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MicroStrategy, led by billionaire Michael Saylor, has announced its latest Bitcoin purchase, totaling a substantial "9 figures." Specifically, on September 25, MicroStrategy allocated $147.3 million to acquire 5,445 Bitcoins, with an average purchase price of $27,053 per BTC. This acquisition increases MicroStrategy's total
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Following scheduled plans, Optimism's OP Mainnet is set to release 24.16 million OP tokens on September 30, equivalent to 3% of its circulating supply, valued at approximately $30 million USD. Out of this total, around $16 million worth of tokens will be allocated to project contributors, with
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After a relatively quiet period, Celestia has unexpectedly announced an airdrop of TIA tokens for developers and early contributors. Celestia Announces Airdrop of 60 Million TIA Tokens In an announcement on the evening of September 26, approximately 7,579 developers and 576,653 on-chain wallet addresses are eligible to receive
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A third-party provider of OpenSea has experienced a security breach that exposed users' API keys. OpenSea Exposes User Data Image: CryptoSlate The leading NFT marketplace, OpenSea, has issued a warning and is urging users to change their API keys immediately following a security breach from a third party. The
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CRV Price Pump: Whale Accumulation On 13/09, the price of CRV fell below $0.4, reaching $0.38, a level lower than the OTC price at which founder Michael Egorov sold to maintain his loan positions. This led investors to fear a potential sell-off by the funds that purchased
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Mixin Hacked, Losses Estimated at $200 Million Update as of the afternoon of 25/09/2023: In a recent AMA, Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong stated: "Regardless of whether your assets are Bitcoin or Ethereum, we guarantee that half of them are not affected by the hack. We are trying
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Terra Classic community has voted to halt the minting of USTC, the algorithmic stablecoin that contributed to the collapse of the Terra ecosystem last year. Through a recent vote, the LUNA community decided to cease the issuance and re-issuance of Terra Classic USD (USTC), following the controversial collapse of Do
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In a late-night post on X (formerly Twitter) on September 22, 2023 (Vietnam time), on-chain data platform Arkham disclosed its identification of the Bitcoin wallet cluster belonging to the Coinbase exchange. The wallet cluster currently holds a staggering 1 million BTC, valued at $25 billion. This amount equates to 5%
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Summary Linear Finance, a DeFi protocol from Hong Kong, experienced a significant hack on the evening of 21/09, resulting in the depletion of its stablecoin Linear USD (ℓUSD) liquidity on PancakeSwap and Ascendex. This incident caused ℓUSD to depeg heavily. The Attack The attacker managed to mint an unlimited
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Ethereum's gas fees skyrocketed by a staggering 1,900%, jumping from 15 to 300 gwei, precisely when Binance executed a large volume of transactions. Binance "blows up" Ethereum gas fees by 1,900%. Photo: Analytics Insight A series of transactions from Binance wallets caused Ethereum'
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The Bitcoin network is currently facing congestion with more than 460,000 transactions pending, leading to significant fluctuations in transaction fees. According to data collected from Bitcoin's Mempool, the world's largest cryptocurrency network is experiencing its longest-ever congestion period, with over 460,000 transactions awaiting processing.
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Overview Layer-2 Base has launched Pessimism, a security monitoring system designed to enhance security within the Optimism ecosystem. Introduction to Pessimism As part of its decentralization efforts, layer-2 Base has introduced Pessimism, an open-source monitoring system aimed at bolstering security across the Optimism ecosystem. Pessimism is engineered to detect protocol