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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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Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT

In what is presumed as a technical error, popular crypto exchange Bitfinex have paid a seismic $23.7 million dollars in gas fee for a comparatively nominal $100K transaction.

Crypto exchange Bitfinex completed a highly consequential transaction today when sending $100,000 of the stablecoin Tether (USDT) to the layer-2 subsidiary platform DeversiFi. For reasons unknown, the exchange paid 7,676 ETH, equivalent to $23.7 million, marking quite possibly the largest gas fee ever-recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. 

According to blockchain data from EtherScan, the deposit transaction was initiated at 11:10 UTC this morning from Bitfinex’s second largest wallet, via a second address, to the wallet of DeversiFi. The transaction carried an “erroneously high gas fee”, albeit DeversiFi promoting a service to “avoid gas costs and frustration, saving you time and money with every trade or swap.”

To put the enormity of this fee into context, consider the fact that the average transaction fee on the Ethereum blockchain currently stands at 0.013 ETH, or $39.96. In addition to this, two weeks ago, $2 billion of BTC was transferred between unknown wallets for an infinitesimal fee of $0.78.

DeversiFi revealed that they have launched investigative procedures to determine the most probable cause of the matter, whilst also adding that: “no customer funds on DeversiFi are at risk and this is an internal issue for DeversiFi to resolve”, as well as that operations are unaffected.”

In response, Bitfinex tweeted that: “In transactions such as these, the fees are shouldered by third party integrations with Bitfinex" suggesting that the exchange will not directly bear the burden of the fee.

In June 2020, another gas fee mystery occurred with numerical similarities to the Bitfinex case when three small to medium transactions registered seismic costs, with one 0.55 ETH transfer carrying $2.6 million in fees.

Related: Bitfinex launches the first L2 bridge from CeFi to DeFi

At the time, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin expressed his agreement with the human-error narrative, adding that: “I’m expecting EIP-1559 to greatly reduce the rate of things like this happening by reducing the need for users to try to set fees manually.”

However, experts in the field circulated theories of blackmail, fraudulent activity and even money laundering after the last of the three transactions was confirmed as “malicious attack” when the wallet owner reached out to the mining pool that facilitated the transaction. The owner in this case subsequently received 90% of the lost funds.

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