Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals have returned to the Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX, formerly Huobi, after it suffered a $30 million exploit on Nov. 22. In a Nov. 26 blog post, HTX said deposit and withdrawal functionality is back for multiple currencies, including BTC, Ether, Tron and Tether. In a later post on X (Twitter), Justin Sun said…
Indexed Finance, an Ethereum-based project that suffered a $16 million hack in 2021, has successfully thwarted two hijacking attempts. Control of the project’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will be returned to its founders, who aim to allocate the remaining treasury to victims of the 2021 hack. In a thread on X (formerly Twitter), Laurence Day, a former…
Developers working on the Bitcoin layer 2 Lightning Network have become less security-oriented and more focused on producing cash flow for their investors, argues a former Lightning Network developer. Bitcoin core developer and security researcher Antoine Riard, made headlines last month after leaving the Lightning ecosystem over concerns about a new attack vector called “replacement cycling,” which exploiters…