Chinese trader laundered more than $17M for Lazarus Group in 25 hacks

According to a recent report from crypto analytics specialists Chainalysis, Ethereum (ETH) has become the crypto platform of choice for scam artists. Its research suggests that 2018 saw far more sophisticated, higher-earning scams carried out using ETH, although the actual number of these crimes dropped significantly year on year.The amount stolen through ETH-based scams doubled…

Celo aims to promote green use cases and rebalance its treasury with green asset-backed tokens with the help of Uniswap. 147 Total views 2 Total shares A new community proposal was introduced in the Uniswap governance forum to deploy the protocol on the Celo blockchain, which is a mobile-first, carbon-negative and Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible network.The…

Proponents paint Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as antidotes to totalitarian governments and central banks. Simultaneously, international corporations and startups alike have designed blockchain platforms and products that could be used on behalf of totalitarian governments and central banks. Microsoft body activity dataOne example is Microsoft, which applied for a patent for a cryptocurrency system using…

Switzerland’s national bank should work with large industry players to develop a Swiss franc token, according to a report by the Avenir Suisse think tank on June 4.Avenir Suisse is an independent privately funded think tank, with a yearly budget of reportedly 5 million Swiss francs ($5 million).Despite the opportunities that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is…

Crypto data tracker CoinMarketCap.com (CMC) has launched a professional, paid API targeting developers and funds, according to an official announcement published August 1. The new product reportedly aims to serve as a key “pipeline” that will provide accurate and differentiated data for developers and funds across crypto product prices, market capitalization, conversions, and trading pair data…

The company said that the open-source token standard intends to tie a physical item to a digital token on the Ethereum blockchain. 89 Total views 2 Total shares Anime-inspired nonfungible token (NFT) project Azuki has released a Physical Backed Token (PBT) — an open-source token standard that ties a physical item to a digital token…

In a series of  recent interviews and speeches, United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has called the cryptocurrencies market the “Wild West” due to its unregulated and allegedly fraud-filled atmosphere, predicting that the coins were doomed to fail. Powers On… is a monthly opinion column from Marc Powers, who spent much of…

White hat hackers have earned $32,000 in bounties over the last two months by reporting security holes in crypto and blockchain projects, according to a report by Hard Fork on May 20.This lump sum of over $30,000 was distributed by 15 firms from March 28 to May 16 and documented in 30 public bug reports,…

Meta AI announced the launch of ‘Code Llama,’ a community-licensed artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool built on the Llama2 large language model (LLM), on Aug. 24.The new tool is a fine-tuned version of LLama2 that’s been trained specifically for the purpose of generating and discussing computer code. According to a blog post from Meta, Code…