CryptoCompare: Digital Asset Management Review February 2021

news In a six hour trek through an insecure server, security researcher Harry Denley was able to reconstruct – and apparently shut down – a clever phishing attack that is targeting users of the Binance crypto exchange. His Medium post details the activity on a phishing site – logins-binance.com12754825.ml – that collected logins and two-factor…

Solana (SOL) co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and his layer 1 network remained in the conversation in 2023 despite long odds and plenty of doubters. While Solana hasn't yet realized its vision of becoming the "Nasdaq on the blockchain," its strong community of developers has largely refused to quit: only a handful of teams moved to other

On-chain data first spotted by Lookonchain shows that an address controlled by the entity that exploited Euler Finance’s protocol earlier this week has sent 100 ether (ETH), worth $170,515 at current prices, to a wallet associated with Lazarus Group’s Ronin network hack.

news Venture capitalist Tim Draper, an early investor in Tesla, Skype, and Baidu, has joined the board of MakeSense Labs, the provider of a messaging app built on the EOS blockchain. Announced Monday, the appointment follows the August launch of the startup’s Sense.Chat on iOS and Android. Since 2014, Draper has made headlines through his active…

After the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's court defeat last week in the agency's pursuit of Kalshi's election contracts, the regulator's chairman, Rostin Behnam, said it will still keep pursuing the case against what it continues to contend is illegal activity. "This is a situation that we think is against the law," Behnam said at

Mar 23, 2020 at 13:15 UTCUpdated Mar 23, 2020 at 13:39 UTCSEC Charges Former State Senator Over Digital Asset ‘Scam’The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pressed charges against a former state senator for his role in a $4.3 million token sale that promised outlandishly high returns. The SEC confirmed Friday it had filed a…

news The Klaytn blockchain from the fold of South Korean messaging app giant Kakao has just gone live. Kakao’s blockchain arm Ground X announced the mainnet launch Thursday in an emailed press release, saying that Klaytn aimed to bring about mass adoption of blockchain services and to “substantiate the value and utility of blockchain technology.” The firm touts…

Jul 10, 2020 at 18:50 UTCUpdated Jul 10, 2020 at 18:59 UTC(Benjamin Voros/Unsplash)The social payments app Bottlepay (née Bottle Pay) aims to relaunch in the next few weeks, after shuttering due to regulations in December 2019.  After restructuring the bitcoin wallet product to fit Europe’s anti-money laundering directive (AMLD5), the British startup is offering an…

Dec 9, 2019 at 13:33 UTCUpdated Dec 9, 2019 at 13:33 UTCBrazilian Police Bust Alleged Crypto Fraud That Cost Investors $360MBrazilian police have shut down a purported bitcoin investment scheme they allege stole 1.5 billion Brazilian reals ($359 million). According to the Paraná state government, civil police in the state raided an unnamed organization in Sao…