Ironblocks launches open-source, on-chain, self-service firewall to protect DeFi protocols and Web3 platforms from cyberthieves 10140

Ironblocks, the only blockchain-native security platform, is excited to announce that it has launched an industry first – an open-source, on-chain, self-service firewall purpose built for DeFi protocols and web3 applications.

The Ironblocks Firewall is the result of over two years worth of research and development, and counts Linea, AltLayer, and Kinto among launch partners already using Ironblocks’ industry-altering solution to protect their projects and/or users on their networks.

“We believe that we have solved many of the problems that have plagued the DeFi and web3 for some time,” said Or Dadosh, CEO at Ironblocks, adding, “and we are just getting started – the firewall is the first in a series of launches coming this year.”

More than $730 million worth of crypto was stolen during the first quarter of 2024, according to one estimate, with another $60 million pilfered in April, and an additional hundreds of millions stolen in May alone. Hacks are down, but threats still remain, and the Ironblocks on-chain firewall is a novel solution to an ever-present problem.

In an industry-first, modular policies able to be implemented by security teams and real time threat detection feeds into an intuitive dashboard that visualizes all activity and enables easy identification of malactors. Additionally, when a transaction is flagged as being illicit, the transaction in question is siloed off from being able to access funds or information on the protocol and the remaining users can continue using it normally.

Ironblocks’ open-source solution has no paywall and requires no demo to start. Regular operations no longer need to be suspended, revenue is not lost, and users still have access to their funds and the functionality around them – and implementation can be done in only minutes.

“Protocols experiencing rapid growth often become targets for hackers and cyberthieves,” said Declan Fox, Product Lead at Linea. “Ironblocks’ on-chain firewall provides an essential layer of security, allowing us to confidently protect our users while continuing to grow and innovate. We value having robust security measures in place, including solutions like Ironblocks, to ensure the safety and trust of our community.”

This launch is the culmination of years of research and development, and is the first in a series of major announcements planned for 2024.

Ironblocks was co-founded in 2022 by Or Dadosh and CTO Assaf Eli, veteran software engineers and blockchain natives with vast experience in cyber security and in DeFi, having been part of the team responsible for creating Bancor and securing more than $300 million in total value locked (TVL).

Or Dadosh also previously was head of blockchain innovation and solidity developer at Orbs, blockchain engineer at eToro, and blockchain leader at Bancor. Assaf Eli previously also was a blockchain consultant for projects on the Ethereum Network ecosystem, and part of the former core team that built Bancor.

To learn more about Ironblocks and how the Firewall can help protect your protocol, visit www.ironblocks.com.

About Ironblocks

Ironblocks is an end-to-end security provider for Web3 platforms, DeFi protocols, bridges, market makers, and other digital asset projects. Ironblocks automates proactive threat detection and will soon enable teams to instantly take preventative measures in milliseconds.

Our mission is to protect decentralized finance and web3 from threats and thefts, creating the security needed to enable broad adoption of these platforms.

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AEON Powers Alchemy Pay with Foundational Payment Infrastructure and Protocol 1189

AEON, the next-generation modular payment protocol, has officially partnered with Alchemy Pay, the world-leading crypto payment solutions provider to bring new capabilities to the crypto payment and settlement landscape. This strategic collaboration aims to leverage AEON’s advanced payment protocol to enhance Alchemy Pay’s capabilities in facilitating seamless crypto-to-fiat transactions, bringing unparalleled efficiency and modularity to the ecosystem.

Partnership Overview

In this partnership, AEON will serve as the foundational protocol provider for Alchemy Pay, offering advanced solutions for the distribution, clearing, and settlement of crypto transactions. Alchemy Pay will integrate AEON’s technology to modularize its payment methods, facilitating seamless interactions between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies.

AEON’s role is to ensure that the infrastructure supporting crypto payments is robust, efficient, and capable of handling high volumes of transactions with minimal latency and cost. By providing the underlying protocol, AEON will enable Alchemy Pay to offer a superior payment experience that is both secure and scalable.

