Deutsche Telekom has become an Injective node validator. Similar to other staking protocols, Injective will pay a portion of the network's staking rewards and transaction fees to the validating nodes based on the network conditions.

According to market news, the Litecoin Foundation is collaborating with Unstoppable Domains to launch the official ".LTC" ENS domain.

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The Babylon Foundation posted on the X platform, stating that Cuneiform Assets Limited has decided to expand the airdrop scope, and the community's voice is very important. Therefore, after extensive evaluation, Cuneiform Assets has decided to cancel the pledging history requirement. This means that all NFT holders are now eligible to receive the NFT airdrop, but must comply with all other airdrop eligibility requirements and adhere to the airdrop terms.

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On February 27th, according to official sources, the Ethereum Foundation announced that the 2025 academic funding round application must be submitted by March 16th, and will provide $2 million in funding to support cutting-edge research in protocol design, client engineering, and human and humanities fields.

According to CertiK Alert monitoring, Slurpycoin on BSC has suffered a flash loan attack. The attacker manipulated the token price using a buyback mechanism and made a profit of about $3,000 from sandwich arbitrage. This attack is also responsible for the $10,000 loss of MRP tokens on July 2.

On December 19th, the European police organization collaborated with law enforcement agencies from six countries to dismantle an international drug trafficking group that used cryptocurrency. The operation resulted in the arrest of 9 suspects. During the operation, valuable items including gold and luxury goods, €35,000 in cash, and €25 million in cryptocurrency (equivalent to $26.23 million) were seized. The total value of assets seized was €27 million, equivalent to $28.33 million.

scammers are forging support emails from hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, in order to trick users into sharing their seed phrases under the guise of checking for security vulnerabilities. Ledger users have reported that phishing scammers are forging support emails from the cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider in order to trick users into revealing their wallet keys.

According to screenshots shared on X and a report from BleepingComputer on December 17th, the fake email claims that Ledger has suffered a "recent data leak" and encourages recipients to verify their private seed phrases under the guise of needing to "protect" their assets. The email appears to come from a legitimate support email from Ledger, but BleepingComputer reports that it was actually sent through an email marketing platform.

official X account of the artificial intelligence startup company Anthropic was hacked this morning and an unknown token contract address was posted. The tweet has since been deleted. Anthropic stated that the root cause of the unauthorized post on the account has been identified and confirmed that no Anthropic system or service was compromised or involved in this incident.

the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria raided a cryptocurrency scam center in Lagos on December 10th, arresting 792 suspects, including 148 Chinese citizens and 40 Filipino citizens. The organization primarily targeted North American and European users for Ponzi schemes, forcing victims to transfer funds for false cryptocurrency plans and other non-existent projects.

according to Scam Sniffer monitoring, a victim lost $45,000 after clicking on a malicious NFT link promoting the BONK airdrop and entering their seed phrase in a fake Phantom wallet pop-up window.