Sonic Labs has announced the integration of Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) into its mainnet. This integration allows developers on the Sonic blockchain to leverage Chainlink's advanced infrastructure to create DApps that facilitate secure token transfer, messaging, and interoperability between Sonic and other blockchains.
BlackRock CEO Fink said that bitcoin can overcome concerns about the instability of the local currency. The possibility of continued high inflation remains.
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On January 16, the official push of Stability AI released information related to the STAI token contract, which is suspected to have been hacked. Beware of being deceived.
Mr. Goolsbee said interest rates should fall if economic conditions were stable, inflation was not rising and full employment was achieved. If current expectations were met, rates would fall sharply in 12 to 18 months.
Federal Reserve Goolsby: If economic conditions are stable, inflation is not rising, and full employment is achieved, then interest rates should decrease.
According to Synthetix, it is shifting the operational focus of its perpetual contract marketplace to the Base network, and the perpetual contract marketplace on its Arbitrum will be closed. It is currently set to position squaring-only mode, and users cannot open new positions or increase existing positions. The USDx on Arbitrum needed to be exited along with the Arbitrum perpetual contract product. Synthetix Treasury purchased USDx from the open market and funded a wrapper to support the conve...
The cross-chain interoperability protocol Owlto Finance tweeted that it has updated the Maker addresses for EVM and non-EVM networks and that liquidity has been migrated. The update of the Maker address will not affect cross-chain services.
Polymarket predicts a 60% probability that "Bitcoin will hit an all-time high this month", and is now reporting 59%.
Polymarket forecasts that the major airdrop probabilities that may be launched in Q1 this year are as follows: Berachain: 89%; Linea: 84%; Jumpers: 38%; pump.fun: 32%; Aleo: 30%; Farcaster: 21%. On-chain data shows that since its launch, the Berachain network has processed more than 533 million transactions. Of these, 57.14 million transactions took place in the last 14 days. Additionally, the number of active Berachain addresses has increased from 945,000 on December 15 to nearly 3 million curr...
After an unexpected vulnerability was discovered in an audited smart contract, Virtuals Protocol released a timely fix and restarted its bug bounty program. On December 3, 2024, a security researcher under the pseudonym Jinu contacted Virtuals Protocol after discovering a vulnerability in one of its audited contracts. However, after reporting the issue, Jinu learned that the company had not activated the bug bounty program, meaning the discovery was not eligible for the bounty. Virtuals Protocol...
The final months of 2024 saw losses from cryptocurrency scams, vulnerabilities, and hacks gradually decrease, with December being the month with the fewest hacks of the year. Blockchain security firm CertiK said in a Dec. 31 X post that known losses due to bugs, hacks, and scams were $28.60 million in December, compared to $63.80 million in November and $115.80 million in October. According to the company, the vulnerability caused most of the damage, with attackers stealing $26.70 million in Dec...
The People's Bank of China released the "China Financial Stability Report (2024) ", which included a reference to global cryptocurrency regulatory developments and highlighted the progress of cryptocurrency compliance in Hong Kong. Given the potential spillover risks of cryptoassets to the stability of the financial system, regulators in various countries continue to increase their supervision of cryptoassets. Among them, Hong Kong, China is actively exploring additional...
According to HODL15 Capital, more than 20 companies are likely to be included in the Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Company ETF, and 30% are bitcoin mining companies. Previously, it was reported that Bitwise has applied to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) for a Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF (Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF). The fund aims to invest in the stocks of companies that adopt the Bitcoin standard, with at least 1,000 BTC in the company's funds.