Blockchain

Telegram trading bots, which have been turning the messaging platform into a quasi-crypto marketplace, pose significant security risks for users and require further scrutiny, according to blockchain security firms. While such trading bots have existed for years, they’ve recently gained attention as crypto markets gain and associated bot tokens have gained in price, blockchain security firm

Colorado-based Bitcoin mining firm Riot Platforms narrowed its second quarter net loss to $27.7 million as it ramped up its Bitcoin production and reached record hash rate capacity. The crypto miner posted total revenue of $76.7 million — up 5.2% from Q2 2022 — which was primarily driven by a 27% year-on-year increase in Bitcoin

The United States Federal Reserve is broadening the scope of its supervision program which oversees U.S. banks that engage with the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. An Aug. 8 announcement by the Federal Reserve Board established the Novel Activities Supervision Program which aims to limit certain crypto-related activities and facilitate a more fair playing field for

Crypto exchange Blockchain.com has been granted a payments license from Singapore’s central bank — the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Blockchain.com announced on Aug. 7 it received its major payment institution (MPI) from MAS on Aug. 1 allowing it to provide what the regulator calls digital payment token services to institutional and accredited investors. The exchange’s

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance is extending a bug bounty offer to anyone who is able to identify the exploiter responsible for draining over $61 million from its pools on July 30.  Curve and other protocols affected by the attack offered a 10% bug bounty to the hacker on Aug. 3, totaling more than

Lending platform Alchemix has announced the return of all stolen funds by the Curve finance hacker. The attack took place on July 30 and resulted in over $61 million in cryptocurrencies drained, including $13.6 million from Alchemix’s alETH-ETH pool.  Along with Alchemix, JPEGd’s pETH-ETH pool saw outflows of $11.4 million, and Metronome’s sETH-ETH pool was

Venture capital interest in cryptocurrency has decreased significantly since the bull run of 2021. At $2.3 trillion in market capitalization, every VC wanted a piece of the industry. The picture is now very different. Another dominant force in the market has attracted the vast majority of venture funding over the past year: artificial intelligence large

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Curve, Metronome and Alchemix have jointly announced an initiative to recover stolen funds from the recent exploits of Curve’s pools. According to on-chain data, the protocols are offering a 10% bounty of the stolen funds as a reward, urging those responsible for the exploit to step forward and return the remaining

KPMG has released a report on Bitcoin and ESG (environment, social and governance) issues. The professional services firm, one of the world’s Big Four, found that Bitcoin “appears to provide a number of benefits across an ESG framework.” Looking at each component of ESG separately, the report noted that emissions is a more significant indicator

Gaming retail company GameStop has announced it will remove its digital wallets from the market starting in November, citing “regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space.” In a notice posted to its website, GameStop said iOS and Chrome Extension wallets will no longer be available starting on Nov. 1, advising users to ensure they have access

The cryptocurrency market is having its worst month of 2023, according to a report from Web3 outlet De.Fi shared with Cointelegraph. Losses for July totaled $486 million, more than six times the total from 2022: Source: Document shared with Cointelegraph, via De.Fi The report comes on the heels of several high profile hacks and exploits

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are undergoing a stress test following a critical vulnerability was found on versions of Vyper programming language, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrencies on July 30. A number of pools using Vyper 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 have been exploited due to a malfunctioning reentrancy lock, targeting

Top Stories This Week Crypto bills pass congressional committee in ‘huge win’ for US crypto A key United States House panel has approved a pair of bills that could finally deliver some regulatory clarity to crypto firms in the country. On July 26, lawmakers voted in favor of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the

Scanning your iris to become a “verified human” in exchange for digital currency sounds like a Black Mirror episode. But this is not the story arc of a dystopian science fiction show — it’s happening now with one of the latest projects in Web3. The launch of Worldcoin on Optimism has left many wondering whether

Paul Munter, chief accountant of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), has released a statement warning accounting firms of their obligations to the agency when working with crypto firms. Allowing their finding to be misrepresented could have serious consequences, he said.    Crypto firms may engage accountants to “perform some sort of review of

In 2018, Ethereum lead developer Fabian Vogelsteller contacted the community for a new standard for smart contracts he created alongside co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Dubbed ERC-20, Vogelsteller, at the time, only wished for input regarding the novel idea. Little did he know that ERC-20 would ignite a wave of initial coin offerings (ICOs) shortly after its

Josh Gerben, a trademark attorney with Gerben Intellectual Property, has suggested the company formerly known as Twitter could spend upwards of $100 million in dealing with litigation as a result of the X rebranding. In a July 25 X thread, Gerben predicted that lawsuits against X related to trademark infringement could appear in United States

Worldcoin (WLD), the native token of the “privacy-preserving digital identity (World ID)” project founded by OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, soared after listing on major crypto exchanges on July 24.  At the time of writing, WLD trades at $2.22, reflecting a 33% gain on the day. Despite criticism from nearly every corner of the crypto sector,