEC
https://x.com/VeloData/status/1754915031773294865

Threads🧵

Layer 1 & 2⛓

On Increasing the Block Gas Limit
https://x.com/nero_eth/status/1754441447690944537

On Ethereum Issuance Curve
https://x.com/Lomashuk/status/1754544068921589843

Defending Against LST Monopolies
https://x.com/evansforbes/status/1754465317944795179

Arbitrum Foundation 2023 Transparancy Report
https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1754933172150644738

Aggregated Blockchains
https://x.com/0xPolygon/status/1754596101632479363

Modular DA Layers, AltVMs, and the Cone of Innovation
https://x.com/ERC_Brandon/status/1754500348503326980

DefiLlama Official Round Up

06 Feb 2024 17:59

Downed Solana is back online after developers rush to restart blockchain

DefiLlama Official Round Up

05 Feb 2024 21:51

A new Solana protocol lets you trade points — and airdrop hunters are piling in millions

DefiLlama Official Round Up

03 Feb 2024 11:45

FTX’s $400m hacking case may have been solved

DefiLlama Official Round Up

02 Feb 2024 17:15

BlackRock and Fidelity hold $5.3b in Bitcoin — but these holders have even more

DefiLlama Official Round Up

02 Feb 2024 08:50

Puffer Finance nets $135 million in deposits in 24 hours as liquid restaking sector heats up

DefiLlama Official Round Up

01 Feb 2024 12:49

Squid secures $4m to fuel competition in one-click transfers between blockchains

DefiLlama Official Round Up

31 Jan 2024 15:53

Chris Larsen, Co-founder and executive Chairman of Ripple, personal XRP accounts compromised; loss ~$112.5M.
https://x.com/chrislarsensf/status/1752702297971532258

DefiLlama Official Round Up

13 Feb 2024 19:01

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DefiLlama Official Round Up

13 Feb 2024 15:44

Traders indifference to Solana outage a ‘sign of strength’ as token rallies 20%, analysts say

DefiLlama Official Round Up

12 Feb 2024 12:42

Coinbase’s lawyer doesn’t expect to win next legal round with SEC — and that’s OK

DefiLlama Official Round Up

11 Feb 2024 13:06

Crypto company advertising mostly sidelined for Super Bowl Sunday

DefiLlama Official Round Up

08 Feb 2024 10:31

Binance co-founder Yi He offers rewards up to $5m for exposure of ‘corrupt employees’

DefiLlama Official Round Up

07 Feb 2024 19:10

Crypto fraudsters sell ‘pig butchering kits’ on dark web as scams accelerate

DefiLlama Official Round Up

06 Feb 2024 23:03

2/2 DeFi🏦

Conic V2 open-sourced
https://x.com/ConicFinance/status/1754891373675717073

fxUSD: The Nuts and the Bolts
https://x.com/protocol_fx/status/1754535097582366976

Euclid Finance is live
https://x.com/Euclidfi/status/1754469342459396157

Introducing Tranchess V3 - Unlocking Enhanced Yield for Staked ETH Holders
https://x.com/Tranchess/status/1754906556150301042

MEV⚡️

MEV Relay BloxRoute posted 9 invalid blocks that finalized on Mainnet
https://x.com/HyperledgerBesu/status/1754956780554117261

Reads📚

Constant-Size zk-SNARKs in ROM from Falsifiable Assumptions
https://x.com/rel_zeta_tech/status/1754844721212522793

Whitepaper: DLC MArkets - A non-custodial Bitcoin Derivatives Trading System
https://x.com/LNMarkets/status/1754511015398531219

Raises💰

Oobit $25M Series A
https://x.com/oobit/status/1754509160677351695

Nibiru Chain $12M
https://x.com/NibiruChain/status/1754587384740819167

Omega $6M Funding Round
https://x.com/Omega_Infra/status/1754913327321358353

LightLink $4.5M Seed
https://x.com/LightLinkChain/status/1754902441655779519

GLIF $4.5M Seed
https://x.com/glifio/status/1754889320161231256

Startale Labs $3.5M Series A
https://x.com/techinasia/status/1754697985051541806

Kodiak Finance $2M Seed
https://x.com/KodiakFi/status/1754490009368039481

Merlin Chain secures funding
https://x.com/MerlinLayer2/status/1754376354064474310

