Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 18, 2021

Other participants in the round were Collab+Currency, Sfermion, Mirana Ventures, Bitscale Capital, and Mantle EcoFund. NPC Labs said it plans to use the proceeds to act as a core contributor to B3.fun, an ecosystem that looks to build Web3 games on Base. NPC Labs, a developer looking to build a GameFi ecosystem on the Base

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Hackers have been mining crypto on government servers in Russia, including defense contractors and medical centers, expert says.(Minerva Studio/Shutterstock)Feb 5, 2021 at 6:21 p.m. UTCHackers Are Trying to Mine Crypto Using Russian Government Servers, Expert SaysHackers are increasingly attacking Russia’s government IT infrastructure to mine crypto, a law enforcement-affiliated expert said in a conference on…

Feb 16, 2020 at 14:21 UTCUpdated Feb 16, 2020 at 14:32 UTCPhoto by pixpoetry on UnsplashThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. With the price of bitcoin headed up again, the idea of blockchains and digital currencies has never been more palatable to the mainstream. We've seen this cycle before, but could…

The venture capital arm of Binance has invested $10 million in Radiant Capital, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and borrowing protocol.The new funds will go toward tech and product development, which includes expanding collateral and deployment on the Ethereum mainnetRadiant is built on architecture from LayerZero Labs, another Binance Labs portfolio company. The lending platform…

Bitcoin (BTC) rise above $27,000 proved short-lived, as the token tumbled about 2% in minutes during early afternoon U.S. hours to $26,700.The largest and oldest cryptocurrency had advanced to as high as $27,420 earlier Monday, its highest price since late August.BTC was still up 0.8% over the past 24 hours, underperforming the broad-market proxy CoinDesk

Ethereum is swarming with bots that are programmed to front-run transactions. The bots exploit the brief window of time between when transactions are submitted, and when they're officially finalized, to copy trades from other users, quickly execute them, and in doing so eat into any would-be profits.It's a practice called maximal extractable value (MEV), and

news Algorand is gaining the ability to analyze the largest blockchains by adding the PARSIQ monitoring system to its platform, company executives told CoinDesk. PARSIQ is a monitoring tool for compliance officers, market analysts, blockchain developers and researchers. The advance brings new business insights to the blockchain first proposed by MIT professor Silvio Micali, such as…

feature With the Turkish lira dropping to a six-month low against the dollar last week, bitcoin is continuing to pick up even more traction in Istanbul. Andy Cheung, head of operations at the global crypto exchange OKEx, told CoinDesk that over 30,000 Turkish users signed up for the platform since it expanded services to Turkey…