Shared Vision for the Future

Alchemy Pay is a global leader in crypto payment solutions, recognized for its innovative approach and wide support to bridging the gap between traditional financial systems and the digital asset space. With a payment network that spans over 173 countries with multiple mobile wallets and bank transfer supported, Alchemy Pay is at the forefront of enabling businesses and consumers to seamlessly engage with cryptocurrencies.

This partnership marks a significant milestone in the journey towards a more integrated and efficient financial ecosystem. AEON and Alchemy Pay are dedicated to continuous innovation and collaboration, ensuring that their combined efforts lead to the widespread adoption and acceptance of cryptocurrency payments globally. Together, AEON and Alchemy Pay aim to bring enhanced user experiences, better accessibility, and a more robust payment infrastructure to the industry.

AEON remains committed to driving the evolution of the payment landscape through its cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships. Stay tuned for more updates as AEON continues to innovate and deliver the best in crypto payment solutions.

About Alchemy Pay

Founded in Singapore in 2017, Alchemy Pay is a payment gateway that seamlessly connects crypto with traditional fiat currencies for businesses, developers, and end users. With its offerings including On & Off Ramp, Crypto Card, Web3 Digital Bank, Crypto Payments and NFT Checkout, Alchemy Pay supports payments in 173 countries.

The Ramp is a one-stop solution to buy and sell crypto and fiat, easily integrated by platforms and dApps according to requirements. The Crypto Card solution empowers businesses and token issuers to provide users with branded virtual and physical cards for instant global spending. Additionally, our Web3 Digital Bank supports Web3 enterprises by providing multi-fiat accounts and instant fiat-crypto conversion capabilities. The crypto payment solution enables merchants to accept crypto payments globally, while allowing users to conveniently spend their crypto assets for everyday purchases. ACH is the Alchemy Pay network token on the Ethereum blockchain.

About AEON

AEON is a next-generation modular payment protocol designed to unify the standard of crypto payments and enable real-world connectivity. By simplifying the integration, processing, and settlement of crypto payments, AEON offers low-cost, verifiable, and secure payment processing.

Developing a robust crypto payment standard akin to Visa, AEON aims to connect web3 infrastructures with mass adoption use cases, ensuring adaptability, liquidity, and efficiency and supporting on-chain payment methods such as subscriptions, global fiat rails, and tips.

Solidton Unveils 2025-2026 Plan for Multi-Feature Ecosystem 1470

The Solidton team is seeing increasing hype over its project by having new ambitions for the future. The expectations of 2025 and 2026 come closer as Solidton gets ready for growth with clearly defined targets in place.

The multi-feature platform designed by these developers includes a marketplace and decentralized financial services, among others. This large ecosystem is the first of its kind, offering strong integration between the metaverse and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Aiming for Growth

Growth is definitely one of the main objectives of Solidton, and the team is fully committed to seeing it achieved. They expect to see three-digit growth in 2025 with a solid development plan through their innovative DEX exchange and wallet.

Solidton outmatches the existing DeFi platforms with unique features and a sustainable approach to ensure long-term success. Below is the team’s official roadmap, divided into four crucial stages:

  • Phase 1: Launching the website and white paper publishing; start of the token presale (ICO).
  • Phase 2: Listing the token on top-notch crypto exchanges and launching the Solidton Wallet.
  • Phase 3: Integration of DeFi services, social features and forums, and DEX exchange launch.
  • Phase 4: Governance, voting for token holders, hosting virtual events, and continuous growth.

The team is confident that they have the potential to deliver one of the greatest DeFi platforms on the TON blockchain. Speaking of opportunities, an estimate for 2026 mentioned an estimate of 9 million active users that could join this adventure.

Meanwhile, the project’s team decided to direct all fees and reserves to liquidity. This choice is necessary to provide stability and reliability in the ecosystem.

The Features of the Solidton Ecosystem

Solidton’s whitepaper lists several features that make this project effective, versatile, and user-friendly.

