Man turns $88K into $415M with Tesla, then sues after losing it all
Christopher DeVocht made a large share of his wealth from Tesla options before its share price tanked in 2022, triggering a cascade of problems for the trader.
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Thursday, Sept. 26 — After Tuesday’s sudden crash, altcoins seemingly entered a consolidation phase yesterday and for the better part of today, until signs of a new downward price trend reared its ugly head.Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360Altcoins are still reeling from Tuesday’s painful correction, which saw double-digit losses. Bitcoin SV (BSV) took the…

Pyth flips Chainlink in 30-day volume, Chronicle CEO weighs in
Pyth Network’s pull-based model has driven high transaction volumes, intensifying the Oracle’s competition with Chainlink.

Era Lend on zkSync exploited for $3.4M in reentrancy attack
The lending app was drained of funds using a “read-only reentrancy” bug, a type of vulnerability that is often difficult for auditors to spot. Lending app Era Lend on zkSync has been exploited for $3.4 million worth of crypto, according to a July 25 report from blockchain security firm CertiK. The attacker used a “read-only…

US regulator touts to ‘aggressively police’ crypto in new report
The U.S. commodities regulator certainly doesn’t want to look like it's going easy on crypto, revealing it was behind 18 separate enforcement actions targeting digital assets in the 2022 fiscal year. In an Oct. 20 report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a total of 82 enforcement actions were filed in 2022’s fiscal year, imposing…

Price analysis 3/10: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, MATIC, SOL, DOT, SHIB
Bitcoin (BTC) led a sharp sell-off in the cryptocurrency markets on March 9 as the woes at Silvergate Bank and Silicon Valley Bank dented investor sentiment. In addition, crypto-specific news of a suit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James against cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin for selling securities and commodities without registration increased uncertainty about the…

Crypto hackers take new spin on fake job scam, dropping ‘nasty’ malware
Rather than tricking victims into opening malware-infested PDFs or running malicious video calling software, this attack method prompts victims to fix a microphone and camrea access issue.

UST aftermath: Is there any future for algorithmic stablecoins?
TerraUSD (UST) is an algorithmic stablecoin that is pegged at $1.00. But, on the evening of May 19, it was trading for $0.083.This isn’t supposed to happen, of course, but last week UST, along with its affiliated coin Terra (LUNA), performed a sort of death spiral that “wiped nearly $50 billion of investor wealth in…

IOSCO says DeFi is quickly evolving and ‘cloning financial markets’
IOSCO Chair Ashley Alder recognizes that “DeFi is a novel and fast-growing area of financial services.” 175 Total views 25 Total shares As decentralized finance (DeFi) space grows, regulators are giving more effort to conducting research and providing a means to better understand the emerging industry.Today, the International Organization of Securities (IOSCO) published a report…