Symbiosis is offering a 20% bounty for information leading to asset recovery after the hacker refused to return the stolen funds for the same white-hat bounty. Cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis said it recovered 15 Bitcoin, worth around $1.1 million, from a Bitcoin bridge exploit it suffered Friday. Symbiosis said it recovered 15 Bitcoin (BTC) into …
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TLDR Ethereum trades near $2,507, with analyst Ali Charts pointing to $3,000 if ETH closes the week above $2,550. A triangle pattern on the 12-hour chart mirrors a setup that led to a 31% gain in three days. Ethereum ETFs pulled in $216.41 million on September 11, led by BlackRock’s ETHA. RSI sits at 51.77 …
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Polymarket traders give Anthropic a 66% chance of closing its first trading day above a $2 trillion market cap, even though a second contract says its initial public offering (IPO) will most likely price below that line. Two Markets, One Gap The figure Polymarket posted on Sunday comes from its Anthropic IPO closing market cap …
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The XRP Ledger crammed a record 3,254 transactions into one ledger on Sept. 13, yet 2,000 of them were identical 1-drop payments fired by just 20 wallets. The Number on the Explorer The record belongs to ledger 106,965,249, which closed on Sunday, Sept. 13, holding 3,254 transactions. Hussein Zangana, the XRP Ledger Foundation community director …
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Threat actors who targeted Revolut are now publicly posting sensitive customer data and threatening to release more every day unless the fintech pays up. The threat actors say they initially contacted the company with information demands before beginning to share details including those of prominent clients. They are also promising to release more messages, operational …
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Thousands of Michigan residents are opening new enhanced driver’s licenses and state IDs that show the same unknown man’s photo and a fake birthdate instead of their own details. About 8,200 people who applied for or renewed the documents were hit by the production mix-up, reports the New York Post. State officials say vendor Idemia …
Federal authorities are dismantling a major illicit online marketplace used by scammers and restraining $52 million in cryptocurrency assets. The U.S. Department of Justice says the action forms part of an ongoing effort by a dedicated Strike Force targeting scam centers. In a related move during the same period another team supported local authorities in …
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Unnamed industry participants reportedly warned that UK fund rule uncertainty could slow tokenized gold development and limit investor access. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reportedly considering whether tokenized gold products should be exempt from some fund rules as part of a broader push to expand tokenization in wholesale markets. According to a …
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ARKB, GBTC and IBIT led Bitcoin ETF withdrawals, while BlackRock’s ETHA pushed Ether ETFs into weekly inflows. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $462.7 million in net outflows last week, reversing after three consecutive weeks of inflows, while Ether ETFs moved the other way with nearly $197 million in net inflows. According to Farside …
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Researchers led by Ludovic Slimak at the University of Toulouse sequenced DNA from a tooth belonging to Thorin, a Neanderthal found at Grotte Mandrin in France’s Rhône Valley and dated to about 42,000 years ago. The analysis, published in Cell Genomics, shows long-term inbreeding and no genetic mixing with modern humans, pointing to a population …
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Before the crypto exchange FTX collapsed, the company and several senior executives, including Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), poured tens of millions of dollars into Washington, recruited former government officials, and championed legislation billed as consumer protection. To this very day, some critics believe FTX’s broader ambition was regulatory capture, a strategy in which one of an …
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On Sunday night, Senate Republicans released an updated draft of the CLARITY Act with changes to the ethics and other relevant provisions to sway Democrats to vote for the bill on Tuesday. However, it is still unclear whether these changes will be enough for Democrats to support the bill. Senate Republicans Update CLARITY Act With …
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Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina stated that the digital ruble launch had progressed smoothly and that the number of accounts had jumped by nearly 87,000 over ten days, prompted by the instrument’s novelty and users’ curiosity to test how it works. Bank of Russia Reveals Digital Ruble Accounts Rose to Record Levels Since Its …
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According to a myriad of reports, a drone strike reportedly launched from Iraq paralyzed Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, also known as Petroline. Between the pipeline and the Strait of Hormuz disruption, Brent crude oil prices jumped 3% to $109 a barrel. Petroline Strike Sends Oil to $109 as Global Markets Flinch Earlier this week, drones …
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The 635-page revised proposal includes Trump-backed ethics provisions and comes just two days before a key procedural vote. Senate Republicans on Sunday released revised text of the CLARITY Act aimed at swaying Democrats ahead of a procedural vote on Tuesday, featuring major changes to rules relating to government officials’ involvement with digital assets. The 635-page …
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