Crypto Weekly Roundup: Balancer Hit By Attack, Google Adds Prediction Market Data, & More

The cryptocurrency ecosystem was hit by yet another exploit as hackers drained $128 million from the decentralized finance (Defi) protocol ￰0￱ more positive developments, Google Finance has announced plans to incorporate prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket in search results over the next few ￰1￱ are some of the other major developments in the past ￰2￱ The total value locked (TVL) into decentralized finance protocols has risen 40% since late September on Flare’s blockchain for ￰3￱ surge has been driven by demand for an asset that has very little to do with DeFi for most of its history: ￰4￱ Google Finance has announced it is incorporating prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket in its search ￰5￱ implementation will be completed over the next few weeks and is part of a new AI-powered ￰6￱ JPMorgan Chase has revealed it holds 5.28 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) ETF as of September 30, a 64% increase since ￰7￱ investors are pivoting to regulated crypto vehicles and investment products as they look to diversify their holdings and explore Bitcoin ￰8￱ Union has filed another trademark just days after announcing the launch of its own stablecoin in ￰9￱ trademark could encompass various cryptocurrency-related ￰10￱ Industries’ Board of Directors has authorized a $1 billion stock buyback ￰11￱ program allows the company to repurchase its outstanding common stock through September 30, ￰12￱ authorization comes as the treasury company filed a resale prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Ripple has closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the company at $40 billion, making it one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency deals of ￰13￱ Securities, Fortress, and other major funds led the funding ￰14￱ has expanded its US institutional offerings with the launch of a new digital asset spot prime brokerage platform for the US ￰15￱ launch comes after Ripple’s $1.25 billion acquisition of Hidden Road and enables it to consolidate licenses and infrastructure under Ripple Prime. Web3 The mining arm of KuCoin, KuPool , has appointed Shelton Qui as its Chief Operating Officer. A seasoned figure in the blockchain and mining industry, Qui brings nearly ten years of experience to the ￰16￱ has also held key positions, including Marketing Director and Business Development Lead at SparkPool, formerly the world’s largest Ethereum mining ￰17￱ has partnered with Layer-1 blockchain Concordium to introduce age-verified stablecoin payments to a global user base of over 75 million ￰18￱ collaboration will see the integration of Concordium’s ‘1-Click Verify & Pay’ technology with the ￰19￱ wallet to create a compliant, privacy-preserving payment ￰20￱ was born out of a moment of helplessness, and uses technology, creativity, and community to reimagine how we care for ￰21￱ team comes from a diverse background and has worked on projects like MakerDAO and ￰22￱ has revealed that trading activity on its tokenization of real-world asset (RWA) futures reached $29.2 billion USDT across the second and third quarters of ￰23￱ indicates a jump in on-chain demand for traditional asset exposure, with the RWA market crossing $30 billion in overall ￰24￱ behind Donut Labs is growing ahead of what it calls the decentralized finance industry’s first agentic crypto ￰25￱ company also announced it has raised $22 million in funding, just six months after announcing its mission to transform DeFi through agentic ￰26￱ Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Balancer has lost $128 million after falling victim to a major ￰27￱ to available on-chain data, hackers drained osETH, WETH, and wstETH from the protocol’s ￰28￱ hacker is already consolidating the stolen assets, raising concerns about money ￰29￱ Berachain Foundation has confirmed the recovery of $12.8 million stolen during the BEX/Balancer v2 ￰30￱ foundation also distributed an emergency hard fork following the hack to address a vulnerability in its decentralized ￰31￱ US Appeals Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an individual convicted of identity ￰32￱ man claimed that the FBI seized and wiped a hard drive that contained over 3,400 BTC belonging to ￰33￱ The United States has sanctioned a group of North Korean bankers and institutions accused of laundering millions of dollars linked to cyberattacks and illicit IT work ￰34￱ to US authorities, the laundered funds were used to fund Pyongyang’s weapons program.

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