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North Korean hacker group Kimsuky has carried out a series of targeted attacks against at least two cryptocurrency companies using new malware called "Durian," according to a May 9 threat report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. This was accomplished through a "sustained" attack utilizing legitimate security software specific to the South Korean encryption company. According to Kaspersky, "Durian has comprehensive backdoor capabilities that allow it to execute sent commands, download additional files, and exfiltrate files."
Binance currency earning platform will launch USDC current product activities. During the event, by subscribing for USDC currency-earning current products, qualified users can not only receive real-time annualized (approximately 4%) returns, but also enjoy an exclusive tiered return of up to 4%. The event time is from 08:00 on May 13, 2024 to 07:59 on July 1, 2024 (East Eighth District time).
Decentralized cloud computing infrastructure project Aethir officially stated that it will conduct an airdrop to the Azuki NFT community. Users need to connect their wallet to the Aethir Cloud Drop platform and can check if they are eligible to receive the badge.
Gitcoin’s funding round GG20 for Open Source Software has officially ended, with donations amounting to $ 632,091. It is reported that GG20 will operate based on the v2 version of the community resource allocation protocol Allo.
DePIN project Roam (formerly MetaBlox) has recently received another investment from Samsung Next after completing a strategic round of financing of US$ 5 million at the end of 2023. This investment will further promote the construction of Roam in the DeWi track ecosystem and global WiFi roaming network nodes. The global WiFi roaming network has begun to take shape, driven by Roam’s decentralized solution. Samsung Next said that Samsung and Roam are both members of the WBA organization. The two share a common vision of achieving seamless global WiFi roaming, and Roam’s innovative Web3 solution provides the last piece of the puzzle for the implementation of OpenRoaming™ networks. With the support of Saumsung Next, Roam will accelerate the construction of a globally unified decentralized WiFi roaming network, reshape the WiFi connection experience, and build a more secure and friendly user ecosystem.
Galxe officially launched the [GP25] proposal on Snapshot, intending to migrate the token symbol and token contract, and convert the token symbol from GAL to G. The motivation for this move was the strategic needs and market applicable to the Galxe ecosystem. Consideration driven. Additionally, the Galxe team has reviewed this proposal and recommended adding the following: - Exchange GAL tokens for G tokens at 1:60. This means that for every 1 GAL token, 60 G tokens will be awarded to the holder. - The total supply of G tokens will change to 12,000,000,000, which is 60 times the current total supply of GAL tokens of 200,000,000.
Harvest Global Investments announced today that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has approved in principle Harvest’s investment in two major digital asset spot ETF products. Harvest's investment in the two major digital asset spot ETF products will be through OSL Digital Securities Co., Ltd., the first digital asset platform licensed and insured by the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission, to effectively solve the excessive margin requirements, price premiums and rollovers caused by the lack of short positions. It can solve problems such as warehouse losses and more accurately reflect the real-time value of Bitcoin.
On-chain detective ZachXBT said on the social platform that the fraud team that stole tens of millions of dollars from Magnate, Kokomo, Lendora, Solfire and other websites deployed the new project Leaper Finance on Blast. Last week, the fraud gang funded an address on Blast with about $ 1 million in funds laundered from previous Rugs and began providing liquidity to lure users into being scammed. Over the past period of time, the fraud team increased its TVL to over a million dollars, then stole all user funds deposited into the protocol, forged KYC documents, and used low-level auditing companies. Currently, the fraud team has launched scams on platforms such as Base, Solana, Scroll, Optimism, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Avalanche, etc.
The Sei Foundation announced the launch of the Sei Creator Fund on April 4 to support NFT and social projects in the Sei ecosystem with a total of $ 10 million. The fund will fund the creation of new projects and the growth of existing projects, with funding allocated in partnership with Gitcoin. The first phase of applications has begun, and creators can apply directly to the foundation. The second phase will be guided by the community, with funding distributed through a partnership with Gitcoin. This represents a unique opportunity to gain support and advance projects within the Sei ecosystem.
Distributed LSD protocol Obol Labs tweeted that after a period of testing and evaluation, its distributed validator cluster Obol DV Clusters is ready to be activated in the Lido Simple DVT module on the Ethereum mainnet.
Blockchain gaming platform PlayDapp team has announced plans to launch its mainnet via the Avalanche subnet on April 11 to expand its Web3 business. It is reported that after the launch of the main network, PlayDapp will no longer support the existing public multi-chain, but will operate an independent chain with self-verification nodes as the main network to load various Web3 game projects and expand the ecosystem. It will also be committed to Support various game projects to be loaded onto the PlayDapp mainnet, and allow users to participate in staking, voting and NFT transactions on the mainnet.
