Attackers withdrew about $2.1 million from a legacy vault of Thetanuts Finance as a result of yet another hack in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. White-hat hackers returned approximately $2 million. The hack affected a vault that the protocol stopped using several years ago. Thetanuts emphasized that this contract is not connected to working products and current infrastructure. How the hack happened The first to signal

The US still retains a small advantage over China in Quantum Information Science, Engineering, and Technology (QISET). However, the gap is narrowing and could disappear within a few years, according to the report The Quantum Competition by the analytical organization Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). The authors compared the positions of the two countries across five areas…

Standard Chartered bank forecast that the UNI token could rise roughly 40-fold — to $100 by the end of 2030. This is stated in the institution’s new research, The Block reports. According to Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick, the next wave of value creation in the crypto market will be tied precisely to…

The blocking of Anthropic’s models by the US authorities confirms the importance of decentralized AI. This was stated by the head of Grayscale’s research department, Zach Pandl. On June 12, the US government banned foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic’s new models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5. For national security reasons, the company temporarily disabled these AI systems for all…

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has raised its key rate to 1%. This is the highest level since 1995. The decision was made on June 16 by a majority vote — 7 to 1. The rate rose by 0.25 percentage points — from the previous 0.75%. Thus Japan returned to the 1% mark for the first time in 31 years and took another step away from the era of ultra-cheap money.