Iran’s Crypto Exchange Loses $82 Million in Hack from Israeli Attackers
According to @zachxbt, the pro-Israel hacker group Gonjeshke Darande decided to play Robin Hood, but instead of giving to the poor, they just took $82M from Nobitex. 🙄
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Crypto’s Not-so-Secret Weapon? Real World Assets About to Go Full Larry David
Everybody, and I mean everybody, is looking for yield on-chain. Yield, yield, yield. I get it. Suddenly no one wants to work, they just want their coins making babies while they nap. So the new big thing? Real World Assets. RWAs. They sound fancy, but really, they’re just assets… from the world. The real world. Apparently, this is revolutionary now. 🧐
Is This the End of Dollar Bills? Bitcoin’s Bizarrely Stable Offspring BTCD Launches 🚀
Elastos, the organization that brought you the BeL2 protocol (and possibly some baffled product managers), has now unleashed the Bitcoin Dollar (BTCD) upon an unsuspecting market. They picked Wednesday for this act, a day astrologically proven to be completely arbitrary.
Trump’s Roasting of Fed Chair: “Too Late” Powell Dodges Rate-Cut Shade (With Nicknames!)
So, the Federal Open Market Committee gets together, everyone pretends not to nap, and Wall Street’s finest pray for some drama. Will the Fed deliver? 🤔 Put your life savings on “no,” because, according to the CME Fedwatch tool, 99.9% odds say rates will stay right where they are—about as much suspense as reruns of Downton Abbey.
Coinbase’s Bold Move: USDC Collateral for Futures Trading – What Could Go Wrong? 😏
On June 18, Coinbase Derivatives, under the watchful eye of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced this partnership. It’s like a marriage of convenience, but with more paperwork and fewer romantic dinners.