The best version of Web 3.0 should combine business and tech minds” Recently, Hacken’s marketing specialist Taras Talimonchuk conducted an interview with the CTO and Co-Founder of ScaleSwap, Stanislav ‘Stan’ Stolberg. ScaleSwap is one of the largest decentralized multi-chain fundraising platforms. Transparency and fairness are the key principles of ScaleSwap. In the interview, Stan shared
A few days ago, the price of another stablecoin began to drop. This time, the depeg hung like a sword of Damocles over USDD, a stablecoin backed by Justin Sun. The price of the coin fell to $0.967. To stabilize the price, the Tron DAO Reserve bought $50 million worth of BTC and TRX. Yet, the
Fake airdrops are becoming a growing threat. Airdrops: what are they and what is their point? iPhone owners are familiar with the term “airDrop,” but cryptocurrency airdrop has a different meaning. In a crypto world, airdrop is when a company sends tokens to wallet addresses of active community members for free or for a certain
Hackers exploited Mirror Protocol, and the devs couldn’t do anything about it. The attacker stole more than $90m in October 2021 but this incident used to be completely unnoticed until the last week. And at the end of May 2022, the project experienced one more incident resulting in $2M drained from the protocol. A bug
Things are not going great for Terraform Labs – the parent company of Luna and UST. The promising altcoin has lost $40B. It sent a shockwave around the crypto world. Thousands of day traders and some wealthy investors have said goodbye to their assets. Terra’s co-founders, Do Kwon and Shin Hyun-sung, were accused of fraud
According to the Ciphertrace report, a whopping $516 mln in crypto was stolen from centralized exchanges and DeFi services in 2020 alone. Although most of these hacks were focused on DeFi services, the total value of stolen funds from centralized exchanges was much higher. The largest hack in 2020 was the Kucoin hack when attackers
Despite the significant growth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies prices in 2020, the amount of stolen crypto as a result of hacks is actually less than in 2019. According to the Ciphertrace report, the total amount of stolen funds equals ~468 mln USD. Most of the attacks in 2020 were made on DeFi projects which
Are you curious about what Haсken lived and what the team was up to last month? We have prepared our monthly report — Hacken October in Review — for you! Read, like, share and subscribe to our social media channels in order not to miss anything interesting and something significant! Enjoy! 🙂 New Collaborations October
Following our recent partnership with Gate.io, both Hacken and Gate.io have been looking for ways to further our relationship and enhance the cybersecurity of Gate.io’s products and services. Today, we are proud to announce the next phase; Gate.io is to further increase its cooperation with Hacken with the launch of the Gate.io Bug Bounty, held
