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2021-12-16 20:58:21 ​Everscale will launch a $ 75 million program to attract large investments in the project

The Governing Council of Everscale (formerly Free TON), following an on-chain vote, approved a proposal to launch the Crystal Hands program to attract large investments in a crypto project.

Crystal Hands will have a budget of 280 million EVER coins (about $ 75 million at the time of writing). The DeFi Alliance will be responsible for its implementation.

Under the terms of the program, the Alliance will determine the amount of coins to be sold in accordance with current market conditions, network security and buyer's profile.

The investor will be able to receive a significant discount to the market price of EVER, provided the coins are blocked for a period of 6 months or more.

The DeFi Alliance will be able to sell coins directly and involve third-party projects in the fundraising and selection process. When making successful deals, intermediaries will be paid commissions.

The proceeds from EVER's sales will be used to develop the Everscale ecosystem, including increasing liquidity in DeFi and NFT applications, advertising the project, financing grants and listing on major exchanges.

The Crystal Hands budget was transferred to a dedicated multi-signature wallet. He has five custodians: Bitscale, BR Capital, Broxus, Minergate, and Warp Capital. Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-16 10:24:04 ​Cryptocurrency startup Ramp raises $ 52.7 million

In October, The Block reported that the Warsaw and London-based company was expected to raise $ 30 million in a $ 300 million valuation by Balderton, citing people familiar with the matter. But a Ramp spokesman said yesterday that a larger amount was required in the early stages of negotiations. The company did not disclose the pricing in its announcement.

It also brought together existing sponsors NFX, Galaxy Digital, Seedcamp, Firstminute Capital and business angels such as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinricus and Francesco Simoneschi TrueLayer. Balderton's general partner, Rana Yared, joins the Ramp board of directors.

Founded in 2017, Ramp offers a non-custodial payment infrastructure that helps exchanges, marketplaces and wallets offer smoother ways to buy cryptocurrency and other digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It markets itself as "PayPal for Cryptocurrency."

In a statement, Yared said the Ramp team is "providing a solid outlet for a new audience by making buying digital assets as easy as buying US dollars while making a purchase from your favorite American brand in euros."

The Serie A completion comes just six months after Ramp raised $ 9 million in seed in June. The company said that over the past 12 months, monthly transaction volumes have grown 30 times and its team size has tripled.

The latest cash flow will be used to continue hiring and enter into new partnerships.

Shimon Sipnevich, co-founder and CEO of Ramp, said the company is targeting partnerships in three key areas: consumer technology mass market companies such as Mozilla and Opera; NFT and gaming platforms such as Sorare and Axie Infinity; and crypto platforms.

“More broadly, market opportunities are really opening up for us with the advent of web3 and we are looking for partnerships, products and collaborations that will play a role in the massive adoption of decentralized applications,” he added.

The company already has partnerships with over 400 developers, including big names such as Mozilla, Dapper Labs, Aave and Sorare. It was added to the FDA's registry in July and recently received approval from the Financial Crime Network to offer services in the United States. Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-15 20:10:49 ​1inch Network is being integrated with the Homescreen service on the Skynet platform

The front-end of the 1inch Network DeFi project is deployed on the Skynet platform with full support for the Homescreen service for accessing the protocol. This was reported to ForkLog by team representatives.

The parties believe that the front-end Web 3.0 and DeFi applications remain the only centralized component of these projects. The Skynet-based solution eliminates a central hosting provider and, as a result, a single point of failure.

Homescreen, announced in September, offers a dashboard that allows you to upload saved versions of dapps to your personal storage on the Skynet network. Users can choose which version of the app to use and don't lose access to the protocol even if the original dapp doesn't work or is compromised.

“With a traditional frontend, there is no easy way for a user to know if an attacker has updated the code displayed in their browser. Even if he receives a warning, [other solutions] do not provide access to old versions of sites that he still trusts, ”the press release said.

