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On a Tuesday marked by a 4% decline in Ethereum’s (CRYPTO: ETH) value, the second largest cryptocurrency’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin was reported to have sold a portion of his holdings.  What Happened: According to PeckShield, a blockchain security company, “The address...

More than $86.6 million in cryptocurrencies were illicitly moved from the HECO Chain bridge to questionable addresses, indicating a possible ongoing breach of the bridge. Tron's (CRYPTO: TRON) founder Justin Sun has assured that HTX will cover all losses users suffered due to this security...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Tuesday addressed concerns regarding his recent cryptocurrency transfers, explaining that these transactions are not indicative of him selling for personal gain.  What Happened: Buterin posted on decentralized social media Warpost said "I...

Blockchain analysts have honed in on a significant transaction originating from a wallet associated with Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)  co-founder Vitalik Buterin. What Happened: In the transaction, Buterin transferred approximately $14.9 million worth of USD Coin (CRYPTO: USDC) to the popular...

Zunami Protocol, a decentralized finance platform, issued a warning to its users against purchasing its Zunami Ether (CRYPTO: zETH) or Zunami USD (CRYPTO: UZD) stablecoins. This came in the wake of a security breach on its "zStables" pools hosted on Curve Finance. On Aug. ...

Curve Finance (CRYPTO: CRV) has announced a reward of $1.85 million for information leading to the legal conviction of the individual or group behind the recent exploit of their system. The DeFi protocol's team stated on Aug. 6, "If the exploiter chooses to return the funds in...

Justin Sun, the founder of TRON (CRYPTO: TRX), has purchased approximately $2.9 million worth of Curve (CRYPTO: CRV) tokens from Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve Finance. The transaction was confirmed through a series of tweets and etherscan links shared by PeckShield and Lookonchain....

Cross-Chain Router Protocol Multichain has issued an urgent warning to its users after approximately $126 million worth of cryptocurrencies were drained from its platform. The service has suspended operations, with all bridge transactions currently stuck on the source chains. The company...

Euler Finance, a lending protocol that facilitates crypto lending and borrowing, has suffered a flash-loan attack resulting in a loss of $197 million, according to security firms BlockSec and PeckShield. Quoting the blockchain security firms, The Block reported that the attack took place at 4:50 am...

Distressed cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital (CRYPTO: VGX) is bolstering its liquidity by transferring large amounts of digital assets to Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN). What Happened: Data from blockchain intelligence firm PeckShield on Wednesday revealed a major outflow of 300 billion Shiba Inu (...

Thieves compromised BitKeep cryptocurrency wallets after creating an "unofficial" Android app, resulting in the theft of money from user wallets.  According to blockchain security services provider PeckShield, approximately $8 million worth of assets were stolen.  #...

Crypto play-to-earn platform Gala Games’ native token GALA (CRYPTO: GALA) dropped 20% late Thursday, as fear rose among investors about a potential hack or even worse — a rug pull. What Happened: Over a billion dollars worth of GALA was minted by a single blockchain address out of thin...

A staggering 169 new Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) contracts were created on the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and the Binance (CRYPTO: BNB) blockchains amid the popular meme coins stupendous rally, which saw its price increase by about 25% in the last 24 hours and an eye-watering 150% over the previous...

The hacker behind a recent DeFi exploit appears to have forgotten to transfer the stolen funds out of the attack contract. What Happened: DeFi lending protocol Zeed (CRYPTO: YEED) was the victim of the latest exploit where bad actors managed to extract funds from the protocol by exploiting a...

Blockchain security firm PeckShield on Sunday warned that DogeMother, one of the many Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) offshoots, is actually a scam.  DogeMother, which has a total supply of 1,000,000 tokens, was once touted as “the most caring” new coin that was “unruggable....