BNB Chain Halts Operations Due To Potential Hack
Binance’s signature Binance Smart Chain is the latest to suffer from an exploit, and the chain is “temporarily paused,” according to the official BNB Chain Twitter account and Binance’s CZ. Early hours following the hack look to show 2M BNB, or over $500M at time of publishing, through the Binance Bridge. Furthermore, many have criticized the response around the matter. Let’s take a look at the details we know thus far. Binance Bridge Can’t Avoid The ‘Bridge Problem’ One of the biggest issues around crypto vulnerabilities often seems to be....
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