Breaking: Circle CEO Confirms Hack on Employee Account Promising USDC Airdrop – What's Going On?
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has revealed that the Twitter account of one of the company's top executives that promised a USDC airdrop has been hacked. Dante Disparte, who joined Circle as its chief strategy officer and hea...
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Dante Disparte, who joined Circle as its chief strategy officer and head of global policy in April 2021, said in a suspicious Twitter thread that USDC holders would get a bonus after the stablecoin's de-peg earlier this month. ...
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