6 min read What is Frontrunning? Frontrunning is the practice of executing a digital asset trade based on knowledge obtained in advance that will affect its price. The purpose of frontrunning is to profit at the expense of others. This is done by gaining a price advantage over others in the market before the market…
5 min read As the crypto market faced one of its toughest challenges in 2022, at OMNIA, we made a conscious decision to remain focused and steadfast in our mission, even in the face of these challenges. From the start of the year, the crypto market was going to be volatile and uncertain. Despite this,…
2 min read CycurID (pronounced “Secure ID”) Technologies Ltd. is a Canadian-based digital identity management and cybersecurity firm that has developed a reusable digital identity app, immeTM (pronounced “I’m me”), that uses adaptive Artificial Intelligence, Biometric Authorization and Zero-Knowledge Protocols to provide full privacy of users’ data with no individuals credentials or any data being stored or kept…
3 min read Securing Your Transactions Through Private Mempools and Flashbots Most Ethereum (ETH) and other smart contract network users aren’t aware of how risky trading on-chain can be. Not because funds are going to get stolen, but because certain inefficiencies on the blockchain allow arbitrage bots to take advantage of orders to make a…
3 min read On October 27th, DeFi project Team Finance announced that they had just been alerted about an exploit on its protocol. They said they were investigating the incident and ‘working to analyze and remedy the situation.’ They also requested the exploiter to contact them for a potential bug bounty payment. Attacker Used 1.76…
4 min read In late October, on-chain investigator and crypto Twitter community member @ZachXBT notified his followers that a phishing scammer known as Monkey Drainer had stolen the equivalent of 700 ETH worth around $1 million at the time and several NFTs in 24 hours. Tweet from @zachxbt, Source: Twitter One victim of Monkey Drainer…
3 min read Elon Musk is officially the new owner of Twitter. The billionaire entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, Founder of the Boring Company, and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI is now the ‘Chief Twit’ according to a recent update of his Twitter bio. To mark the event…
< 1 minute The founder and CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), announced on October 24th via Twitter that the exchange would compensate users of the crypto exchange affected by the recent elaborate 3Commas-related phishing attack. Mr. Bankman-Fried capped the compensation at $6 million and clarified that it was a ‘one-time thing’ which would not set ‘a…