Blockchain Today Weekly Digest

03 Oct — 09 Oct

Diana Armaghanyan
Blockchaintd
1 min readOct 9, 2022

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Kim Kardashian was promoting crypto assets and now has to pay huge money for this. Find out details in our digest.

1. Kim Kardashian Pays Over $1 M Related to Crypto Promotion Charges

Reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian has settled the SEC charges that she failed to relieve a payment she received for promoting a crypto asset on her Instagram feed, the agency announced the news.

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2. Beeple artist’s discord server hit by phishing attack

Artist Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) reported a URL hack to his official Discord server. Upon clicking, users were redirected to a fraudulent channel.

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3. BNB Chain Gets Back to Normal After a Hack Estimated $100M

On October 7, BNB Chain announced suspending operations due to irregular activity, and a potential exploit.

Later, the team confirmed they had detected an exploit on a cross-chain bridge BSC Token Hub. As a result, extra BNB coins were created. The Binance team announced that customer funds remained safe.

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