DraftKings' Billionaire-Backed Crypto Analytics Firm CoinScan Raises $6.3M
The company is backed by Shalom Meckenzie, the largest individual shareholder in sports betting company DraftKings.
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Sep 21, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. UTC
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Coinbase Earned $1M Amid Hack, but Hasn't Reimbursed Victims
Coinbase received 570 ETH, the second-largest payout tied to MEV in Ethereum’s history, to process transactions related to the Curve exploit.
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Sep 15, 2023 at 1:19 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Hacks and Exploits Cost Traders $303M in July; Worst Month of 2023
Some $52 million of assets were siphoned from Curve Finance just this weekend.
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Jul 31, 2023 at 1:44 p.m. UTC
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Curve Finance Drained of $50M While CRV Token Sinks 12% in Latest DeFi Exploit
More than $100M-worth of cryptocurrency could be at risk due to a bug impacting Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the center of Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem.
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Jul 30, 2023 at 8:25 p.m. UTC
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ZkSync's Largest Lender Struck by $3.4M Exploit
EraLend said the threat has been contained, but advises against deposits.
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Jul 25, 2023 at 1:34 p.m. UTC
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What Mastodon’s Critical Bug Fixes Say About Crypto’s Security Vulnerabilities
Crypto protocols are often multi-billion dollar bug bounties, for better or worse.
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Bridge Exploits Cost $2B in 2022, Here’s How They Could Have Been Averted
The bridges that are essential to our multi-chain cryptoverse are vulnerable to hacks. But an analysis of some of the biggest exploits of the past year reveals that applying m...
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Jun 2, 2023 at 5:31 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Hacks Are Down and Hackers Tend to Return Stolen Money: TRM Labs Report
The sanctions against Tornado Cash, as well as last year's arrest of the Mango Markets infiltrator, motivate hackers to return their loot, researchers believe.
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May 22, 2023 at 9:41 p.m. UTC
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Huobi and Gala Games to Give $50M to Victims of pGala Scheme
The firms will compensate the scheme’s victims while fighting for millions in damages from the cross-chain bridge that covered up the token-printing scheme.
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Apr 3, 2023 at 9:16 p.m. UTC
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Euler DeFi Protocol Exploited for Nearly $200M
The losses occurred over four transactions in dai (DAI), wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), staked ether (sETH) and USDC after the attacker conducted a flash loan attack.
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Mar 13, 2023 at 9:55 a.m. UTC
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