Polygon issued a document on the X platform stating that the Polygon zkEVM mainnet test version has resumed operation. The Polygon zkEVM core team has made the necessary fixes to the system to resume L1 settlement of the Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta. Upon completion of this upgrade, the state of emergency has been lifted, meaning any further updates to the system will require a 10-day time lock to take effect.
The decentralized AI data network Port3 Network announced the launch of the second quarter of mining. Users can participate in transaction mining and social mining, share the transaction fee pool, Key dividend pool, and cash dividend pool, and obtain PORT3 and USDT token rewards. This mining is also part of Port3’s second season airdrop. 30 million PORT3 tokens will be distributed in the second quarter airdrop. Detailed airdrop rules will be announced later. It is reported that the total mining transaction volume of Port3 Network in the first quarter exceeded 995 million US dollars, and users shared a total of 4.54 million US dollars. Twitter interactions reached nearly 1.4 million times, and it has currently accumulated 4.8 million users.
BAYC developer Yuga Labs officially stated that starting from February 27, it will stop supporting markets that do not support royalties for all creators. Its collections with royalty filters will only pay royalties to all creators at the level of respecting the agreement. trade on the market. Additionally, Yuga Labs announced that the new Magic Eden ETH Marketplace, launched in partnership with Magic Eden, will go live tomorrow, the first Ethereum NFT marketplace that is contractually obligated to honor creator royalties.
According to the Snapshot governance page, the Aave community voted to pass the "Abandon Stable Interest Rate Mode" ARFC proposal, which proposes to completely abandon the stable interest rate mode in Aave v2 and v3 and switch all user positions to floating interest rates.
According to official news, OKX Wallet will join hands with Babylon, BOB and Polygon to jointly host the "Bitcoin Renaissance" theme event during ETH Denver. This event will officially open on February 29. By then, Babylon co-founder and National Academy of Engineering member David Tse, BitVM founder Robin Linus, Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali, Polygon founder Sandeep Naliwal, Osmosis founder Sunny Aggarwal, Messari co-founder Ryan Selkis, and OKX Ventures partners Top industry leaders such as Jeff Ren and Nic Carter, head of Castle Island Ventures, will be invited to attend the event and conduct in-depth discussions on core topics such as the evolution of the Bitcoin ecosystem and the synergy between Bitcoin and the PoS chain, sharing exclusive insights. . During the event, Jeff Ren will also give an outlook on the cooperation between OKX Wallet and the Bitcoin ecosystem. Currently, registration for this event is open.
According to BTC.com, the current block height is less than 60 days away from the Bitcoin halving time. Since halving occurs every 210,000 blocks, the next Bitcoin halving is expected to occur in April 2024. When the block height reaches 840,000, the block reward will drop from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.
Starknet ecological DeFi protocol zkLend officially stated that it has launched the STARFALL event. From 07:00 on February 21, 2024 to 06:59 on February 24, 2024 UTC time, users who deposit STRK tokens can get up to an additional 20% APY. A total of 75,000 STRK will be distributed in the STARFALL rewards. The distribution method is determined on a per-second basis. The rewards will be available for query and claim on March 6, 2024.
Crypto-focused venture capital firm 1RoundTable Partners announced it is raising up to $ 800 million in a new venture fund focused on growth-stage startups, Nftgators reported. The company plans to raise at least $ 200 million when it closes the fund in March 2024. Now is “the time for the single best investment company,” according to Dan Tapiero, CEO, chief investment officer and managing partner of 10T Holdings and 1Roundtable Partners
Eli Regalado and his wife Kaitlyn launched a crypto token called INDXcoin last year, CoinDesk reported. Colorado Securities Commissioner Tung Chan filed charges last week against the couple and the entities they ran, accusing them of pocketing $ 1.3 million in cryptocurrency proceeds from more than 300 investors who were unable to recover any funds. Eli Regalado said about $ 500,000 of that amount went to the Internal Revenue Service, and "hundreds of thousands more" were spent on a home renovation project "that the Lord told us to do."
