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White hat hacker paid DeFi’s largest reported bounty fee

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 8:55 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Belt Finance, an automated market maker (AMM) protocol operating a yield optimization strategy on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), claims to have paid the largest bounty in the history of decentralized finance (DeFi) to a whitehat hacker who averted a $10 million bug crisis. Industry whitehat programmer Alexander Schlindwein discovered the vulnerability in Belt Finance’s protocol this week and reported the news to the team. For his efforts, Schlindwein received a generous compensation of $1.05 million, the majority of which ($1 million) was granted by Immunefi, with the additional $50,000 offered by

Fundamentally Strongest Crypto Projects in 2020

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Time Stamp: December 26, 2020 7:03 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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There are numerous new promising cryptocurrency projects coming out every year. Some of them die quickly either because they offer nothing innovative to the cryptocurrency industry or a myriad of other reasons. However, some manage to thrive, lingering around long enough to grow through the ranks and eventually become staples of the industry. In this article, we will take a look at four projects which due to their strong fundamental basis and value added, could eventually become mainstays in the crypto industry. Elrond (EGLD) Elrond is a blockchain that sports

US authorities charge three suspects in the massive Twitter hack.

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Time Stamp: August 1, 2020 2:12 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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A British man, a Florida man, and a Florida teen have been charged by US authorities in relation to the Twitter hack of prominent politicians, celebrities, and technology moguls to scam people around the globe out of more than USD 100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa, where the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office will prosecute him as an adult. The 17-year-old will faces 30 felony charges.  Hackers sent out fake tweets soliciting bitcoin from compromised accounts.  The hackers managed to access the