Civic’s Web3 cybersecurity team has launched a user identity tool amid rising airdrop fraud incidents. Civic specializes in building infrastructure for Web3. As part of a program to combat bots and fraud, the company has launched a new uniqueness verification tool and platform called Civic.me. In an interview at the NFT Expoverse in Los Angeles, chief product officer JP Bedoya said that the uniqueness check is part of a whole set of products for legal

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One of the developers of Ethereum reported on the latest preparations for the transition of the network to proof of ownership PoS. On the back of this news, Ether rose by 14%. Ethereum Foundation’s Ethereum Piercing Support Engineer Tim Beiko has revealed on Twitter the latest details on preparations for the final test phase of the Ethereum merger with test blockchains. The final transition to the Proof-of-Stake testnet will take place on the Goerli testnet,

The European Central Bank (ECB), having studied the public reaction to the news about plans to issue a digital euro, announced the need to limit access to CBDC to protect the financial system. The European regulator released a report saying that, according to economic data, the access of Europeans to state digital currencies should be limited in order to prevent significant capital flight from traditional banks. A team of economists led by ECB CEO Frank

The Wharton School of Business of the Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that its Aresty Institute for Executive Education will launch a “Business in the Metaverse Economy” certification program. The six-week course will be taught online. The school has partnered with consulting firm Prysm Group to develop a curriculum that will include more than 50 lectures from educators and industry representatives, as well as six case studies. Guest speakers will include

The Harmony team, a month after the bridge breach, which resulted in the loss of $100 million in assets, offered two options for recovering assets. Harmony urged the community to vote on the most profitable of the options from August 1st. The developers warned that in both cases, given the current state of their financial reserves, an immediate asset recovery of 14 different asset classes for 65,000 wallets worth about $100 million is not possible.

Analysts at the system security agency SonicWall believe that against the backdrop of a decrease in the number of ransomware attacks, stealth mining incidents have increased. SonicWall published its 2022 Cyber ​​Threat Report, which states that the number of hacker attacks on the financial sector using cryptojacking has increased by 269%. According to the document, the number of cyber attacks on this sector of the economy is now five times higher than the number of

Law enforcement agencies in South Korea, as part of a major investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), are checking cases of illegal bitcoin trading in order to receive the so-called kimchi premium. The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into over 2 trillion Korean won ($1.5 billion) in money transfers from overseas related to bitcoin trading. According to the prosecutor, this money was obtained through an illegal method of bitcoin arbitrage

Crypto companies Bitfinex and Tether have jointly entered the peer-to-peer (P2P) application market by offering private video communications with the ability to integrate USDT. Together with P2P infrastructure developer Hypercore, the companies created a new legal entity and protocol called Holepunch. Based on it, three project participants launched the Keet application for peer-to-peer cryptographically encrypted video calls. Keet will allow users to schedule audio and video calls, send text messages and share files for free.

The British bank Barclays, despite the crisis in the crypto industry, intends to invest in the custodial service Crypto Copper in the “range of millions of dollars.” An international private bank headquartered in London is investing in a crypto service that stores $2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies as part of its latest funding round. Barclays is one of the UK’s largest banks with total assets of around $1.4 trillion as of 2021. Until now, the