According to the 2023 mining report released by CoinShares, Bitcoin mining computing power increased by 104%, raising questions about its environmental sustainability and profitability, especially the efficiency and energy costs of the network; it is expected that every Bitcoin after the halving The average production cost is $ 37,856. Most miners will be challenged by the cost of selling and administrative expenses and will need to reduce costs to remain profitable. Unless Bitcoin prices remain above $ 40,000, only Bitfarms, Iris, CleanSpark, TeraWulf, and Cormint will remain profitable.
In an interview with Axios, a spokesperson for Vanguard Group, the world’s second largest asset management company, said that in addition to being unable to purchase spot Bitcoin ETFs on the Vanguard platform, Vanguard will no longer accept purchases of cryptocurrency products, including Bitcoin futures ETFs. This change allows Vanguard Group to focus on delivering a core set of products and services consistent with its commitment to meeting the needs of long-term investors.
ARK Invest once again reduced its holdings of Coinbase shares worth approximately US$ 4.16 million yesterday
According to official news, the Solana Sniper market has now aggregated the OKX NFT market, aiming to help users enjoy better depth and liquidity at the same time. Solana Sniper is an NFT liquidity aggregation and trading platform focused on the Solana chain, enabling real-time NFT trading on the platform. It is reported that the OKX NFT market is a multi-chain aggregation platform with zero handling fees that integrates creation, collection, and transaction functions. Currently, it has aggregated orders from mainstream NFT platforms such as Tensor, OpenSea, Magic Eden, LooksRare, IMX Official, Element, Blur, etc., and supports Aptos and Solana ecological inscriptions, etc., making it one of the most comprehensive and advanced NFT markets on the market. Dappradar data shows that OKX NFT Marketplace’s 24-hour transaction volume has topped the industry multiple times.
Web3 cross-chain gaming ecosystem Portal announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing. The specific amount has not yet been disclosed. Sotheby’s Vice President and Head of Digital Art and NFT Michael Bouhanna, Moonpay co-founder Max Crown, 9GAG CEO Chen Zhancheng, Pixelmon CEO Giulio, Parallel Co-founder Kalos and others participated in the investment.
Japan-based Osaka Digital Exchange (ODX) has launched digital securities platform START, a proprietary security token trading system (PTS). Just one month after receiving the PTS operating license from the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA), the platform was officially launched. Ahead of the launch, initial reports said the platform would launch two digital securities for the first time.
Arweave founder Sam Williams posted on social media that he has learned from reliable sources that Arweave’s ecological Web3 storage solution Irys (formerly Bundlr Network) is considering forking Arweave in an unsafe and anti-social form. However, despite the existence of a framework for growing Arweave, Irys plans not to maintain the dataset and restart the token supply. When asked why, the folks at Irys said they didn’t want to support existing data and provide tokens to Arweave. Sam Williams thinks Irys is too greedy and short-sighted, and hopes Irys can build the fork the right way, and Arweave is always willing to talk to them and provide support if it helps the ecosystem. If Irys users need help with migration, ar.io, another Arweave ecosystem storage project, can provide immediate support. It is reported that Bundlr handles about 95% of Arweave transactions and has been known as Arweave’s scaling solution. When it changed its name in October this year, it stated that it had completed more than one billion transactions.
Solana ecological protocol Analysoor posted on social media that 98% of its NFTs have been automatically distributed, and a small number of NFTs will be distributed tomorrow morning, and Discord will be open tomorrow. Analysoor will no longer offer tokens and provide launchpad services to other projects.
The British digital asset derivatives trading platform GFO-X announced the completion of a $ 30 million Series B financing. This round of financing was led by M&G Investments, who will join the GFO-X board of directors. Other specific financing information has not been disclosed yet. This strategic investment will fund GFO-X’s upcoming products and support future innovation in the regulated digital asset space, thereby enhancing trust and credibility in the market.
Worldcoin announced that as of the end of November, the number of World ID verifiers had exceeded 2.5 million, including over 360,000 in Argentina and over 500,000 in Iberia. Worldcoin operator rewards have now transitioned from USDC to WLD. At the same time, Worldcoin will terminate the agreement with 5 market makers on December 15. They had previously obtained a total of 100 million WLD loans. On December 15, according to the terms of the current agreement, the market makers will be required to return 75 million WLD. As a result, the circulating supply on December 15th could be reduced by up to 75 million WLD, depending on the number of tokens that market makers choose not to purchase and return directly to World Assets Ltd. Separately, World Assets Ltd. is finalizing new loan agreements with the five market makers, which will take effect on Dec. 16. Under these agreements, the five market makers will receive significantly smaller loans than before, now totaling 10 million WLD with a 6-month term. Therefore, the circulating supply on December 16th will increase by 10 million WLD. After 6 months, each market maker must repay the loan in full. Under these new agreements, they will not have the option to purchase any WLD from World Asset Ltd. Overall, the net impact on WLD’s circulating supply depends on how many tokens market makers choose to purchase on December 15th.
