Roughly $12.7 million worth of tokenized Bitcoin has been stolen from the BSC-based cross-chain composability platform pNetwork. Cross-chain DeFi platform pNetwork has become the latest protocol to be targeted by hackers on Binance Smart Chain, reporting a loss of roughly $12.7 million worth of Bitcoin. According to a Twitter thread published by pNetwork on Sept.…
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During the last few months, cross-chain bridge technology has grown a great deal and users can now swap assets between a myriad of networks. Today, between eight different bridges there’s $7.6 billion total-value locked across these platforms. Cross-Chain Bridges There’s a decent quantity of cross-chain blockchain bridges these days and it has allowed users to…
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In mid-September, the total-value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) continues to climb higher, as the value held on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, Solana, and more blockchains has risen dramatically to $171 billion today. On the Ethereum network, there’s 270,783 bitcoin held in TVL worth more than $13 billion and $15 billion has been…
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Approximately nine days ago, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) across various blockchains was around $176 billion. At that time, bitcoin ($49,937) and ethereum ($3,886) fiat values were much higher. Despite the fact that the crypto economy and these coins have dipped in value, the TVL across defi has continued to rise,…
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Following the bug and the split that occurred after a great number of Geth nodes did not upgrade, Ethereum fees have risen dramatically since August 21, jumping from $11 per transaction to today’s 0.0088 ether per transaction ($27.98). Ethereum Transaction Fees Skyrocket Ethereum is the second-largest crypto asset in terms of crypto market capitalization with…
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Another day, another BSC DeFi protocol gets hacked. Belt Finance has become the latest Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol to lose millions to an opportunistic hacker. The Rekt Blog, which post mortems DeFi exploits, stated that an attacker exploited a flaw in the way the protocol’s vaults calculates the value of its…
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Uranium Finance joins the growing list of hacked projects on the Binance Smart Chain network. Uranium Finance, an automated market maker platform on the Binance Smart Chain, has reported a security incident that resulted in a loss of about $50 million. Tweeting on Wednesday, Uranium revealed that the exploit targeted its v2.1 token migration event…
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With Binance Chain’s 11 validators hand-selecting Binance Smart Chain’s validators daily, analysts are warning of the protocol’s centralization. Despite Binance supporters celebrating Binance Coin’s (BNB) chart-topping performance for Q1 2021, concerns are growing regarding the centralization of the Binance ecosystem. On April 12, Messari researcher Ryan Watkins took aim at the centralization of Binance Smart…
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Despite many leading Ethereum-powered DeFi protocols posting a weekly loss, the success of Binance Smart Chain is pushing the TVL of decentralized finance into new highs. According to data aggregator DeFi Llama, nearly $79 billion in assets are currently locked in decentralized finance protocols. As such, DeFi’s TVL is currently equal to roughly twice the…
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The file storage project has all the markings of a rugpull, but will investors be able to get their funds back? Turns out a turtle’s arms are plenty long enough to pull a rug. Yesterday, March 19 Binance Smart Chain (BSC) file storage project TurtleDex performed a “rugpull” exit scam — a colloquial term for…
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