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Arkham posted on the X platform that Avi Eisenberg, the attacker who profited approximately $110 million in 2022 by manipulating the price oracle of Mango Markets, has recently signed a transaction with his on-chain address, drawing widespread attention from the community.Avi Eisenberg previously exploited a vulnerability in Mango Finance to conduct "high-profit trades," and later threatened to attack Aave. He was also liquidated on Curve while attempting to liquidate others' positions, and was arrested and imprisoned after the incident. Now, his address has reappeared with on-chain activity, leading the market to speculate whether he has returned to the crypto market, although no further details have been disclosed yet.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will withdraw its lawsuit against cryptocurrency figure Justin Sun. The SEC sued Justin Sun in 2023, accusing him of selling unregistered securities through the Tron Foundation, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc., and artificially inflating Tronix trading volume by instructing employees to conduct over 600,000 wash trades between accounts under his control.Under the settlement agreement, the SEC will drop all charges against Justin Sun, and Rainberry has agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty without admitting or denying the related allegations, pending judicial approval of the settlement. Justin Sun expressed that he is "very pleased" with the SEC's decision to drop the lawsuit on the X platform. Since Trump returned to the White House, the SEC has withdrawn or suspended at least a dozen cases against cryptocurrency companies, including previous lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the X platform: "Peter Steinberger (founder of OpenClaw) will join OpenAI to drive the development of the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with many amazing ideas about how future agents will collaborate and provide practical services to people. We expect this to soon become a core part of our products. OpenClaw will exist as an open-source project within the foundation, and OpenAI will continue to support it. The future will be an era of highly multi-agent systems, and supporting open-source projects is a crucial part of achieving this goal."

ChainCatcher message, according to the tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the aggregated information dashboard Moonberg AI has been the project with the most new followers among X (Twitter) Top figures. New influential figures on X who have followed this project include anonymous Twitter KOL Inversebrah(@inversebrah), NFT collector Gmoney(@gmoneynft), and crypto trader Pentoshi(@Pentosh1).

ChainCatcher news, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg has announced that he will resign the day before Trump takes office (January 19). Democrat Gruenberg confirmed his departure in a message to FDIC employees and stated that he has informed the outgoing President Biden of his decision.

ChainCatcher news, a Brazilian federal judge has ordered the dismissal of criminal charges against the late CEO of the Bitcoin Ponzi scheme Mirror Trading International (MTI), Johann Steynberg, after police investigations confirmed reports of his death.Steynberg's death certificate has been added to the case file. Following the disclosure of this news, some victims immediately defamed these claims. Some believe that Steynberg may have faked his death. At the time of his death, Steynberg's death certificate indicated that he suffered from acute respiratory failure.

ChainCatcher news, the Southern District Prosecutors' Office of Seoul announced on the 1st that Mr. Park (Johnber Kim) has been arrested and charged with fraud and violations of legal regulations, while his business partner Mr. A (38 years old), who assisted Mr. Park in the crime, has been indicted but not detained.The prosecution stated that Mr. Park and others issued and listed the fraudulent token "Grape" between February 2021 and April of the following year, artificially inflated the token price, and then sold all of it, allegedly embezzling 80.9 billion won (approximately 59.23 million USD), with actual profits estimated at 21.6 billion won (approximately 15.81 million USD).

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, a Manhattan jury in New York has found Mango Markets attacker Avi Eisenberg guilty of fraud and market manipulation for stealing $110 million from Mango Markets in October 2022. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian is set to sentence him on July 29. Eisenberg was arrested in Puerto Rico in December 2022 and has been charged with commodity fraud, commodity manipulation, and wire fraud. If all three charges are upheld, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