1inch was the first DeFi protocol deployed on the Skynet network with Homescreen support. The project team publishes updates using a single skylink. When a user adds this id to their list of apps, the latest dapp is saved to the MySky storage. Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-15 12:19:04 ​Wells Fargo and HSBC Launch Blockchain for Currency Exchange Settlement

In a joint press release, Wells Fargo and HSBC said they will use the blockchain to process transactions in US dollars, Canadian dollars, British pounds and euros. In the near future, banks are planning to add other currencies.

The release says the adoption of blockchain will provide the two banking giants with clear settlement status for agreed Forex transactions in the aforementioned currencies. The solution is expected to reduce the risks and costs of handling foreign currency settlements. Mark Jones, head of macro finance at Wells Fargo, said the bank had not previously used blockchain for foreign currency settlements.

“For the first time, we will use blockchain technology in the process of settlements for international payments. We are thrilled to be partnering with HSBC on a project that puts both organizations at the forefront of blockchain innovation. We believe this will be the first step in harnessing transformative technologies in our industry in the years to come. ”

Mark Williamson, head of foreign exchange partnerships and proposals at HSBC, said that this project is very promising against the backdrop of global digitalization.

"As financial services continues to digitize the means of storing payments and value on the blockchain, we are delighted to be working with Wells Fargo to implement this important international digital highway for confirmation and settlement of foreign exchange transactions." Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-14 16:59:47 ​ETP based on Tezos starts trading at Deutsche Börse

London-based ETC Group has announced the listing of Xetra from Deutsche Börse's structure of a Tezos-based Exchange Traded Product (ETP) (XTZ).

The physically backed instrument received the ticker EXTZ. It is available to investors from 16 EU countries.

“We are responding to the demand from institutional investors looking to invest in the competitors of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Tezos has established itself as a platform for the execution of smart contracts, cross-border payments and dapps, ”commented ETC Group co-CEO Bradley Duke.

The company plans to launch ETP based on Polkadot, Solana, Stellar and Cardano.

On November 9, the volume of assets under the management of the ETC Group exceeded $ 2 billion, of which $ 1.6 billion falls on Bitcoin-ETP. Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-14 11:05:50 ​Gaming service Vulcan Forged lost about $ 100 million as a result of hacker attack

The gaming platform Vulcan Forged announced on Twitter that it was subjected to a cyberattack. Attackers hacked 148 wallets and stole 4.5 million PYR tokens worth $ 100 million. The company said that hackers have stolen private key data from users and it cannot do anything.

"We are powerless to prevent users who have their private keys stolen from being hacked into cryptocurrency wallets."

As a precaution, the team moved to a fully decentralized wallet setup. The company advised users to transfer tokens to Metamask and assured that the Vulcan Forged platform will compensate users for the stolen money. The site published the wallet address (0x48ad05a3B73c9E7fAC5918857687d6A11d2c73B1), to which users' tokens were withdrawn to prevent other protocols from being hacked.

The team contacted all cryptocurrency exchanges to blacklist the hacker's address. The platform operator expressed the hope that information about the hacker can be stored on one of the cryptocurrency exchanges with which Vulcan Forged cooperates. Using this lead, the platform's security service will be able to initiate an investigation and search for the stolen cryptocurrency.

Closer to the New Year, hackers became more active. Yesterday, attackers withdrew $ 60 million worth of tokens on Ethereum and on other blockchains worth about $ 20 million from the hot wallet of the AscendEX exchange. Last week, Bitmart lost $ 100 million in ether and $ 50 million in other cryptocurrencies as a result of a cyberattack. In the same week, more than $ 60 million in cryptocurrencies were stolen from the DAO Badger project. Öffnen / Wie

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2021-12-13 10:50:41 ​Solana prepares for a 255 percent rally early next year

Crypto exchange Kraken says Ethereum rival and smart contract platform Solana (SOL) could compete for a strong rally by early 2022.

