Crypto news

Orion Protocol – a liquidity aggregator for both CeFi and DeFi exchanges – saw its core contract hacked on Thursday across both its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chains (BSC) deployments.  The hacker netted over 1700 ETH, cumulatively worth over $3 million at writing time.  Another Reentrancy Hack As explained by the blockchain security company PeckShield on Twitter, Thursday’s hack was made possible “due to incomplete reentrancy protection.” A reentrancy bug refers to when an...

Tulip Trading – a Seychelles-based company founded by Craig Wright – has successfully brought its case against multiple Bitcoin developers to trial in the United Kingdom.  Wright’s firm alleges that these developers owe “fiduciary duties,” or “duties of care” to police and control the Bitcoin network.  The Duties of Bitcoin Developers The ruling, handed down on February 3, marks a successful appeal from Tulip to the U.K. Court of Appeals to overturn a decision previously...

American media personality, professional wrestler, and actor Logan Paul is one of the defendants in a class action lawsuit filed against failed non-fungible token (NFT) project CryptoZoo. The class action, filed by police officer Don Holland on behalf of 20,000 other victims, alleges that Paul and other defendants executed a rug pull after manipulating the price of CryptoZoo’s native token (ZOO). Logan Paul Sued for Defrauding CryptoZoo Investors According to the document,...

A resident of Middlesex County in the United Kingdom has fallen victim to crypto fraud and lost more than $100K at the time of writing. Fraud Continues to Be a Big Problem Police authorities suggest the fraud occurred after the victim formed a relationship with an unknown person online. While this wasn’t necessarily a romance scam, it very much operated in the same manner. The defrauded person began engaging in regular conversations with the other party and at first,...

Optimism continues to perform. The cryptocurrency just painted a fresh all-time high which, at this point, happens almost daily. This brings its total gains for the week to around 43%. Optimism continues to be one of the best performers within the cryptocurrency market, and its native token – OP – managed to increase by 43% in the past seven days. Its monthly gains are even more impressive, clocking in at around 230% for the past 30 days. At the time of this writing, OP...

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The past seven days saw the total cryptocurrency market capitalization increase by around $35 billion, and the industry continues to recover from the multitude of bankruptcies in 2022. Some argue that the pace of the recovery is slowing down and that this might be the cause for another bearish reversal. Others are making a bullish case because they expect the US Federal Reserve to pivot in its monetary policy and to slow down in increasing interest rates. This is supported by...

El Salvador has announced a new law that will place crypto regulation duties in the hands of both state and private entities. The idea is that these entities will hold sway over any digital currencies (except for bitcoin, which has already been declared legal tender in the country) and how they are issued within the borders of the Central American nation. El Salvador Is Working Its Way Up the Crypto Regulation Ladder The goal of the bill is to potentially attract outside...

This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Polygon, and Fantom. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, continued to consolidate this week. The price only registered a 2.9% increase. This is because ETH is stuck in a channel between $1,670 and $1,550.  All attempts to break these levels were rejected in the past two weeks. While some altcoins were booking double digits gains (see Fantom below), Ethereum appears to be on a pause. This...

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