Nexus team has issued a statement on their website that a grey-hat hacker was able to obtain whopping 2000 private keys from Nexus QT windows users. More than 1M NXS were taken out and a lot of users noticed it as said in this reddit post.
Boltz is an exchange built on top of lightning network of BTC, LTC
Boltz is an account-free and instant cryptocurrency exchange that is built on top of lightning network. Compatible with both Bitcoin and Litecoin, Boltz makes use of two layers and lets users exchange coins in the most trust minimized way possible.
Poa Network releases Nifty Wallet for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic (ETC)
Nifty Wallet is a fork of MetaMask that is focused on speed and usability of real world applications. Available for download for Chrome, Firefox Edge and Opera, Nifty Wallet has support for both Ethereum and Ethereum Classic blockchains.
Travala adds Nano as payment option
Official Travala twitter handle has confirmed that Nano is now added as native payment option on Travala’s website. For those who do not know, Travala lets you book 550,000+ hotels in 210 countries. More than 82000 destinations are covered.
Nanex cryptocurrency exchange shutting down by end of April 2019
Bear market has stuck another exchange and this time, it is Nanex crypto exchange that led multiple communities to talk about the price of their coin in Nano instead of Bitcoin. The person behind Nanex says that the exchange is closing due to bear market that caused major drop in usage. Over the past few months, volume dwindled to nothing.
Bithumb hacked, 3M EOS Wallet compromised among many others
Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked for the second time. At the time of this post, over 3 million EOS has been transferred out from its hot wallet. Stolen funds were sent to Huobi, HitBTC, WB, EXmo etc.
GXChain admins bribed for 5 BTC to post fake partnership news
Thanks to bearish trend, certain cryptocurrency communities have resorted to post fake partnership news on their social media channels to pump price of their coin / token. One recent example are admins of GXChain (GXS), where we see one fellow asking admin to post deal with Chinese government and leave the tweet up for 30 minutes. In return, he promises to send him 5 BTC.
Zeux Coin teams up with Coinbase for facilitating everyday payments
Zeux is collaborating with Coinbase to bring crypto for use in everyday life. Zeux will be delivering fiat to cryptocurrency conversions to the European customers. This will make Zeux a real day-to-day payment currency which is a big step for mass adoption of cryptocurrency.
Cardano 1.5 Mainnet is out now
Version 1.5 of Cardano is now released. This v1.5 release is a major release since it the last release of Byron development phase which has been active since v1. This release will lay the foundation for moving to Shelley development phase.
Groestlcoin gets a Visa Debit Card–GRS Visa card by Equicex group
Groestlcoin (GRS) has just scored a Visa debit card. Compared to other Visa cards available in the market, this one is by Equicex and is 100 percent anonymous. This card does have store any personal details about the owner even when used for cash withdrawal at an ATM.