ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the oracle DIA announced its joining of the "Entropy Alliance" alongside the Ethereum Foundation, IPFS, Gelato, Cloudflare, and others. This alliance will help teams build DApps using truly distributed and tamper-proof random number generation (RNG) solutions.

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on X that the Tornado Cash IPFS version frontend has backdoor code that can hijack deposit receipts. Additionally, due to governance attacks, malicious proposals have been quietly passed. The malicious code has been present for nearly two months, during which some attackers' mixed funds may have been blackmailed by this backdoor.

ChainCatcher news, the People's Court of Wuchang District, Wuhan City has concluded a case involving a contract dispute related to virtual currency "mining". The plaintiff, Zhou, signed a "Storage Server Purchase Contract" with the defendant, a technology company, on July 7, 2021. Both parties agreed that Zhou would purchase an IPFS storage server for 179,800 yuan. The IPFS storage server was to be hosted in a data center and managed by the technology company, which guaranteed Zhou that the provided IPFS storage server could offer services on the IPFS network and earn Filecoin rewards, could undergo hardware iteration and upgrades based on network demand, and promised that the amount of coins produced would not be lower than the market average (investment return rate); otherwise, the technology company would make up the difference.After the contract was signed, the technology company managed the storage server purchased by Zhou as agreed. Zhou was able to learn about the daily coin production and pledge release status of the storage server through an application software developed by the technology company. Later, Zhou realized that the virtual currency generated by the storage server was explicitly prohibited by the state, thus bringing the case to court, requesting confirmation of the contract's invalidity, the return of all contract funds, and payment of interest on the funds occupied.After hearing the case, the court held that although the "Storage Server Purchase Contract" signed by both parties was nominally a sales contract for storage servers, its substantive purpose was to purchase computing power storage servers for obtaining virtual currency Filecoin tokens. Combined with the agreement that the purchased storage servers would be hosted in the technology company's data center, it can be seen that the transaction involved in the contract was essentially a "mining" activity using specialized computer equipment to produce virtual currency. Such "mining" activities consume a large amount of energy and produce significant carbon emissions, which is detrimental to the optimization of China's industrial structure and energy conservation and emission reduction, and is not conducive to achieving China's goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Moreover, the production and trading of virtual currency involve multiple risks such as false asset risks, operational failure risks, and investment speculation risks, which harm the public interest. The transaction under the contract violates the principles of green development, harms the public interest, and does not comply with the relevant administrative regulations and regulatory requirements for industrial structure adjustment, thus the contract should be deemed invalid.Both parties bear fault for the invalidity of the contract and should assume civil liability commensurate with their fault. Considering the degree of fault of both parties and the technology company's actual maintenance and use of the storage equipment, the court determined that the technology company should return 120,000 yuan of the contract amount to Zhou. Additionally, since Zhou had fault regarding the contract's invalidity and there was no agreement between the parties on interest for the occupied funds, the court did not support Zhou's claim for interest on the occupied funds. After the judgment takes effect, the parties voluntarily fulfill the legal obligations determined by the effective judgment.

ChainCatcher news, the People's Court of Pingnan County publicly heard the case of defendants Lai Mouhang and 3 others organizing and leading a pyramid scheme at the First Trial Court of the People's Court of Gangnan District, Guigang City, involving an amount exceeding 600 million yuan. The prosecution believes that the defendants Lai Mouhang and others, under the guise of mining FIL coins on the Shikongyun company platform, required participants to pay for purchasing mining machines or leasing fees to qualify for membership, and formed hierarchies in a certain order, directly or indirectly using the number of people developed as the basis for rebates, luring participants to continue developing others with high returns, defrauding property, and disrupting the economic and social order. Their actions are serious violations of criminal law and should be held criminally responsible for organizing and leading pyramid schemes. The case is currently under further trial.According to the prosecution, in September 2019, defendant Lai Mouhang set up the IPFS China community website and WeChat public account using the ipfs.cn domain name, vigorously promoting and exaggerating the investment prospects of distributed storage technology and the economic model of filecoin.io. Later, after discussions with Liang Mou Sheng and Hu Mou, Lai Mouhang imitated the economic model of filecoin to create its mining model and developed the filpool.io platform of Shikongyun company. After the establishment of the filpool.io platform, the gang used the website and Shikongyun platform to introduce and promote the distributed storage technology of Shikongyun company, exaggerating the profit prospects of this technology, promoting joint mining, cloud computing power packages, etc., under the guise of selling storage servers to mine FIL coins. Participants could obtain membership status above bronze and the qualification to promote and develop members by purchasing at least 8TB of cloud computing power. Members received commission income and virtual assets corresponding to their membership level, and gained benefits through dynamic and static income methods. The more they invested and developed downlines, the more profits they obtained, thus defrauding participants of their property.On this basis, in February 2021, Shikongyun company developed the bpool.io platform with a cooperative merchant model, using the company - cooperative merchant - member model to carry out pyramid scheme activities. By May 18, 2022, when the case occurred, the total number of members on the Shikongyun filpool.io platform was 57,122, with 16 levels, selling 7,876,518.2 USDT coins, and a sales revenue of 339,562,050.7 yuan. The Shikongyun bpool.io platform had 143 cooperative merchants, a total of 37,015 members, 11 levels, selling 24,049,727 USDT coins, and a sales revenue of 353,443,709.64 yuan, with 57,137 FIL coins sold. Shikongyun company obtained a total of 606,955,717.65 yuan and 62,155,764.8573519 virtual coins through the operation of the filpool.io and bpool.io platforms.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted, "I uploaded a game I made before the crypto era (2011) to IPFS." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Filecoin has launched a user-side retrieval tool called Lassie, allowing users to retrieve data without running an IPFS or Filecoin node. Additionally, application developers can utilize Lassie as a library to directly fetch content from Filecoin and IPFS within their applications.It is reported that due to the diversity of data transfer protocols in the IPFS ecosystem, Lassie currently supports both Graphsync and Bitswap protocols simultaneously, with plans to support more data transfer protocols in the future. (source link)

ChainCatcher message, the decentralized front-end Dappnet built on IPFS has launched its Alpha version, supporting Chrome, Firefox, and Brave browsers, while being fully open-source. Users can access Curve, ENS, 1inch, and other websites deployed on .eth domains through it on macOS, and it will never be censored or shut down. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, IPFS has released the browser plugin "Pin Tweet to IPFS," allowing users to archive tweets to IPFS, helping users store tweets in a verifiable manner. Currently, IPFS is using tools from the WebRecorder team to create verifiable WebArChiveZip tweet files to assist users in uploading these files to the IPFS network and accessing them through their own IPFS nodes or other pinning services.The plugin is now available in the Chrome and Edge browser extension stores, and IPFS will continue to iterate to speed up the archiving process and add more verification features. (source link)