In an innovative scheme, cybercriminals have attacked a prominent newsletter distribution platform that caters to several crypto platforms, including exchanges and crypto analytics platforms. CoinGecko’s Co-Founder and COO, Bobby Ong, confirmed that there was indeed a breach within an undisclosed, third-party newsletter distributor’s platform.
He said, “We at CoinGecko may be potentially affected and are actively working with our vendor to investigate further to determine the extent of this breach. We have seen phishing CoinGecko emails being sent from other client accounts. There is no CoinGecko token being planned so don’t be duped by the phishing emails.”
Cybercriminals are reportedly using this newsletter platform to launch phishing attacks by sending corrupt links to those subscribed

BTC ETFs observed the largest single-day inflows since March today, marking the second highest inflows into the US-approved products since they launched in January this year. An estimated $880 million flowed into the ETFs, with Fidelity Investment’s FBTC ETF alone registering $378 million in inflows.
Simultaneously, BTC’s price surged past the $71,000 mark for the first time in about two weeks and fluctuated over $71,500. While the asset’s price has set records this year, the past two months were slow, and its price moved significantly below $70,000. Now, it is rising over that threshold as bullish forces take full effect again.

The excitement is spilling into physically backed, SEC-regulated ETFs. BlackRock’s BTC ETF inflows amounted to over $274 million, following closely behind

Avail, a project bringing a data availability layer network to the growing modular blockchain ecosystem, has secured $43 million through Series A funding from Cyber Fund. The project will compete with other big names in the DA niche like Celestia.
Founded by Polygon co-founder Anurag Arjun, Avail looks to address the scalability issues associated with present-day blockchain builds. The project will ensure newly developed layer 2 networks move away from monolithic builds and utilize its data availability network instead of relying on Ethereum, which is already congested.
Switching to bespoke data availability networks like Avail can help reduce gas fees tremendously and scale transactions beyond existing limits, pushing blockchain networks toward Web2-like efficiency. Avail is addressing