DeFi
The mysterious creator of the BALD token looks more like a regular DeFi degen than the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
Tech
Polygon Zero accused the developers of rival Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution zkSync of copying code from its Plonky2 library without proper attribution.
The proposal’s author believes the purchase would send a strong signal of “DeFi supporting DeFi” and allow the Aave DAO to strategically position itself in the Curve wars.
Bitcoin
Mystery solved: Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein has pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex.
Some of the $290 million worth of stolen funds from Alphapo, CoinsPaid, Atomic Wallet and Harmony were moved across hundreds of addresses.
DeFi protocol Abracadabra was among those rushing to introduce somewhat drastic measures to mitigate the risk of potential bad debt from the Curve founder’s position.
Business
U.S. prosecutors are reportedly concerned about the effect that bringing fraud charges against Binance will have on its customers.
Select members of the protocol’s governing body voted to terminate CRV governance rewards for liquidity pools affected by recent exploits.
Lawyers for the former FTX CEO argued that the government assertions that he tampered with a witness relied on innuendo, speculation and scant facts.
Regulation
A judge has granted Terraform Labs permission to access documents in the custody of FTX and its related entities to prepare a defense against a lawsuit from the SEC.
