MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 5,445 Bitcoins and Now Holds 158,245 BTC 📈
MicroStrategy, a business intelligence firm and major Bitcoin investor, is sending a bullish signal to the market by announcing the acquisition of another big stash of cryptocurrency. MicroStrategy’s latest purchase further reaffirms the company’s bullish stance on Bitcoin.
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Cygnetise raises $4.26 Million as their PRE-SERIES A round comes to an end 🔚
Cygnetise is a decentralised application that makes the process of managing authorised signatory lists efficient and secure. Cygnetise digitises the process of authorised signatory management in a secure, cost-effective and sustainable way by using the latest blockchain technology.
Adjuvo was the lead investor while Massive also participated in fundraising.
Read more: TechFundingNews
WorldCoin being embraced slowly 🐌
Ove 200k Chileans have now completed World ID verification which is more than 1% of total chile population.
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Upbit suffers because of fake $APT tokens ❓
Someone created a fake coin and deposited it on Upbit. Upbit recognized it as a real Aptos token. The bots deposited a number of these $APT tokens from many upbit accounts. For those who received the deposits and sold them, Upbit started calling them to ask for their money back. Over 100,000 accounts were affected in this attack.
Read more: Web3Builders
HTX (Previously Huobi) suffered a loss of 5,000 Ethereum in a hacking attempt 🧑💻
On September 23rd, HTX went through yet another cyberattack resulting in the loss of $8 million USD.
Over 5K ETH was transferred from Huobi hot wallet to the attacker's wallet....
Huobi warned the hacker by stating that they have identified their true identity and offer 5% white hat bonus and a job on returing the money hacked....
But All user assets are safe and the platform is operating completely normally.
Read more: Twitter | CoinTelegraph
Sam Bankman-Fried may live 10 - 20 years in jail 👮
The FTX founder will be defending himself against wire fraud and conspiracy charges. If he’s convicted of wire fraud and/or conspiracy charges, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will probably spend quite a bit of time behind bars. Prosecutors will have to prove that he knowingly lied to his customers or lenders and knew it was wrong....
Read more: CoinDesk
Mixin Network was hacked causing $200 Million loss 💀
Mixin Network team revealed that hackers attacked its “cloud service provider” with a potential “loss of assets worth up to $200 million.” The tweet also read that deposit and withdrawal services had been “temporarily suspended.” The team added that they have contacted Google and SlowMist to “assist with the investigation.”
Read more: Decrypt
Pimlico Ends their Pre Seed round after raising $1.6 Million 🔚
Pimlico is an infrastructure platform for building the next generation of Smart Wallets. If you are developing an ERC-4337 Smart Wallet, they provide bundlers, verifying paymasters, ERC-20 paymasters, and much more to help you build a more stable wallet and iterate faster.
Read more: Docs.Pimlico.io
Ben Armstrong was arrested yesterday while trying to confront former business partner 👮
Armstrong had been livestreaming as he attempted to confront a former business partner. Many who watched the livestream suggested in posts shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was there to try to recover his Lamborghini.
Read more: Thebloc
Chainlink Addresses Controversial Multisig Wallet Signer Changes ☣️
Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network, has addressed concerns raised by the crypto community about a recent alteration in its multisig (multi-signature) wallet. The criticism arose after users, including well-known crypto researcher Chris Blec, noticed a quiet shift in the number of signatures required on the multisig wallet from 4-of-9 to 4-of-8.
Read more: CryptoPotato
