Binance Smart Chain suspends transactions due to a bridge exploit, estimating that $100M to $110M in assets were moved off chain, of which $7M has been frozen (CoinDesk)

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters:
Binance says 2M BNB, worth ~$570M, were stolen from its BNB Chain in an exploit; “majority” of BNB are in the hacker’s wallet, ~$100M worth were “unrecovered”  —  Hackers have stolen around $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from a Binance-linked blockchain …

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
Mango Markets, a DeFi platform on Solana, says a hacker drained some of its funds via an oracle price manipulation; blockchain auditor OtterSec says for $100M+  —  The apparent exploit stemmed from the ability of an attacker to manipulate the value of their posted collateral.

Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block:
Web3 gaming and VC firm Animoca Brands raised $110M via convertible notes led by Temasek, Boyu Capital, and GGV, after raising $434M in 2022  —  – Animoca Brands confirmed earlier reports it had raised a fresh funding round of $110 million.  — Temasek, Boyu Capital and CGV Capital are now backing the firm.

Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk:
Poolin, one of the world’s biggest bitcoin mining pools, suspends withdrawals from its wallet service, citing liquidity issues  —  Yesterday, the mining pool admitted to liquidity issues.  —  PoolinWallet, the wallet service of one of the world’s biggest bitcoin mining pools …

Daniel Levi / Tech Startups:
Colorado-based ColdQuanta, which uses cold atom tech to build and integrate quantum computers, sensors, clocks, and networks, raised a $110M Series B  —  The internet has changed over the years.  But the groundwork for today’s internet was laid in 1973 by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
Google Cloud announces the Blockchain Node Engine, helping developers build and manage blockchain-based products, starting with Ethereum  —  Google Cloud on Thursday unveiled Blockchain Node Engine – a fully managed service for Web3 developers that wants to build and manage products for blockchain-based platforms.