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DeFi protocol Arcadia Finance hacked on Ethereum and Optimism for $455k

A hacker drained approximately $455,000 from non-custodial decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Arcadia Finance by exploiting a code vulnerability.Blockchain investigator PeckShield alerted about the hack on Arcadia Finance, pointing out the cause as “the lack of untrusted input validation.” The code supposedly lacked a validation mechanism to cross-check unverified inputs. This

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Optimism network transactions surged 67% following Bedrock upgrade — Nansen

Transactions on the Optimism network surged 67% following its June 7 “Bedrock” upgrade, according to a June 26 Twitter thread from blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The network had been seeing less than 300,000 transactions per day before the upgrade, but this figure increased to over 550,000 by the middle of

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Blackrock’s spot Bitcoin ETF renews optimism, sparks wave of new filings

At least two investment firms have made new filings for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) following investment colossus BlackRock’s move to lodge a similar application for its own spot Bitcoin ETF on June 15. New York-based asset management fund WisdomTree is the most recent investment firm to lodge a new filing

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GBTC Share Price Soars, Discount Narrows to Multi-Month Low on BlackRock ETF Spot Bitcoin Filing Optimism

The surge came as investors turned optimistic about being able to redeem funds in the future, and Grayscale potentially winning an on-going lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about converting the fund into an ETF after news about BlackRock’s filing for an ETF. GBTC doesn’t allow redemptions

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Binance’s BNB Smart Chain Unveils Scalability Solution opBNB Powered by Optimism

The combination of BSC’s strong ability and opBNB’s dedicated new features will make data access easier. In a major announcement on Monday, June 19, Binance-founded Layer-1 blockchain platform BNB Smart Chain (BSC) introduced a new scalability solution opBNB, with the goal of offering a seamless experience for users, developers, and projects

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