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‘We Got Careless’ Victim Tells Hacker in Bid to Recover Lost ETH

 An MEV bot operator made 800 ETH in a single transaction on Sept. 28, before losing a whopping 1,100 ETH just one hour later, according to Bert Miller, the product lead of Flashbots, an MEV research team.

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Upgrades Aim to Make ATOM the Reserve Currency of the Ecosystem

 Cosmos, an ecosystem of interconnected blockchains whose ATOM token has surged 21% in the last 30 days, is planning to restructure its tokenomics to drive more value to ATOM and better secure its network of chains.

ECB President Lagarde Supports Stricter Regulation of DeFi

 Jerome Powell may not be totally down with DeFi but he isn’t taking the hard line other regulators are pursuing in the latest crackdown on crypto. That was the upshot from a forum on the tokenization of finance hosted by the Banque de France in Paris on Tuesday. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, presented a nuanced stance on DeFi.

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 In a move that could boost web3 adoption at a time of mounting doubts, Robinhood, the popular stock trading app, launched a beta version of its non-custodial wallet on the Polygon network on Sept. 27.

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