Beam wallet developer Eco acquired the Join shopping app, allowing it to provide users with Amazon and Shopify payment options.
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Hut 8 denies claims in Jcapital report and refers to official SEC filings The Bitcoin mining firm hit back at a report from short sellers issued six days earlier, claiming the report was “filled with inaccuracies.”
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How it all went down: Web3 protocol mass phishing campaign timeline Multiple Web3 protocols and crypto websites, including Cointelegraph itself, fell victim to a coordinated email hacking campaign.
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FTX estate sold most of its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares: Report The FTX estate held 22.28 million shares of GBTC but sold more than two-thirds of them at the start of spot ETF trading.
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Concentric liquidity manager exploited for $1.8M in private key hack An attacker used a “social engineering attack” to compromise the protocol’s deployer private key, which was then used to mint tokens and burn them drain funds.
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Polygon co-founder explains how to stop inscriptions from crashing networks According to Polygon co-founder Brendan Farmer, parallelized EVMs may help to solve the problem of inscription spam.
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Bitcoin ETFs are ‘stepping away from the ideals’ of crypto — Blockchain execs Billions of dollars have flowed into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, but some crypto executives claim these instruments are a departure from crypto ideals.
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Unstoppable Domains launches badge-gated group chat feature for username holders The Unstoppable Domains app now allows messaging within groups instead of just between individuals, and badges can be used to automate membership.
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Ethereum Dencun upgrade goes live on testnet after 4-hour delay The Dencun upgrade was implemented on Ethereum’s Goerli testnet, but a bug in Prysm kept the network from finalizing for nearly four hours.
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Socket protocol loses $3.3M in confirmed approval exploit An attacker drained funds from users who had previously made infinite approvals to a Socket contract.
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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF transfers another $376M in BTC as price stabilizes The GBTC fund sent another 8,730 BTC to Coinbase Prime as the Bitcoin price leveled out from earlier declines.
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WalletConnect launches ‘Web3Inbox’ notification app for Web3 users The Web3Inbox app lets users get notifications via a wallet account without signing up for Discord, Telegram or X.
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Wallets with USDC stablecoin grew by 59% in 2023 despite circulation drop Despite a steep drop in USDC's circulating supply, its user base may have increased over the course of the year.
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Wise Lending drained of $440K worth of crypto in apparent flash loan exploit The attacker used an unverified contract to borrow 1,100 Lido Staked Ether, which may have been used to manipulate prices and drain funds from the protocol.
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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF moves $41M in BTC to exchange during price crash — Arkham Some X accounts theorized that the Bitcoin crash was caused by GBTC redemptions, but Arkham data shows only $41 million in outflows.
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Web3 apps saw 124% growth in 2023, led by Near, Klaytn, Arbitrum — DappRadar The unique active wallets for blockchain apps more than doubled in 2023.
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Fidelity app lists Bitcoin ETFs of Ark 21Shares, VanEck, WisdomTree, Invesco The Fidelity web app on Jan. 10 showed pages for some of the as yet unapproved spot Bitcoin ETFs.
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Bitcoin ETF speculation written into the Bitcoin blockchain paraphrasing Satoshi A Bitcoin user inscribed the text “SEC Chairman on the brink of second ETF approval” into a Bitcoin transaction’s OP_RETURN field.
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AI tokens had 3rd highest returns of any category in 3 months — Binance The crypto exchange reported that AI tokens like Fetch, Ocean, and Oraichain outperformed most other sectors of the crypto market.
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Curve Finance debt will cause 'one more stress test' in February — Analyst X user DeFi Made Here claimed that Curve still contains a “systemic risk” that could compromise its entire ecosystem.
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Wallet developer offers ‘on-chain bounty’ daring hackers to take $430K BTC Zengo Wallet will reveal a wallet address containing up to 10 BTC and will also disclose two out of three security factors used to create it.
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CertiK’s X account briefly hacked by Forbes impersonator The scammer posted a malicious message urging readers to revoke approvals using a fake Revoke.cash app.
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Only 39% of financial advisers believe a Bitcoin ETF will be approved in 2024: Bitwise A survey of U.S. financial advisers concluded that most believe approval will not come until at least 2025.
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Orbit hacker may have also performed Coinspaid, Coinex hacks - onchain experts The Orbit attacker used SWFT, Avalanche Bridge, Sinbad mixer, implying that it may be associated with Lazarus.
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Fidelity and Galaxy announce fees for proposed Bitcoin ETFs: Report Fidelity will charge 0.39% to shareholders of its spot Bitcoin ETF, whereas Galaxy/Invesco will waive fees for six months before charging 0.59% afterward.
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Compound Finance’s X account hacked, promotes phishing site to steal crypto Security experts have declared that the Compound Finance X (Twitter) page has been hacked after it started promoting what appears to be a phishing site.
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ZachXBT alleges Gamegear dev 'scaredofboobs' is scammer NFT Machine In a Telegram post, the on-chain sleuth warned users to beware of X account scaredofboobs.
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Decentralized storage platform CESS raises $8M from 13 VC funds HTX Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, DWF Labs and other investment firms took part in the fundraise for a company aiming to improve data storage methods.
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$1.8B was lost to Web3 hackers and fraudsters in 2023: Immunefi Over the year, Mixin Network, Euler Finance, Multichain and other protocols were drained of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets.
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Ledger Live tracks users, says app developer and privacy advocate Developer REKTBuilder claims to have discovered a “genuine device check” that transmits data about users’ wallet usage, including which apps they install.