This is Charles Brett’s start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ 2022-Week 40. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be comprehensive but does seek to highlight ‘Quick Takes’ on specific developments as well interesting pieces to read, a listing of some (not all) announcements/press releases and pointers to upcoming events.
Quick Take(s) – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 40
Binance blockchain suffers $570 million hack
Per Ars Technica, “hackers have stolen around $570 million in tokens from Binance, in a rare blow to the world’s biggest crypto exchange and another dent to the troubled digital assets industry struggling to regain trust after a collapse in prices.
“Binance initially estimated on Friday that tokens worth about $100 million to $110 million had been taken, pausing the operation of the affected blockchain for approximately eight hours.
“However, the exchange later disclosed that the hacker had taken around 2 million of the cryptocurrency BNB, Binance’s own digital token, with a value of around $284 each. The hack targeted BSC Token Hub, a bridge between two Binance systems.”
Quick Take: caveat emptor…
7 pieces to read – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 40
- Elon Musk was mulling creating a blockchain-based social media firm before offering to buy Twitter
- Blockchain memo: the state of blockchain in Africa
- Is payments giant SWIFT preparing for a blockchain-bound future?
- Tassat wants to prove that blockchain technology should be boring
- Blockchain-powered digital assets and what it means for fintech
- European Council passes landmark Markets in Crypto Asset regulation (MiCA)
- What is blockchain? Meaning, working, types, and uses.
Selected announcements/press releases/opinions – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 40
- Ernst & Young wants to be ‘The Best on Earth at Ethereum’ says firm’s blockchain lead (opinion)
- Blockchain could repair our broken global supply chain (opinion)
- 3 blockchain stocks to sell before they lose even more ground (opinion)
- BlackRock launches EU blockchain ETF (announcement)
- JP Morgan, HQLAᵡ, Ownera demo multi DLT Repo transaction (announcement)
- Two Sigma Securities joins Chainlink as data provider (announcement)
Selected events
- Bitcoin Amsterdam (12th-14th October, 2022)
- LA Blockchain Summit 2022 (1st-3rd November, 2022)
- Crypto and Digital Assets Summit – Winter Edition (28th November, 2022)
- Bitcoin Conference (18th-20th May, 2023).
