The blockchain intelligence firm says total losses from crypto fraud, thefts, and hack attacks stood at $1.8 billion for the first 10 months of 2020. That’s substantially less than the $4.5 billion seen over the whole of last year. Alas, it’s a little too early to proclaim that the digital assets industry has turned a corner. CipherTrace’s data also shows that half of all crypto hacks this year have targeted DeFi protocols and exchanges—a stark contrast to 2019, when attacks on decentralized finance platforms were “virtually negligible.”
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- Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie's latest crypto foray is a savings and loan platform (Photo: Eric Drost via Wikimedia Commons)
NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie teams up with Cred for crypto lending, savings
With plans to tokenize his salary yet to materialize, the Brooklyn Nets’ guard is offering fans 10% interest and cryptocurrency-backed loans.
As he still battles to tokenize his lucrative NBA contract, Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie has come up with a back-up plan: offering a savings platform for cryptocurrencies. Through the partnership with Cred, a California-based lender, users can “pledge” digital assets such as Bitcoin and Litecoin—as well as stablecoins including Tether. In return, Dinwiddie says he is promising up to 10% interest at maturity