Thursday, July 17, 2025

Solana attributes major outage to denial-of-service attack targeting DEX offering

Solana has attributed the 17-hour outage it suffered last week to a denial-of-service attack aimed at Grape Protocol’s Sept. 14 initial DEX offering (IDO). In a Sept. 21 blog post, the Solana Foundation stated that bots spammed the network as Grape launched its IDO on the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX)

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Crypto Funds See Inflows, Despite Slower Overall Volumes — CoinDesk

“This improved sentiment could be a seasonal phenomenon, but we are not seeing a commensurate rise in volumes in investment products,” said a CoinShares report published Monday. “This suggests that some investors are taking advantage of recent price weaknesses and the continued rise in alt-coin popularity,” added the report. Source

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Turkey Is ‘at War’ With Cryptocurrency, Says President Erdogan – Regulation Bitcoin News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has clarified the government’s stance on cryptocurrencies, stating that the country is at war with crypto. He emphasized that Turkey will continue with its own currency. A War and a Struggle Against Cryptocurrency Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered some questions from young people in the “Meeting

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Nexo CEO Details Crypto Lender’s Plan to Stay Out of Regulators’ Crosshairs — CoinDesk

Crypto lender Unchained Capital, for instance, told CryptoX that it does not offer depository accounts or therefore no yield on deposits. Coinbase, the largest U.S. exchange, said on Friday that it no longer plans to offer a lending product that would have powered a savings account for customers with a

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Data shows parabolic-style growth in layer-2-based DeFi and DEX platforms

In the increasingly competitive landscape of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, protocol innovation and the ability to solve the biggest problems facing the crypto community are necessary for any project that looks to have long-term success in the ecosystem. Recently, the emergence of layer-2 technology like Arbitrum, Optimism and a bridge to the

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Crypto Markets Need More Scrutiny From SEC, Investor Groups Say: Report

Investor advocacy groups urged SEC chair Gary Gensler to more tightly regulate the cryptocurrency industry in a letter on Monday, according to a report by Bloomberg.The letter signed by Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America and others, specified stablecoins, crypto lending and exchanges as key

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