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The Curve Finance lending protocol has terminated governance token rewards for select liquidity pools affected by the July 30 Curve exploit and July 6 Multichain exploit, according to an Aug. 2 social media post from a member of the protocol’s governing body. The ending of rewards was carried out by the
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KuCoin's Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) mining pools will be suspended from 16:00:00 on Aug. 15, 2023 (UTC) until further notice. The exchange said the decision was "in line with KuCoin's evolving business strategy" but didn't elaborate further. It's unclear if the decision is related to the upcoming Litecoin halving. KuCoin
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Several stable pools on Curve Finance using Vyper were exploited on July 30, with losses reaching $24 million at the time of writing. According to Vyper, its 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 versions are vulnerable to malfunctioning reentrancy locks. "The investigation is ongoing but any project relying on these versions should immediately
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Although the funds always came to the exchange via intermediary wallets, Chainalysis found instances in which the wallet receiving ransomware proceeds sent funds directly to the mining pool wallet, which then sent the coins to the exchange. This might mean that both the ransomware- and mining-related wallets belong to the
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While good actors within the crypto space channel their creativity toward building new things, bad actors use the same energy to devise more ingenious ways to hide their ill-gotten gains. A new report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows how wallets involved in ransomware attacks are turning to crypto mining pools
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Uniswap Labs has released a draft of the code for Uniswap V4, according to a June 13 blog post from Uniswap’s Founder, Hayden Adams. The new code features “hooks” or plugins that allow developers to create custom liquidity pools. Uniswap is the largest decentralized crypto exchange in the world by volume.
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As such, Coinbase Ventures will receive a share of the 15% of the total RPL inflation produced at each rewards period dedicated to Rocket Pool’s Oracle DAO. RPL, the native token for the Rocket Pool ecosystem that provides direct incentives, insurance and governance for protocol according to a blog post,
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With Privacy Pools, users deposit their funds into a common pool and withdraw their funds into a new wallet address that is untraceable and unlinkable to any prior transaction history, using zero-knowledge proofs that allow for information to be verified, such as a transaction on a blockchain, without leaking specific
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The move toward tether might be a surprise because the biggest centralized stablecoin is, perhaps, the most controversial, considering it is unregulated and the lingering lack of transparency about its reserves. On Friday, a New York Judge rejected an attempt by iFinex, cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, to
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