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Solana-Based Lending App Solend Gets Hacked for $1.26 Million in 'Oracle Attack'

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The Solana-centric lending application Solend lost $1.26 million in an oracle attack, according to Solend’s official Twitter account on Wednesday. A number of affected pools were disabled, and Solend says it has given crypto exchanges the exploiter’s address. Solana Defi Application Solend Loses $1.26 Million in Oracle Exploit The crypto community has seen two significant hacks in the last 24 hours, and one of them stemmed from the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Solend. The team’s official Twitter account tweeted about the loss after it said it suffered from an oracle attack that affected a number of isolated pools . “An oracle attack on USDH affecting the Stable, Coin98, and Kamino isolated pools was detected, resulting in $1.26M in bad debt,” Solend tweeted. “All other pools including the Main pool are safe. Affected pools have been disabled and exchanges have been notified of the exploiter’s address — Note that the attack did not involve Pyth,” the Solend te...

Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 42

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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here . _________________________________________ AscendEX Listings: Starfish Finance (SEAN)   Bibox Listings: Bizverse (BIVE) HistoryDAO (HAO) Primordial planet coin (PMT) Bitsz Chain (CHAIN)   BigONE Removed Trading Pairs: CAIZ/USDT    Binance Added Trading Pairs: AGIX/BUSD NEBL/USDT SNT/BUSD Delistings : District0x (DNT) New Bitshares (NBS) Bitcoin Gold (BTG) Token Club (TCT)   BitForex Listings:   SoonLabs (SOON)   BitMart Listings:   XEN Crypto (XEN) Cypherdog Token (CDOG) Edoverse (ZENI) Hunter Token (HNTR) GMX (GMX) Dosa (DOSA) P00LS (P00LS) OHO Blockchain (OHO) EFK token (EFK) XEN Crypto (BXEN)   Bitrue Listings:   Lisk (LSK) Dopex (DPX) PlutusDAO (PLS) ...

Who Owns the Most Bitcoin? A Closer Look at the Largest Holders

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  Since launching around 13 years ago, bitcoin has been distributed far and wide to millions of wallets. These Bitcoin wallets are owned by individuals, public companies, private entities, and even governments. Among these holders, a few stand out because of their large bitcoin holdings .  Read on to learn who owns the most bitcoin and how much they own. Who Owns the Most Bitcoin in the World? Large bitcoin holders with 1,000 or more BTC are known as whales. They can be individuals, companies, institutional investors, and even countries.  What follows is a list of the entities and individuals that own the most bitcoin.  Top Known Individual Holders Let's take a look at the individuals that hold the most bitcoin.  Satoshi Nakamoto (~1.1 million BTC) Satoshi Nakamoto was not only Bitcoin’s founder but also the first miner to add blocks of transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain. He mined approximately 22,000 blocks from January 3, 2009, un...

Portugal Makes U-Turn On Crypto-Friendly Taxes

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Source: AdobeStock / chalermphon   Though widely considered to be one of the most crypto-friendly countries, Portugal is increasingly shifting its position on taxing cryptoasset gains – and now plans to tax gains on crypto held for less than a year. According to Bloomberg, Portugal argues that the new rules are in line with other European countries’ crypto legislation, including Germany, where investors pay no taxes if they hold crypto for more than a year. Secretary of State for Tax Affairs António Mendonça Mendes was quoted as saying at a press conference in Lisbon that, “It’s a regime that fits into our tax system and also to what is being done in the rest of Europe.” While at the moment the country doesn’t tax crypto gains if they’re not coming from professional or business activities, a provision in the proposed 2023 budget seeks the taxation of gains on crypto holdings that are held for less than 365 ...