Results of the week: developers launch Terra 2.0 and Beacon Chain reworked
May 29, 2022
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The developers “resurrected” the Terra 2.0 project, the Ethereum 2.0 platform’s Beacon Chain network was reworked, the complexity of bitcoin mining fell by more than 4%, and other
The developers “resurrected” the Terra 2.0 project, the Ethereum 2.0 platform’s Beacon Chain network was reworked, the complexity of bitcoin mining fell by more than 4%, and other events of the outgoing week.
Developers launch mainnet Terra 2.0
On May 28, mainnet Terra 2.0 was launched, which received the Phoenix-1 identifier. LUNA airdrop participants received the promised tokens.
The Bybit exchange was one of the first to list the existence of the updated project. The price of the latter initially rose from $0.5 to $30 and then dropped significantly.
LUNA has also been featured on other exchanges that have previously signaled support for the “reborn from the ashes” token, including Huobi, Bitfinex, Bitrue, Gate.io.
Binance, the largest platform in terms of trading volume, will begin trading in the asset on May 31 at 09:00 (Kyiv / Moscow time).
According to CoinGecko, at the time of writing, the LUNA is trading around $5.8.
It is noteworthy that those in don’t deserve LUNA tokens are automatically staked. Users can choose an authenticator by reauthorization or delegation. In the latter case, you will have to wait 21 days.
Only on the eve of the launch, the developers announced that the project’s “revival plan” does not include forking the existing network, but creating a new one. In addition, the release timing of Terra 2.0 should have been slightly shifted.
On May 26, the Terra Classic community approved the proposal to burn TerraUSD (UST) in the community pool and stablecoins issued as part of the latest phase of liquidity stimulation on the Ethereum blockchain.
Shortly before the release of Terra 2.0, an analyst at FatManTerra suspected Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon was cheating on the Mirror protocol.
Ethereum’s Beacon Network Is undergoing a Major Restructuring
The Ethereum 2.0 platform’s Beacon Chain network has been reworked to a depth of seven blocks (#3,887,075 – #3,887,081).
According to developer Preston Van Loon, the failure was caused by “non-trivial segmentation” of new and old client software.
“We suspect this is due to the Proposer Boost fork not being fully implemented in the network,” he said.
Terence Cao, another lead developer, confirmed that the refactoring is possible due to the different timing of customer software updates.
Solana internal clock is not synchronized with real time
It turned out the other day that the internal clock of the Solana blockchain is lagging about 30 minutes behind real time.
However, the developers emphasized that the issue does not affect network performance.
“While this does not affect network performance or performance, the amount of time reported to browsers and dappsmay not be displayed correctly, ”wrote representatives of the project.
Coinbase’s top executives sell shares for $1.2 billion
Coinbase bitcoin exchange co-founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ersam, as well as senior executives Emily Choi and Surojit Chatterjee, have since sold a total of $1.2 billion worth of shares. public offering until February of this year.
Sales of securities amounted to between $189 and $422.
In the above period, Brian Armstrong raised $292 million, Emily Choi and Surojit Chatterjee sold $226 million and $110 million worth of shares, respectively.
Fred Ehrsam, who left Coinbase, became approximately $0.5 billion richer and bought $75 million of Coinbase shares on behalf of Paradigm, the venture capital firm he led.
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 4.3%
As a result of another recalculation on May 25, the difficulty of mining the first cryptocurrency decreased by 4.33% to 29.9 T.
The drop was the biggest since July 2021.
Over the nearly two-week period since the previous difficulty correction, the average hashrate was 214 EH/s, again down 4.3% from its high.
Ukrainian store network “Foxtrot” integrates Binance Pay service
Binance exchange announced a partnership with Foxtrot, a network of Ukrainian electronics and appliances stores.
Network customers will be able to pay for their purchases through the Binance Pay crypto transfer service. The technology allows exchange users to make payments, send and receive digital assets, and supports more than 40 cryptocurrencies.
For purchases made through the Foxtrot online store, you need to select Binance Pay among the payment methods, and at retail outlets you need to confirm the transfer in the Binance application – you need to get a QR code from the sales assistant.
The head of the Belarusian Investigative Committee spoke about the seizure of cryptocurrencies
According to the statement by the head of the department, Dmitry Gora, the Belarusian Investigative Committee is actively seizing cryptocurrencies.
According to him, investigators were faced with the need to seize crypto assets against the background of their use in various types of crimes:
“What is a cryptocurrency? As my advanced subordinates said – digital garbage. Based on this, I set the task: Our state needs money to compensate for its damage, let’s think about how to make money from garbage. I won’t go into details, but we learned how to do it.”
He noted that both government agencies and commercial organizations are involved in this process.
Gora said that as a result of the ministry’s actions, the UK already has more than one hundred million rubles in “regular money” in its accounts.
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JPMorgan analysts described the fair price of bitcoin as $38,000.
Vitalik Buterin outlined the characteristics of stable algorithmic stablecoins.
STEPN will stop serving users from China.
Elon Musk’s fake deepfake went viral on Twitter.
Optimism team removes 17,000 addresses from airdrop
Optimism developers have reduced the expected airdrop participant list by 17,000 addresses next month. About 14 million local tokens were intended, which were presented as the organizers of the Sibyl attack.
The 14 million OPs released from potential participants in “airdrop farming” will be proportionally distributed by the project among those not caught in this practice.
Glassnode Analysts Pay Attention to Ongoing Market Uncertainty
Weak on-chain metrics and the prevalence of concerns in the derivatives market are hampering Bitcoin’s recovery after a wave of price drops since late March, experts say.
According to their observations, the open sell and call rate in bitcoin increased from 50% to 70%. This indicates an increased desire by investors to protect positions from ongoing negative dynamics.
US State Department urges Russia not to disconnect from the Internet
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Russia should continue to have access to the internet. This is necessary so that residents of the country receive information from independent sources.
Price also noted that the United States would support journalists in Russia, whose work became more difficult after the start of the war.
The Russian Federation has developed a complex of covert screening of people based on activities in social networks.
In Russia, they developed a system of covert screening of people in public places, designed to assess “the degree of danger of a person to others.”
Yuri Anoshko, head of the Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician Mint, said that the security forces are already interested in the complex.
“We have developed basic profiling tools based on their online activity on TikTok, YouTube, VKontakte, Facebook, Yandex and other service platforms. The system allows you to create a profile of a person and assess the degree of threat to people with a combination of characteristics during the transition from the control complex.”
A new draft law on mining in the Russian Federation has been submitted to the State Duma
The State Duma has registered an updated bill “On Mining in the Russian Federation”. The previous document was withdrawn.
Provisions for registration of mining participants and “amnesty” for miners were excluded from the new bill.
Bithumb and Upbit Allow Litecoin Removal After MimbleWimble Update
South Korea’s leading crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit have issued warnings to users about Litecoin after the MimbleWimble Extension Block update, which includes improved scaling and increased privacy.
Exchanges emphasized that they operate in accordance with local legislation. It requires the implementation of measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
Wormhole team paid $10 million to a white hat hacker for discovered vulnerability
The Wormhole project team paid $10 million to a white-hat hacker who discovered a critical vulnerability in a cross-chain protocol.
On February 24, 2022, an expert under the pseudonym satya0x discovered a vulnerability in the underlying smart contract of the Wormhole bridge next to the Ethereum blockchain. Abuse can potentially lead to users’ funds being blocked.
For the bug discovered, satya0x received the maximum reward allowed under the bounty program.
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