The EOS Foundation plans to hardfork the EOS blockchain on September 21. This Proof-of-Stake blockchain is set to rebrand to EOSIO as the project tends to distance itself from notorious developer Block.one. In response, the EOS token has rallied more than 24% over the past 24 hours. In a tweet on August 17, the EOS…
Polkadot’s DeFi protocol Acala is struggling to edge back its native stablecoin aUSD to the dollar peg after the community voted to burn 1.29 billion of aUSD. Following a smart contract exploit that dropped the aUSD’s value, a new governance vote aims to bring the token back to its peg. These “extra” tokens were minted…
The Macalinao brothers used a web of bogus identities to create the illusion of a dev community, juicing value on the Saber protocol and Solana blockchain. Now they’re moving to Aptos. An investigation by Danny Nelson and Tracy Wang published on CoinDesk. Something about Sunny Aggregator felt off-kilter to the cryptocurrency user known as Saint…
US crypto firm Nomad has suffered a $190 million hack, blockchain analytics reported on August 3. Experts estimate the funds have been stolen from cross-chain bridges to $2 billion so far in 2022. Nomad said on an official Twitter account that it was “aware of the incident” and was currently investigating without giving further details….
Crypto venture investment firm Variant has raised $450 million across two new funds targeting the Web3 and decentralized finance market, which include $300 million for a so-called opportunity fund and $150 million to invest in nascent startups. According to Thursday’s announcement, the company raised $300 million for a so-called opportunity fund as well as a…
Web3 infrastructure provider Polygon announced the launch of Polygon zkEVM (zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine), which is set to become the first Ethereum-compatible scaling solution that uses the so-called “zero-knowledge proofs.” Thus, Polygon zkEVM aims to outpace Visa’s transaction throughput. Polygon first teased zkEVM at EthCC Paris in July 2021 and says it is designed to…
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