LN Markets Seed
https://x.com/Lemniscap/status/1754611100513927596

Security🛡

How Slinky can prevent oracle manipulation attacks
https://x.com/SkipProtocol/status/1754942686296211780

Development⚙️

Majin Blob
https://x.com/dimahledba/status/1754798714135228440

Introducing Ibc-apps repo
https://x.com/IBCProtocol/status/1754799619958329411

DefiLlama Official Round Up

06 Feb 2024 22:25

Ethereum experiment ERC404 is an NFT-cryptocurrency hybrid — and it’s already generated $87m in trades

DefiLlama Official Round Up

06 Feb 2024 15:06

Farcaster NFTs are already selling for thousands of dollars. Here’s why

DefiLlama Official Round Up

04 Feb 2024 21:37

Daily news round-up with the 🦙

News📰

Convergence dApp is live
https://x.com/Convergence_fi/status/1753358842518257940

Sudoswap is live on Base
https://x.com/sudoswap/status/1753536785181782253

Avantis Mainnet Beta is live on Base
https://x.com/avantisfinance/status/1753427071198773458

Floor V2 is live
https://x.com/FloorDAO/status/1753539399332020435

illumineX Mainnet Goes Live on Oasis Sapphire
https://x.com/OasisProtocol/status/1753881136084766793

EigenDA integrates Arbitrum Orbit
https://x.com/eigen_da/status/1753491687551504511

OKX Announces Integration of Moby with its Layer 2 Testnet
https://x.com/MobyHQ/status/1753797480339358026

Introducing: Prime Staked ETH ($primeETH)
https://x.com/OriginProtocol/status/1753508997959696567

StakeEase launching mainnet on February 5th
https://x.com/StakeEase/status/1753412810519060739

Restake Finance: Early Restaking Queue for Eigenlayer Deposits is live
https://x.com/restakefi/status/1753151319970664833

Renzo announcing support for stETh deposits
https://x.com/RenzoProtocol/status/1753402943489843560

PUSH0 is now live on Arbitrum
https://x.com/CryptoIsCute/status/1753150299693588600

Judge rejects Ryder Ripps’ counterclaims against Yuga Labs, orders $9M payout
https://x.com/Pauly0x/status/1753843926794993801

Threads🧵

Layer 1 & 2⛓

Ethereum All Core Developers Execution Call #180 Writeup
https://x.com/christine_dkim/status/1753432947661685060

The drawbacks of strict global consensus
https://polynya.mirror.xyz/AeQgta6UOardvny-B7z7814sv8srvCpqYOY1SIexYeM

Cost Efficiency, Composability, and Decentralization with Sui’s Liquid Staking
https://x.com/SuiNetwork/status/1753575233632800946

On ERC-681
https://x.com/ArcBlock_io/status/1753501766073946171

Announcing Allora: A self-improving, decentralized AI network
https://x.com/AlloraNetwork/status/1753458623437472032

DeFi🏦

Uniswap Has Lost The Plot
https://x.com/MicahZoltu/status/1753416705983074668

Llama simulator
https://x.com/CurveFinance/status/1753920625121308821

swap.live - alternative Uniswap frontend safe from Front-Running & 3x lower fees
https://x.com/uriklarman/status/1753464371525603346

Wombat Volatile Pool AMM Whitepaper
https://x.com/WombatExchange/status/1753249944612597798

Modular Money: Liquid Staking for People in a Hurry
https://x.com/jon_charb/status/1753450124200620536

MEV⚡️

State Lock Auctions: Towards Collaborative Block Building
https://x.com/_danielmarzec/status/1754173137799770532

Reads📚

Sumcheck 101 Paper
https://x.com/Ingo_zk/status/1753433102825730477

Raises💰

Pixelmon $8M Seed
https://x.com/GamesBeat/status/1753221733841064178

Stride $4M Strategic Round
https://x.com/stride_zone/status/1753468392428728639

Hivello $2.5M Funding Round
https://x.com/Hivello1/status/1753061540889076027

Bitlight Labs Seed Round
https://x.com/BSCNews/status/1753384021499716040

Security🛡

Cantina: quick dive into Blast's threat model
https://x.com/cantinaxyz/status/1753521457873727570

