Crypto technologies are gradually changing the world and are increasingly being implemented in mobile communication devices. Thus, the British digital payments company Electroneum has presented the M1 smartphone, with which the smartphone's owner will be able to mine the ETN cryptocurrency, which can be used for various purposes, such as topping up mobile data, online shopping and other online services...

A project called Monero Rings positions itself as an "improved version" of Monero, promising fast transactions, scalability, improved mining and even non-fungible tokens. All of this sounds wonderful, however, as it turned out, Monero Rings is a fake hard fork of Monero that steals funds from users.

A bug has been discovered in the Ledger Nano S hardware crypto wallet in the operation of software version 1.1.3 with the Monero 0.14 client, related to an incorrect address for the return of funds. This was reported by the developers of the Ledger Nano S cryptocurrency wallet, who asked device owners to refrain from using version 0.14 while the developers search for a solution.

On February 20, Binance launched testing of the Binance DEX decentralized trading platform on its own blockchain, whose token is Binance Coin (BNB) . This contributed to the growth of the Binance Coin cryptocurrency, and in just two days Binance Coin overtook two coins — TRON and Stellar, and now ranks eighth by market capitalization in the cryptocurrency rankings.

Programmer Warith Al Maawali has discovered a security breach in the Coinomi cryptocurrency wallet, as a result of which the Coinomi crypto wallet sends users' passphrases to the Google spell-check service in unencrypted form, thereby opening up access for scammers to private information and giving them the opportunity to take over users' funds. This breach in the wallet's security was discovered during the investigation of the mysterious theft of 90% of the programmer's funds.