Sanctions on dozens of Russian centralized exchanges and a decline in onchain payments made by victims helped reduce extortion figures.
Ripple CTO David Schwartz confirmed the XRP Ledger network is now back up and running, with no loss of user funds.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
A gang who extorted a vulnerable man for £100,000 in cryptocurrency over several months has been sentenced to over 76 years in prison.
This Geth update addresses an issue in the peer-to-peer (p2p) layer that could potentially lead to denial of service attacks.
Chronicle, which was spun out of MakerDAO’s “oracle team,” secures about 23% of total value locked on Ethereum.
The crypto industry lost a further $73.9 million in January due to exploits, representing a ninefold increase month-over-month.
The unit, originally a part of the largest Bitcoin mining pool Foundry, will focus on mining bitcoin and other "high-growth digital assets."
Storm faces a maximum prison sentence of 45 years for money laundering related charges in his part in developing crypto mixer Tornado Cash.
The disclosure was made after crypto sleuth ZachXBT wrote about the exploit in his “Investigations by Zach” Telegram channel.
More than $70 million worth of cryptocurrencies were drained from the platform, likely by a sophisticated group of actors.
Gelato and Kraken will run challengers, making Ink the first Superchain network to feature multiple challengers at launch.
The hacker appeared to link a fake X account as a Nasdaq affiliate and used the Nasdaq account to share its post promoting a memecoin.
The airdrop will account for 7.5% of the total OBOL supply. There are “three main buckets” of recipients, Thomas Heremans said.
The publicly traded company formerly known as Marathon Digital mined a portrait of Donald Trump using a strategy of ordering transactions it invented.
TRM Labs found illicit volume is down 24% since 2023 to $45 billion, representing just 0.4% of overall crypto transactions.
The attackers now opt for more 'sophisticated' malware to target crypto investors via trading or airdrop groups on Telegram.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
With approximately 70% of outstanding SOL staked, Solana restaking represents a $76 billion market opportunity.
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It’s crucial to securely back up and store your seed phrase in multiple safe places, ensuring that you’re the only one who can access it when needed.
The buyout marks a pivot toward threat prevention for Chainalysis.
Hardware wallet provider Ledger has linked a recent loss of funds by one of its users to a phishing attack in February 2022.
Decentralized identity systems leverage blockchain technology to establish a secure, user-centric framework for managing identities.
Developers must prioritize user protection in the DeFi landscape.
Security researchers claimed that the vulnerability could have been used to crash the entire Dogecoin network.
Instead of holding physical money, crypto wallets store private keys — digital codes that give you access to your cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin policy advocate Dennis Porter recently said he expects states to establish Bitcoin reserves before the federal government.
The Dec. 8 segment on the news program featuring Brad Garlinghouse did not mention that a federal judge ruled XRP was not a security in specific cases.