Development⚙️

OnchainKit
https://x.com/Zizzamia/status/1753555130145013784

Transient goodies
https://x.com/real_philogy/status/1753633185093570843

Gas consumption benchmarks for popular airdrop patterns
https://x.com/0xpolarzero/status/1753816227040862311

DefiLlama Official Round Up

02 Feb 2024 17:40

How Conic Finance drew $26m in just three days after losing millions over the summer

DefiLlama Official Round Up

02 Feb 2024 09:46

Daily news round-up with the 🦙

News📰

Pike mainnet is live
https://x.com/PikeFinance/status/1753074356719395206

Unveiling Modular Omnichain AMM
https://x.com/CashmereLabs/status/1752787654578426166

InterSwap Unfold is live
https://x.com/InterSwap_io/status/1753020898829914572

Passage is live on BNB Chain
https://x.com/Bracket_Labs_/status/1752848141374861700

Announcing the launch of stTIA
https://x.com/stride_zone/status/1753057572708315569

Binance launches Inscriptions Marketplace
https://x.com/_RichardTeng/status/1753014713640726926

Delegate & LayerZero Labs launch naming protocol 'Clusters' on Solana, BTC and EVM chains
https://x.com/clustersxyz/status/1753085067205951782

Binance now supports USDC on Polkadot
https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1752985789946790359

Stacks Nakamoto Update: Launch Window Announced
https://x.com/Stacks/status/1752829018196283768

Polygon Labs cuts 19% of staff
https://x.com/0xMarcB/status/1753045835947069605

Introducing Ready Layer 2: Bitcoin Builder Competition
https://x.com/Stacks/status/1752816095919047051

Robert Leshner's Superstate introduces Ethereum-based tokenized fund
https://x.com/superstatefunds/status/1753071800182088095

OPNX shutting down
https://x.com/cole0x/status/1753166187590996363

Celsius exits bankruptcy, commences return of over $3B to creditors
https://twitter.com/celsiusnetwork/status/1752848707639488818

Threads🧵

Layer 1 & 2⛓

The Aggregation Layer: A New Thesis for Blockchain Design
https://x.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1753011230602830071

Mastering the Final Boss in Blockchain Scalability: State Growth
https://x.com/fuel_network/status/1753099086188941454

MultiVM: Overview
https://x.com/multivm_io/status/1752992305005371479

ACDE Recap
https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1753125753020137890

On data availability layers
https://x.com/sreeramkannan/status/1751076242483490981

Shared Sequencing, Ordering and Aggregation
https://x.com/0xRainandCoffee/status/1753123571617173596

DeFi🏦

Borrowing on Sturdy V2 is live
https://x.com/SturdyFinance/status/1753098624106717487

DEX that lets you trade any hashtags
https://x.com/sax_trade/status/1753059510921437686

Zeigeist Launches DLMSR-Based AMM
https://x.com/ZeitgeistPM/status/1753083047392551375

$MINT: A Variance-driven, collateralized points system
https://x.com/insrtapp/status/1753085770213331255

Decentralized Futures: Introducing Ocelloids
https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1753043215886749931

crvUSD Risk Radar
https://x.com/jrdothoughts/status/1753104899561370024

MEV⚡️

Introducing Atlas: a generalized execution abstraction protocol for building application-specific orderflow auctions on the EVM
https://x.com/atlasevm/status/1753113174973550862

Announcing mev.market
https://x.com/NethermindEth/status/1753075760137417196

Raises💰

Cube $12M Series A
https://x.com/baalazamon/status/1753042566369440001

Clusters $9M Seed
https://x.com/clustersxyz/status/1753059736172548503

Saltwater Games $5.5M Seed
https://x.com/CoinDesk/status/1753055906290450869

Velar $3.5M Seed
https://x.com/VelarBTC/status/1753071975508168863

Reboot World $2.5M Seed
https://x.com/RebootDotWorld/status/1752867537933733929

Kip Protocol Strategic Round completed
https://x.com/KIPprotocol/status/1753010295889707304

Security🛡

Emerging web3 attack vector: Restake Farming
https://twitter.com/blockaid_/status/1752847514393522260

Uncovering the root cause around the Kyber exploit
https://x.com/alphaK3Y/status/1753037999150113139

Development⚙️

Multi-role-based timelock controller Vyper contract
https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/1753087156795433207

