PA Daily | Tether has introduced the FBI and the Secret Service to its platform, and Multicoin co-creators said that Solana and mobile users will receive a large number of airdrops in the next year

Today’s News Tips:

1.Tether has introduced the FBI and the Secret Service into its platform

2. The FTX debtor submits a restructuring plan, and the value of the customer’s claim will be determined based on the token value on the bankruptcy date

3. The NFT stolen by the NFT Trader attacker has been recovered, and Boring Security pays a 10% bounty

4. zkSync developers: zkSync is not down today, and users’ ability to submit transactions will be affected for a short time

5. The inscription avav on Avalanche has been fully inscribed, and there are more than 50,000 addresses

6. Founder of Delegate: A new malicious contract has appeared, which has stolen 14 BAYC and 36 Pudgy Penguins

7. PlutusDAO: The lost plsARB staking rewards have been airdropped to eligible users

8. Multicoin co-creation: Solana and Solana mobile users will receive a large number of airdrops in the next 1 year

Regulatory News

Tether has introduced the FBI and the Secret Service into its platform

Tether released its letters to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, outlining its “commitment to working closely with security and law enforcement.” In a recent letter, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino highlighted Tether’s recent decision to ban all wallets on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list from using USDT. Tether claims to have so far helped the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Secret Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) freeze 326 wallets that collectively control 435 million USDT. Ardoino also announced that Tether “recently added the U.S. Secret Service to our platform and is doing the same with the FBI.”

NFT&AI

NFT Trader Hacker Asks for 10% Bounty, Says It’s “Not an Attacker, Just a Scavenger”

The NFT Trader hacker left a message on the chain saying that it was not an attacker, and that the original attacker was another address ending in “bd46”. He is “limited in level” and cannot complete the attack in one go, he is just “picking up garbage”. In addition, he said that affected wallets can pay him a 10% bounty as a reward for returning their NFTs. The NFTs will be denominated in BAYC 30 ETH, MAYC 6 ETH.

“As usual, I’m here to pick up the rest of the trash,” the hacker said. At first I thought I could only get tokens, but eventually I found out that I could get NFTs as well. I’m a good person, and the value of these NFTs is enough for me to live a free life, but I don’t care about it. My limited level of technology prevents me from getting all of the affected NFTs at once. If you want the monkey NFT back, then you need to pay me a bounty, which I deserve. Finally, I wish you all a nice day!"

NFT Trader: The platform does not have ownership of any assets

NFT Trader tweeted that a third party executed malicious code on two of our old smart contracts and has taken all necessary steps to prevent such incidents from happening again in the future. It is recommended to use revoke(.) after completing a transaction on any platform. cash or similar tools for added security. In addition, the NFT Trader platform never has ownership of any assets.

Boring Security: A 10% bounty has been paid to the NFT Trader attackers, and the NFTs will be returned for free

“The 36 BAYC and 18 MAYC stolen by the NFT Trader attackers are now in our hands, and we transfer 10% of the NFT floor price to the attackers as a bounty,” Boring Security said on the X platform. Boring Security will work with the affected victims, and the NFTs will be returned free of charge." It is reported that Boring Security is a security public welfare organization funded by ApecoinDAO to maintain the security of the Ape ecosystem, track hacker addresses, and report dangerous behaviors in a timely manner.

Previously, the NFT Trader hacker left a message on the chain saying that it was not an attacker, and the initial attacker was another address ending in “bd46”. He is “limited in level” and cannot complete the attack in one go, he is just “picking up garbage”. In addition, he said that affected wallets can pay him a 10% bounty as a reward for returning their NFTs. The NFTs will be denominated in BAYC 30 ETH, MAYC 6 ETH.

Project News

FTX debtors submit a restructuring plan, and the value of customer claims will be determined based on the value of tokens on the bankruptcy date

FTX debtors submit a revised restructuring plan, and the value of customer claims will be determined based on the value of tokens at the time of FTX’s bankruptcy filing on November 11, 2022, and the value of crypto assets will be converted into cash at the conversion rate specified in the conversion table.