Solidton will offer a marketplace to buy, sell, or exchange virtual items. The platform allows diverse personalization for anyone joining the metaverse. Moreover, the project perfectly works with NFTs, meaning the ownership of every virtual item is verifiable through the blockchain.

Solidton also makes available other financial services such as staking, loaning, and borrowing on the DeFi side. In this last case, it will be possible to rely on the project’s native token (SON) as collateral. A typical Solidton user may also engage in liquidity mining or farming for additional rewards.

The platform is decentralized, with management and decision-making resting upon the SON token holders. Simply put, holders may vote over major changes impacting the project.

In addition, Solidton has a social dimension that involves chatting, forums, and integration with social networks. This allows for community creation, content promotion, and interaction with a larger audience.

Curious users will find a wide set of training materials in the form of video tutorials and webinars from Solidton. And if one needs help or has questions, a technical support service is working around the clock. A complete list of features is available on the project’s website and on Solidton’s whitepaper.

The Project’s Tokenomics

What is also very interesting about the project’s whitepaper is a quick-to-understand comparison of SON’s token with ETH and BTC:

As for its transaction velocity, while BTC has slow transactions with high fees, SON has fast transactions with low fees.
While ETH has scalability issues, SON has an open playground to merge the metaverse with DeFi. The overall result is a much more versatile Web3 ecosystem.

In terms of token allocation, 1 billion SON tokens will be in circulation:

  • The biggest slice, at 64%, goes to the presale stage
  • 16% will go to the ecosystem 
  • 7% goes to the team, with a lockup lasting until 2026. 
  • Partners and advisors will get 4% of the tokens
  • 9% of the tokens will cover liquidity and listing purposes.

About Solidton

Solidton is a new token integrating DeFi with virtual worlds to create a fresh ecosystem. In summary, the project offers secure and transparent financial tools that foster user confidence.

The 2025–2026 plans of the project focus on synchronizing robust growth with innovation and sustainability. The team is making every effort to grow and become one of the top DeFi platforms on the TON blockchain.

Metalpha Adopts New Bitcoin Mining Index by Antalpha and FTSE Russell 1609

Metalpha Technology Holding Limited (the “Company” or “Metalpha”), a global digital asset-focused wealth management company, today announced it, through its subsidiary, has adopted the Antalpha BTC Mining Index for its BTC mining stocks fund. The index was recently launched by Antalpha and FTSE Russell.

Metalpha’s Bitcoin mining stock fund is managed by a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, LSQ Capital Limited. The fund uses the Antalpha BTC Mining Index as the benchmark to invest in publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies.

Antalpha is the world’s leading Bitcoin ecosystem service provider for institutional partners. As a strategic partner of Bitmain, Antalpha is trusted by institutions, startups, and qualified investors to drive innovation in blockchain technology and applications. It has become a leading company in the global blockchain financial services ecosystem.

The Antalpha BTC Mining Index selects the top ten publicly traded US Bitcoin mining companies and tracks their respective performance. The Antalpha BTC Mining Index will offer mainstream financial investors a reliable channel to gain crypto exposure. The index will be rebalanced every six months to reflect the market conditions.

Metalpha is one of the largest crypto derivatives traders in Asia and is dedicated to providing tailor made wealth management and hedging solutions to financial institutions including family offices, investment funds, crypto mining companies, etc. Metalpha previously launched a fund to invest in GBTC, which has seen large gains since launch, with its net asset value increased to 269.84%, outperforming Bitcoin by about 39% from $27,265 to $62,867.

“We are excited to launch this equity fund focusing on offering investors Bitcoin exposure through Bitcoin mining companies. The Antalpha BTC Mining Index comes because of high demand from global investors betting on the long-term growth opportunities of the Bitcoin mining industry. ” Adrian Wang, President and Director of Metalpha Technology Holding Ltd.

The Company is a holder of Type 1 (securities and virtual assets dealing services), uplifted Type 4 (advising on securities and tokens) & Type 9 (asset management) licenses by the SFC.

