Near Protocol ‘darkness’ and ‘sovereignty’ tweets raise hack suspicion

Chinese crypto mining giant Bitmain’s filing to list its initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) will seemingly reach the end of its six-month expiration window today, as a crypto community member has noted in a tweet posted on March 25.As the South China Morning Post has previously outlined, HKEx listing…

An auction to recapitalize MakerDAO (MKR) after the mid-March market turmoil successfully concluded on March 28, bringing in over $5 million worth of DAI. Crypto venture fund Paradigm Capital revealed in a March 31 tweet that it won approximately 68% of the auctioned tokens.The company had previously pledged to join a “backstop syndicate” and cover…

Michael Stay, a former software engineer with Google and the current CTO of smart contract and decentralized application (Dapp) firm, Pyrofex, claims to have successfully hacked a zip file containing the private keys to over $300,000 in Bitcoin (BTC).In a blog post, Stay says that his journey began when he received a message from “a…

Equities markets in the United States rallied sharply on May 25 and 26 but Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins have not followed a similar trajectory. This suggests that traders are not confident that the crypto markets have bottomed out yet. On-chain analytics firm Glassnode said that the number of Bitcoin whales has been reducing and on May…

The price of BTC briefly slipped under $20,000 on March 10, although at time of writing was hovering just above that level. 1097 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTBitcoin (BTC) briefly slipped below $20,000 for the first time in nearly two months, following the latest…

Crypto market data reporting needs global standards to enable proper risk assessment, the FSB declared. 320 Total views 15 Total shares The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global financial authority funded by the Bank for International Settlements, has released a new report on the financial stability risks associated with cryptocurrencies.Published on Wednesday, the 30-page study…

A lot of trust is required to put money in Harvest Finance. 2143 Total views 20 Total shares Harvest Finance, a decentralized finance project that succeeded in attracting over $1 billion in funds locked has an admin key that gives its holders the ability to mint tokens at will and steal users’ funds.As noted by…

While the collapse of FTX shaved $100 billion off of BTC’s market cap in just four days last year, BTC has managed to fully recover and stack on another $65 billion. 1669 Total views 8 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTA 48% Bitcoin (BTC) price surge since the start…

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