Crypto Exchange BingX Hacked, Onchain Data Shows Over $43M Drained
Hacker have moved the stolen assets to decentralized exchanges.
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Crypto Investment Firm Deus X Capital Unveils DeFi Unit Which Will Start New Yield Generating Protocol
The first protocol will be launched in 2025 with more than $100 million in total value locked.
U.S. Election Betting: CFTC, Kalshi Both Grilled by Judges in Appeals Court
A panel of judges grilled attorneys for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and prediction-betting platform Kalshi over the company’s efforts to launch political prediction markets in the U.S., without indicating whether they’d allow Kalshi to offer these products while reviewing a lower court’s ruling on the products.
DeFi Lender Sky Ratifies Plan to Offboard Wrapped Bitcoin, Due to Sun Concerns
The matter has been closely followed in crypto markets, since the Sky platform has $200 million of loans collateralized by the token, and since WBTC is one of the biggest cryptocurrencies, with nearly $10 billion outstanding.
German Government Shuts Down 47 Exchanges, Says They’re Tied To ‘Illegal Activity’
The German Attorney General’s Office Frankfurt am Main (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft) and the country’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) have shut down 47 crypto exchanges allegedly tied to criminal activities including money laundering.
Bitcoin Faces Key Test at $64K as Altcoins Lead Crypto Rally; Options Traders Bet on $70K BTC Next Month
The broad-based CoinDesk 20 Index outperformed BTC and ETH, with all of its constituents advancing through the day and SOL, AVAX and APT gaining 10%-15%.
Ethereum Developers Confirm Plan to Split ‘Pectra’ Upgrade In Two
The decision to split up the upgrade wasn’t unexpected. Developers had been discussing previously that Pectra was becoming too ambitious to ship all at once, and expressed desires to split it in order to minimize the risk of finding bugs in the code.
Police Arrests Two People Related to $243M Crypto Heist Targeting Genesis Creditor
Two people have been arrested following an investigation into a $243 million heist of a creditor of defunct trading firm Genesis, according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Surges 5.3% With All Assets in the Green
AVAX jumped 12.5% and APT rose 9.9%, leading the gainers.
Inside OKX’s Strategic Shifts to Its Regulatory Approach, Formula 1 Branding and App Design
OKX has rethought the strategy in three major areas; the look and tech aspects of its application, its approach toward regulation and expansion, and its brand strategy as the primary partner of McLaren Formula 1 Team, OKX CMO Haider Rafique told CoinDesk in an interview.