PoW avoids EU ban, two DeFi protocols suffer a combined $11M hack and BAYC do...
Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekUkraine’s president signs law establishing regulatory framework for crypto Crypto regulation has received approval from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The bill, titled On Virtual Assets, was signed by the president, opening the door to government oversight of the domestic cryptocurrency industry.Ukraines....
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2022 is a rough year for the DeFi ecosystem as hackers continue exploiting the community. From the beginning of the year till now, news of DeFi protocol exploits keeps flooding the crypto industry. So the question is: why do hackers keep targeting decentralized finance protocols? Today’s report reveals that three DeFi protocols have suffered hack […]
Cream Finance is the latest Ethereum DeFi protocol to suffer another hack. The attackers had used a flash loan attack and made away with $130 million. Cream Finance confirmed the attack via a Twitter post where the project revealed that they were investigating the cause of the hack. The exploit had exposed vulnerabilities in the […]
A number of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and their communities are vying for protection from a wave of liquidations as a result of the record-breaking collapse in cryptocurrencies, sometimes by taking unheard-of actions. DeFi Staggers In The Winter Even if the crypto market’s lending problem caused a gloomy period this past week, the DeFi ecosystem […]
KuCoin users were unaffected by the $285 million hack of 2020, as insurance funds covered the $16 million unrecovered from the incident. KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu has revealed that users did not suffer losses on account of the hack that occurred in 2020. The KuCoin chief made this known as part of a letter titled “2020, 2021, and Beyond.”Back in September 2020, the cryptocurrency exchange suffered a security breach with 230 different cryptos stolen from its hot wallet. At the time, the total theft amounted to about $285 million.In the letter, Lyu revealed that the combined efforts of other....
The Alpha Homora hack is still rippling through markets. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.The Alpha Homora and Cream Finance hack has made a gigantic mark in the DeFi space this week.It is the largest single hack in DeFi history at $37 million in funds stolen. It is also one of the most complex, apparently leveraging several honest-to-God vulnerabilities in Alpha Homora. A few missing input checks in very specialized conditions allowed the hacker to abuse Alpha Homora’s privilege of borrowing an unlimited amount of funds....