About Metalpha Technology Holding Limited

Founded in 2015, Metalpha Technology Holding Limited went public on October 20, 2017. The listed Company, through its subsidiaries, is dedicated to providing investing and wealth management services with a full-service, institutional-grade platform. With dedicated blockchain expertise, the Company aims to become a leader in the field of crypto wealth management services, bringing robust innovation and transparency to the customers and businesses it serves.

Growing the Buz Economy: Announcing the Social Intelligence Paranet Launch 2049

In the rapidly evolving world of tech and finance, the demand for innovation and adaptability is higher than ever, driven by a quest for transparency for internet users. LunarCrush has been at the forefront of Social Intelligence, converting human-driven insights into actionable information for both retail and institutional stakeholders. Originally focusing on the crypto industry, LunarCrush’s Social Intelligence now extends across diverse sectors such as technology, politics, travel, music, and more. Recognizing the convergence of crypto, the Internet, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), LunarCrush is making a significant leap forward in their transparency efforts through social intelligence. By launching the Social Intelligence Paranet on the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG), LunarCrush aims to enhance content collection through incentivized crowdsourcing and enable the creation of AI-powered services on this trusted knowledge base.

The Decentralized Knowledge Graph and the Social Intelligence Paranet

The Social Intelligence Paranet will operate on the OriginTrail DKG, a permissionless peer-to-peer network that ensures all social content published to the Paranet is discoverable, verifiable, and attributed to its owners. This setup allows AI services leveraging this knowledge base to avoid challenges like hallucinations, managed bias, and intellectual property violations. For an in-depth understanding of the technical design of paranets, DKG, and decentralized Retrieval-Augmented Generation (dRAG), we recommend reviewing the OriginTrail Whitepaper.

The Social Intelligence Paranet Initiative

Aligned with LunarCrush’s growth trajectory, the Social Intelligence Paranet will initially target the crypto sector, attracting high-quality content creators and community members from various crypto projects. LunarCrush will also mine knowledge tied to their social insights, such as Alt Rank, Top Creators, and Sentiment analysis. Beyond knowledge mining, the Social Intelligence Paranet will feature the first AI-powered tool to interact with top knowledge assets on the Paranet, supported by LunarCrush. This AI-powered tool will be accessible to users paying with BUZ tokens. All BUZ tokens spent by users will be recycled as additional rewards for knowledge mining.

In the upcoming weeks, a comprehensive proposal for the Social Intelligence Paranet will be submitted to the NeuroWeb community for approval. The proposal will include:

  • Knowledge Assets created from LunarCrush APIs
  • An incentives model for knowledge miners targeting the first category of knowledge
  • A demo of the LunarCrush AI tool

Advancing the Wisdom of the Crowds

The traditional wisdom of the crowds concept eliminates idiosyncratic noise associated with individual judgment by averaging a large number of responses. Social Intelligence takes this concept further by unlocking actionable information through high-quality, curated knowledge enhanced with specific domain expertise. The rise of AI introduces the potential for another leap forward in extracting wisdom from a vast body of knowledge. Incentivized crowdsourcing to collect superior social content provides an ideal foundation for AI services to uncover wisdom that is not immediately apparent. While a conversational tool is the initial step, subsequent developments will include AI agents performing comprehensive tasks such as market analysis and prediction market suggestions. As the Social Intelligence Paranet expands beyond the crypto field, it promises to support enhanced decision-making powered by the wisdom of the crowds across various topics.

Unlimit partners with Alchemy Pay to streamline fiat-to-crypto purchases worldwide 2315

Global fintech company Unlimit today announced the expansion of its long-standing partnership with Alchemy Pay, the leading fiat-crypto payment gateway, aimed at enhancing its growth in key target markets, like the EU, SEA and LatAm, with the support of Unlimit’s extensive payment method portfolio.

Alchemy Pay facilitates fiat-to-crypto purchases across 173 countries, with strong coverage in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The company is dedicated to providing accessible, user-friendly payment solutions that promote the global adoption of cryptocurrency by seamlessly connecting fiat and crypto economies.

