Curve Finance Exploit Puts $100M+ Worth of Crypto at Risk; CRV Token Tumbles

Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the heart of decentralized finance (DeFi) on Ethereum, has been the victim of an exploit according to a tweet from the project. Upwards of $100 million worth of cryptocurrency are at risk due to a “re-entrancy” bug in Vyper, a programming language used to power parts of the Curve system. Several stablecoin pools on the platform — used for pricing and liquidity on a number of different DeFi services — have been drained by hackers so far.Source

Reddit Returns With New NFTs and Crypto Twitter Leaves Threads on Read

Reddit launched Gen 4 of its NFT Collectible Avatars while Amazon expanded its blockchain tools. Also, crypto influencers shared thoughts on Threads and indicated that they aren’t ready to leave Twitter just yet.Source

AWS-Reliant Blockchains Won’t Bring Transparency to AI

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Attempts to Influence Witnesses Show He Must Be Jailed Before Trial: DOJ

Sam Bankman-Fried’s repeated efforts to contact witnesses and influence their testimony shows that “no combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community,” prosecutors said in a written filing calling for his bond to be revoked.Source

Meta Hopes to Recharge Lagging Horizon Worlds Metaverse With New In-House Game Studio

The struggling platform reported losses of $3.7 billion in the second quarter, though CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains “fully committed” to the metaverse and AI.Source

Meta Aims to Recharge Lagging Horizon Worlds Metaverse With New In-House Game Studio

The struggling platform reported losses of $3.7 billion in the second quarter, though CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains “fully committed” to the metaverse and AI.Source

Arbitrum DAO’s First Grants Programs Take Shape

Two governance proposals are collectively requesting nearly $5 million worth of ARB tokens to launch grants programs.Source

No, Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Being Bailed Out By Democrats

Republican candidate Vivek Rameswamy is rightly furious over dropped campaign finance charges. But the charges are likely to return after a procedural adjustment – and claims of corruption do more harm than good.Source

Sam Bankman-Fried Maybe Hasn’t Escaped Campaign Finance Charges

Prosecutors just withdrew a campaign finance charge ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial this October. That doesn’t mean the U.S. Department of Justice is letting the FTX founder off on alleged criminal conduct, however – and campaign finance charges could still be tried later.Source

Aliens Exist. And They Use Cryptocurrency

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