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“We have been in discussions with attorneys for the FTX debtors to recover these gifts and we will be returning the funds in their entirety,” a Stanford University spokesperson said, according to Bloomberg. “Stanford received gifts from the FTX Foundation and FTX-related companies largely for pandemic-related prevention and research.” Source
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US judge sentenced a teenage crypto hacker to return stolen BTC worth nearly $5.2 million and a sports car he bought with the illicit funds. The hacker, identified as Wagaafe Hared, is a teenager from Arizona who was part of a crypto theft ring that has operated since 2016. According to The
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The legal team defending Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) against criminal charges has requested a federal judge allow the former FTX CEO to have access to antidepressants while in jail.In an Aug. 14 court filing, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers provided Judge Lewis Kaplan a proposed order which, if approved, would allow the 31-year-old to
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Non-fungible token project y00ts is again switching blockchain networks, only four months after bridging the majority of its NFTs from Solana to Polygon. DeLabs, the NFT firm behind y00ts, announced via its X (Twitter) account on Aug. 9 it will soon be migrating to Ethereum in line with its DeGods NFT collection.1.
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"But ultimately, we believe it makes the most sense for y00ts to be on the same chain as DeGods," said Vora. "We feel really lucky to have collaborated with so many great, hard-working people at Polygon Labs, and we can’t thank them enough. It's an exciting chapter for all of
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance is extending a bug bounty offer to anyone who is able to identify the exploiter responsible for draining over $61 million from its pools on July 30. Curve and other protocols affected by the attack offered a 10% bug bounty to the hacker on Aug.
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Lending platform Alchemix has announced the return of all stolen funds by the Curve finance hacker. The attack took place on July 30 and resulted in over $61 million in cryptocurrencies drained, including $13.6 million from Alchemix’s alETH-ETH pool. Along with Alchemix, JPEGd’s pETH-ETH pool saw outflows of $11.4 million, and
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Nonfungible token finance (NFT-Fi) protocol JPEG’d has confirmed that 5,495 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $10 million at current prices, has been returned by the Curve Finance hacker. In exchange for returning the funds that were stolen on July 30, the hacker received a 610.6 ETH ($1.1 million) bounty. JPEG’d exploit
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"You will have no risk of us pursuing this further, no risk of law enforcement issues, etc," Curve, Metronome and Alchemix wrote in an on-chain message sent to a hacker's Ethereum address. The trio gave a deadline of August 6 at 0800 UTC, at which point their bounty will become
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Bitcoin (BTC) stayed static at the July 31 Wall Street open as analysis warned that the net was closing in for bulls.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView$28,300 "last line of defence" for BTC priceData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed the BTC price as it greeted the last trading day
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