Institutional trading platform LMAX Group is working with Morgan Stanley and KBW, Stifel’s investment banking arm, to review a possible sale or public listing. Summary LMAX reviews a sale, SPAC merger, or listing that could value it at $5 billion. Morgan Stanley and KBW are advising LMAX, while Nasdaq ranks as its preferred listing venue.
An attack has been found and exploited in the DAO, and the attacker is currently in the process of draining the ether contained in the DAO into a child DAO. The attack is a recursive calling vulnerability, where an attacker called the “split” function, and then calls the split function recursively inside of the split,
Dogecoin flashes monthly TD Sequential buy signal near $0.056 support as analysts watch $0.16 rebound and $0.45 channel target. Dogecoin is approaching a key support area after a long period of weak price action. The latest market comments place the $0.056 level at the centre of the setup. Ali Charts said the TD Sequential has
Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson has warned that Bitcoin could lose its position as the largest cryptocurrency if its governance system cannot organise a response to quantum computing. Summary Hoskinson says Bitcoin could lose leadership if governance cannot coordinate a timely quantum-security upgrade successfully. Bitcoin developers are already discussing post-quantum migration plans, including BIP 361 and
Over the last day with the community’s help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the DAO as well as various smaller 100-10000 ETH thefts and losses in games and token contracts. This list (original source here) is as follows: We can categorize
Shiba Inu rose 36% to about $0.0000057 on Sunday, adding roughly a billion dollars to its market value in a day, with no announcement or development to account for it. The token now carries a market cap near $3.4 billion on almost $380 million of daily volume, its highest turnover ranking in months. SHIB prices
The XRP Ledger added about $2.6 billion in tokenized real-world asset value during the past six months, excluding stablecoins, according to data from RWA.xyz. Summary XRP Ledger added $2.6 billion in RWA value, ranking second among blockchains over six months. JMWH alone represents $2.23 billion, making tokenized energy XRPL’s largest real-world asset category by value.
Affected configurations: All smart contract wallets created using Ethereum Wallet Frontier, version 0.4.0 (Beta 7) or earlier. Wallets created with Ethereum Wallet 0.5.0 and all later versions released after March 3, 2016, are not affected. Likelihood: Low Severity: High Summary: Do not use wallet contracts or owner accounts of those wallets that were created by
Wise plans to submit a new application for a U.S. national trust bank charter under the GENIUS Act after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rejected its first bid. Summary Wise plans a fresh U.S. charter application under the GENIUS Act after the OCC rejection. The OCC cited weak AML controls, management gaps,
The last week was quite hectic for all of us in the Ethereum ecosystem. The DAO has shown us that it takes much more effort to write smart contracts than we originally anticipated; but also that it takes a surprising amount of debate to reach a consensus on issues of this scale. Everybody in our community was very
