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Inverse Finance exploited again for $1.2M in flashloan oracle attack

[ad_1] Just two months after losing $15.6 million in a price oracle manipulation exploit, Inverse Finance has again been hit with a flashloan exploit that saw the attackers make off with $1.26 million in Tether (USDT) and Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC).Inverse Finance is an Ethereum based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and a flashloan is a type of crypto loan that is usually borrowed and returned within a single transaction. Oracles report
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126% return for stock market short-sellers who smelled blood in crypto waters

[ad_1] Short-sellers have made a killing on various sectors of the U.S. stock market this year, but no other sector "held a candle” to the blockchain industry, with crypto company short-sellers profits up 126% in 2022, according new data.On Thursday, technology and data analytics firm S3 Partners published a video summarizing its recent report, which found that overall, U.S. equity short-sellers are up on average more than 30% for the
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72 of the top 100 coins have fallen 90% or more: Here are the holdouts

[ad_1] According to price data from CoinGecko compiled by CoinGoLive, the current bear market has seen a whopping 72 out of top-100 tokens fall more than 90% from their all-time highs.The larger cap coins are faring better than most. Among the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap, nine have dipped less than 90% during the current market downturn. Bitcoin (BTC), the largest crypto, is down 70.3% from its November high
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Maker cuts off Aave’s DAI supply as fallout from Celsius continues

[ad_1] MakerDAO has voted to cut off lending platform Aave’s ability to generate DAI for its lending pool without collateral as the risks of Celsius’s liquidity crisis loom large over the entire crypto ecosystem.The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) made the decision as a means of mitigating the Maker protocol’s exposure to the beleaguered staking and lending platform in case Celsius goes belly up and implodes the stETH peg as well.stETH
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Portfolio in the red? How tax-loss harvesting can help stem the pain

[ad_1] Crypto investors — particularly those that bought in toward the top of the market in 2021 — may be able to find some salvation through a tax-saving strategy called “loss harvesting” according to Koinly’s head of tax. Koinly is one of the most widely-used crypto tax accounting firms online. Head of tax Danny Talwar told Cointelegraph that while most retail investors are aware of their obligation to pay capital gain