Mango Markets, a Solana DeFi platform, says a hacker stole ~$100M by manipulating its coin’s price; the hacker then passed a malicious DAO governance proposal (Taylor Locke/Fortune)

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.

Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Hacker behind the Mango Markets exploit keeps $47M and returns $67M to the DeFi platform after a Mango community vote; he claims his actions were legal  —  – Eisenberg called the exploit a “profitable trading strategy” and said his actions were legal.  — The Mango exploiter said the deal …

Nelson Wang / CoinDesk:
The CFTC has fined the blockchain protocol bZeroX team $250K and filed an action against its successor Ooki Dao for offering illegal off-exchange crypto trading  —  The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki Dao.

Stephen Graves / Decrypt:
Google Cloud says it is running a Solana validator and is indexing Solana data for BigQuery, will add Solana support to Blockchain Node Engine in 2023, and more  —  Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.

Adam James / The Block:
DeFi proponents criticize Sam Bankman-Fried for a regulatory proposal suggesting websites facilitating trading on decentralized exchanges should be regulated  —  – Various individuals in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry are lambasting Sam Bankman-Fried after the FTX CEO shared …

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
DeFi startup Uniswap Labs, which runs a decentralized exchange, raised a $165M Series B led by Polychain and plans to build an NFT aggregator  —  Uniswap Labs on Thursday announced a $165 million Series B funding round, led by Polychain Capital, that values the company at $1.66 billion.