Happy Thursday! In today's Daily, Solana Mobile's newly unveiled crypto smartphone "Seeker" hits 140,000 presales, Banana Gun's team investigates reports of user wallets being drained, Worldcoin tests new facial recognition tech and more.
Meanwhile, blockchain sleuth ZachXBT alleges three perpetrators were involved in a $243 million theft from a single Genesis creditor.
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Solana Mobile unveiled its new crypto smartphone "Seeker" at TOKEN2049 on Thursday, with presales for the device now surpassing 140,000 across 57 countries.
Wallets connected with the Telegram bot Banana Gun were compromised on Thursday morning, according to several community reports, with at least some users' funds being drained.
Proof-of-personhood crypto project Worldcoin is set to begin testing facial recognition technology for its World App users.
During a panel discussion at TOKEN2049 on Thursday, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci said that crypto advocates are working with Vice President Kamala Harris to shift Democrats away from critics SEC Chair Gary Gensler and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Donald Trump made his first purchase using bitcoin, buying a round of cheeseburgers for patrons of PubKey in Greenwich Village ahead of a campaign rally at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island on Wednesday night.
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