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13 May 2022 3 minute read 1 comment Brennan
The Terra (LUNA/UST) blockchain project suffered what appears to be a coordinated attack this week, causing the UST stablecoin to lose its peg to the dollar, and the LUNA token to enter into a collapsing "death spiral" over the course of a couple of...
18 Jul 2021 4 minute read 4 comments Brennan
On July 15th, a hacker exploited a vulnerability in THORChain's cross-chain decentralized exchange, causing the loss of around 4000 ETH (7 million USD). The exchange was halted by the node operators and the price of its native token RUNE fell by near...
4 Feb 2021 2 minute read 5 comments Brennan
Axie Infinity is the latest game to initiate a migration away from the Ethereum blockchain. The team announced that players could start transferring their land and items from the Loom sidechain to Ronin earlier this month, with the functionality to m...
25 Oct 2020 6 minute read 2 comments Brennan
One after another, countries around the world have been announcing plans to launch their own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). China is already in the lead with the launch of their digital yuan earlier this year. In a test run, 50,000 Chinese cit...
15 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Brennan
Earlier today WAX announced that they had sold out of their "GPK Goes Exotic" trading cards shortly after the sale went live: 7,000 Mega packs worth $139,930 sold out in 24 minutes 13,000 Standard Packs worth $64,870 sold out in 67 minutes While th...
10 Jul 2020 2 minute read 9 comments Brennan
On June 16th, an Ethereum account holding $100,000 USD worth of USDC was blacklisted by Circle, after receiving a request from the U.S. government to have it suspended. The news marks the first time an account has been frozen by Circle since the Gold...
8 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Brennan
As per a post on Kyber Network's official blog, the KyberDAO has gone live on the Ethereum mainnet. KNC holders can now stake their tokens, participate in governance, and collect trading fees. KNC holders who stake their tokens will have the ability...
7 Jul 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Brennan
Ravencoin, a project listed in the top 100 on CoinMarketCap, was the latest cryptocurrency to suffer an attack on its network. A hacker managed to successfully exploit a vulnerability in the project's source code to increase the supply by roughly 1.5...
4 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Brennan
As per a blog post from their CEO, the blockchain-based social media platform Voice will be open to worldwide users from August 15th. Additionally, starting July 4th, people worldwide will be able to read posts on Voice with or without an account. Un...
4 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Brennan
On July 2nd, the xToken project announced in a Medium post their intention to combine staking, governance, and the claiming of Kyber Network trading fees into a single ERC-20 token. Starting from July 7th, investors will be able to enjoy passive inco...
