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Finance

BNB Smart Chain to Perform Hard Fork as Fix for $100M Exploit

The "temporary urgent patch" release will take occur at around 08:00 UTC on Oct. 12.

The Cardano hard fork is expected on Sept. 22. (Yuri_Arcurs/E+/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance Exec: BNB Smart Chain Hack Could Have Been Worse if Validators Hadn’t ‘Sprung Into Action’

Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer at crypto exchange Binance, joined “First Mover” to discuss last week’s $100 million exploit and how validators prevented the worst-case scenario.

Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer (Binance)

Finance

BNB Smart Chain Resumes Operations After $100M Exploit

A tweet from the official BNB chain Twitter account indicates the chain is back in operation after pushing out a software update to freeze hackers' accounts.

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Finance

BNB Chain, Google Cloud Team Up to Advance Growth of Web3 and Blockchain Projects

The strategic collaboration plans to offer foundational infrastructure, cloud-computing credits and mentorship to some Web3 and blockchain startups.

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Tech

Binance Seeks to Rev Up Its BNB Blockchain With Tech That Got Traction on Ethereum

The exchange effectively announced a separate blockchain where transactions can be offloaded and processed faster and more cheaply.

Hermez rollup is live on Ethereum's network (Unsplash)

Markets

pSTAKE Announces stkBNB to Unlock Liquidity on Staked BNB Token

pSTAKE will allow users to stake any non-zero amount of BNB.

pSTAKE announces BNB liquid staking. (Momentmal/Pixabay)

Learn

Trust Wallet 101: How to Get Started

Trust Wallet is a secure place where you can store a wide variety of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

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Markets

More Than $400M in BNB Burned in Quarterly Move

The action is part of an automatic system to reduce the total supply of BNB to 100 million.

Over 1.9 million BNB tokens were burned on Wednesday (Getty Images)

Layer 2

Bankoff’s Crypto Wallets Nearly Empty After Virtual Debit Card Provider Folds

The Delaware-registered company said Visa and Stripe cut it off for serving too many Russians, but on-chain data has stoked users' suspicions.

More than $8M worth of USDT passed through Bankoff's wallets since December 2020, but less than $2,000 remains.

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