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Hundred Finance loses $7 million in Optimism hack

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Multichain lending protocol Hundred Finance has experienced a significant security breach on the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Optimism. According to the protocol on Twitter, the losses sit at $7.4 million. Hundred Finance announced the exploit on April 15, saying it had contacted the hacker and was working with various security teams on the incident. Although the protocol didn’t reveal how the attack was executed, blockchain security firm Certik noted that it was a flash loan attack: #CertiKSkynetAlert @HundredFinance’s attacker manipulated the exchange rate between ERC-20 tokens and htokens which allowed them…

G20 Finance Chiefs Agree Global Policy Responses to Crypto Are Required – Regulation Bitcoin News

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The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have agreed that crypto regulation cannot be confined to one part of the world, said India’s finance minister. “Any action on crypto assets will have to be global,” she stressed, adding that the G20 finance chiefs’ discussion on crypto was “very substantive.” G20 Finance Chiefs on Crypto Regulation Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about the G20’s discussion on crypto regulation Thursday during a press briefing that followed the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting, held on the sidelines of…

Lido Finance adds over $1b in less than 24 hours after Ethereum upgrade

Lido Finance, a liquidity staking protocol supporting the various protocols, including Ethereum and Solana, remains the most dominant decentralized finance (DeFi) application as of April 14. Lido Finance’s TVL rising The total value locked (TVL) on Lido, a measure of all assets managed by a dapp, stood at over $12.6 billion.  Notably, less than 24 hours after the activation of the Shanghai upgrade on the Ethereum blockchain, Lido Finance has added more than $1.1 billion, representing around 10% of the total TVL.  Lido Finance TVL | Source: DeFiLlama With the Shanghai upgrade,…

Hong Kong’s Largest Virtual Bank Offers Crypto Conversion Services – Finance Bitcoin News

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ZA Bank, Hong Kong’s biggest virtual-only lender, intends to expand its business into the region’s growing digital assets sector. The banking platform will offer crypto-to-fiat conversions and account services as the Chinese financial center is seeking to embrace the industry. ZA Bank to Provide Services to Crypto Exchanges Licensed in Hong Kong Hong Kong’s first and largest virtual bank, co-founded by Chinese billionaire Ou Yaping, is looking to facilitate transfers of digital and fiat currencies for participants in the city’s developing crypto sector, Bloomberg reported quoting the lender’s top executive.…

Less than 1% of staked ETH estimated to be sold after Shapella: Finance Redefined

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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The past week in DeFi was filled with anticipation leading up to the Shapella upgrade on the Ethereum mainnet. The hard fork was successfully completed on April 12, allowing validators to withdraw their staked Ether (ETH) after three years. However, only 253 validators have signed up to fully exit their staked Ether position, with analytics firm Glassnode predicting that less than 1% of the…

Europeans to See More Interest Rate Hikes, Central Bank Governors Indicate – Finance Bitcoin News

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Further rate hikes are warranted by persisting inflation in the eurozone, according to members of its monetary authority’s decision-making body. Two central bank governors, with different opinions about how aggressive the European Central Bank should be, nevertheless agree that more increases of key interest rates are yet to come. ECB Has Some Hikes Left to Make, Bank of France Chief Admits Although the European Central Bank (ECB) has done most of the work in terms of interest rate hikes, it still has a “little way to go,” Banque de France…

Ondo Finance Plans Yield-Generating Stablecoin Alternative For Institutional Investors

Enter Flux Finance, a decentralized finance protocol backed by Ondo that functions as a permissionless touchpoint and, crucially, makes it accessible to retail investors. Allman says one way retail investors can access OMMF’s yield without owning the security outright is by lending non-yield stablecoins like USDT and USDC into Flux, a protocol he describes as “similar to Aave and Compound” but without the overcollateralization. Then, whitelisted institutional clients can borrow the stablecoins in the Flux pool and mint OMMF, pocketing a small spread and paying out some yield to the…

Despite Using Euro, Montenegro to Develop Own Digital Currency With Ripple – Finance Bitcoin News

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Montenegro intends to create and issue its own digital currency with help from U.S.-based crypto company Ripple. The Southeast European nation, which adopted the euro unilaterally, is moving to realize the plan despite the eurozone developing a digital version of the common currency. Monetary Authority of Montenegro to Cooperate With Ripple on ‘National Stablecoin’ Project The Central Bank of Montenegro (CBCG) has signed an agreement with blockchain solutions provider Ripple under which the two sides will collaborate to produce a strategy and pilot program to launch the country’s central bank…

Hacker mints 1 quadrillion yUSDT after exploiting old Yearn Finance contract

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Blockchain security firm PeckShield recently detected a hack that allowed the exploiter to mint over 1 quadrillion Yearn Tether (yUSDT) from $10,000 in the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) hack.  According to the security firm, the hacker then swapped the yUSDT to other stablecoins, allowing them to take hold of $11.6 million worth of stablecoins. This includes 61,000 Pax Dollar (USDP), 1.5 million TrueUSD (TUSD), 1.79 million Binance USD (BUSD), 1.2 million Tether (USDT), 2.58 million USD Coin (USDC) and 3 million in DAI (DAI). PeckShield illustrates the flow of funds…