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Polkadot hits all-time high in development activity
According to data from programming repository GitHub, Polkadot recognized more than 500 contributions each day in September — an all-time high for the multichain…
North Korea’s Lazarus behind years of crypto hacks in Japan: Police
Japan’s national police have pinned North Korean hacking group, Lazarus, as the organization behind several years of crypto-related cyber attacks. In the public…
Blockchain gaming adoption means more options for gamers
Over the past couple of years, games that use blockchain technology have increased their presence in the gaming industry.While there were early examples like…
Stellar Development Foundation launches $100M fund to support native smart contract…
Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the nonprofit organization supporting the development of the Stellar network, has launched a new funding initiative to…
TempleDAO exploit results in $2M loss
TempleDAO, a yield-farming decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, lost over $2.34 million to a hack on Oct. 11. The exploit was announced by Twitter user Spreek,…
Grayscale fires first salvo in case against SEC over Bitcoin ETF refusal
Digital asset manager Grayscale has filed its opening brief against the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to challenge its decision denying…
JPMorgan and Visa team up on cross-border blockchain payments
Traditional finance and payment giants JPMorgan and Visa are teaming up to streamline the use of their private blockchain solutions Liink and B2B Connect to…
GameFi will become the onboarding point for Metaverse — Animoca Brands CEO
The $200 billion gaming industry is rapidly becoming a key point of interaction between Web2 and Web3. In recent times, a growing number of gaming companies have…
Mango Markets hacker proposes steep settlement
On Oct. 12, one day after $117 million was drained from Solana DeFi platform Mango Markets via a price feed exploit, the hacker responsible for the attack…
Axie Infinity player count falls back to Jan 2021 levels
According to the game statistics site Activeplayer, the average monthly number of users playing the monster-battle nonfungible tokens (NFT) game Axie Infinity has…