Jakarta-based crypto exchange Tokocrypto is considering a public market debut over the next two or three years, Nikkei reported on Wednesday. “I’m saying two years because we need to be profitable for at least more than two years before listing. We are already profitable now. Our key focus at Tokocrypto is to grow the business further, expand our operations to more parts of Indonesia and make crypto mainstream in the country,” Tokocrypto CEO Pang Xue Kai said. “Valuation-wise, it is premature to talk about as an IPO is still two to three years down the road, but a close reference …

In an increasingly crowded marketplace for marketplaces, Binance is going on the offensive with a business development push aimed at bringing “100 Creators” to their forthcoming nonfungible token (NFT) platform. In a press release today, Binance announced an NFT drop from Misha Most, a noted street artist who currently holds the world record for the largest wall mural. Most will be making 10 NFTs in collaboration with other artists, and the pieces will be available for sale in the first week of launch of the marketplace, currently scheduled for June 24th. “Digital art is imbued with the spirit of the …

Another decentralized finance protocol was subject to a major exploit on Friday after $7.2 million was drained from BurgerSwap on Binance Smart Chain. Varying amounts of seven different cryptocurrencies were stolen amid the attack, including $3.2 million worth of BURGER tokens, $1.6 million worth of Wrapped BNB (WBNB) and $1.4 million worth of Tether (USDT). The funds were still being sold off at the time of publication. BurgerSwap launched in late 2020 as what was thought to be a clone of the Uniswap decentralized exchange. However, a post-mortem into the exploit revealed that the omission of a crucial line of …

Cryptocurrency and blockchain intelligence company CipherTrace has announced analytics support for Binance Smart Chain (BSC) amid a rise in attacks and vulnerabilities on protocols running on the network. In an announcement on May 27, the firm stated that it aims to identify higher-risk financial transactions taking place on BSC and its decentralized applications which now number more than 600. CipherTrace already tracks the activity of over a thousand digital assets. Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace, stated that once support for a blockchain is added, the firm can add analytics for all applications built on that network. The inclusion of CipherTrace’s …

Popular TikTok viral “meme coin” SafeMoon could be vulnerable to malicious exploits by hackers on account of purported security vulnerabilities in its smart contract code. According to a smart contract audit by blockchain security firm HashEx, SafeMoon currently has 12 of such vulnerabilities with five being classified as ranging between being of a “critical” and “high-severity” nature. As part of its findings, the HashEx audit alleges that SafeMoon is vulnerable to a “Temporary ownership renounce” attack and a subsequent rug pull to the tune of $20 million. According to HashEx, the SafeMoon contract owner is an externally owned account, or …

Binance Smart Chain’s decentralized finance ecosystem saw a second flash loan exploit in a week after PancakeBunny. A new attack drained $3 million, or half the total liquidity, from DeFi platform Bogged Finance. The team confirmed the attack on Sunday, warning users not to buy its native token until the issue is solved. The developer team identified and mitigated the exploit within 45 seconds, or 15 blocks, thanks to an online meeting held when the attack started. Still, the culprit was able to drain $3 million of the $6 million of liquidity. The BOG token price crashed from around $1.8 …

Popular Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized finance protocol PancakeBunny has suffered a major exploit that allowed a hacker to make off with more than $200 million worth of crypto assets. According to a series of threads posted by the PancakeBunny team in the past hour, the protocol was subject to a flash loan attack from an external actor. The attacker borrowed “a huge amount” of Binance Coin (BNB) before manipulating the asset’s price and dumping it on the platform’s BUNNY/BNB market. 4⃣ The hacker then dumped all the bunny in the market, causing the bunny price to plummet 5⃣The hacker paid …

As the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dove to prices not seen since February, site traffic on major crypto exchanges and websites have surged, seemingly causing outages, intermittent access and slower loading times. Earlier on Wednesday, users of Coinbase and Binance experienced delays in Ether (ETH) and ERC-20 token withdrawals “due to congestion on the Ethereum network,” according to the status pages of both major cryptocurrency exchanges. Purportedly for the same reason, Coinbase users still have only intermittent access to the website and mobile app while crypto analytics site CoinMarketCap and crypto exchange Kraken both briefly went down, leaving crypto users …

Elon Musk and COVID-19 have something in common: They have both panicked investors — at least once — into dumping their Bitcoin (BTC) holdings. The similarities notched up higher in the previous six days as Musk doubled down on his chaos-inducing perspective toward Bitcoin. The billionaire entrepreneur engaged in a Twitter spat with top cryptocurrency advocates over the weekend, including podcaster Peter McCormick, as he projected his favorite token, Dogecoin (DOGE), as superior to Bitcoin. Obnoxious threads like this make me want to go all in on Doge — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2021 At one point in time, …

This year decentralized finance (DeFi) has proven to be a transformative sector for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and it is also making waves in among global financial markets as institutional investors become entranced with the potential to earn high yields on stablecoins, altcoins and Bitcoin. While the price action from Dogecoin (DOGE) has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, Delphi Digital has been chronicling the growth of the DeFi ecosystem on the Ethereum (ETH) network which has steadily been gaining strength over the past month. According to Delphi Digital researchers, while the majority of growth occurred on Ethereum-based DeFi platforms, protocols …

Within the last hour, Bitcoin's (BTC) price dropped by more than 3%, extending the decline that started on May 12 and saw the digital asset drop as low as $46,000 on some exchanges. Initially, it was Tesla’s May 12 announcement that it would stop accepting Bitcoin as payment over environmental concerns, along with technical weakness and a nearly complete head-and-shoulders technical pattern, that pushed BTC's price down to $46,000. May 13’s bearish catalyst appears to be a Bloomberg Tax report claiming that the United States Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are investigating Binance Holdings Ltd. for alleged “illicit …

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance is reportedly under investigation by both the United States Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service in an apparent effort to stymie illegal trading activity from users in the United States. According to a Bloomberg report, the two government agencies are looking into Binance Holdings Ltd as part of an investigation into U.S. residents using cryptocurrencies for illegal transactions. Officials are reportedly seeking information from Binance employees and customers, but not all their inquiries are necessarily tied to allegations of wrongdoing. The report said the information came from unnamed sources who requested anonymity due to the …