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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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Lido wants to help stake Ethereum : I won’t get into the proof of work versus proof of stake argument here, so suffice it to say that more eth needs to get staked for the blockchain to evolve. Per our reporting, Lido “is the market leader for Ethereum liquid staking” and just raised $70 million from a16z.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. PST, subscribe here.

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The Future of Security

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The rise of cryptocurrency, the blockchain, and web3 technologies 4 has also introduced conversations around decentralized identity and verifiable credentials. The rise of cryptocurrency, the blockchain, and web3 technologies 4 has also introduced conversations around decentralized identity and verifiable credentials.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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CEO Anatoly Yakovenko announced this week that its first product, the Osom OV1, will be an Android smartphone that supports decentralized apps reliant on the Solana blockchain. Now Google threat researchers have confirmed much of Lookout’s findings and are notifying Android users whose devices were compromised by the spyware.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. Cryptocurrency and Blockchains. The Australian Stock Exchanged canceled its 6-year-old blockchain experiment , which would have put most of its work onto a Blockchain-like shared distributed ledger.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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Bankrolling the Blockchain with a16z Crypto. Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. The Great Expectations of Crypto and Blockchain. But first, he’s tackling another problem: soggy delivery. Speeding Up Crypto.

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When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you

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Web3, AI : Always worth paying attention when Goliath shifts on his throne, and Jacquelyn’s report that Microsoft partners with the Aptos blockchain (TC+) to marry AI and web3 got a huge amount of attention — and traffic — on TechCrunch this week. this week.