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Plan for $1M bug bounties and double the nodes in wake of $600M Ronin hack
28.4.2022
The Ronin Network and Sky Marvis are significantly upgrading their security measures after they vowed to ensure a hack “never happens again.”
US Treasury’s OFAC Adds 3 ETH Addresses Linked to North Korean Cybercrime Group to SDN List
24.4.2022
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has added three ethereum addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN). OFAC alleges the ether addresses are controlled by the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime group that is associated with North Korea. Lazarus Group Behind Axie...
Binance recovers $5.8M in funds connected to Ronin bridge exploit
22.4.2022
Unfortunately, a vast majority of the stolen funds still remain in the hands of the hacker
Polygon's Supernet, Stripe's Crypto Move, Ulbricht's Bitcoin Deal, Macron on Crypto Regulation + More News
22.4.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Read More: Polygon's Supernet, Stripe's Crypto Move, Ulbricht's Bitcoin Deal, Macron on Crypto Regulation + More News
STEPN to new highs? GMT price painting first 'bull flag' toward $5 target
22.4.2022
GMT is booming amid warnings that its 38,000% price rally since inception could end up being an "absolute joke."
Binance Recovers $5.8M Linked to Axie Infinity Hack
22.4.2022
The funds were spread over 86 accounts, Binance’s founder confirmed
Blockchain Gaming Skyrockets 2,000% in One Year, Axie Infinity in Downtrend - Report
20.4.2022
On average, blockchain-powered games attracted 1.22m daily unique active wallets (UAWs) this past March, or 2,000% more than a year ago, per dapp (decentralized app) market data provider DappRadar.
However, a total of 1.17m UAWs connected daily to blockchain games on average during Q1, or...
FBI Issues Alert Concerning Malicious State-Sponsored North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Firms
19.4.2022
On April 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Treasury Department, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) report concerning malicious North Korean state-sponsored cryptocurrency activity. According to the U.S....
Lazarus Gets Banned by Tornado Cash for Hacking $600 Million From Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge
19.4.2022
Tornado Cash is a decentralized protocol that allows users to have a private Ethereum transaction on the network. Tornado Cash breaks the on-chain link between the source address and the destination address to keep transactions private. A smart contract is deployed to execute the private...
Square Enix President Still Insists Future Of Gaming Features Blockchain Tech
18.4.2022
Remember back in January when Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda published that terrible letter hyping up a future where video games would feature NFTs and blockchain tech? Well, even though a lot of players and devs criticized the letter, Matsuda ain’t backing down. And in a new interview,...
Pac-Man Frog (PAC): A Potential 100% Competitor for Terra (LUNA) and Axie Infinity (AXS)!
18.4.2022
Do you know that Pac-Man Frog (PAC) is a new crypto player in the DeFi and GameFi industry? Pac-Man Frog (PAC) is not waiting for anyone to reach skyrocketing value in the upcoming days weeks, months, and years. This crypto has the potential to become one of the top Metaverse tokens because of...
Finance Redefined: MetaMask institutional offering, Polygon to go carbon neutral, and more
18.4.2022
In this week's DeFi newsletter we look at the growing market of Metamask, Polygon's pledge to go carbon neutral and more
Crypto Gaming 'Landlords' Upset They Can't Keep Exploiting All The Players Quitting
16.4.2022
Axie Infinity is the crypto-backed Pokémon clone in which cute little creatures that double as NFTs battle for fun and profit. It’s also a pyramid scheme that relies on cheap labor from countries like the Philippines to fuel its growth. Now, fictional inflation, combined with a historic crypto...
OFAC Update Claims Ronin Hack Is Tethered to North Korea’s Hacker Syndicate Lazarus Group
15.4.2022
According to the U.S. Treasury and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the recent Ronin bridge hack may have been tied to the North Korean hacker syndicate called Lazarus Group. Federal law enforcement officials have tied the flagged ethereum address connected with the Ronin bridge exploit...
North Korea’s Lazarus Group Behind Axie Infinity's Ronin Hack, Say US Treasury, FBI
15.4.2022
The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned an ethereum (ETH) address that it says received coins stolen in the Ronin Bridge hack – and the FBI has claimed that the North Korean Lazarus group of hackers was behind the security breach....
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US Officials Tie North Korean Hacker Group to Axie's Ronin Exploit
14.4.2022
The U.S. Treasury Department alleged the North Korean hacking group called Lazarus is tied to a more-than-$600 million theft of cryptocurrency from the Axie Infinity-tied Ronin bridge
Axie Infinity Developer Sky Mavis Offers up to USD 1M in Bounty for 'Fatal Bugs'
13.4.2022
Sky Mavis, the firm behind the popular blockchain-based online game Axie Infinity (AXS), has launched a bug bounty program to incentivize white-hat hackers to find bugs associated with its services.
In an announcement, the team detailed that the program covers issues related to the...
The aftermath of Axie Infinity’s $650M Ronin Bridge hack
12.4.2022
Since the hack of Axie Infinity’s Ronin bridge, developers behind the game have raised $150 million to reimburse the affected users
Axie Infinity sees 'no signs of buyers' as AXS price tumbles 30% in two weeks
11.4.2022
AXS price nonetheless tests a key inflection area that has historically acted as strong support
Sega Says 'Future Of Gaming' Includes NFTs And Cloud Streaming
10.4.2022
It seems, like some other big video game publishers, Sega is also interested in adding NFTs into future games as revealed in an interview with various executives and producers. During that same interview, Sega talked more about its “Super Game” projects, confirming that it will be more than...