As anticipation surges ahead of the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), whispers of the potential unveiling of Apple’s extended reality (XR) headset are creating a palpable sense of excitement. Apple’s XR headset is expected to transform the tech giant’s legacy radically, setting a new benchmark for the rapidly evolving world of consumer technology. Big…
Chainalysis revealed that it helped the US government seize over $30 million from North Korea-linked hackers of the Axie Infinity’s (AXS) Ronin Bridge. 2/ With the help of law enforcement & leading orgs in the #crypto industry, more than $30M worth of #crypto stolen by North Korean-linked hackers has been seized. In this thread, we…
Axie Infinity CEO and co-founder Trung Nguyen moved $3 million worth of AXS tokens to Binance before disclosing the Ronin bridge exploit, Bloomberg News reported on July 28. Axie Infinity lost over $600 million to North Korea-linked hackers on March 29. The game developer temporarily suspended the operations of the Ronin bridge following the hack,…
After being offline for almost three months, Axie Infinity announced that Ronin Bridge is going live again with more security. The Ronin Bridge is open! • All user funds are fully backed 1:1 by the new bridge.• The bridge has undergone an internal audit and two external audits.• We are still on track to release…
👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Months after the exploit that led to the theft of over $600 million, Axie Infinity developers Sky Mavis will finally reimburse users and restart the Ronin bridge exploited in the attack, Bloomberg reported. The developer expects to start reimbursing affected users…
Axie Infinity has announced on its Twitter page that there was a compromise of the MEE6 bot on its Discord server. The MEE6 team has denied that there was an attack on its bot. The MEE6 bot is quite popular on Discord, with many servers using it for automating messages and other functions. Axie Infinity…
The U.S. Treasury Department has claimed that the North Korean hacker group Lazarus is responsible for the $625 million hack of the Axie Infinity Ronin bridge. The agency added an Ethereum (ETH) address containing some of the stolen cryptocurrency to its sanctions list. As of April 14, the wallet held around 148,000 ETH. THREAD: Updates to…
Contrary to the belief that gamers are leaving the popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity because of the recent hack, available information shows that the platform had lost nearly half of its users even before the heist, Bloomberg News reported. Axie Infinity loses gamers In the week of March 28, CryptoSlate reported that Ronin Network, the…
As reported by CryptoSlate last week, a hacker ran off with about $615 million in ether (Ethereum) and stablecoins after exploiting a multisig contract regulating funds in the Ronin-to-Ethereum bridge – Ronin being the blockchain behind Axie Infinity, the most popular play-to-earn game in the world. Now, the funds stolen by the yet undisclosed hacker…
The non-fungible token (NFT) space has enjoyed lots of highs in recent memory with a cumulative sale worth hundreds of millions, however, with the mania about the space sputtering out, indications have emerged that there is still reason for optimism in the sector. More people are buying NFTs Reports from Delphi Digital have revealed that…