FAMEEX Afternoon Crypto News Recap | February 17, 2023

Japan to launch pilot programme for issuing digital yen
https://www.fameex.com/en-US/news/crypto-trending-news-2023021703
Japan will start a pilot programme in April to test the use of a digital yen, its central bank said on Friday.

DeFi protocol Platypus loses $8.5M in flash attack: Negotiations with hacker ongoing
The firm claimed that the attacker used a flash loan to exploit a logic error in the USP solvency check mechanism in the contract holding the collateral.

Crypto investors spent $4.6B buying ‘pump and dump’ tokens last year
Nearly 10,000 tokens launched on BNB and Ethereum last year are suspected to have been created just to dump on investors, according to Chainalysis.

Bitriver to open 100 MW mining facility following subsidy from Russia
As many jurisdictions worldwide clamp down on block reward mining, Russia is incentivizing miners to set up operations in its northern region of Siberia.

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