hack or exploit

helios: Rug pull ($1,446,704)

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Key claims & sources

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Market reaction i

Total crypto marketall crypto assets combined no single asset in the event: read against the whole market
first headline
+1.1% 2 h before
+0.3% 4 h after
$2.9Tmarket cap at publication
12data points

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.

Coverage timeline

Every piece in order, with the time its news medium declares — if it is not believable we use ours and say so — and what it added to what was already known at that point. Arriving first is not the same as adding something.

first
Sep 25 09:28
The Crypto Guardian scoop our clock
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