ChainCatcher news, Berenberg Capital Markets Chief Analyst Mark Palmer stated in a research report that his main reason for taking a "cautious stance" on Coinbase is the various regulatory actions taken against it by the United States, as well as the political resistance brought about by the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Hamas militants used cryptocurrency to fund recent attacks on Israel, which may hinder Coinbase's cryptocurrency lobbying efforts in the U.S.It is reported that over the past few years, Coinbase has significantly increased its lobbying efforts in the United States in hopes of introducing clearer and more cryptocurrency-friendly regulations.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, a report from investment bank Berenberg shows that since adopting a Bitcoin acquisition strategy in August 2020, MicroStrategy has reported a cumulative impairment loss of $2.23 billion. The largest impairment loss for MicroStrategy occurred in the second quarter of 2022, amounting to $917.8 million.At the same time, after the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) voted to change the way companies report their financials, MicroStrategy will soon be able to report its held BTC each quarter without having to recognize impairment losses when cryptocurrency prices decline.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, German investment bank Berenberg stated in a research report that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is likely to present new reasons for denial in order to justify delaying the spot Bitcoin ETF applications.In addition, the Berenberg analyst team stated that Grayscale's victory may increase the likelihood that the "SEC will ultimately approve one or more spot Bitcoin ETF applications."

ChainCatcher news, investment bank Berenberg stated in its latest report that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may now focus on regulating stablecoins, including Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), as well as DeFi protocols.Berenberg believes that by taking action against stablecoins, the SEC could undermine the entire DeFi ecosystem. Additionally, the analysis report pointed out that if the SEC defines Bitcoin as a commodity rather than a security, Bitcoin is likely to be the ultimate beneficiary of the crackdown on stablecoins. (CoinDesk)

ChainCatcher news, Berenberg stated in a research report on Monday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon take enforcement action against Coinbase, which may reflect the regulatory agency's actions against competitor cryptocurrency exchanges Bittrex and Kraken.Berenberg estimates that at least 37% of Coinbase's $736 million net revenue in the first quarter came from trading fees and trading cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin, as well as fees from its staking services. Analyst Mark Palmer believes these revenue sources are likely to become targets of the SEC in the enforcement action that the commission will soon submit. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Mango Markets attacker Avraham Eisenberg stated that he should not be required to repay more disputed funds, having returned $67 million of the $114 million in tokens obtained during the trading.Mango Labs, on the other hand, is requesting the Manhattan federal court to order Eisenberg to repay the remaining amount and claims that its settlement with Eisenberg should be voided as it was reached under duress. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Mango Labs LLC has officially sued the attacker Avraham Eisenberg in Manhattan, demanding the return of the $47 million bounty for the vulnerability that was retained in the previous compensation proposal.Previously, ChainCatcher reported that the Solana ecosystem DeFi platform Mango was hacked in October 2022, with hacker Avraham Eisenberg illegally manipulating the collateral token prices to profit $114 million in just 20 minutes. Subsequently, the Mango community voted to approve a new proposal regarding the repayment of bad debt (Repay Bad Debt #2), allowing Avraham Eisenberg to keep $47 million as a bounty for the vulnerability, while the remaining $67 million in stolen tokens would be returned to Mango Labs, and Mango Markets would not pursue criminal charges in this case. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Mango Labs LLC has sued attacker Avraham Eisenberg in Manhattan. The trader made $114 million in 20 minutes by illegally manipulating the price of its cryptocurrency tokens on its exchange in October. Avraham Eisenberg agreed to return $67 million of that amount, while Mango seeks to recover the remaining funds.It is reported that Mango attacker Avraham Eisenberg was arrested in December in Puerto Rico and has been charged by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for manipulating the MNGO token. (Source link)

ChainCatcher News, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against Avraham Eisenberg, the attacker of Mango Markets, for allegedly manipulating the decentralized trading market. The CFTC stated in the lawsuit that this is "a manipulative and deceptive scheme that artificially inflated the trading prices offered by Mango Markets."Avraham Eisenberg is currently in custody and faces criminal manipulation charges from the Department of Justice. Avraham Eisenberg has admitted to his actions but insists that everything was legal. (Source link)