Bithumb will suspend Klaytn (KLAY) and affiliated token deposits and withdrawals

Bithumb announced that due to network reasons, it will suspend the deposit and withdrawal services of Klaytn (KLAY) and Klaytn-affiliated virtual assets (KCT7), including Galaxia (GXA), Neofin (NPT), Mabrex (MBX), Bora (BORA), Superwork (GRND), Six (SIX), Somesing (SSX), Amocoin (AMO), Agit (AZIT)、OBSR、With (WIKEN)、ClayDice (DICE)、Clay Swap (KSP)、TEMCO (TEMCO)。

Founder of Delegate: A new malicious contract has appeared, which has stolen 14 BAYC and 36 Pudgy Penguins

The founder of Delegate tweeted that a new malicious contract (non-NFT Trader) has appeared, which has stolen 14 BAYC and 36 Pudgy Penguins, and advised users to cancel the relevant authorizations. According to Slowmist Cosine, the malicious contract is Flooring Protocol, or it has been hacked, and users should cancel the contract authorization as soon as possible.

Flooring Protocol: The bug has been fixed, the main contract is secure, and the assets in the vault and safe are not affected

NFT fragmentation protocol Flooring Protocol tweeted that it had determined that the cause of the attack was related to the protocol’s periphery/multi-call contract. The team deployed a fix 2 hours ago that fixed the issue. Investigation and monitoring will continue and the main contract is secure. Assets in vaults and safes are not affected. According to previous news, Slow Mist Cosine said that Flooring Protocol may have been hacked, and users should cancel the contract authorization as soon as possible.

Multicoin Co-Creation: Solana and Solana mobile users will receive a large number of airdrops in the next 1 year

Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin, said on the X platform that Solana and Solana mobile users will receive a large number of airdrops in the next 1 year.

zkSync developers: zkSync is not down today, and users’ ability to submit transactions will be affected for a short time

zkSync developer Anthony Rose said on the X platform that zkSync did not go down this morning, and achieved a TPS of about 150. Database capacity needs to be upgraded on the fly, which affects the ability of users to submit transactions in about 15 minutes, regardless of sequencers or attestation systems, which are still fully operational. In the early hours of this morning, the zkSync blockchain explorer showed that zkSync had not produced a block for more than 1 hour, and zkSync said that users may experience delays on partner nodes.

PlutusDAO: Lost plsARB staking rewards have been airdropped to eligible users

PlutusDAO tweeted that the lost plsARB staking rewards have been airdropped to eligible users and that an additional 5% incentive has been added to esPLS.

For the first time in history, hacker Shakeeb Ahmed has been convicted of attacking smart contracts to steal DEX assets

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York announced that hacker Shakeeb Ahmed admitted to hacking two DEXs including Nirvana Finance, agreed to forfeit more than $12.3 million, including about $5.6 million in cryptocurrency obtained through fraudulent means, and will face up to 5 years in prison, the first ever conviction for attacking a smart contract.

In total, Shakeeb Ahmed used his technical know-how to steal over $12 million and tried to cover his tracks by exchanging the stolen cryptocurrency for Monero, using cryptocurrency mixers, cross-chains, and utilizing overseas crypto exchanges. AT THE TIME OF BOTH ATTACKS, AHMED, A U.S. CITIZEN, WAS A SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER AT AN INTERNATIONAL TECH COMPANY WHOSE RESUME REFLECTED SKILLS IN THINGS LIKE SMART CONTRACTS AND BLOCKCHAIN AUDITING, SOME OF THE SPECIALIZED SKILLS THAT AHMED USED TO PERFORM HACKING ATTACKS.

IMPORTANT FIGURES

Data: There are currently more than 345,000 transactions pending confirmation on the BTC network

mempool.space data shows that the current Bitcoin network has a minimum transaction fee of 600 sat/vB, more than 345,000 transactions to be confirmed, and the mempool usage exceeds 300 MB to reach 1.41GB.

The inscription avav on Avalanche has been fully inscribed, and there are more than 50,000 holding addresses

According to Avaions data, the inscription avav on Avalanche has been fully inscribed, and there are 52,367 holding addresses.