Day: January 28, 2022

Reflecting on Facebook’s Hilarious, Well-Deserved Crypto Failure

The privacy questions were closely linked to legislators’ skepticism that the Libra project would be a “nonprofit” independent of Facebook’s control. Facebook’s hilariously inept attempt to make it seem like it wasn’t in control of Libra involved creating a “Libra Association” made up of companies including, for about 10 seconds, Visa, PayPal and Uber. To set up this group, Facebook, a massive public company, basically copied and pasted the “Swiss nonprofit foundation” legal structure that was popular among sometimes-shady initial coin offering-driven crypto projects circa 2017-2018. Source

ChainLink Capital Targets $100M in Assets for 2 Crypto Funds

Crypto-focused venture capital fund ChainLink Capital Management has set a target to reach $100 million of assets under management for each of its Luna and Ama funds this year, General Partner Andrew Hoppin told CoinDesk in an interview. The funds had approximately $30 million and $13 million under management, respectively, at the end of last year. Source

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Trezor Backtracks on ‘Travel Rule’ App for Self-Hosted Crypto Wallets Amid Uproar

SatoshiLabs, the creator of the Trezor hardware wallet, has shelved plans to adopt an automated protocol for proving ownership of a self-hosted wallet when withdrawing digital assets from an exchange in Switzerland, where that’s a requirement. The U-turn from Trezor followed a Twitter storm from customers and privacy buffs. Trezor announced Thursday it would integrate the “Address Ownership Proof Protocol” (AOPP), created by 21 Analytics, a Swiss fintech firm specializing in bringing crypto firms up to speed with anti-money laundering (AML) requirements set out by the Financial Action Task Force…

LeBron James and Crypto.com team up for blockchain education initiative

In a press release published Friday, three-time NBA champion and Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James will partner with digital currency exchange Crypto.com to support educational and workforce development opportunities focused on Web 3.0. Specifically, as told by local news outlet Akron Beacon Journal, the partnership will help 1,600 kids in LeBron James’ hometown of Akron, Ohio about the technology behind cryptocurrencies and how it will benefit their career paths in the future. “Blockchain technology is revolutionizing our economy, sports and entertainment, the art world, and how we engage with…

Hacker Siphons $80 Million From Qubit Cross-Chain Bridge, Largest Defi Exploit of 2022 to Date – Bitcoin News

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Findings stemming from a recent report published by the security-focused blockchain firm Certik indicate that the Binance smart chain ↔ Ethereum bridge called Qubit has been hacked for $80 million. Data shows on January 27, 2022, an attacker siphoned a number of tokens from an exploit on Qubit Finance’s bridge and Certik says the hack is “by far the largest exploit of 2022 to date.” Qubit’s Binance Smart Chain ↔ Ethereum Cross-Chain Bridge Attacked for $80 Million in Defi Tokens A decentralized finance (defi) exploit tied to Qubit Finance’s Binance…

Next Earth Rises With $2.1 Million Raised From 3,100 Users

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Traditional and digital asset markets alike have been rattled in recent weeks with steep downturns. But for Next Earth, this is a time of fast-paced growth. Next Earth’s NXTT token’s presale commenced on January 22 on Next Earth’s proprietary Launchpad platform, which provided a ticket-based system that the Next Earth community preferred for the token presale, in addition to the flexibility that enabled the most efficient and equitable distribution of tokens for the economy in the long-term. DEX trading started on January 27. In total, 3,100 users participated in the…

Mastercard’s CipherTrace Used ‘Honeypots’ to Gather Crypto Wallet Intel

On March 3, 2020, just before lunchtime in Washington, D.C., Stephen Ryan sent someone at the U.S. Treasury department a thank-you note with a curious detail. The chief operating officer and co-founder of cryptocurrency sleuthing firm CipherTrace, Ryan was one of 16 executives who attended an industry summit the day before with then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Along with his gratitude for the meeting, Ryan attached a slide deck that laid out CipherTrace’s strategy for demystifing crypto wallets. Among those methods: “honey pots.” This article is part of CoinDesk’s Privacy Week…

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