The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has sued Mohamed-Amin Atcha, Mohamed Rilaz Waleedh and Daood Hassan for their involvement in the 2021 Evolved Apes NFT scam. The project promised to develop a video game, but after the fundraising ended, anonymous developer Evil Ape disappeared, transferring 798 Ether coin (about $3 million). The case is seen as part of a "rug pull" scam in which developers raise funds by selling NFTs or tokens and then abruptly close projects and disappear. According to statistics, similar scams have resulted in more than $14.5 billion in losses since 2011.

PANews reported on April 6 that Alex Gluchowski, founder of zkSync, posted on the X platform that in order to make Ethereum accessible to the masses, L2 must also be trustless. Blockchain is a highly adversarial environment where conflicts of interest are everywhere, and even the most sincere actors may have to compromise or be forced to do evil against their will. Trusting the core team is not a substitute for trustless networks. According to Alex, zkSync will enable broad decentralization of the network through an elastic governance framework, which is zkSync's only focus at the moment, and the team has made great progress in this direction.

Alex Gluchowski, founder of zkSync, posted on the X platform that in order for Ethereum to reach the masses, L2 must also be trustless. Blockchain is a highly adversarial environment where conflicts of interest are everywhere, and even the most sincere actors may have to compromise or be forced to do evil against their will. Trusting the core team is not a substitute for trustless networks. zkSync will enable broad decentralization of the network through an elastic governance framework, which is zkSync's only focus at the moment, and the team has made great progress in this direction.

PANews reported on February 28 that Vitalik Buterin posted on Warpcast that total value locked (TVL) should not be a goal, but a necessary evil. Every dollar locked in protocols (especially immature protocols) rather than secure and simple Wallets is somehow a security risk. He stressed that sometimes we need to take this risk to gain valuable benefits, but lock-in for the sake of lock-in should be minimized.

PANews reported on February 4 that according to surging news reports, the victim's family revealed that Dai Lumin, a former cadre and criminal of the Taizhou Natural Resources and Planning Bureau in Zhejiang Province, had been executed on the morning of February 2. In September 2020, Dai Lumin lured his newlywed wife to death by taking poison in an attempt to defraud accident insurance compensation. At the time of the incident, the two had received their certificates less than two months ago. Dai Lumin owed a huge amount of debt before committing the crime, and was married to the deceased for the second time, and the deceased unfortunately died of consuming tetrodotoxin. On December 1, 2021, the case was heard in the Intermediate People's Court of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. The prosecution alleged that the defendant Dai Lumin had a debt of more than 2.6 million yuan due to the failure of stock speculation and Vitual money, and in order to relieve economic pressure, he had the evil idea of killing people and defrauding huge insurance money. On April 26, 2020, Dai Lumin asked Wang to apply for a term life insurance policy with an insurance amount of 2 million online. When the 90-day deductible period of the insurance was about to expire, Dai Lumin married Wang on July 20, 2020, and asked Wang to change the beneficiary of the insurance from Wang's father to himself on July 24. Wang's family mentioned in the civil complaint attached to the criminal case that Wang was only one of the many female friends of Dai Lumin, and Dai Lumin induced Wang to complete everything from applying for insurance, getting married, and changing the beneficiary. The lawyer representing the victim's family believes that Dai Lumin's direct and intentional homicide in order to defraud a huge amount of insurance money is extremely heinous, and should constitute the crime of direct intentional homicide and insurance fraud, and he should be sentenced to death. Because his criminal conduct caused great economic and mental losses to Wang's family, he should be compensated. In 2022, Dai Lumin was sentenced to death in the first instance for intentional homicide, and the original verdict was upheld in the second instance.

The victim's family revealed that Dai Lumin, a former cadre and criminal of the Taizhou City Natural Resources and Planning Bureau in Zhejiang Province, was executed on the morning of February 2. In September 2020, Dai Lumin lured his newlywed wife to death by poisoning in an attempt to defraud accident insurance compensation. At the time of the incident, the two had received their certificates less than two months ago. Dai Lumin owed a huge amount of debt before committing the crime, and was married to the deceased for the second time, and the deceased unfortunately died of consuming tetrodotoxin. On December 1, 2021, the case was heard in the Intermediate People's Court of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. The prosecution alleged that the defendant Dai Lumin had a debt of more than 2.6 million yuan due to the failure of stock speculation and Vitual money, and in order to relieve economic pressure, he had the evil idea of killing people and defrauding huge insurance money. On April 26, 2020, Dai Lumin asked Wang to apply for a term life insurance policy with an insurance amount of 2 million online. When the 90-day deductible period was about to expire, Dai Lumin married Wang on July 20, 2020, and asked Wang to change the beneficiary of the insurance from Wang's father to himself on July 24. Wang's family mentioned in the civil complaint attached to the criminal case that Wang was only one of the many female friends of Dai Lumin, and Dai Lumin induced Wang to complete everything from applying for insurance, getting married, and changing the beneficiary. The lawyer representing the victim's family believes that Dai Lumin's direct and intentional homicide in order to defraud a huge amount of insurance money is extremely heinous, and should constitute the crime of direct intentional homicide and insurance fraud, and he should be sentenced to death. Because his criminal conduct caused great economic and mental losses to Wang's family, he should be compensated. In 2022, Dai Lumin was sentenced to death for intentional homicide in the first instance, and the original verdict was upheld in the second instance. (China Youth Network)

