{"id":82674,"date":"2023-08-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82674"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:29:48","slug":"premiere-news-podcast-return-tone-vays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/premiere-news-podcast-return-tone-vays\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: News Podcast &#8216;Return Tone Vays&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cReturn Tone Vays\u201d is a news podcast with the ForkLog editors and friends of the ForkLog magazine, in which we discuss the main events and texts from the past week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Topics for the first episode: a breach of Curve decentralised exchange and its implications for the DEX sector, a new wave of meme tokens, trading Telegram bots, and the Bitcoin ETF situation<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Participants: Lena Jess, Alex K.<\/p>\n<p>Special guest: Head of Analytics and Research at HAPI Labs, Mark Letsyuk.<\/p>\n<p>Host: Aremefe.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\\\"wp-block-heading\\\">Curve Situation<\/h2>\n<p>On July 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hacker-drains-curve-finance-liquidity-pools-of-47-million\">a major breach occurred<\/a> on Curve Finance, the decentralised exchange. An unknown actor siphoned $47 million from liquidity pools, exploiting a vulnerability in the Vyper code. In response, leading market players, including Justin Sun (Tron) and Du Jun (Huobi), <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/curve-finance-founder-sells-10-million-crv-to-huobi-co-founder\">acquired<\/a> the exchange&#8217;s own tokens for around $24 million.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\\\"wp-block-heading\\\">Telegram Bots<\/h2>\n<p>Telegram bots for cryptocurrency transactions are gaining popularity in the Telegram messenger. Experts <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-warn-of-risk-of-crypto-loss-when-trading-via-telegram-bots\">warn<\/a>: the risks of losing digital assets when using them outweigh all the advantages they offer. We take a closer look to see if that is the case.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\\\"wp-block-heading\\\">Account Abstraction<\/h2>\n<p>This tool is often described as key to the mass adoption of Web3 technologies. Alex K., who prepared for ForkLog readers a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-account-abstraction\">breakdown<\/a> of the topic, explains what account abstraction is.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\\\"wp-block-heading\\\">ETF Race<\/h2>\n<p>Two to one. Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bloomberg-analyst-raises-odds-of-bitcoin-etf-approval-to-2-to-1\">judged<\/a> the odds that the <span data-descr=\\\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">SEC<\/span> would approve a Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">ETF<\/a>. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/six-firms-file-applications-to-launch-an-ethereum-etf\">six proposals have been submitted<\/a> to the Commission, seeking to launch Ethereum-based exchange-traded funds.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\\\"wp-block-heading\\\">BALD Meme Tokens<\/h2>\n<p>The Coinbase L2 network Base <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/base-blockchain-swept-by-a-wave-of-meme-tokens\">has unleashed<\/a> a wave of meme tokens that play on the appearance of the exchange&#8217;s founder Brian Armstrong. The assets were named BALD (\\&#8221;bald\\&#8221;), and their traces <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-link-sam-bankman-fried-to-bald-meme-token-project\">lead<\/a> to a well-known businessman with a luxuriant mane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discuss the Curve breach, the new wave of meme tokens, trading Telegram bots, and the Bitcoin ETF situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,1426,1741,1241,723],"class_list":["post-82674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-curve-crv","tag-forklog-news","tag-podcast","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82676,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82674\/revisions\/82676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}