The top 100 DeFi tokens broke out of a two-week bullish streak that began in anticipation of Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade, with most of said tokens trading in the red on the weekly charts.The attacker who drained $8.9 million worth of BNB from SafeMoon has agreed to return 80% of the funds, according to an April 18 blockchain message from the SafeMoon team.
The encoded message was the latest in a series of communications between the SafeMoon team and the attacker as the parties attempted to settle.BlockFi, a lender of digital assets, was given additional time to submit a bankruptcy exit plan by a New Jersey bankruptcy judge in the United States on April 19.in November 2022 and has been reportedly granted a 48-day extension until May 15 to file an exit plan.
The wallet address, linked to the Ethereum Name Service domain “jaredfromsubway.eth,” made $950,000 from the sandwich attacks on April 18 and profited about $300,000 and $400,000 on April 17 and 19, respectively, according to an April 19 tweet from nonfungible token data platform Sealaunch.DeFi’s total market value plunged by $4 billion this past week.
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