Georgios Konstantopoulos, CTO and research partner at Paradigm, said on social media that we take on a lot of complexity in Ethereum. As the crypto world evolves, we'll see if it's necessary, or if we're just complicating things and want to invent fancy solutions. I'm still on the "necessary evil" camp, but willing to change my mind in 2024. The overarching theme of PBS/POS design. No other chain sees mev like Ethereum. Let's see who passed the stress test, and what/if any mitigations are important.

PANews reported on September 25 that according to Cointelegraph, the decentralized oracle network Chainlink downplayed the recent change in the number of signers required for its multi-signature wallet (from 4/9 to 4/8), a move that was widely reported on social media. sparked a backlash from outspoken critics. Cryptocurrency researcher Chris Blec even said that if Chainlink signers "act evil," "the entire DeFi ecosystem could be deliberately destroyed in the blink of an eye." However, a spokesperson for Chainlink said that this update is part of the standard signer rotation process.

Golden Finance reported that U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown emphasized his view during the hearing that he believes the encryption industry is full of fraudsters and abuses. He said: "The problems we saw at FTX are ubiquitous in the crypto space - failure to provide true disclosures, conflicts of interest, high-risk bets with customer funds that should be safe. FTX is the largest and most evil. I We are pleased that the SEC is using its tools to combat abuse and enforce the law."

Babbitt News, on September 8, at the 2023 Bund Conference, Chen Zhong, a professor at the School of Computer Science at Peking University, director of the Yuanverse Technology Institute, and director of the Blockchain Research Center, said, “The innovative development of the digital economy requires the integration of blockchain , Web3.0, Metaverse, and AIGC are integrated. We used to be very good at digital industrialization and industrial digitization, but now we are doing data valueization and digital governance, which happen to be closely related to Web3.0 and blockchain. .At the same time, the Metaverse is a form of human-computer interaction, and AIGC will undoubtedly support the further implementation of the Metaverse. In summary, the Metaverse and Web3.0 are expected to significantly improve the existing Internet ecology and effectively solve the problems of Web2.0 The problem of lack of privacy protection and evil algorithms has led to the development of a more advanced form of trustworthy, valuable, intelligent, and holographic Internet."

Golden Finance reported on the spot that Chen Zhong, a professor at the School of Computer Science at Peking University and director of the Blockchain Research Center, said at the 2023 Shanghai Bund Conference that blockchain is expected to significantly improve the existing Internet ecosystem and effectively solve the monopoly and privacy issues that exist in the Web 2.0 era. Problems such as lack of protection and evil algorithms are developing towards a higher level of trustworthy Internet, value Internet, smart Internet, and holographic Internet. In addition, Professor Chen also mentioned that major blockchain projects can effectively support people’s exploration of Web3.0 and the metaverse. The new blockchain platform can technically provide data asset value support, and in terms of application innovation, it is necessary to pay attention to the governance, evolution, and supervision capabilities of the blockchain.

After a PEPE is gone, another cousin, Evil PEPE, is coming? Predicted to be the next cryptocurrency millionaire? Analysts are already predicting explosive gains for this shitcoin $EVILPEPE. Do you think it is possible? 👀

Odaily Planet Daily News Worldspark will host the Ascension Online Invitational Tournament of the blockchain game Sparkball on Saturday, including G2 Esports, Cloud9, Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses, Fnatic and other veteran electronic teams will participate in this competition, competing for the championship and $32,000 prize pool. Worldspark founder and CEO Chandler Thomlison wants to prove to potential players the "legitimacy" of blockchain gaming. "We firmly believe that, for the sake of growth, Web3 elements should not be in a game until it's actually a game and people are actually playing it for fun," he said. I want to make it very clear to potential players that this is just a game, not a Web3 game." (decrypt)