The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reached a $1.95 million settlement with Prager Metis CPAs LLC and its affiliate over serious allegations related to their audits of crypto exchange FTX. The case highlights critical oversights and violations of key industry standards, raising questions about the firm’s practices and the risks it missed. “Prager’s…
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Grant Thornton’s review of Liminal’s infrastructure revealed no signs of any security breach within its frontend or backend systems, according to Liminal. Following a breach at Wazirx that resulted in the theft of over $230 million, internal and third-party investigations at Liminal identified a data discrepancy, though no security vulnerability was uncovered. The company emphasized…
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a plan to create a government efficiency commission led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk if re-elected president. This commission would conduct a financial and performance audit of the entire federal government. Musk is pushing the idea of the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.), emphasizing concerns about government overspending.…
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has expressed his eagerness to tackle excessive waste and regulations in the U.S. government, responding to a report that former President Trump is considering him for a role in auditing federal agencies. Musk emphasized the need to reduce wasteful spending to curb inflation and proposed forming a “government efficiency commission” to…
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Tether Holdings Limited reported a record-breaking net profit of $5.2 billion for the first half of 2024, according to its latest assurance opinion for the second quarter. The report, conducted by BDO, highlighted Tether’s increased exposure to U.S. Treasury bills and a significant rise in group equity. Tether Reveals Mid-Year Financials The largest stablecoin issuer…
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On June 7, the team behind the Zksync project Gemholic withdrew 921 previously locked ethereum tokens in a suspected rug-pulling incident. The Gemholic team executed the theft despite reportedly completing the blockchain security firm Solidproof’s Know Your Customer (KYC) process. Zksync’s v24 Upgrade The layer two (L2) Ethereum blockchain scaling protocol, Gemholic, faced allegations of…
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Palau’s Ripple-backed stablecoin pilot audit process is advancing, with the Ministry of Finance collaborating with auditors and turning in more than 200 documents for review. Jay Hunter Anson, a Palau Ministry of Finance member, explained he was ready to show auditors that every transaction can be traced thanks to the public ledger tech. Palau’s Ministry…
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While ChatGPT-4 can’t compete with human auditors yet, OpenZeppelin noted it was not optimized to do so, and AI models trained for this purpose would likely be more accurate. While generative artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of doing a vast variety of tasks, OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 is currently unable to audit smart contracts as effectively as…
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The scheme allegedly claimed it could generate returns of up to 2.2% a day by leveraging AI to trade more often and with higher profits than a person could. Securities regulators from Montana, Texas, and Alabama have jointly filed enforcement actions against cryptocurrency trading platform YieldTrust.ai, alleging it is “perpetrating a Ponzi scheme.” According to…
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Euler Labs CEO Michael Bentley stated he will “never forgive” the hacker as the exploit caused him to lose time with his newborn son. Ten separate audits conducted over a two-year period of the Ethereum-based lending protocol Euler Finance deemed it to be “nothing higher than low risk” and having “no outstanding issues” prior to…
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