Safeheron Fortnite Dispatch｜JAN 01 '23
01/02/2023
- 3Commas confirmed API key leaks which had been used to conduct unauthorized trades for DMG trading pairs.
- Ankr incident is caused by a former Ankr team member acting maliciously to conduct a combination of a social engineering and supply chain attack.
- The Defrost Finance protocol has been attacked. The protocol has been added with fake mortgage tokens and used malicious price oracles to liquidate current users. The loss is estimated to exceed 12 million US dollars.
- Fireblocks has received the Cryptocurrency Security Standard (CCSS), a first-of-its-kind certification that was built as a security standard for crypto wallets and custody.
- Coinbase is focused on key building blocks for Web3 including the self-custody wallet, NFTs, developer tools and tech advancements such as MPC.
- The distributed ledger platform of Russian bank Sber Bank has launched the first issue of gold-backed digital financial assets (DFAs).
- Tokio Marine, the biggest property/casualty insurance group in Japan, is taking its services and operations into the metaverse.
- Saudi Arabia’s largest asset manager SNB Capital provides access to future-focused investments which will invest in Web3.
- Digital banking platform Cogni launches a multi-chain wallet integrating Web3 services within a traditional Web2 banking platform and uses Unstoppable Domains integration.
- Visa is developing auto payments for self-custodial wallets based on account abstraction on StarkNet.
- Andreessen Horowitz Crypto’s new head of government affairs has a plan to push forward crypto legislation.
- LINE Tech Plus announced that it has launched a blockchain mainnet “Finschia” and plans to launch a non-custodial wallet DOSI Vault.
- MetaMask Grants DAO funds JavaScript smart contract Agoric and digital asset secure custody solution provider Safeheron with first round of grants.
- Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken will exit Japan and de-register from the Financial Services Agency (JFSA) as of January 31, 2023.
- Foundation Devices, a developer of Bitcoin-centric tools that include a hardware wallet, has raised $7 million in a seed round.
- British Columbia Hydro will suspend electricity-connection requests from cryptocurrency mining operations for 18 months.
- The Bank of Russia plans to test the use of cryptocurrency for international payments within the regulatory sandbox framework.
- The Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan will lift the ban on the domestic distribution of foreign-issued stablecoins in 2023.
- Brazil’s president signs crypto regulations into law that a “virtual service provider” license is requested by digital asset companies.