Payments Card Issuer Infini Offers Reward for Return of Funds After $49 Million Exploit
The neobank offered the perpetrator 20% of the stolen funds to return the money within 48 hours, threatening legal action otherwise.
Markets
Crypto Exchanges Start to Fill Bybit’s $1.4B Hole as Hackers Move Stolen Funds
“At Bitget we strongly believe in supporting the community and everyone contributing towards the growth of crypto,” company CEO Gracy Chen told CoinDesk.
Arthur Hayes Proposes Rolling Back Ethereum Network to Negate $1.4B Bybit Hack
I would support it because we already voted no on immutability in 2016, Hayes said on X. Others are worried that a potential rollback would hurt the Ethereum ecosystem.
Plunging U.S. Stocks Help Add to Crypto’s Bad Day
The week’s uptrend was quickly upended by the hack at crypto exchange Bybit.
Costa Rica Makes First Foray Into Crypto with New Bitcoin ETF
It will mark the first time that Costa Ricans will have access to any type of crypto investment product through the country’s banking system.
Bitcoin Hashrate Growth Slows Amid Tough Market Conditions for Smaller Miners
The latest MinerMag report shows a slowdown in Bitcoin hashrate growth amid shifting market conditions.
Metaplanet Now Holds 2,100 Bitcoin, Purchases 68 More BTC
Metaplanet reaches a milestone of 0.01% of the total bitcoin supply.
DEX SecondSwap Launches Mainnet on Ethereum With Plans for Solana Expansion
Secondary markets for locked tokens refer to platforms or mechanisms where tokens that are under some form of lock-up or vesting schedule.
CoinDesk Indices Launches CoinDesk 100, Memecoin Index in Industry Boost
Crypto exchange Bullish has listed perpetual futures on both indices, allowing traders to gain exposure to these benchmarks with deep liquidity and around-the-clock trading.
TradFi Investors Piled $38.7B Into Bitcoin ETFs, Three Times More Than Previous Quarter
Institutional investors bought $38.7 billion worth of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the fourth quarter, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed.