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The Solana-based Wormhole Bridge was hacked for $325 million after the attacker managed to exploit a security flaw, making it one of the largest exploits in crypto history. A year later, a group of white hats, along with two crypto firms, launched a “counter-exploit” against the malicious entities and clawed back a portion of stolen assets tied to the exploit. “Counter Exploit” The counter exploit was jointly conducted by the decentralized finance platform Oasis and Web3...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hope Finance suffered a $2 million exploit on February 20th. The hacker purportedly stole everything from the protocol genesis, according to its Twitter account, which was the first to announce that the community was scammed. The Arbitrum-based protocol also shared the information of the person while attaching a photograph with a voter’s card. The post alleged the hacker to be a Nigerian named Ugwoke Pascal Chukwuebuka who carried out the...

Jacob Blish, the head of business development at Lido DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the largest liquid staking protocol, believes the recent SEC crackdown on crypto staking services could cause new challenges for decentralized finance (DeFi). According to a Bloomberg report, Blish opined that the state of crypto staking in the U.S. depends on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final resolution. SEC Crackdown on Staking Could Affect DeFi...

BANXA Holdings, the leading on-and-off ramp solution for Web3, today announced an integration with ConsenSys’ leading self-custody Web3 wallet, MetaMask, to simplify on-and-off ramping fiat to crypto. On top of global users being able to purchase crypto via standard methods such as credit cards and Apple Pay, this partnership will now allow MetaMask users in Canada to purchase crypto through interbank network Interac with less friction. In addition, MetaMask users in the Netherlands,...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol CoW Swap has suffered a smart contract exploit, leading to the loss of approximately 551 BNB ($181,600). According to reports, the attacker added a wallet address as a “solver” of CoW Swap and invoked a transaction to approve DAI transfers to SwapGuard before moving the assets to other addresses. A Settlement Contract Exploit Blockchain surveyor MevRefund first noticed the attack in the early hours of today. The maximal extractable value...

2022 was not a great year for decentralized finance (DeFi). The industry saw implosion in itself thanks to the unsustainable high yields that eventually caused the model to collapse. But DeFi is far from dead. A similar sentiment was echoed by prominent Web3 developer Andre Cronje, who said he does not believe that high yields are “long gone” and that DeFi is seeing almost “zero growth.” DeFi Will Still Simply be DeFi At present, the real yields for ETH, USDT, DAI, and USDC...

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...

Less than a month into the new year, the market is already showing sustainable signs of recovery, and the “creative destruction” that transpired could ultimately be a huge win not just for the consumer but also in terms of regulatory protections and rapid innovation, as well as lowered cost structures. Despite the many ups and downs, crypto has become a serious player in the world economy. Investors are still pouring their portfolios into the asset class. According to OKX’s...

Mango Markets’ exploiter Avraham Eisenberg was hit with a lawsuit by Mango Labs, the company behind the DeFi protocol, for $47 million in damages. The Wednesday filing with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that Eisenberg executed a malicious attack on Mango Markets by manipulating the native token, MNGO, through “fraud, deception,” and converted nearly $114 million from the depositors of the protocol into his own accounts....

MetaMask ist eine Krypto-Wallet, die alle Arten von Ethereum-basierten Token unterstützt. MetaMask kann als reguläre Krypto-Wallet dienen, aber ihre wahre Stärke liegt in der nahtlosen Anbindung an Smart Contracts und dezentralisierte Anwendungen. MetaMask legt Wert auf Verschlüsselung und ist Open Source. MetaMask is a popular browser extension and a mobile crypto wallet. It allows users to interact with dApps on the Ethereum blockchain. MetaMask...