The Ethereum 2.0 developers have published a tool on GitHub to generate the keys needed to make a staking deposit in Ethereum 2.0. On the night of November 4, the Ethereum 2.0 developers published a tool for creating an ETH 2.0 deposit contract on GitHub. The launch of the deposit contract will allow sending ETH from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0. This has brought the launch of phase 0 of the new version of the

According to Atlas VPN, the number of hacks of cryptocurrency services in the first half of 2020 decreased three times compared to the same period last year. Atlas VPN experts calculated that over the entire history of the crypto industry, hackers managed to steal more than $ 13.6 billion. Despite the fact that fewer hacker attacks were made on cryptocurrency wallets, they turned out to be the most profitable. Over the past eight years, wallet

In Finland, hackers have gained access to the medical records of patients in psychotherapy centers and are demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency, otherwise threatening to publish the information in the public domain. The hackers gained access to the medical data of 40,000 patients at Vastaamo psychotherapy centers. The attackers exploited a security breach that appeared as a result of a hack in 2018, but which was not previously known. The hackers began contacting patients whose

The management of the Harvest Finance project, which works in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi), has increased the fee from $ 100,000 to $ 1 million for assistance in the return of stolen cryptocurrencies. Recall that on October 26, hackers attacked the Harvest Finance protocol and withdrew cryptocurrencies worth about $ 34 million, using an instant loan to manipulate the prices of fUSDT and fUSDC. The developers of Harvest Finance turned to the cryptocurrency

According to a joint report by think tank DappRadar and Monday Capital, most DeFi projects have a high degree of centralization due to the token distribution model. The authors of the report stated that in the MakerDAO, Curve, Compound and Uniswap projects, tokens are unevenly distributed, which creates favorable conditions for large holders. The Maker control system is the most “mature”. At the MakerDAO forum, community members can conduct a preliminary analysis and discuss the

Former head of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), Zhou Xiaochuan, said the digital yuan will develop retail payments in China and prevent dollarization of the economy. The President of the Chinese Finance Association said this at the Eurasian Forum. Zhou Xiaochuan said China’s central bank views government cryptocurrencies differently from the G7 countries, which include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Regulators in these countries are focused on

The developers of the DeFi Aave project announced the transfer of rights to manage the protocol to the LEND token holders. Aave has become the largest self-governing decentralized finance protocol. The administrative keys to the protocol were originally in the hands of the Aave team. However, the project has now reached the stage where the management of the protocol can be transferred to the shoulders of the community and Aave can be truly decentralized. For

Telos startup has introduced TelosTask peer-to-peer platform on its blockchain. The platform was created to find work as freelancers during a pandemic. TelosTask development team leader Destiny Marshall announced that the platform will operate on the Telos blockchain. Telos is a fork of the EOS project and runs on the EOSIO software. According to the principles of work, the TelosTask service will not differ from ordinary exchanges for finding remote work. Customers will be able

After the arrest of one of the founders of OKEx and the suspension of withdrawals, rumors emerged that the exchange was storing users’ assets in a cold, one-signature wallet. However, the company denies this. The press service of the OKEx exchange told the industrial media that the information published on the Jinse Caijing website regarding the storage of cryptoassets of exchange users in a cold wallet with one signature is incorrect. Recall that the founder

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has added the ability to directly purchase major cryptocurrencies using Visa and Mastercard without intermediaries. Ciara Sun, Vice President of International Business Development at Huobi Group, announced that the service is being provided by Huobi Technology, the Gibraltar-based regulated arm of Huobi Global. Previously, users of the site already had the opportunity to purchase cryptocurrencies using these credit and debit cards, but when making such transactions, Huobi customers were redirected to third-party