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Kronos Research Loses $26 Million in Unauthorized API Access Incident
20.11.2023
According to Kronos Research, the crypto trading firm lost assets worth $26 million on Nov. 18 after an unknown party illegally accessed its application programming interface (API). Kronos Research claimed the losses associated with the unauthorized API access do not constitute “a...
Today in Crypto: MoonPay Partners with Mastercard, 64% of Injective Survey Respondents Trade on Both CEX and DEX, Chainstack Launches DeFi API
26.10.2023
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. __________ Payments news Crypto payments infrastructure firm MoonPay announced that it partnered with Mastercard to drive innovation...
Acme Introduces an Intent-Based Network to Simplify Blockchain Transactions
16.10.2023
PRESS RELEASE. Acme, founded by Nilesh Khaitan (ex-head of crypto, Venmo-PayPal), is building an intent-based network to simplify on-chain transactions to #OneTap. Acme’s experience makes on-chain transactions accessible to non-crypto natives, and empowers developers to simplify and secure...
Binance rolls out self-trade prevention for spot and margin trading
11.10.2023
Introduced in January 2023, Binance’s STP functionality is designed to block the execution of an order if it would result in a self-trade
3Commas on ‘heightened alert’ after several user accounts hacked
10.10.2023
The firm has implemented additional security measures following an investigation that found “only a few” 3Commas user accounts were compromised
Reddit Might Pay You For Your Best Posts, But Not Much
26.9.2023
Social site Reddit, which hosts some of the internet’s largest gaming communities, is now handing out a little bit of cash for good posting. As announced in a September 25 blog, Reddit has a new Contributor Program, and it’s made changes to “gold” upvotes, which it temporarily removed earlier this...
Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript
7.9.2023
It’s rare that I’m disappointed by the JavaScript language not having a function that I need. One such case was summing an array of numbers — I was expecting Math.sum or a likewise, baked in API. Fear not — summing an array of numbers is easy using Array.prototype.reduce!...
Custodia Bank Goes Live: Bridging Digital Assets With US Dollar Payments
12.8.2023
Custodia Bank, the financial institution that aims to bridge digital assets with the U.S. dollar payment system, is now live. Last month, Custodia started serving external business customers in select U.S. states, offering U.S. dollar deposits and government money market fund services, with bitcoin...
Fabiobot: Vyzkoušíme Strava API a převedeme zdolané kilometry na kole na seřazené škodovky
6.8.2023
Strava je nejpopulárnější sportovní aplikace pro amatéry i profíky • Služba nabízí také API, které si dnes vyzkoušíme • Převedeme zdolané kilometry na fabie
Buckle up, Reddit: Closed APIs cost more than you’d expect
6.7.2023
Open APIs are vital for healthy communities on social platforms. With Web2 companies beginning to reject that principle, Web3 could be poised to supplant them
Cyberpunk 2077 Players Protest Reddit By Posting Nudes
6.7.2023
Open-world sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077’s biggest subreddit recently switched to NSFW (not safe for work,) with the explanation that the game it is focused on is a mature game filled with nudity and gore. However, Reddit allegedly demanded that mods of the subreddit quickly revert the change. The mods...
What is Twitter’s rate limit, and can you bypass it?
6.7.2023
Twitter’s rate limit helps maintain system stability and prevent abuse. Bypassing the rate limit is not possible and can result in temporary restrictions
Bitcoin’s Sats Names Ecosystem Flourishes: 370,000 SNS Names Inscribed
1.7.2023
On June 26, 2023, the number of Bitcoin-based Ordinal inscriptions surpassed 14 million, just six days after exceeding 13 million. Inscription activity has continued to rise since then. In addition to text, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and fungible BRC20 tokens, Ordinal inscription technology...
Official Minecraft Subreddit Shuts Down, Says 'We No Longer Feel Reddit Is An Appropriate Place'
29.6.2023
As protests continue over on Reddit, the world’s largest community forum that is now inexplicably being turned into an engine for shareholder-driven greed, one of its biggest gaming subreddits has announced that it will be leaving the platform for good.Read more
Web3 Infrastructure Firm Crossmint Launches Wallet-as-a-Service to Expand NFT Use Cases
27.6.2023
The new API will allow users to create smart contracts and send NFTs via email, with the infrastructure to generate backend wallets for NFT collectors
Web3 Payment Firm Crossmint Launches Wallet-as-a-Service to Expand NFT Use Cases
27.6.2023
The new API will allow users to create smart contracts and send NFTs via email, with the infrastructure to generate backend wallets for NFT collectors
Steam's Subreddit Is Running An Excellent Protest
22.6.2023
As we’ve been covering, things are not going well over on Reddit at the moment, with the site’s ownership currently engaged in a running battle with readers and moderators. Users are so annoyed at attempts to monetise the site that they’re working through a variety of protests, but one of...
Reddit Is Forcibly Removing Mods Over NSFW Protests
21.6.2023
In the wake of sitewide protests, ostensibly over some API changes but really about an increasingly corporate squeeze of a historically community-run site, some Reddit moderators have decided to hit CEO Steve Huffman in the only place it seems to hurt: the site’s wallet.Read more
‘Britcoin’ launch inches closer after Project Rosalind CBDC tests
19.6.2023
A major study between the BIS and the U.K. central bank found a retail CBDC could make peer-to-peer payments cheaper and easier
Central Banks Successfully Test Over 30 CBDC Use Cases, Including Offline Payments
16.6.2023
An API layer could facilitate a wide range of central bank digital currency payment scenarios, a Bank for International Settlements and Bank of England experiment has shown