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Aug 11
Ethereum Merge on track as Goerli test merge successfully finalized

With the Goerli merge going successfully, there is growing confidence that there will be no further delays to the Ethereum Merger set for mid-September. 1077 Total views 6 Total shares After Ropsten and Sepolia, Goerli was the last remaining testnet scheduled to undergo the merge, officially becoming a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain as of 1:45 am […]

Aug 11
Trade Desk stock soars toward best day since 2018 amid ‘standout’ performance

Shares of Trade Desk Inc. TTD, +36.22% are rocketing 33% in Wednesday morning trading after the advertising-technology company offered a better-than-expected revenue forecast for the current quarter despite fears about the advertising landscape. The shares are on track for their largest single-day percentage gain since Aug. 10, 2018, when they rose 37.1%, according to Dow […]

Aug 11
88% of Nomad Bridge exploiters were ‘copycats’ — Report

Close to 90% of addresses taking part in the $186 million Nomad Bridge hack last week have been identified as “copycats,” making off with a total of $88 million worth of tokens on Aug. 1, a new report has revealed. In an Aug. 10 Coinbase blog, authored by Peter Kacherginsky, Coinbase’s principal blockchain threat intelligence […]

Aug 11
DOJ charges Iranian in plot to murder Trump national-security adviser John Bolton

The Department of Justice on Wednesday said it charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a plot to murder former U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton. The DOJ said that beginning in October 2021, Shahram Poursafi of Tehran attempted to arrange Bolton’s murder, likely in retaliation for the January 2020 death of Islamic […]

Aug 11
Cross-chain bridge RenBridge laundered $540M in hacking proceeds: Elliptic

The blockchain forensics firm said cross-chain bridges provide an “unregulated alternative” to exchanges for transferring value between blockchains. 157 Total views 3 Total shares Cross-chain bridges have been the target of more than a few hacks this year, but new data from blockchain analytics provider Elliptic alleges one has been used to launder over half […]

Aug 11
Paysafe stock heads lower after ‘challenging macro backdrop’ prompts RBC downgrade

Shares of Paysafe Ltd. PSFE, +2.30% were falling 2.3% in after-hours trading Wednesday after RBC Capital Markets analyst Daniel Perlin downgraded the payment company’s stock to sector perform from outperform in the wake of the company’s latest earnings report. The company’s latest report and outlook point to “a challenging macro backdrop, especially for its European […]