Crypto Funds Post $1.4B Inflows as BTC Almost Touches $78K

Cryptocurrency investment products logged another week of strong inflows on ceasefire optimism and a Bitcoin price breakout driving investor sentiment. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) posted $1.4 billion in inflows last week, beating the prior week’s $1.1 billion and marking the second-largest weekly inflows since January, CoinShares reported on Monday. Following the three-week inflow streak totaling…

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Senate Republicans hope Supreme Court 'surprise' could help save majority

Senate Republicans who fear their three-seat majority could be in danger in this year’s midterm election would welcome the retirement of conservative Justice Samuel Alito as an “October surprise” that could change their political fortunes by rallying GOP-leaning voters to the polls. GOP senators are being careful not to prod Alito, a leading conservative voice……

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WHCA Urged to ‘Demonstrate Opposition’ to Trump at Annual Dinner

Some people want Washington’s annual “nerd prom” to feature a little more backbone. A bevy of journalism advocacy organizations and former journalists such as Sam Donaldson, Lynn Sherr and Linda Douglass urged the White House Correspondents Association to “demonstrate opposition” when President Donald Trump makes his first appearance at the group’s annual dinner, which takes…

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LayerZero Pins $292M KelpDAO Bridge Hack on North Korea’s Lazarus Group

In brief Attackers drained roughly $292M from KelpDAO’s cross-chain bridge on Saturday. LayerZero, which powered the breached bridge, tied the hack to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. The bridge itself wasn’t broken, but attackers corrupted the channel verifying it, Decrypt was told. The exploit that drained roughly $292 million from KelpDAO’s cross-chain bridge over the weekend…

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