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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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ThorChain loses $7.6M in ‘Chaosnet’ exploit, offers hacker a bounty to return funds

The ThorChain network remains halted after the protocol suffered a hack in which the perpetrator is estimated to have made off with $7.6 million in crypto assets.

Popular cross-chain decentralized exchange, ThorChain, has suffered a multimillion-dollar breach.

Estimates as to the scale of the damage vary, with ThorChain revising the initial estimate that 13,000 ETH (worth $25.1 million) had been stolen down to 4,000 ETH (roughly $7.6 million) as a ballpark for damages.

In the ThorChain community Telegram channel, administrators have indicated the project has the funds needed to cover users’ stolen assets, but articulated a preference for the hacker to return the stolen funds in exchange for a bug bounty.

“While the treasury has the funds to cover the stolen amount, we request the attacker get in contact with the team to discuss return of funds and a bounty commensurate with the discovery,” a Telegram post stated, adding that user funds “will be available when the issue has been patched & the network resumes.”

ThorChain has since tweeted that its preliminary roadmap to recovery is underway, announcing that after the vulnerability is patched and the network restarted, Ether will be donated to liquidity provider pools to reimburse impacted users. From there, the team plans to engage security firms to have its contracts audited.

As of this writing, the ThorChain network remains halted.

Blockchain cybersecurity firm, Halborn Security, is compiling a proposal to the ThorChain community for “Advance Persistent Protection,” offering up a team of up to half a dozen “ethical security engineers working to break every update on ThorChain."

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Thorchain entered into its guarded “Chaosnet” launch during April, facilitating cross-chain swaps across the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Binance Chain networks.

DeFi Watch founder Chris Blec said the staged "raise the caps" launch of ThorChain had prevented an even greater loss of funds.

Today’s attack is not the first time ThorChain has been targeted by hackers during its Chaosnet deployment, with the protocol losing at least $140,000 worth of assets last month.

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