DEFI WORLD

2022-12-02 22:58:35 The Ankr protocol was hacked, the attacker earned $15.5 million in 2 minutes. The hacker gained access to the developer’s private key and changed the smart contract of the Ankr protocol, after which he minted 20 trillion wrapped aBNBc tokens.

The price of aBNBc fell by 99.5%. After that, the hacker bought 183,885 aBNBc for just 10 BNB ($2,879), then received 16 million Hay tokens in Helio Protocol secured by aBNBc, and exchanged Hay for 15.5 million BUSD.

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is laying off 200 employees from its blockchain division, which spent 7 years developing the CHESS decentralized clearing and settlement system.

Apple has rejected the Coinbase Wallet update and is requiring internal gas payments for NFT transfers to be made in Apple's payment system, and that Apple receive 30% of gas costs.

CFTC Chairman: Cryptocurrency 'potentially threatens national security' after FTX crash.

Sam Bankman-Fried blamed Changpeng Zhao for the collapse of FTX. Open / Comment

2022-12-02 18:34:33 Sam Bankman-Fried on the collapse of FTX in an interview with NYT: “I never tried to cheat. I was shocked by what happened this month." According to Sam, Alameda had more leverage than he thought, especially with FTT tokens as collateral.

Bloomberg: Genesis lenders teamed up looking for restructuring lawyers to avoid bankruptcy.

Reuters: The US Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), asked CFTC Director Rostin Behnam if his oversight agency could have foreseen the collapse of FTX and did something to prevent the collapse.

Kraken is cutting its workforce by 1,100 or 30% due to the bear market.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink confirmed that the management company lost $24 million in the FTX crash.

LedgerX will allocate $175 million from its fund to pay off the debts of its parent company FTX. Initially, the fund was intended to obtain regulatory approval to conduct transactions with crypto-derivatives without intermediaries. Open / Comment

2022-12-01 09:00:20 Monthly trading volume on Binance rose to 75% of the total market, followed by Coinbase and Kraken.

The largest container carrier Maersk announced the termination of operation of the TradeLens logistics blockchain platform, developed in collaboration with IBM. The project did not live up to financial expectations.

Pavel Durov announced the development of non-custodial wallets and decentralized applications, including DEX. He called on the blockchain industry to return to its roots - decentralization.

Uniswap has launched its own NFT aggregator.

Morgan Stanley noted a decrease in the interest of retail investors in bitcoin. Open / Comment

2022-11-30 15:22:46 BNB and MATIC were in the market leaders after the collapse of FTX

Solana (-60%) and NEAR (-55%) became the losers, Alameda actively invested in both coins Open / Comment

2022-11-30 13:41:45 Breaking: Binance Acquires Sakura Exchange BitCoin, Re-Enters Japanese Market

https://bit.ly/3Uey5eJ Open / Comment

2022-11-29 22:48:34 The number of coins in the Ethereum staking network has updated the maximum - 15.39 million ETH.

BlockFi filed a lawsuit against Sam Bankman-Fried's company Emergent demanding the return of collateral in the form of Robinhood shares.

Decentralized exchange Serum based on Solana announced the termination of work due to the collapse of FTX.

BlockFi owes $1.3 billion to its top 50 creditors, including Ankura Trust Company ($729 million) and FTX US parent company West Realm ($275 million).

Kraken has agreed to pay the US Office of Foreign Assets Control $362,000 for violating US sanctions against Iran from 2015 to 2019.

Dunamu, the operator of the largest South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, reported a 70% drop in profits in the third quarter. Open / Comment

2022-11-27 17:30:32 Hackers stole the personal data of clients of one of the largest Canadian exchanges Coinsquare.

Since the beginning of 2022, 6100 cryptomats have been installed. This is three times less than in 2021.

Bitwise has filed with the US SEC to launch an ETF for bitcoin futures called the Bitcoin Strategy Optimum Yield ETF (BITC).

The Government of El Salvador has a National Directorate for “all projects related to cryptocurrency”.

Arkham Analysts: Alameda Research withdrew more than $200 million in cryptocurrencies from US FTX wallets shortly before the crash. Open / Comment

2022-11-26 20:10:39 Turkey's Financial Crime Investigation Board (MASAK) plans to seize "suspicious" assets linked to FTX.

Binance is delisting trading pairs from SRM, the Serum decentralized exchange token associated with FTX and Alameda.

Circle warns of increasing phishing attacks against USDC holders.

Kraken co-founder Jess Powell criticized Binance's proof-of-reserves initiative for being pointless.

Barron's: US regulators launched an investigation into the activities of Genesis Global Capital. Open / Comment

2022-11-26 13:19:53 Binance has launched a service for confirming reserves using Merkle Tree. Any user can check the safety of the coins he deposited.

Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority: if cryptocurrencies do not have an issuer and they are issued by computer code, then they are not securities.

The Binance SAFU Insurance Fund is 44% backed by their own token.

ApeCoin staking will not be available to US residents.

Maker DAO, creator of the DAI stablecoin, has announced that it will liquidate all of its renBTC and close the vault.

Rumors: Justin Sun wants to merge Poloniex and Huobi exchanges into one platform.

Amazon has ordered the filming of an eight-episode series about the collapse of FTX. Open / Comment

2022-11-24 22:46:08 After the FTX crash, the total locked value of DeFi protocols on Solana dropped three times from $1.37 billion to $465 as of November 15th.

Binance US will once again offer to buy the assets of the bankrupt crypto lender Voyager.

Singapore police suspected Hodlnaut crypto-lending platform of fraud, which suspended withdrawals of customer funds.

The MetaMask wallet has been seen collecting personal data about the owners of Ethereum (ETH) and ERC-20 tokens.

Cryptoquant co-founder Ki Yong Ju called on HitBTC to freeze the account that received bitcoins from the BTC-e/WEX wallet. Open / Comment