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View More NewsAllbridge Core has paused its cross-chain stablecoin protocol after an attacker stole roughly $1.65 million from its Solana liquidity pools, according to security firms CertiK and PeckShield.Allbridge is a bridge that lets users move assets between blockchains that do not communicate directly. Its Core product uses liquidity pools to transfer native stablecoins such as USDC and USDT without issuing wrapped versions of the assets.The attacker used a $1.12 million flash loan from Solana lending protocol Kamino to rapidly swap USDC and USDT, manipulating the pools’ internal ratios before withdrawing assets at favorable rates, according to Onchain Lens. A flash loan…
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Robin Dembroff’s highly anticipated Oxford University Press book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality, hit shelves in May with impressive endorsements. According to the philosopher Jason Stanley,Real Men on Top is a stunning work of philosophy that explains why insights from gender studies are so feared by authoritarian regimes. In plain language, Dembroff illuminates gender as the internal logic of our current fascist moment—how it divides us from each other and enriches the wealthy few.Other philosophers call the book “brilliant,” “rigorous,” and “profound and necessary.” Dembroff’s own website reports that Real Men on Top has been “acclaimed…
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