Hackers take over CoinDCX Twitter account, promote fake XRP ads
A hacker took over CoinDCX’s official Twitter account and has constantly been tweeting XRP scam links.
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Citi Says Ether Remains Relatively Stable Despite Significance of the Merge
Issuance of ETH tokens is estimated to drop 90% to around 600,000 a year, the bank said.
UK to change Online Safety Bill limits on ‘legal but harmful’ content for adults
Changes are incoming to draft online safety legislation in the UK which continues to attract controversy over the impact on free speech. The draft Online Safety Bill has already been years in the making but new prime minister Liz Truss signalled earlier this month that she wants “tweaks” to ensure it does not harm freedom … Read more
Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Hacked for $160M, OTC Services Unaffected
Cryptocurrency market maker and liquidity provider Wintermute has lost $160 million in a hack relating to its DeFi business, according to a tweet from the company’s founder and CEO.
DTCP taps SoftBank as an anchor LP for its next $500-600M fund
Last week, we got a glimpse of how SoftBank is pulling away from some of its more exuberant investing of the past years, when news broke that it had sold its entire stake in edtech startup Kahoot, at a loss. This week, we’re getting a look at what SoftBank is doing to diversify how it … Read more
Sources say Web Summit Ventures will be a new $40M follow-on fund
Web Summit, one of the world’s largest events centered around technology startups, is to launch a brand new venture capital vehicle consisting of two new funds, TechCrunch understands. The move follows an acrimonious fall-out between Web Summit’s co-founders, who first started the now-defunct Amaranthine VC fund in 2018, in part to join the ballooning investment … Read more
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YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found. Using video recommendations data from more than 20,000 YouTube users, Mozilla researchers found that buttons like “not interested,” “dislike,” “stop recommending channel,” and “remove from … Read more
Apache Shenyu Project Graduates
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Apple is raising prices on App Store across multiple countries in Asia and Europe
Apple announced major price hikes for in-app purchases on App Store in multiple countries across Asia and Europe from October 5. The company said new prices will affect consumers in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use Euro. While the firm didn’t specify the reason behind this, … Read more
Nigeria’s YC-backed Remedial Health raises $4.4M seed funding
Early this year, Nigerian health-tech startup Remedial Health announced plans to scale within the West African country digitizing pharmacies and bringing efficiency in the pharmaceutical supply chain after raising seed funding. The YC-backed startup has since February grown its reach from six to 16 states within the populous nation, and plans to cover the remaining … Read more
DeFi platform sees strong interest in halal-approved crypto products
Navigating crypto is made more difficult for those with religious considerations and the founder of an Islamic law compliant DeFi platform has thousands of users seeking approved cryptocurrencies.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shares vision for layer 3 protocols
While layer-2 protocols have been focused on “scalability,” layer-3 protocols would serve a much different purpose, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
Nifty News: The Sandbox hosts its first wedding, Hollywood actor auctions photo of eye as NFT and more
Palm Beach gets its own NFT restaurant offering a range of benefits for members, while the PGA partners with Tom Brady-backed NFT platform Autograph.
‘FED sledgehammer’ will further batter BTC, ETH prices, says Bloomberg analyst
With the Merge resulting in a ‘buy the rumor, sell the news event,’ Mike McGlone thinks that ETH might drop to “$1,000, or even get a bit lower” given how hawkish the Fed has been.
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Voyager Seeks to ‘Unwind’ Alameda Loan
Alameda owes Voyager approximately $200 million in an outstanding crypto loan, from a line of credit that was worth $377 million before the market downturn.
Yield Guild Games: Web3 gaming adoption needs a local touch
YGG’s head of ecosystem development described subDAOs as “sort of its own economy, that has its own treasury and its own token” with its own characteristics depending on the country it’s located in.