The Safe team issued an announcement saying that it found a security issue in its 4337 Canonical module v0.1.0 version. The official urgently requires all teams using this version to stop immediately and wait for the review of the v0.2.0 version to be completed. It is reported that the review of the v0.2.0 version is expected to be completed next week, which will bring additional features.
, the Arbitrum DAO voted to approve a 21.1 million token (approximately $ 23.5 million) grant proposal for projects that missed out on the initial 50 million token Short-Term Incentive Program (STIP) funding. In addition to the 29 projects funded in the first round, 26 more projects will now receive funding, with the largest being Gains Network receiving 4.5 million tokens ($ 5 million). Stargate Finance and Synapse will also be funded with 2 million ARB tokens each ($ 2.2 million), while Wormhole will receive 1.8 million tokens ($ 2 million). With the approval of the new proposal, STIP’s total planned budget has increased to 71.1 million ARB tokens. Under the proposal, additional funds would be distributed after a three-day waiting period.
According to Snapshot voting results, the Aave community voted to pass the proposal to "restart Ethereum mainnet and Aave v3 CRV lending on Polygon" initiated by DeFi risk manager Gauntlet. The proposal states that during the Vyper vulnerability attack, CRV lending was disabled on Ethereum and Polygon v3 to avoid mitigating CRV price drops caused by excessive CRV positions on v2. The vast majority of overly risky CRV positions have now left, and Gauntlet recommends restarting CRV lending. Due to low usage, the v3 supply limit on Ethereum has been reduced from 51 million to 7.5 million, the borrowing limit has been reduced from 7.7 million to 5 million, and the debt limit has been reduced from 5 million to 1 million. Due to low usage of v3 on Polygon, the borrowing limit has been reduced from 900,000 to 300,000.
Hong Kong police recently exposed a major fraud case involving the virtual asset trading platform HOUNAX. According to statistics, 131 victims have reported the crime so far, with the amount involved reaching nearly 120 million yuan. Among them, a 69-year-old retired woman was defrauded of NT$ 12 million, becoming the single largest victim. Police pointed out that many victims originally suffered losses in the stock market and were later attracted by the platform's false returns of up to 40%. The platform also falsely claimed that profits were guaranteed and risk-free, making investors gullible and deceived. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has added HOUNAX to the list of "unlicensed companies and suspicious websites" earlier this month, warning that it is a suspicious virtual asset trading platform. HOUNAX fabricated a cooperative relationship with a financial institution, but in fact there was no such thing. Given that the company involved claimed that it was headquartered in Singapore, the Hong Kong police did not rule out cooperating with overseas law enforcement agencies in future investigations. Currently, the police have reported suspicious links to the platform to telecom operators to block public access. They are actively sorting out case information and are expected to make arrests soon.
According to the latest data from Dune, the cumulative fee revenue from the minting of Ordinals inscriptions on the Bitcoin NFT protocol has reached 2,844.1375 BTC, which is approximately $ 104,077,265. The current total number of minted inscriptions reaches 41,882,377.
BRC-20's latest Swap project, BTDI, will begin casting tonight at 9pm. It is reported that BTDI is a Swap platform built on the BRC-20 protocol, where users can Swap, provide liquidity and earn BRC-20 tokens. Users can choose from different gears for casting BTDI, starting at a cost of $ 200.
**According to the latest data from Coinglass, several cryptocurrency trust products owned by Grayscale have experienced significant premiums. Among them, the premium rate of FIL (Filecoin) trust is as high as 901.67%, the premium rate of SOL (Solana) trust is 869.29%, and the premium rate of LINK (Chainlink) trust also reaches 250.50%.**
According to official news, OKX has officially launched spot follow-up orders, aiming to help users avoid the trouble of tracking orders and easily grasp the best opportunities. OKX spot copy trading is a new social investment method. The platform selects top spot traders, and copy users can automatically copy the traders' spot trading points. In addition, OKX spot trading also supports a wide range of currencies, helping users enjoy the top currency depth in the industry. Users open OKX App, click "Trade" or "Discover", select "Follow Order" - "Spot" to start the experience immediately.