DefiLlama Official Round Up

01 Feb 2024 12:49

BlackRock and Fidelity’s ETFs attract over $5bn worth of Bitcoin in three weeks

DefiLlama Official Round Up

01 Feb 2024 12:22

Daily news round-up with the 🦙

News📰

Mode Sunrise Mainnet and Airdrop 1 is live
https://x.com/modenetwork/status/1752760726907760933

Blast forks Optimism's code and changes the license
https://x.com/PopPunkOnChain/status/1752780488127762716

Introducing M2, the first ZK Move-EVM L2 on Ethereum
https://x.com/movementlabsxyz/status/1752799376458776789

Introducing Wormhole ZK
https://x.com/wormholecrypto/status/1752733057373688098

Prisma Finance: New wstETH & sfrxETH vaults are live
https://twitter.com/prismafi/status/1752769318910366018

Conic v2 is live
https://x.com/ConicFinance/status/1752772710281699570

ZKX OG Trade is live on Starknet Mainnet
https://x.com/zkxprotocol/status/1752655681713557917

Abracadabra DAO prepared to fully collateralise the exploited amount of $6.5M
https://x.com/MIM_Spell/status/1752723973891059807

Introducing the Protocol Guild Pledge
https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1752458526407139680

Introducing Aligned Layer
https://x.com/yetanotherco/status/1752528634626134093

Introduction to Warden Protocol
https://x.com/wardenprotocol/status/1752717087800234371

Introducing Merlin Chain, a native L2 solution
https://x.com/MerlinLayer2/status/1752699521745010787

Native USDC is launching on Celo
https://x.com/circle/status/1752330912036204733

Dopex sunsetting SSOVs
https://x.com/dopex_io/status/1752745863426789639

Aevo Farming Program & TGE
https://x.com/aevoxyz/status/1752809496928473233

JUP: The Genesis Post
https://x.com/weremeow/status/1752327545411023124

Dymension Genesis Rolldrop Updates
https://x.com/dymension/status/1752320711832551774

Threads🧵

Layer 1 & 2⛓

Sepolia testnet upgraded to Dencun - Blobs landed
https://x.com/terencechain/status/1752467786050511119

AIP: ArbOS Version 20 - Arbitrum Support for Dencun (EIP-4844)
https://x.com/OffchainLabs/status/1752439680484929677

STARKPack: Aggregating STARKs for shorter proofs and faster verification
https://x.com/NethermindEth/status/1752685873106243639

Announcing Phase 2 of Sharding for NEAR Protocol
https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1752350002209267931

Linera Devnet is live
https://x.com/linera_io/status/1752337322933199140

BNB Chain 2024 Outlook - The “One BNB” Multi-chain Paradigm
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/bnb-chain-2024-tech-roadmap

DeFi🏦

Prisma Finance: New Boost Delegation System
https://x.com/PrismaFi/status/1752723369974521954

Blueberry Protocol’s Launch Parameters
https://x.com/blueberryFDN/status/1752443106191159612

MEV⚡️

Introducing Echo V1.0
https://x.com/chainbound_/status/1752351204787527846

Reads📚

The end of my childhood - Vitalik Buterin
https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1752634648277188830

Tether's Q4 Attestation Report
https://x.com/Tether_to/status/1752699581790593482

Raises💰

Uncorrelated Ventures $315M crypto & software-focussed fund
https://x.com/TheBlock__/status/1752341896997797907

Portal $34M Seed
https://x.com/portal_finance/status/1752366866670948450

Hyperline $5.2M Seed
https://x.com/hyperline_xyz/status/1749903630415867984

Squid $4M Strategic Round
https://x.com/squidrouter/status/1752744770646990850

BBOX $2.7M Pre-Seed
https://x.com/bboexchange/status/1752319433089876439

Ithaca Protocol $2.5M Pre-Seed
https://x.com/IthacaProtocol/status/1752681699274887678

Navi Protocol $2M Funding Round
https://x.com/navi_protocol/status/1752585066721734872

Yet Another Company $1M
https://x.com/yetanotherco/status/1752512947958530238

Security🛡

Introducing: Napalm
https://x.com/joranhonig/status/1752742107394035763

Exchange Rate Manipulation in ERC4626 Vaults
https://x.com/alcueca/status/1752716932065693967

DefiLlama Official Round Up

31 Jan 2024 14:57

Binance confirms ‘early-stage discussions’ about its GOPAX stake after report of an imminent sale