Daily Report ｜ Mixin suffers a loss of 140 million USD in crypto assets due to an attack; ETHGlobal New York Hackathon announces the list of 13 finalists
The founder of Curve transferred 23.26 million CRV to Silo and lent out crvUSD; Anthropic, an AI company previously led by SBF, will receive up to $4 billion investment from Amazon.整理：flowie, ChainCatcher
"What Important Events Happened in the Last 24 Hours"
1. PeckShield: The Mixin Incident is the Largest Hacking Event in the Crypto Space This Year
According to ChainCatcher, PeckShield stated that the Mixin incident is the largest hacking event in the crypto space this year. As of September 25, the top ten hacks of 2023 include Mixin (loss of $200 million), Euler Labs (loss of $197 million, hackers have returned the funds), Vyper/Curve (loss of $73.6 million, hackers returned $52.3 million), CoinEx (loss of $70 million), Atomic Wallet (loss of $65 million), Stake (loss of $41 million), CoinsPaid (loss of $37.7 million), Poly Network (loss of $26 million), low-carb-crusader (loss of $25 million), and phishing targeting whales (loss of $24 million). (Source link)
According to a previous image released by PeckShield, Mixin Network lost a total of $140 million in crypto assets, including approximately $94.48 million in ETH, $23.55 million in DAI, and $23.3 million in BTC. (Source link)
According to news this morning, on September 23, 2023, the database of Mixin Network's cloud service provider was hacked, resulting in the loss of some assets on the mainnet. The team has contacted Google and the SlowMist team for assistance in the investigation. Preliminary verification indicates that the involved funds are approximately $200 million. (Source link)
Subsequently, Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong responded in a live broadcast, stating that the official compensation will cover up to 50% of the damaged assets, with the remainder compensated in the form of bond tokens. According to Tianyancha, Luo Yonghao was once a shareholder of a Mixin-related company, and Li Xiaolai currently holds 5% of the company's shares.
2. ETHGlobal New York Hackathon Announces 13 Finalist Projects
According to ChainCatcher, ETHGlobal announced on the X platform that 13 projects have made it to the finals of the ETHGlobal New York Hackathon, covering areas such as gaming, social, account abstraction, and DeFi, including:
Full-chain game FRAMED!, face-based payment project F.A.S.T., bug bounty platform ZeroTrustBounty, full-chain game competition platform Doom Arena, decentralized physical asset tracking project AirTracker, multi-chain smart contract deployment project SafeCreate2, AI-driven NFT project tool ConsciousNFT, MetaMask Snaps and Cryptosat satellite security solution Space Guardians, smart contract ownership recovery solution A.S.R., MEV victim compensation project MEVictim Rebate, real investment return leaderboard RealReturn, account abstraction wallet Abstract Wallet, cross-chain Gnosis Safe multi-signature optimization solution XSafe. (Source link)
3. Curve Founder Transfers 23.26 Million CRV to Silo and Borrows crvUSD
According to ChainCatcher, monitoring by Lookonchain shows that Curve founder Michael Egorov transferred 23.26 million CRV (worth approximately $12.3 million) to Silo in the past hour and borrowed 3.75 million crvUSD. This action caused the CRV TVL on Silo Llama to reach $60 million, setting a new record.
It is reported that Michael Egorov exchanged this portion of crvUSD for USDT and then repaid debts on Aave. (Source link)
4. Hong Kong SFC: Companies Applying for Licenses Include HKVAX, HKBitEx, Hong Kong BGE Limited, and Victory Securities
According to ChainCatcher, as reported by the South China Morning Post, since the new virtual asset regulations in Hong Kong took effect on June 1, in addition to two licensed cryptocurrency trading platforms (OSL Digital Securities Limited and Hash Blockchain Limited), four other companies have applied for licenses.
The regulatory agency stated that these four companies are HKVAX, HKBitEx, Hong Kong BGE Limited, and Victory Securities. (Source link)
5. European Crypto Fund Eureka Partners Completes $40 Million Financing
According to ChainCatcher, European crypto fund Eureka Partners has completed $40 million in financing from Nordic Venture Innovations AB, a Nordic family office. This round of financing will accelerate its development in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. (Source link)
6. AI Company Anthropic, Backed by SBF, to Receive Up to $4 Billion Investment from Amazon
According to ChainCatcher, Techcrunch reports that Amazon has agreed to invest $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a former leadership team from OpenAI and is known for its chatbot Claude, similar to ChatGPT. In August of this year, Anthropic received a $100 million investment from South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom and raised $450 million in a Series C round led by Spark Capital in May.
It is reported that Anthropic received $580 million in Series B funding led by former FTX CEO SBF in 2022. According to previous reports from ChainCatcher, based on an internal document circulated before FTX filed for bankruptcy last November, FTX and Alameda invested $500 million in the company. Semafor reported in early June that FTX was seeking to sell these shares for "hundreds of millions." However, subsequent reports from Bloomberg indicated that FTX had suspended the sale of its $500 million stake in Anthropic. (Source link)
7. Arbitrum Airdrop Claim Deadline Has Passed, Nearly 70 Million ARB Transferred to DAO Treasury
According to ChainCatcher, monitoring by Twitter user Ember shows that the Arbitrum airdrop claim deadline has passed at Ethereum block 18208000. Ten minutes ago, 69,448,385 ARB (approximately $56.54 million) that went unclaimed has been transferred from the airdrop contract to the DAO treasury.
According to ChainCatcher previously reported, Arbitrum will stop ARB airdrop claims at block 18208000 (expected on September 24), after which all unclaimed ARB tokens will be sent to the DAO treasury. (Source link)
"What Interesting Articles Are Worth Reading in the Last 24 Hours"
- “Placeholder: Why is Regulatory Compliance the Last Step in the Decentralization of Blockchain?”
One major obstacle to the widespread adoption of blockchain and smart contract applications has been the lack of clear legal and regulatory status and the ongoing controversies surrounding them. To achieve true innovation, blockchain systems must possess unique attributes that distinguish them from existing systems, thereby justifying the need for specialized regulatory treatment. The cornerstone of this innovation is "sufficient decentralization"—a characteristic that ensures reliability and resilience, even in hostile environments or other challenges. Placeholder explains in this article why regulatory compliance is the last step in the decentralization of blockchain.
On September 25, SlowMist MistTrack posted on social media that the Mixin Network cloud service provider's database was attacked, with an involved amount of approximately $200 million. The news sparked heated discussions in the crypto community, mainly because well-known KOL Li Xiaolai is one of the early investors in Mixin Network. This article delves into the team behind Mixin and past anecdotes.
It was initially thought that MakerDAO's Newchain plan had "cooled down" amid a wave of public discussion, but unexpectedly, MakerDAO's lending protocol Spark Protocol passed a proposal for Gnosis Chain a day ago, and it even grandly named it the Kick-off of the multi-chain strategy, seemingly marking the official start of MakerDAO's Endgame expansion as a "defection"?
From September 22 to 24, ETHGlobal held the ETHGlobal New York Hackathon, with a total of 13 projects making it to the finals, covering various fields such as blockchain gaming infrastructure, Telegram bots, AI, and cross-chain interoperability.
Among them are some interesting innovative projects, including the Telegram transfer bot F.A.S.T. that supports photo recognition, ConsciousNFT for creating background stories for NFT smart creations, and A.S.R. that allows users to recover their smart contract ownership after losing their signature private keys, etc. This article will provide a brief introduction to the finalist projects.
