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Windows-based systems worldwide suffered outages as their users reported them entering recovery mode while flashing the infamous blue screen of death (BSOD). The issue was reportedly caused by an automated CrowdStrike update that went wrong. Memecoins emerged shortly after, poking fun at the global fiasco that caused many businesses and institutions to halt work or find workarounds to operate. Industries across the board were affected, including banking, aviation, finance, and railways. No...

Italian public sector bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (CDP) and Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest lender, conducted a transaction worth 25 million Euros using blockchain technology this past Thursday. With that, Intesa Sanpaolo invested in a bond worth that amount with a four-month maturity period. The transaction happened on the Polygon network, an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain. A press release issued by Intesa Sanpaolo read, “The bond, with a nominal value of €25 million, has a duration...

Gemini and IRA Financial Trust reached a settlement over a suit brought by the latter in 2022 because of the exchange’s questionable security practices. Essentially, a bad actor gained access to IRA’s master key on Gemini and stole funds from the various accounts overseen by IRA, which comprised life savings belonging to senior citizens. It claimed that the cryptocurrency exchange had opaque security implementations, not allowing it to realize that Gemini had a single point of failure, which...

South Korean exchanges saw XRP trading activity soar, even overtaking the largest cryptocurrency, BTC. The spectacle occurred as the US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is expected to offer a resolution soon on the case it has going on against Ripple. XRP’s price rose by 20% during the same period its trade volume registered 40% of the total volume on Upbit, South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange. Bithumb and Korbit observed XRP registering 35% of their volumes. The occurrence...

Crypto liquidity layer and lending protocol Rho Markets was exploited for $7.6 million. Bad actors took advantage of an Oracle contract deployed on the Scroll chain, allowing them to drain the amount in USDT and USDC stablecoins. Blockchain security firm relayed the oracle attack through an X post, “@RhoMarketsHQ has announced that they have detected unusual activity on their platform on #Scroll chain and paused the platform! Root cause of this incident seems to be an oracle access control...

The WazirX hackers, purported to be part of the North Korean Lazarus Group, have converted the altcoins from their loot into ETH. Wallet activity shows $90.2 million worth of SHIB, $10.2 million of MATIC, and about $7.5 million of PEPE exchanged for ETH. As the hack concluded, the bad actors held $52 million in ETH. Now, that amount has risen to $201 million after the conversions. Spot On Chain, an on-chain insights firm, posted on X, “The total $ETH holding of #WazirX exploiter has risen to...

Industry insiders broke the news of the SEC mentioning July 23 as the date that ETH ETFs go live on US exchanges. With that date nearing, ETF issuers have begun offering discounts on their mentioned fees to attract high inflows from the get-go, with Franklin Templeton’s EZET fund taking the lead in the discount race. Franklin Templeton has waived the fund’s management fee for the first year or until it hits $10 billion in AUM (assets under management). Even then, the fee remains the lowest...

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