In a recent report, Kraken says Solana was trading in a big bullish pattern that began back in 2020.

Solana's corrective move from an all-time high of around $ 260 gives the Ethereum challenger the opportunity to kick-start the next leg of its bull cycle, according to the cryptocurrency exchange.

“The fourth-ranked crypto asset appears to be in the early stages of its fourth wave of price discovery. Accordingly, it appears at the beginning of the fourth wave of price opening, potentially continuing the trend in the wedge pattern. "

Kraken adds that Solana's recent pullback can be seen as a bullish signal, as testing diagonal support could mean SOL may be preparing for a rally.

"The rebound can be interpreted by many not only as 'bullish', but also as a sign that a test of wedge resistance may follow in the coming months."

The report also explains why the long consolidation period is optimistic for SOL.

“As with many chart patterns, the longer it takes for SOL to rise in a trend while maintaining a rising wedge line as support, potentially more SOL could rise before it eventually cools down and enters a downtrend. trend ".

According to the Kraken chart, Solana's sharp resurgence could lift the large-cap crypto asset above $ 600 by January 2022, which suggests more than 255% upside potential from its current price of $ 169. Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-12 11:44:59 ​DeFi project BadgerDAO team reveals $ 121 million hack details

The BadgerDAO DeFi protocol team revealed the details of the recent hack and reported that during the attack, the hackers used the Cloudflare Workers service, which allows them to deploy scripts on the company's cloud network.

The developers took notice of a post that appeared on the Cloudflare forum at the end of September. One contributor noticed that unauthorized users can register accounts and create and view API tokens that cannot be deleted or deactivated until email verification is complete.

After completing these steps, an attacker can wait for the account to be verified and completed, thus gaining access to the API.

After the incident, the BadgerDAO team analyzed the Cloudflare logs and found traces of unauthorized account registration and key generation for three APIs.

In mid-September, developers "unknowingly completed account registration" for one of the compromised interfaces, which was "used for legitimate Cloudflare management activities."

“The user interface does not make it clear that the account has already been created, so a key was generated for the API. On November 10, an attacker used API access to inject malicious scripts through Cloudflare Workers into the html file of the app.badger.com website, ”the developers wrote.

The hacker has stolen assets worth more than $ 130 million, but about $ 9 million can be returned, since they have not yet been removed from the protocol vaults. Thus, the damage exceeded $ 121 million.

The project team reported that it has already closed the exploit that made the attack possible, updated the password for the Cloudflare account, and deleted or updated the API keys.

Since the hacker has not yet been identified, BadgerDAO enlisted Mandiant and Chainalysis to investigate the incident. The developers added that they are cooperating with law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada.

In a conversation with Bloomberg, a representative of Cloudflare emphasized that the company's systems "were not hacked," and there are no vulnerabilities in the Workers service.

“Last week we learned about the BadgerDAO incident. We contacted the project team and provided active assistance in the investigation, ”he said. Öffnen / Wie

2021-12-11 11:15:59 ​Galaxy Digital Places $ 500 Million Convertible Bonds

Crypto trading bank Galaxy Digital has announced a $ 500 million offering of convertible unsecured senior notes due December 15, 2026. This is stated in a press release.

The securities were purchased by qualified investors in a private placement.

A coupon with a rate of 3% per annum is paid every six months - June 15 and December 15.

Galaxy Digital plans to use the raised funds to “accelerate growth initiatives in their business areas and for general corporate goals”.

Earlier, the board of directors approved the proposed corporate reorganization in connection with the relocation from Canada to the United States.

Under certain circumstances and during designated periods, bondholders will be able to convert them into shares in the Delaware holding company Galaxy Digital, or, at the discretion of the issuer, into cash or a combination of both.

Starting from December 15, 2024, the crypto trading bank can fully or partially redeem the bonds in accordance with the conditions specified in the securities prospectus. Öffnen / Wie