Through this partnership, Alchemy Pay will streamline settlements and offer a wide range of global and local payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, SEPA, and Google Pay, to consumers worldwide, guaranteeing a high level of security and service for individuals. It will also allow Alchemy Pay to expand its presence in key markets, reduce customer churn, and enhance customer loyalty by providing preferred payment options.

Irene Skrynova, the Chief Customer Officer at Unlimit, said: “We are excited to support Alchemy Pay on their mission to connect the world of traditional payment methods with the world of crypto. At Unlimit, we believe in ‘borderless payments’ and have dedicated over 15 years to making this a reality for our customers globally. This partnership brings us closer to an ‘omnipayment’ future, bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3.”

Alchemy Pay’s Ecosystem Lead, Robert McCracken said: “Our partnership with Unlimit will provide massive benefit to end users, by allowing Alchemy Pay to offer wider global coverage, lower costs, and improve transaction success rates. Their global payment experience and expertise will bolster our rapidly expanding suite of services which continue to be mainstream-friendly while ensuring security and stability in all areas. This is a great step forward.”

About Unlimit

Founded in 2009, Unlimit is a global fintech company that offers a large portfolio of financial services, including payment processing, banking as a service (BaaS), and an onramp fiat solution for crypto, DeFi, and GameFi. The company’s mission is to deliver solutions that eliminate financial borders, enabling businesses to operate both locally and internationally with ease across Europe, the UK, LATAM, APAC, India and Africa. Unlimit has 700 employees across 16 offices and five continents, including London, Singapore, São Paulo, Hong Kong, and Mexico. For further information, please visit: www.unlimit.com.

About Alchemy Pay

Founded in Singapore in 2017, Alchemy Pay is a payment gateway that seamlessly connects crypto with traditional fiat currencies for businesses, developers, and end users. With its offerings including On & Off Ramp, Crypto Card, Web3 Digital Bank, Crypto Payments and NFT Checkout, Alchemy Pay supports payments in 173 countries.

The Ramp is a one-stop solution to buy and sell crypto and fiat, easily integrated by platforms and dApps according to requirements. The Crypto Card solution empowers businesses and token issuers to provide users with branded virtual and physical cards for instant global spending. Additionally, our Web3 Digital Bank supports Web3 enterprises by providing multi-fiat accounts and instant fiat-crypto conversion capabilities. The crypto payment solution enables merchants to accept crypto payments globally, while allowing users to conveniently spend their crypto assets for everyday purchases. ACH is the Alchemy Pay network token on the Ethereum blockchain.

Major Advancement for MNT Node Holders 2730

Minutes Network Token team are pleased to announce two new initiatives that significantly upweight their Node holder rewards program.

First, the share of Epoch rewards allocated to Node holders has been increased from 60% to 70%, and this additional 10% is excluded from the algorithmic burn process.

Second, all Node holders will share from a specific 37.5million MNT reward pool which will be distributed over the first twenty-four months.

With Switch Nodes requiring a minimum stake of 50,000 MNT and Validation Nodes 10,000 MNT, the holder of each type of node can receive incremental rewards of 37,500 and 7,500.

This means each Node is set to potentially return up to 75% of Node holders initial token stakes over the first two-years which are additional to the monthly epoch MNT rewards.

The MNT Head of Token said “We listened very carefully to the interests of Node holders as they are critical stakeholders to the success of the project. These innovations significantly enhance the rewards available to node holders and provide a compelling reason for people to own as many nodes as they can.”

The full details can be found in the MNT Whitepaper accessible at minutesnetworktoken.io/whitepaper.

There are 119 Switch Nodes and 1069 Validation Nodes available for staking. Purchase nodes can be done by visiting portal.minutesnetworktoken.io.

About Minutes Network Token

Minutes Network Token (MNT) is a product of Minutes Network Token LLC, a company incorporated in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Company Number 095LLC2022.

Minutes Network Token is the source of this content. This Press Release is for informational purposes only. The information does not constitute investment advice or an offer to invest.