CoinStats hack caused by ‘socially engineered’ employee, CEO suspects
CoinStats reveals an employee-targeted social engineering attack behind the hack affecting 1.3% of wallets.
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Nigerian blockchain group calls for fair resolution in Binance case
BICCoN believes that a balanced approach can help resolve the current challenges and empower Nigeria…
Metallica’s X account hacked to promote crypto token
The official X account for Metallica was hacked, and exploiters posted about a Solana token…
Bitcoin ‘wholecoiners’ hold above 1 million mark for 13 months
The number of Bitcoin wholecoiners tends to rise and fall with the crypto market’s ebbs…
Chainlink data streams go live on Avalanche Network
GMX, a perpetual futures trading platform, will be a launch partner and leverage Chainlink’s tech…
Crypto losses from hacks and scams soared by 113% in Q2 2024 to reach $572M
Losses from scams and exploits increased in the second quarter as centralized exchanges lost millions,…
Satoshi era Bitcoin wallet wakes up after 14 years, sends 50 BTC to Binance
The Bitcoin wallet belongs to a miner who earned 50 BTC as mining rewards in…
Coinbase and payment processor Stripe form partnership for onboarding
The partnership will bring USDC support to Stripe on Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and several…
S&P Global joins Singapore’s Project Guardian tokenization trials
The rating agency will provide its perspective on risk mitigation in tokenized fixed income transactions.
Paradigm calls on European markets regulator to show nuance regarding MEV
The venture capitalist firm said ESMA’s approach to crypto market abuse could be a disaster…
Binance to remove prime brokerage loophole
The change came after some Binance Link clients reportedly took advantage of the program’s multi-tiered…
Ethereum LSD solution Puffer Finance moves to base rollups after raising $18M
The protocol is currently focused on bridging the liquidity gaps between different Ethereum layer-solutions.
Dfinity announces new ICP-powered platform to tackle cybersecurity
The Dfinity Foundation’s new platform, Utopia, promises enhanced security and sovereignty for government and enterprise…
Why reports of the death of NFTs are greatly exaggerated
Toshiuki Otsuka, who founded a snap-to-earn platform, strongly opposed the narrative and argued that NFTs…
Binance enforces stricter measures against account misuse
The platform encourages users to report any suspected incidents of misuse and offers a reward…