ATOR Protocol announced that it has received an investment from JDI, the exact amount of which was not disclosed, according to Golden Finance. ATOR Protocol plans to recognize the significant contribution of Relay operators to the Decentralization Network by distributing ATOR Tokens. Operators of supported protocol, such as Tor, can continue to operate as Relay using their ETH Address registration Relay. Relay operators will be able to see their actual contributions to the network, which will be posted to Arweave as decentralization metrics and rewarded accordingly with ATOR recognition.

As part of an international operation, Europol arrested a malware developer linked to the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang and seized the gang's darknet website. The suspect was detained in Paris on October 16 and his home in the Czech Republic was searched. In addition, five accused accomplices are on trial in Spain and Latvia. According to investigators, since the end of 2019, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has carried out attacks against 168 international companies around the world, including computer chip maker ADATA, aviation giant Dassault Falcon, and Japanese game developer Capcom, among others. During the operation, law enforcement officers confiscated cryptocurrencies, disabled 9 servers, and prevented hacker sites from negotiating and publishing leaks on the Tor network.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to official news, the privacy browser Tor announced the launch of Tor 0.4.8 version and introduced PoW) defense against Onion Services, which aims to prioritize verified network traffic to deal with DoS attacks, and recommends users to upgrade . According to reports, Tor's PoW defense is a dynamic and reactive mechanism that remains dormant under normal usage conditions to ensure a seamless user experience. But when the Onion Services are under stress, the mechanism will prompt incoming client connections to perform many more complex operations in succession.

On August 24th, the privacy browser Tor announced that with the release of Tor0.4.8, it officially launched a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for Onion Services, which aims to prioritize verified network traffic to deter denial of service (DoS). )attack. Tor's PoW Defense is a dynamic and reactive mechanism that remains dormant under normal usage conditions to ensure a seamless user experience, but when the Onion Services are under stress, the mechanism will prompt incoming client connections to perform many more complex operations. Tor advises users to update Onion Services to version 0.4.8.

According to PANews on August 21, THORChain, a decentralized cross-chain transaction protocol, announced that THORFi Lending, a lending protocol, has been launched. Initially, it will provide ETH and BTC collateral loans, and will soon support all L1 Gas assets (BNB, BCH, LTC) supported by THORChain. , ATOM, AVAX, DOGE) are open for lending. The borrowing limit depends on the outstanding supply of RUNE, with a maximum collateralization ratio of 500% and a minimum collateralization ratio of 200%. Users can lend their native L1 assets (BTC and ETH) to THORChain and borrow USD-denominated debt with no liquidation, no interest and no maturity date. The debt is denominated in TOR, but can be repaid with any THORChain-backed asset, including stablecoins. The minimum loan term is 30 days. Borrowers can repay the debt and repossess their collateral at any time after 30 days. The debt can be paid in part, but the collateral is not released until the debt is fully paid. THORChain reminds that there may be loopholes in THORChain Lending that need to be suspended or fixed. Node operators and developers will keep an eye out and fix it in time. Previously, THORChain stated that it will launch a lending agreement, and the new agreement will increase the destruction mechanism of RUNE to promote RUNE into deflation.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to official news, the decentralized cross-chain transaction protocol THORChain released the lending protocol THORFi Lending, which was approved by the node operator. The lending function will be launched on the mainnet, and the collateral will be limited to BTC and ETH at that time. The feature will allow users to deposit native collateral and then create debt at Collateral Ratio (CR). Regardless of what L1 asset a user receives, the liability is always denominated in USD (i.e. TOR). Users can repay the loan at any time, with any amount in any asset. Repayments are converted into TOR. All loans are zero interest, zero liquidation, and no maturity date. Risk is controlled by limits on collateral per pool, slip-based fees when opening and closing loans, dynamic CR and circuit breakers for RUNE supply.

Bitcoin nonprofit Brink has raised $5 million from Jack Dorsey’s Smart Small funding program to continue funding independent Bitcoin developers, Jinse Finance reported. Funding will be distributed over five years at a rate of $1 million per year with the goal of maintaining existing grantees and potentially adding new qualified applicants. In April 2020, then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he would donate his $1 billion stake in Block (then called Square) to a new fund called Smart Small. Its original purpose was to support Covid-19 relief, with plans to expand in the wake of the pandemic. Smart Small, which has raised a total of $1.4 billion to date, has spent $515 million and has $900 million left. It has funded privacy-focused technology projects, including the Tor Project and messaging app Signal.

Jinse Finance reported that Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, said on social media that only Tor, Bitcoin and Nostr really have large-scale anti-censorship technology, and all of them are currently niche markets, indicating that the world's largest Most people don't actually care about censorship. Admittedly, these technologies are not yet readily available or usable. But they will.

Jinse Finance reported that the capacity and channels of the Lightning Network decreased, and the number of transactions on May 9 was around 413,420, which means that 36.28% of the backlog has been cleared in the past five days. While fees spiked to about $30 per transaction on May 7 and have fluctuated wildly lately, the capacity of the Lightning Network has not improved. In fact, the amount of BTC locked in the Lightning Network dropped from 5,463 BTC on May 5 to 5,415 BTC today, May 14. The drop shows that roughly $1.28 million in value left the Lightning Network amidst a chaotic transaction backlog. On May 8, the Lightning Network had 73,352 unique channels. However, this number has been reduced to the current 71,286 unique channels. According to mempool.space’s Lightning Network Metrics, approximately 5,057 BTC of capacity is on the clearnet, while 253 BTC of capacity uses Tor. Remaining Lightning Network capacity is identified as "Other".