On October 22, 2024, Chainlink, the decentralized oracle platform, introduced CCIP Private Transactions—a solution designed to help corporations integrate their private blockchain networks with existing systems, such as corporate backends.
xAI, a company specializing in building artificial intelligence, failed to reach an agreement with Oracle to expand its computing capacity lease. The deal faltered due to unrealistic deadlines set by Elon Musk and potential issues with the power supply at the site proposed by xAI staff.
This platform, crafted to stabilize liquidity pools within the Curve DeFi protocol, has fallen victim to a hacker who made off with 1700 ETH, a haul worth $3.2 million. The culprit leveraged a re-entrancy vulnerability and manipulated a malfunctioning price oracle to achieve this. The Conic Finance team has disclosed that this particular exploit is solely connected to the ETH Omnipool.
Following reports that Martin Shkreli and Donald Trump's son, Barron, were involved in launching the DJT token, a betting market titled "Was Barron involved in DJT?" appeared on Polymarket.