Lenny is heading to Devconnect and @lens/ethglobal İstanbul
Curve founder Michael Egorov initiated a proposal in the BSC ecological lending protocol Venus Protocol community, proposing to deploy Venus Protoco on the Ethereum main network, and use Curve tokens crvUSD and CRV as collateral and loanable assets. At the same time, Curve will be established on the Ethereum main network. VAI/crvUSD, XVS/crvUSD and XVS/VAI liquidity pools. Curve will incentivize 500,000 CRV and require Venus to match this mining incentive with XVS, bringing the annual interest rate of the incentive to 10%.
According to official news, the Taiko team will attend the "Devconnect · Istanbul" event and participate in more than 24 offline activities in various forms within 6 days (November 13-18), involving partners including but not limited to: Ethereum Foundation, Lido, EigenLayer, StarkWare, zkSync, RISC 0, IOSG and more. Among them, Taiko has been invited to participate in roundtable discussions, workshops, keynote speeches, etc. in multiple events. More important guest information and event details will be announced one after another. It is reported that this Devconnect · Istanbul event has attracted much attention. As one of the leading projects of the Ethereum Layer 2 network based on zkRollup, Taiko will have an in-depth discussion with many industry builders on the development path of Ethereum expansion, the development prospects and application scenarios of ZKP, and Views on the future market, etc., to contribute more value to the industry.
BlackRock released a research briefing titled "The Future of Finance" on its official website. The report pointed out that regulatory changes, changes in financial architecture, the end of zero interest rates and technological innovation are changing the deposit and credit markets and subverting business models. U.S. banks can no longer rely on deposits as a cheap source of funding, and they will take control of lending, so businesses may turn to capital markets, private lenders and other sources of credit. The report argues that these shifts benefit savers, diversify borrowers' financing, create a more stable system and open up potential investment opportunities. The evolution of the financial system will further accelerate with innovation from banks and other financial institutions, regulatory developments, and technological developments around payments, digital currencies, asset tokenization, and artificial intelligence.
October 31st marks the 15th anniversary of the release of the Bitcoin white paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto on the P2P foundation website. The Bitcoin network was officially launched on January 3, 2009, with the initial trading price of Bitcoin being $0.0008. Today, Bitcoin has gradually appreciated more than 43 million times in value since its launch.
0xSifu holds an ETH short position of approximately US$10 million in the Synthetix perpetual contract and has achieved a profit of US$822,000.
Bitcoin options market makers are shorting Gamma, making it easy to rise in the short term and difficult to fall sharply
Stride, the Cosmos ecological liquidity staking protocol, stated on social platforms that due to ATOM staking rewards fluctuating more than expected, Stride's on-chain security check suspended ATOM's liquid staking function to ensure safety. User funds are not at risk and all stATOM functionality will be restored within 3 days. During this period, stATOM will still accumulate staking rewards as usual and will be displayed within 3 days.
Jacob Creech, head of developer relations at the Solana Foundation, said on his social platform that "a $400,000 reward is provided to anyone who can find the code that can shut down Solana." Previously, a fake KOL Inner City Press account posted rumors that former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified last week that FTX developers can "turn on and off" the Solana blockchain at will.
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According to the Orbit Bridge official website, the cross-chain bridge Orbit Bridge now supports the OKX Web3 wallet. Users can use the OKX Web3 wallet plug-in to conduct cross-chain assets between Ethereum, Polygon, and Klaytn different blockchain mainnets on Orbit Bridge. trade. Cross-chain bridge Orbit Bridge is part of the Orbit Chain project and has low cross-chain fees. It is reported that OKX Web3 Wallet is the industry's leading one-stop Web3 entrance. It now supports 70+ public chains, covering 5 major sectors: wallet, DEX, DeFi, NFT market, and DApp exploration, and supports Ordinals market, MPC and AA smart contract wallets. , redeem Gas, connect to hardware wallets, etc., bringing users the ultimate convenient and safe experience.
According to The Block, Solana’s v1.16 update introduces the “Confidential Transfers” feature, which enhances user privacy through encrypted SPL token transactions. This is a new token program introduced by Token2022 to enhance Solana’s current token functionality. This allows people to conduct blockchain transactions without revealing key details of the transaction, such as the transaction amount. After ten months of development and an audit by blockchain security firm Halborn, the v1.16 update of the Solana Layer 1 proof-of-stake blockchain has recently achieved more than half validation, according to a blog post from Solana infrastructure provider Helius Labs. adoption of the device. v1.16 has been running on the test network since June