The Twitter accounts belonging to Lara and Tiffany Trump were compromised and used to announce a fake launch of the (unfortunately real) World Liberty Financial project that their family has been promoting. Donald Trump's son Eric tried to warn people of the scam, but in doing so retweeted the scam tweet containing the malicious...

Five states have settled with the European crypto firm GS Partners over several crypto investment pyramid schemes. These included one in which the firm sold crypto "vouchers", each representing a single square inch of a 36-floor Dubai sksycraper, which they said would allow holders to earn passive income from rental leases. The group...

A blockchain-based version of the 2014 hit game Flappy Bird has emerged, taking advantage of the recent "tap-to-earn" crypto craze. The @flappy_bird Twitter account posted "I AM BACK!!" on September 12, with a video compilation showing people playing the original game. The tweet also claimed they were "working with [Flappy Bird's]...

The DeltaPrime defi protocol suffered a $6 million loss after a private key was leaked. Access to the private key allowed the attacker to mint 1.1×1069 DPUSDC, which are tokens that allow holders to redeem the USDC stablecoin at a 1:1 ratio. They repeated the mint with several other deposit receipt tokens for bitcoin, ether, and...

AssangeDAO was a project created to fundraise for the legal defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been fighting espionage and computer intrusion charges for over a decade, and who was imprisoned in the United Kingdom for several years. The DAO raised around $55 million, and when Assange reached a plea deal and was...

In May 2022, WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann announced he would be launching a company called Flowcarbon, which would issue "tokenized carbon credits" called "Goddess Nature Tokens" and sell them to companies looking to green up their image. The company raised $70 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others,...