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cbdc news
- interbank messaging company Intense announced “Further progress on its experimental solution for interconnecting central bank digital currencies (cbdc), reporting that 18 central and commercial banks found “clear potential and value” in the API-based CBDC connector after an extensive review. In the coming months, SWIFT will develop a beta version of the solution for payments which can be further tested central banksWhile a second phase of sandbox testing will also be conducted, in which the Swift community can further collaborate with a focus on new use cases, including securities settlement (such as cross-asset exchanges), trade finance, and conditional payments. Said this.
security news
- bug bounty and security service forum immunity released its ‘The Hacker Ecosystem Survey 2023’, found that whitehats are primarily interested in Ethereum (92%), with solana (31%) are in second place. 76.1% of Whitehats see attack surfaces increasing, but 88.5% also see increased security measures by projects in the industry. Most whitehats mention reentrancy (43.2%) as the most common vulnerability they come across when reviewing code, followed by access control (18.2%), input validation (9.1%), oracle manipulation (6.8%) ), along with other weaknesses including logical errors. 6.8%), rounding error (4.5%), gas optimization (4.5%), unchecked return value (2.3%), uninitialized proxy (2.3%), and flash loan (2.3%). Most respondents (77%) are primarily interested in solving technical challenges, followed by money (69%), then career opportunities (62%), and community (38%).
- Safeherona digital asset self-custody infrastructure provider, said it identified a vulnerability affecting the integration of potentially hundreds of multi-party computations (MPC). Purse and decentralized apps (dapps) Involved fireblocks And dYdX, “The provider detected that users of DYDX and other dApps that use the Stark Key authentication method were unknowingly exposing their MPC wallets to unauthorized access and control,” the report said. Safeheron also announced in mid-March the upcoming launch of its open-source MPC-ECDSA protocol, which helps address this vulnerability.
exchange news
- gate groupparent company of crypto exchange get.ioGate plans to launch Visa crypto debit card through its Lithuania-based company, Gate Global UAB, There is now a waiting list and registration process available for the new card, which is open to users from most European Economic Area (EEA) countries and there are plans to expand to other regions. where did it go,
- coinbase announced the launch of Wallet-as-a-Service (WAaS), a set of wallet infrastructure APIs that allows any company to onboard its users to Web3. WaaS companies should be able to use Web3 Wallet similar to Web3 Wallet (eg big paybut web3), Said the announcement. companies like thirdweb, floor, tokenproofAnd moonray Many are already using WaaS to onboard users to Web3 experiences in gaming, token-gated events, and digital marketplaces.
tax news
- cryptocurrency portfolio tracker and Tax The calculator cointracker announced it Partnerships with tax preparation company H&R Block Enables users to take advantage of automated crypto tax filing capabilities to ensure accurate crypto filing, for the 2023 tax season. The partnership brings benefits to H&R Block and CoinTracker users, including a free CoinTracker tax plan for those with less than 25 crypto transactions, a 10% discount on CoinTracker tax plans for those with more than 25 crypto transactions, and a 10% discount on H&R Block. 20% off included. Block online products for CoinTracker users, it said.
web3 news
- zksync announced integration with excellerwhich enables to compose Web3 applications built on zkEVM of zkSync Era dapp Function and liquidity across all 32+ chains linked to Exceller — including cosmos Chain, EVM and others Ethereum Layer 2 Chain. According to the blog post, “bridges have historically been a major vulnerability in crypto, and were responsible for $1.4 billion (69% of total hacks) in stolen funds from January to August last year.” Exceller’s Interchain Communication option addresses this, implementing cross-chain capabilities via APIs. He added that cross-chain functionality is essential for onboarding more users on Web3 and that such integration will make it easier for developers to launch multi-chain dapps.
- Web3 Accelerator External Ventures Announced the first cohort for its Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Basecamp Accelerator Program, which is using ZKProofs to innovate on infrastructure, scaling and privacy, including zkSig, RADIUS, cinder, truffles, datahiveAnd vmyself, As per the press release, “Outlier Ventures” inaugurated ZK Base Camp will provide mentorship, networking and support to over 400 best mentors and ecosystem partner organizations including over 400 best mentors. Aloe, Aztec, immutable x, nethermind, polygonAnd zksync,
investment news
- Alpha Sigma Capital announced an investment from Transform Ventures and its founder, Michael Terpin, in its new holding company, alpha transform holdings, was formed by the merger of select assets of the parent company of Transform Ventures and Alpha Sigma Capital, forming a new holding company. The new company will also create two new funds with a total of $100 million AUM. The investment includes funding for the parent company of Alpha Transform Holdings, the new Alpha Liquid Digital Asset Fund, and a closed-end venture capital firm for early-stage equity investments in blockchain, AI and emerging technology companies, the press release said. . Terpin also made a personal investment in cash, Bitcoinand $2.65m in Ethereum, with an option to invest an additional $2.9m.