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Underwater: Ankr Hacked for $5.5M

Ankr is a decentralized web3 infrastructure provider. They have an excellent public RPC service, which I have used myself, and a liquid staking service on several chains. They have also been hacked. On Dec 1st, in an apparent compromise of their deployer key, Ankr was hacked on Binance Smart Chain, losing over $5.5M USD. The

Ethereum and Chainlink – Big Upgrades Ahead

Less than 2 weeks until The Ethereum Mainnet Merge, and expectations are high for Chainlink to launch Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and LINK Staking by the end of 2022.

Nomad Bridge Hacked, $190M Lost

Cross-chain bridges are juicy, juicy targets for hackers. The three largest DeFi exploits ever were bridges. Now, Nomad joins the ranks. The Nomad Bridge was hacked on August 1st, 2022 for a catastrophic loss of over $190M USD worth of tokens. Nomad was the canonical bridge for Evmos, Moonbeam, and Milkomeda chains. If you have

Goerli: The Final Testnet

The Ethereum Mainnet merge with the Beacon Chain will bring the end of Proof-of-Work for Ethereum and execute the permanent transition to Proof-of-Stake. The final testnet merge that stands in the way of Ethereum’s merge is the Goerli merge.

Minecraft Bans NFTs, Sending Projects Into Freefall

The black swan has come for Minecraft-based NFTs. Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, stated in a press release today that NFT integration with the game “…are generally not something we will support or allow”. What exactly this means is not totally clear yet, but the release specifically mentions that worlds, skins, items, or other assets