Cryptocurrency

Alex Gluchowski, the co-founder and CEO of zkSync creator Matter Labs, has denied copy-pasting code from Polygon Zero, after the zero-knowledge scaling firm accused them of copying the code from their system without proper attribution.  On Aug. 3, Polygon Zero published a long blog post saying they believe Matter Labs copied what they described as

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been recently inundated with applications for Ether (ETH) futures exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with a grand total of 11 Ether-based filings being submitted in less than a week.  The latest ProShares ETF application was filed on Aug. 3 and proposes an equal weight Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether

Optimism (OP) is a Layer 2 scaling solution, which operates as a separate blockchain built on top of Ethereum. Despite having a smaller total value locked (TVL) than its rivals, Optimism may still have the potential to thrive in the increasingly competitive DeFi landscape.  Being one of the pioneers in the DeF space, Optimism initially

Polygon’s zero-knowledge scaling arm, Polygon Zero, is accusing developers of Matter Labs of copy-pasting “a substantial amount of source code” from its Plonky2 library, according to an announcement on Aug. 3. The allegedly plagiarized code was found on zkSync, a competitor layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum powered by zero-knowledge technology. Matter Labs is the developer of

Coinbase’s Base network has released a user interface (UI) for its official bridge, allowing end users to onboard for the first time without relying on developer tools, according to an Aug. 3 announcement. The team has set Aug. 9 as Base’s “official” release date. The team will award over 100 Ether (ETH), worth approximately $184,000,

Unibot (UNIBOT) token was among the top crypto gainers in July as its price rallied by 400% in a month to reach an all-time high of $199.90 on July 28. The project defied the market’s negative trend as both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) dropped by nearly 4%. However, by August 3, 2023, the token’s

Let’s get business out of the way before getting to the fun part: Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, is heavily involved in virtual worlds through its metaverse unit, Reality Labs.  However, its investments have yet to pay off, with the metaverse company reporting collective losses of over $40 billion.  Despite the

Amid growing uncertainty around Curve exposure for many decentralized finance protocols, Aave Chan founder Marc Zeller has proposed that Aave Treasury buy $2 million worth of CRV tokens in USDT from Curve Founder Michael Egorov. The proposal noted that the $2 million worth of Curve DAO Tokens (CRV) acquisition would send a strong signal of

As it continues to grow, liquid staking brings considerable risks to the space and needs better decentralization, according to a report published by digital asset firm HashKey Capital.  According to the report, the overall liquid staking derivatives (LSD) market has surged to more than $22 billion in total value locked in 2023. In addition, the

Ethereum gas consumption of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) has gone through significant drops since its highs in 2021. Marketplaces and NFT projects that occupied top spots in terms of gas consumption at the time have since shown a sharp decline in two years.  Data shared by the on-chain analytics platform Glassnode shows that gas usage by

Crypto-spouting Twitter bots could be playing a much larger role in artificially inflating the price of altcoins than previously understood, a new study has suggested. Using a sample of various FTX-listed cryptocurrencies in a study published Aug. 2, the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) said it analyzed over 3 million tweets posted between Jan. 1, 2019, to

The Curve Finance lending protocol has terminated governance token rewards for select liquidity pools affected by the July 30 Curve exploit and July 6 Multichain exploit, according to an Aug. 2 social media post from a member of the protocol’s governing body.  The ending of rewards was carried out by the Curve emergency decentralized autonomous

Kanis Saengchote, a researcher at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, recently developed a framework for identifying and measuring systemic risk in decentralized finance (DeFi) institutions.  The new protocol is called the Global Systematically Important Protocol (G-SIP), and it’s based on a similar endeavor instituted in the traditional banking industry. After the global banking crisis of 2008,

AAVE, the governance token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave, experienced a 17% decline between July 30 and August 1, reaching the $62 level.  While the $62 support has demonstrated its resilience, the current price of $64.40 is still 12% below the daily close on July 30. Investors are now questioning whether this movement

The Litecoin halving event has been completed with block rewards now halved at 6.25 Litecoin (LTC) per block.  On Aug. 2, the Litecoin blockchain went through its automated halving procedure at block 2,520,000. LTC miners are now getting half the rewards and the clock has been reset for the next halving in roughly four years’

Blockchain chat app OpenChat has enabled users to create Discord-like servers called “Communities,” according to an Aug. 2 announcement. Early UX prototype for OpenChat Communities. Source: OpenChat OpenChat is a blockchain-based chat app running on the Internet Computer (ICP) network. It facilitates mostly crypto-oriented chat groups, including some with a few thousand members. LootMoneyArmy (3,201

The new cryptocurrency and digital identity project, Worldcoin, is facing a rough start in Kenya, with the government halting all local activity associated with it. Kenya’s minister of internal security took to Facebook on Aug. 2 to announce that the country has suspended the activities of Worldcoin until relevant public agencies had certified the absence

On July 30, Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange on Ethereum, suffered a hack due to a vulnerability in certain pools built using the Vyper programming language. The price of CRV dropped 20.91% on the day of the hack, falling to a two-month low of $0.58. On the next day, the decline in CRV continued to

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform SushiSwap is set to integrate with the growing blockchain protocol, Core, tapping into the protocol’s unique consensus mechanism to provide a broad set of DeFi services to its cross-chain functionality. The integration is touted to increase the possibilities for developers building within the Core ecosystem, with decentralized applications built on the

A scammer using zero transfer phishing attack managed to steal $20 million worth of Tether (USDT) on Aug. 1 before getting blacklisted by the stablecoin’s issuer Tether. According to an update from on-chain analytic firm PeckShield, A zero transfer scammer grabbed 20 million USDT from the victim address 0x4071…9Cbc. The intended address that the victim

According to one insider, Chinese police are after Web3 co-founders, not to serve and protect, but for their wallets.  In a recent blog post, Wuwei Liang, the brother of imprisoned CoinXP co-founder Liang Liang, warned that under no circumstances should executives hand over their private keys when detained by Chinese police. Responding to news of