...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already smoldering planet.
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Bittrex used to be a much larger presence in the US, enjoying more than 20% of US market share in 2018. It has since dropped to below 1%.
The entity that filed for bankruptcy in the US is Bittrex, Inc., which is separate from Bittrex Global. "This announcement does not impact Bittrex Global, which will continue operations as normal for its customers outside the U.S.," said a Bittrex spokesperson.
In the most recent hack, around $7 million was stolen as attackers discovered a vulnerability in the contracts of the DEI token. Some of the attackers were apparent whitehats, who executed the exploit to safeguard the funds until they could be returned to a secure address. As of May 8, $5.5 million of the $7 million stolen had been returned.
On September 6, Binance announced that they were working to return the frozen 1,909 ETH to the people who had purchased it in the funding rounds.
The WSB coin launched as an "official memecoin of r/wallstreetbets". The whitepaper explains the token allocation, saying that "It's the fairest launch memecoin you will find with no team allocation and no presale. Just a free airdrop and some coins for the community. 10% of the $WSB supply is reserved as a treasury for the r/wallstreetbets sub to do with as they please. I’m sure they will spend it wisely and definitely not waste it gambling or convincing each other to drink their own urine." Compelling!
The token launched, and quickly achieved a $50 million "market cap". However, on May 3 the token suddenly lost 90% of its value as one of the token creators, "zjz", dumped a massive quantity of the tokens allocated to the team, trading them for 334 ETH (~$635,000).
zjz has claimed that he only sold the tokens because another creator — "WSBMod" — was secretly draining the token by creating huge airdrops and then claiming them for himself. WSBMod, on the other hand, claims that zjz's actions were theft, and has threatened to involve the police and FBI.
Crypto sleuth zachxbt has since gotten involved in the fray, and along with another prominent crypto figure has joined a multi-sig wallet to try to help secure the funds' return without giving any of the creators involved in the dispute unilateral control.
Chastain was asked to resign by OpenSea in September 2021 after a Twitter user discovered apparent evidence that he had been engaging in insider trades. He was arrested and charged with money laundering in June 2022.
Chastain unsuccessfully argued in his defense that information about which NFTs would be prominently featured on OpenSea wasn't insider knowledge, and "nobody told Nate that he couldn't use or share that information". However, prosecutors argued that attempt to use anonymous accounts to make the trades suggested that he knew what he was doing was wrong.
This case has been described as the first NFT-related insider trading case, and could set a precedent for other similar charges.
It's not clear when precisely the change went into effect, but reports of the limitation began appearing in April 2023.
The end of FTX seems to have directly spelled the end of Storybook Brawl, which stopped announcing updates in November. However, Protos has pointed out that the game may likely be auctioned off as a part of FTX bankruptcy proceedings.
Indeed, it later turned out that Sun's team had farmed around 279,000 SUI (SUI does not yet have a reliable dollar price because it is set to launch later this month). Sun blamed the event on a TUSD market maker, writing, "Regrettably, some of our team members were not fully aware of the intended purpose for these funds and inadvertently used a portion of them to participate in exchange campaigns. Upon realizing this error, we immediately contacted the exchange team and arranged for a full refund of the funds." Those replying to his comment seemed more than a little skeptical that the incident was truly a mistake.
The attack caused the LVL token to drop substantially in price, plunging from around $9.00 to as low as $4.20 before recovering to around $7 — a loss of 22%.
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