IBC Group, NFT Tech, Faith Tribe to launch fashion-focused launchpad
Venhuizen, Netherlands, June 6, 2022 — Web3 and cryptocurrency incubators NFT Tech and International Blockchain Consulting (IBC) Group have partnered with the open-source fashion design platform Faith Tribe to launch Fashion DAO — a fashion-focused launchpad for fashion brands and creators looking to make a breakthrough in the Web3 arena. The launchpad lets fashion-focused companies tokenize and enter the nonfungible token (NFT) space to participate in a growing Web3 ecosystem and connect wit...
Jed McCaleb’s XRP bag is almost gone, Ethereum’s difficulty bomb delayed, and FTX inks deal with Blo…
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week After 8 years dumping billions of XRP, Jed McCaleb’s stack runs out in weeksRipple Labs co-founder and former chief technology officer Jed McCaleb is nearing the end of his eight-year-long XRP dumpathon. The forme...
Crypto's One Unassailable Use Case: Helping Human Rights Activists
Attendees at this week’s Oslo Freedom Forum, a 13-year-old annual gathering for human rights and pro-democracy activists, might have wondered at times if they’d mistakenly wandered into a cryptocurrency conference. Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song’s signature cowboy hat could be spotted here and there at the Oslo Concert Hall, where the forum, organized by the Human Rights Foundation, took place. The erudite investor and entrepreneur Nic Carter strolled around with an umbrella cane. On stage, aut...
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IBC Group, NFT Tech, Faith Tribe to launch fashion-focused launchpad
Venhuizen, Netherlands, June 6, 2022 — Web3 and cryptocurrency incubators NFT Tech and International Blockchain Consulting (IBC) Group have partnered with the open-source fashion design platform Faith Tribe to launch Fashion DAO — a fashion-focused launchpad for fashion brands and creators looking to make a breakthrough in the Web3 arena. The launchpad lets fashion-focused companies tokenize and enter the nonfungible token (NFT) space to participate in a growing Web3 ecosystem and connect wit...
Jed McCaleb’s XRP bag is almost gone, Ethereum’s difficulty bomb delayed, and FTX inks deal with Blo…
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week After 8 years dumping billions of XRP, Jed McCaleb’s stack runs out in weeksRipple Labs co-founder and former chief technology officer Jed McCaleb is nearing the end of his eight-year-long XRP dumpathon. The forme...
Crypto's One Unassailable Use Case: Helping Human Rights Activists
Attendees at this week’s Oslo Freedom Forum, a 13-year-old annual gathering for human rights and pro-democracy activists, might have wondered at times if they’d mistakenly wandered into a cryptocurrency conference. Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song’s signature cowboy hat could be spotted here and there at the Oslo Concert Hall, where the forum, organized by the Human Rights Foundation, took place. The erudite investor and entrepreneur Nic Carter strolled around with an umbrella cane. On stage, aut...
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The Web3 and cryptocurrency space is seeing a significant amount of smart contract scams proliferating, with blockchain risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs saying it has detected on average 15 newly deployed scams every hour.Solidus Labs said on Oct. 27 that it had been monitoring 12 blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon and BNB Chain since Oct. 10, and in that time, had detected 188,525 smart contract scams.Former United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director, Kathy Kraninger, who is now Solidus’ vice president of regulatory affairs, said in the statement that “while some of the big rug pulls and scams make the news [...] the full picture stemming from our data shows the vast majority of these scams go unnoticed.”The firm also shed some light on the number of tokens that are scams, saying 12% of BEP-20 tokens — the BNB Chain’s token standard — exhibit fraudulent characteristics marking it as the blockchain with the most cryptocurrency scams.Ethereum’s native ERC-20 token standard came second, with 8% of the blockchains’ tokens exhibiting scam-like characteristics, according to the company. It also estimated around $910 million worth of Ether ( ETH$1,497) related to scams had passed through centralized and regulated exchanges.Solidus said these so-called “scam token smart contracts” are hard-wired to steal investors’ funds and fit alongside other abusive practices such as rug pulls, where the developer steals the invested funds and token impersonations that aim to trick people into investing by mimicking popular cryptocurrencies.It said these types of contracts are “automatically deployed and easily repeated” with scammers able to quickly complete thousands of low-value attacks with exchanges, regulators and authorities none the wiser.Related: Google still promoting crypto phishing sites warns Binance bossIt’s not only scamming cryptocurrencies that investors need to watch for, hacks are also on the rise, with October being possibly the biggest month ever for crypto hacking activity, according to analytics firm Chainalysis.Chainalysis director of research, Kim Grauer, said in an interview with Cointelegraph that the amount of value stolen in crypto hacks is on track to hit all-time highs in 2022 with a vast majority targeting decentralized finance (DeFi).The Web3 and cryptocurrency space is seeing a significant amount of smart contract scams proliferating, with blockchain risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs saying it has detected on average 15 newly deployed scams every hour.
The Web3 and cryptocurrency space is seeing a significant amount of smart contract scams proliferating, with blockchain risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs saying it has detected on average 15 newly deployed scams every hour.Solidus Labs said on Oct. 27 that it had been monitoring 12 blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon and BNB Chain since Oct. 10, and in that time, had detected 188,525 smart contract scams.Former United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director, Kathy Kraninger, who is now Solidus’ vice president of regulatory affairs, said in the statement that “while some of the big rug pulls and scams make the news [...] the full picture stemming from our data shows the vast majority of these scams go unnoticed.”The firm also shed some light on the number of tokens that are scams, saying 12% of BEP-20 tokens — the BNB Chain’s token standard — exhibit fraudulent characteristics marking it as the blockchain with the most cryptocurrency scams.Ethereum’s native ERC-20 token standard came second, with 8% of the blockchains’ tokens exhibiting scam-like characteristics, according to the company. It also estimated around $910 million worth of Ether ( ETH$1,497) related to scams had passed through centralized and regulated exchanges.Solidus said these so-called “scam token smart contracts” are hard-wired to steal investors’ funds and fit alongside other abusive practices such as rug pulls, where the developer steals the invested funds and token impersonations that aim to trick people into investing by mimicking popular cryptocurrencies.It said these types of contracts are “automatically deployed and easily repeated” with scammers able to quickly complete thousands of low-value attacks with exchanges, regulators and authorities none the wiser.Related: Google still promoting crypto phishing sites warns Binance bossIt’s not only scamming cryptocurrencies that investors need to watch for, hacks are also on the rise, with October being possibly the biggest month ever for crypto hacking activity, according to analytics firm Chainalysis.Chainalysis director of research, Kim Grauer, said in an interview with Cointelegraph that the amount of value stolen in crypto hacks is on track to hit all-time highs in 2022 with a vast majority targeting decentralized finance (DeFi).The Web3 and cryptocurrency space is seeing a significant amount of smart contract scams proliferating, with blockchain risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs saying it has detected on average 15 newly deployed scams every hour.
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