Maksym Prykhodko
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Maksym has denied the existence of crypto as an asset for 3 years when he was working with standard financial instruments. Became Head of Treasury. Won the best bank employee award and left the bank for cryptocurrency exchange the next day. Got a second university degree, but that didn’t stop him from studying finance yet. Combines fiat and crypto experience to be as objective as possible in general matters. His dream is to be interviewed by Bloomberg.
After last month’s news of a notable crypto Ponzi scheme, here’s another such case. This time, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is after Mauricio Chavez and Giorgio Benvenuto, who are involved in fraud targeting the Latino community in Houston, Texas. While Chavez has no experience with cryptocurrency, he has been teaching a class […]
Another day, another crypto hack, but this one has a happy ending. Following the $23 million exploit of the DEX aggregator Transit Swap, the attacker has now returned 70% of that sum, with the rest expected to follow soon. According to the blockchain security company, PeckShield, the hacker took advantage of a bug in Transit’s […]
The cryptocurrency space offers many opportunities to make money. If you are good at trading, volatility can be your best friend when it comes to printing money, irrespective of market conditions. If you have deep technology expertise concerning hacking and debugging, you can find vulnerabilities in decentralized protocols and earn yourself a big bounty. You […]
Following last month’s airdrop of 50 million SAFE tokens, Safe has now officially launched the token, as well as its SafeDAO. In July, Safe separated from the Gnosis ecosystem where it was utilized for digital assets management purposes. Now, according to the DAO’s representative, Safe has an Ethereum-based “future-ready” infrastructure, that will lead to the […]
Ethereum’s hard fork that functions with a proof-of-work consensus mechanism, ETHPoW, is now the subject of more bad news following its bumpy launch last week. Namely, the Ethereum mining fork was hit for 200 ETHW through a “bridge replay” exploit. According to the blockchain security company, BlockSec, the attackers moved 200 WETH by using the […]
What was supposed to be the most expensive deal in the crypto industry has in the meantime transformed into something ugly. Last month, Galaxy Digital, a crypto investment firm, pulled out of its $1.2 billion acquisition of the crypto custodian BitGo. Now, BitGo is pressing charges against its would-be buyer. Galaxy Digital terminated the acquisition […]
1inch announced that it will airdrop free coins in its Merkle drop, in order to reward its Optimism users. 3,782 regular users of the 1inch DEX aggregator will equally receive 300,000 OP tokens in total. After 1inch was deployed on the Optimism layer-2 scaling solution last year, this resulted in faster transactions and increased activity. […]
In anticipation of the 2022 World Cup, happening in November, FIFA has announced a platform for selling World Cup-themed NFTs to soccer fans. Named FIFA+ Collect, the platform will offer NFTs featuring memorable moments in the tournament throughout soccer history. FIFA+ Collect runs on the Algorand blockchain. Algorand is a proof-of-stake blockchain and an official […]
Update After the article was written, social media, blogs, and websites were paused. Given all this, we understood the project lost its value if it ever had one. What is the evidence? 1. Check the website. Zero activity. The links are supposed to work, but they don’t. 2. Check social media. They are active on […]
After being sued by the DeFi aggregator KeyFi, Celsius has now responded with a countersuit. The crypto lending company alleges that KeyFi stole millions of dollars from Celsius wallets. According to Celsius’ suit, KeyFi used the stolen money to acquire NFTs and interests in numerous firms related to blockchain. In order to cover the trace […]
