This weekend, the Lazarus Group was busy redistributing the stolen funds from the Harmony Bridge breach. The cryptocurrency exchanges involving substantial sums of Ether were documented by blockchain detective ‘ZachXBT‘ on January 16. Tornado Cash, an anonymous cryptocurrency service, was the initial source of the crypto funds that were processed
Similar to the withdrawal panic that plagued many exchanges last year. Nexo, a cryptocurrency lender, is experiencing difficulties after Thursday’s raid of its headquarters. Nexo is reportedly being investigated by the attorney general of Bulgaria. And another 300 investigators from different authorities, as was reported on January 12, 2023. Moreover,
Creditors of Singapore-based cryptocurrency lending platform Hodlnaut have rejected the company’s suggested restructuring plan and instead demand liquidation of the platform’s assets. The group of creditors did not approve of a restructuring proposal. That would have kept the present board of directors in place throughout the transition period. Reports from
Mycelium, a Web3 ecosystem comprised of many products, recently revealed that price feed problems had caused losses in one of its liquidity pools. Additionally, the IP address of the protocol was blacklisted by the Binance API component. Team members from Mycelium issued a statement on January 7th, 2023, saying that
Moody’s downgrade and Ark Invest selling off of Silvergate Bank’s shares indicate deteriorating conditions at the financial institution. There was a run on the bank and it has been linked to the FTX crash. Ark Invest, Cathie Wood’s investment vehicle, reportedly sold more than 400,000 shares of parent firm Silvergate
Digital Currency Group (DCG), Genesis Global’s parent business, has chosen to shut down its wealth section hours after word of the layoffs spread. Genesis has been experiencing significant liquidity difficulty since the FTX crash, and this is the latest hint of concern. A spokesman for Digital Currency Group (DCG) stated
Officially announcing the acquisition of Diem Group, a Facebook-affiliated firm, and its intellectual property and other technology assets essential to run the blockchain-based payment system, Silvergate made the deal public in February of last year. In 2021, Facebook stopped working on its digital currency project because of intense scrutiny from
SushiSwap, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform built on Ethereum, has decided to disable both its lending mechanism, Kashi, and its token launchpad, Miso. In contrast to centralized exchanges like Coinbase, SushiSwap was founded in 2020 and enables clients to swap, lend, and borrow cryptocurrencies. Using their own external wallets like
Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini, expressed frustration in an open letter to Barry Silbert, CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), about the company’s slow response in regards to stopping Genesis withdrawals. About 340,000 Earn customers are still waiting for withdrawals to be restored, and he addressed their plight. Collectively, the
Total value locked (TVL) for Lido Finance, one of several decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, has risen to the top since the Ethereum merging in September. DeFiLlama reports that as of right now, Lido’s liquid staking protocol has a total market cap of $5.96 billion in TVL, which is more than
