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Victims of $30M Parity Wallet Hack Offer Attacker $60M 'Bounty'
The victims of a 2017 hack - Aeternity, Edgeless, and Swarm City -have offered a bug bounty to recover their stolen ETH.
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ShapeShift and THORChain Enable BTC-to-ETH Trading
ShapeShift’s mobile platform has integrated with multi-chain liquidity protocol THORChain to offer native Bitcoin trading without KYC. THORChain’s recently launched multichain “chaosnet” enables cross-chain swaps amongst the Ethereum, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Binance Chain networks. THORChain’s native token, RUNE, exploded 111% over the past two weeks building up to the launch.Through THORChain, Shapeshift users…
DeFi Podcasts
Crypto Devs Are "Building a Life Raft For The World After Fiat Falls Apart:" Erik Voorhees
In this week’s episode, I speak with Erik Voorhees, long-time crypto advocate and founder and CEO of ShapeShift. In this interview, he talks about how he was able to stop gathering information about his customers and take the exchange back to its roots, by leaning into DeFi. His plan is to create a platform that connects with…
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ShapeShift Embraces DeFi, Axes KYC
ShapeShift will be fully embracing DeFi protocols and getting rid of KYC. The Colorado-based company will now route traders to decentralized exchanges, rather than holding cryptocurrency and being the counterparty in customers’ trades. This change allows it to stop collecting users’ information. Only ether and ERC20 tokens are supported for now. Fundamental Change “Today, ShapeShift…