Breaking: New York Resident Admits to $4.5B Bitfinex Hack
A New York resident accused of being behind the 2016 hack that led to a loss of Bitcoins worth USD $4.5 billion on Bitfinex pleade...
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Binance CEO Shares Details Of $20 Million Scam Attempt
Binance CEO, Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao has recently provided details on a failed $20 million scam attempt in a bid to keep the crypto co...
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Bitfinex 2016 Hack Culprit Caught, Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
Ilya Lichtenstein pleads guilty to laundering stolen bitcoin from the 2016 Bitfinex hack, now worth over $4 million
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DeFi Blue-Chip Tokens Hit With Bearish Week Amid Curve Finance Hack
The hack on one of the largest decentralized exchanges earlier this week has triggered a negative pullback across the DeFi sector.
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BOT Token Surges 1,000% in 24 Hours But Experts Say It's a Scam – Here's the Coin They're Stacking Instead
Straight to DEX tokens remain the strongest performing coins this summer, and in the latest August skyrocket, fresh market-entrant...
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Curve emergency DAO terminates rewards for hack-related pools
The Curve emergency DAO removed CRV rewards for alETH, msETH, pETH, crvCRVETH, Arbitrum Tricrypto and multiBTC pools.
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Binance’s CZ warns crypto community about emerging scam
The scheme consists of mirroring addresses and sending dust transactions to users to trick them into sending funds to the scammer’...
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Crypto Trader That Made & Lost $1 Million In $BALD Scam Buys New Low Cap Meme Coin On Base
A crypto trader that made and then lost more than $1 million on $BALD, a meme coin that exploded to a market cap of $100 million o...
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Uniswap Delists HEX Token After SEC Deems It An “Unregistered Security”
Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange, has removed the HEX token from its interface after it was recently declared an unregi...
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Kenya Halts Worldcoin Cryptocurrency Project Amid Security Concerns
Kenya halts the newly launched Worldcoin cryptocurrency initiative, citing inquiries into legality and potential risks to its citi...
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Uniswap Delists HEX Token From Interface – It’s Allegedly An Unregistered Security, SEC Says
Earlier this week, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed the HEX token an unregistered security. As a...
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Curve DAO (CRV) Price Recovery Post-Exploit: What Would Be A Realistic Scenario?
Curve DAO (CRV) has established itself as a prominent DeFi platform, renowned for providing ample liquidity, particularly for stab...
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Ethereum Denied Non-Security Status In Latest Court Battle Against SEC
In a recent court ruling, Ethereum (ETH) was denied non-security status in a case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss...
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Was Sam Bankman-Fried behind a scam project?
This week’s episode of The Market Report explores allegations that SBF was behind the recent BALD token rug pull and dissects why...
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Tether Swiftly Blacklists Phishing Address After $20M Theft
In a rare case of rapid response, Tether blacklisted a phishing address that swiped $20 million USDT from a zero transfer phishing...
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LeetSwap DEX Pauses Trading on Base Due to Potential Exploit
The decentralized exchange team pulls the circuit breaker to pause trading as their trading pools are potentially compromised.
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WOJAK Token Rockets Up 5,000% in 24 Hours But Experts Say It's a Scam – Here's the Next Crypto to Explode
In the latest straight-to-DEX pump, spin-off meme coin Wojak (WOJAK) has surged an eye-watering +5,000% in just 8 hours as DEX-lau...
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Base’s largest DEX, LeetSwap, halts trading amid exploit concerns
Some analysts have provided possible ways the exchange was exploited and pinned potential initial losses at over $600,000.
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