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12/14/23: This Is Fine. 🔥💡🚀

Top News

  • 🔥 Sushi hit by front-end attack due to Ledger ConnectKit

  • 💡 Vitalik floats idea of taking some L2 actions back to the main chain

  • 🚀 FASB confirms 'Fair Value' approach for corporate crypto holdings

Our Insights

⌐◪-◪ → Do not interact with any dApps until further notice! The attack this morning on Sushi is not an isolated attack, it’s a large scale attack on multiple dapps - including Revoke Cash.

The attack is related to Ledger’s ConnectKit, where an attacker injected wallet draining code. Here’s a succinct breakdown by the legendary 0xquit.

The ledger ecosystem has sadly become one of the biggest attack vectors for all of crypto - a staunch reminder that removing single points of failure is a way of life and neverending effort.

⌐◪-◪ → A new Vitalik (blog post) just dropped! In this post he discusses the concept of an "enshrined ZK-EVM" for Ethereum, addressing the reliance of Layer-2 protocols like ZK rollups on EVM verification’s large codebase.

This situation, he argues, is inefficient as it duplicates the Ethereum protocol's existing functions. He explores the idea of integrating ZK-EVM into Ethereum's main chain, analyzing various design approaches, trade-offs, and potential benefits.

This integration could streamline processes and leverage the increasing power of light clients, making Ethereum's network more efficient and secure.

⌐◪-◪ → 3 years ago, Michael Saylor said 3 catalysts would take Bitcoin to $5M, and this was one of them - fair value FASB accounting rules.

Previously, companies could only value their BTC at the lowest price since they bought it, which meant they would have to record losses, but not the gains when the price recovered.

This upgrade to accounting standards, in conjunction with BIS’ new 2% rule, will facilitate the adoption of BTC as a treasury reserve asset by corporations and central banks worldwide.

Peripheral Vision

⛓️ Crypto & DeFi

  • Yearn Finance says faulty script wiped out $1.4 million from treasury

  • Total value of Cardano ecosystem nears $450M amid L1 push

  • Cronos, partner of Crypto.com, to start L2 network with Matter Labs

  • Anon buys ads in Ohio to persuade young voters to fire Gary Gensler

  • Worldcoin integrates with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram and Shopify

🏦 Wallstreet & VC

  • Dynamic Labs secures $13.5M Series A led by a16z crypto

  • Metagood, behind OnChainMonkey NFTs, raises $5M seed round

  • Bitcoin rewards provider Lolli raises $8 million in Series B funding

  • JPMorgan says ether will likely outperform bitcoin next year

🏛️ Legal & Regulatory

  • CoinList settles OFAC's Russian sanctions allegations for $1.2M

  • FTX judge takes step to shorten timeline for customer recoveries

  • CFTC pushes FTX-inspired rule to protect customers' money

  • CFTC approves Bitnomial's derivatives clearing application

  • SEC Chair Gary Gensler doesn't want to talk about 'crypto securities'

🌎 Rest of the World

  • BIS says crypto firms can now hold 2% of reserves in crypto

  • Russia's Finance Ministry considers treating BTC mining like O&G

  • Su Zhu grilled in court over crypto fund’s collapse

  • Deutsche bank-backed Taurus starts tokenizing German SME loans

  • Rulematch, a Swiss crypto exchange for banks, onboards BBVA bank

  • Coinbase launches spot trading of BTC and ETH outside the US

  • Fnality starts 1st phase of live transactions with Bank of England

🖼️ NFTs & Metaverse