Tag: AxieInfinity

With the help of blockchain analysts firm Chainalysis, FBI agents seized $30 million worth of crypto stolen by the North Korean threat group Lazarus from the token-based play-to-earn game Axie Infinity. Hackers stole over $600 million from Axie earlier this year. The news was announced during the AxieCon event on Sept. 8, where the hosts…

Play-to-earn game Axie Infinity has completely removed the token rewards from its classic game mode to attract its users to a new game mode called Axie Infinity Origin. The team also described the move as part of its efforts to balance the economy for the SLP token. Meantime, the in-game NFT sales so far have…

Ronin Network, an Ethereum-based sidechain created by Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis to support its popular NFT-based game, was exploited by an unknown hacker and lost roughly $625 million worth of crypto on Tuesday. It may be the largest exploit in DeFi history. The Ronin Network published a blog post explaining how its network was…

Despite a decline in the crypto markets, NFT marketplaces have made a tremendous surge in the previous month. According to data from Tradingplatforms.com, NFT global sales surpassed $4 billion in the last 30 days. “2021 will go down as the breakdown year for NFTs. The growth in their sales is due to two main factors,”…