Crypto Pulse Issue # 8 - The Solana Hackers Strike. Friday, August 5, 2022 | Powered by GenShards.
05 Aug 2022, 12:49
🧑💻 Crypto Pulse Issue # 8 - The Solana Hackers Strike
Friday, August 5, 2022 | Powered by GenShards
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⛰Macro Landscape
📌 Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor is stepping down as the CEO of the software company he co-founded, MicroStrategy, and will instead take on the role of executive chairman, to “focus on the Bitcoin strategy” (source)
📌 BlackRock is set to offer Crypto for institutional investors through Coinbase Prime (source)
📌 GitHub faces widespread malware attacks affecting projects, including crypto (source)
📈 Markets and Ecosystem
📌 Nearly $6m has been drained from accounts linked to the Solana crypto network after a hacker targeted 8,000 wallets.The Solana Foundation said a “malicious actor” had taken funds from a number of wallets linked to Solana (source)
📌 An estimated $2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 separate hacks so far this year according to the latest report by blockchain data firm Chainalysis (source)
📌 A rare signal has emerged which hints at a Bitcoin price bottom (source)
🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse
📌 Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) (source)
📌 Pre-Framed NFTs are attempting to make crypto art more approachable (source)
📌 Following Minecraft’s outright ban on in-game NFTs, some blockchain-based projects have been forced to find new homes (source)
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