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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...

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange dYdX has postponed plans to unlock nearly $300 million worth of dYdX tokens for investors, extending the lockup period from February until December.  Since the news broke, DYDX has surged by 24% on the day.  Extending the Lock-up Period As announced by dYdX on Wednesday, the dYdX foundation, dYdX trading, and parties to the warrants for purchasing DYDX tokens signed an amendment to extend the transfer restriction schedule of said tokens....

The digital asset markets have been shaky in the past year, but the blockchain sector continues to scale as demand intensifies from both crypto-native as well as traditional institutions eyeing to leverage the space. Decentralized smart contracts platform Injective is the latest to announce a new $150 million ecosystem initiative to spur the adoption of interoperable infrastructure and DeFi. Leading the charge is a consortium of prominent Web3 players such as Pantera Capital,...

Pantera Capital – a blockchain-focused institutional asset manager – has released a report reviewing the state of the blockchain industry in 2022, and what to expect on the technological and adoption front going forward. The report predicted that crypto has already bottomed and that the next market cycle will be defined by greater adoption of decentralized finance (Defi).  The Era of Defi According to Pantera’s co-Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Joey Krug, the crypto industry...

2022 was indeed a challenging year for the crypto industry, marked by significant declines in the value of major assets, liquidity issues for many firms, and an unfortunate number of bankruptcy filings. The industry also faced substantial security threats as hackers stole billions of dollars from users and DeFi protocols. A report by blockchain security firm SlowMist, titled “Blockchain Security and AML Analysis,” provided an overview of the security status of various sectors...