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Odaily News: According to Hunter Biden monitoring, Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Biden, posted the independent investigation results of the LAPTOP token launch incident, stating that he had commissioned forensic firm Groom Lake to verify all transactions on the day of launch. He denied that the team cashed out, saying that the founder tokens remain concentrated in the same wallet and have not been transferred since launch; his personal tokens have been locked for six months and will then be released over two years. He cited the investigation as saying that Market Maker 1 had $500,000 in startup capital, but only injected about $5,200 and fewer than 30,000 tokens into the liquidity pool, with the latter accounting for only 0.003% of the total supply. Extremely low liquidity caused the price to rise from $0.05 to about $317 in less than two minutes, then fall 98% within one hour. Eighty-four seconds after the price peaked, Market Maker 1 withdrew funds during the sell-off, reducing the funds available near the current price to absorb selling from $16,200 to zero. He said Market Maker 1 made about $686,000 in profit from its DEX position, while Market Maker 2 netted more than $2.1 million from related DEX trades, and argued that the market makers responsible for the launch problems should buy back and burn tokens. He said he bears ultimate responsibility, will not exit the project, and plans next week to burn most of the unclaimed tokens from the first airdrop; that airdrop accounted for 10% of the total supply.
According to CoinDesk, the Cardano wallet SecondFi was attacked due to a vulnerability in its transaction signing software. A total of 16.1 million ADA (approximately $2.4 million) across 374 wallets was stolen, and the platform has announced permanent closure. The vulnerability allowed attackers to derive private keys from transaction data visible on-chain. The Cardano network itself was not affected, nor were hardware wallet users. An investigation by Groom Lake, a blockchain intelligence company hired by EMURGO, revealed that the primary attackers were sophisticated and well-funded. Some indications point to North Korea's Lazarus Group, but this has not yet been officially confirmed. SecondFi plans to release a wallet export tool in early August and launch a zero-knowledge recovery portal later in the month. EMURGO has established an asset recovery wallet, with the specific distribution time to be determined.
Cardano ecosystem wallet SecondFi announced that due to a cryptographic defect in its wallet software, approximately 16.1 million ADA (worth around $2.6 million) were stolen. The platform will gradually shut down the SecondFi and Yoroi wallet services. This incident has affected 374 wallets. SecondFi stated that an independent investigation by blockchain intelligence agency Groom Lake identified the attackers as a sophisticated external actor and found indicators potentially linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group, though attribution has not yet been confirmed. SecondFi is developing a recovery tool based on zero-knowledge proofs to help affected users recover assets while limiting the information that needs to be shared. The tool is still being tested and will undergo third-party audits before its planned release in August. SecondFi is also preparing a wallet export feature to allow users to migrate their assets to other services. The platform has not announced a direct compensation plan, nor has it indicated whether it will use its own funds to compensate users.