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🚀 Blockchain Life returns to Dubai on December 1–2, 2026!

Less than three months to go. I’m heading to Blockchain Life — see you at the Forum!

15,000+ attendees from 130+ countries, 200+ speakers and 200+ sponsors will come together at one of the world’s largest crypto forums.

It’s an opportunity to meet industry leaders from across the globe, make business connections and discuss what’s next for Web3, digital finance and AI.

⚡ 3 stages and 200+ high-profile speakers
⚡ A major expo with 200+ sponsors and trading tournaments
⚡ The international debut of AI Future Forum 2026
⚡ The legendary Afterparty with a world-class headliner

Tickets are on sale now. Get 10% off with promo code SEMENCHUK.

🎟 Tickets: blockchain-life.com

🧍 The Signal Crew

Nobody needs your password any more.

They do not lurk in hoodies — they carry spray cans and nerve. Five levels of access.

What's inside:
Uncommon — Script Kiddie
Rare — Hacktivist
Epic — Drone Operator
Mythic — Social Engineer
Legendary — Crew Leader

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🖼 Deepwater Lights

Down here the lights come on without electricity.

Where the sun never reaches, you have to make your own light. Five frames of living glow, nacre and slow currents.

What's inside:
Uncommon — First Light
Rare — Slow Drift
Epic — Living Ribbons
Mythic — Crown of the Deep
Legendary — Radiance of the Abyss

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🧍 The Riders' Club

The prospect does not argue. The prospect fetches coffee.

In the club everything is written on your back: the more patches, the fewer questions. Five people, one road.

What's inside:
Uncommon — The Prospect
Rare — Full Member
Epic — Club Mechanic
Mythic — Sergeant at Arms
Legendary — Club President

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BITCOIN MINING
CAPITULATION
Cost Curves, Miner Shutdowns & Cycle Signals
Historical mining centers and the 2026 break-even regime

🪙 Dragon Hoard

Look all you like. Touching is not advised.

Struck not for trade but to lie there and stay warm. Four coins, and the thing worth more than the pile.

What's inside:
Uncommon — Iron Scale
Rare — Jade Silver
Epic — Red Gold
Mythic — Jade and Ember
Legendary — The Egg

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🚀Join Blockchain Life in Dubai on December 1–2, 2026!

On December 1–2, 2026, Blockchain Life 2026 returns to Dubai for one of the world’s largest gatherings focused on Web3, cryptocurrency, mining, and AI.

The event will bring together 15,000+ attendees from 130+ countries, 200+ world-class speakers, 200+ booths at expo, 3 dedicated stages, global live networking and the debut of AI Future.

Why attend Blockchain Life?

🔹 A full week of live networking with key market players over 2 days of the Blockchain Life Forum, hundreds of side events, exclusive meetings, and the Formula 1 Grand Prix Final.

🔹 200+ star speakers: including crypto whales, founders and C-level executives from top exchanges and leading Web3 projects, prominent investors, Tier 1 funds, global experts in crypto and AI, and legendary traders.

🔹 200+ leading companies at one of the largest industry’s expo - from major crypto exchanges and mining firms to Web3 pioneers, AI developers, and cutting-edge startups.

🔹 AI Future Forum – a new track dedicated to AI, covering the most progressive trends of the Future, breakthrough robotics developments, and the convergence of AI, crypto, and business.

🔹 Legendary Afterparty at one of the world’s top clubs featuring a globally renowned headliner.

🔹 Startup Pitch and Blockchain Life Awards – where startups showcase the ideas & innovations and leading companies gain industry recognition.

🎟 Book your early bird ticket with 10% off using promo code SEMENCHUK

🧍 The Skate Park

Five people, five ways to fall with style.

In the concrete bowl, seniority is counted in scars, not years. Five regulars, from first helmet to local myth.

What's inside:
Uncommon — The Newbie
Rare — One of the Crew
Epic — BMX Rider
Mythic — Sponsored Pro
Legendary — Park Legend

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Cat Tycoons

Five cats who sized you up and remain unimpressed.

They have owned the city for ages; nobody thought to ask. Five cats who hold the deed to your house.

What's inside:
Uncommon — Street Intern
Rare — The Ginger Agent
Epic — Investor in a Robe
Mythic — The Magnate
Legendary — The Cat Emperor

🏄 60 days. One wave. 11,000,000 $HOLDER on the line.
Stay on the board.

🎂 City Holder is 2!

Two years ago today, City appeared on an endless map. Different for everyone, yet familiar — and full of ambition.

Today it's a city you built yourselves: with its own districts, its own rules and its own legends. You've seen it every way there is — modest and wealthy, empty and crowded, growing and thriving. You carved it up in faction wars, rebuilt it from the ground up more times than anyone can count, and turned it into what it is now.

Thank you for being with us these two years. Without you, City would be just a dot on the map — or a single bit lost in an ocean of data. 🧡

☀️ And on August 3rd the city opens a new season — Beach Party. Summer's only getting started.

Funds from the ChainConnect incident have been returned

What happened

On 26 July 2026 the ChainConnect bridge (chainconnect.com) was compromised. Bridge operations were paused immediately.

Approximately $650,000 was drained from the bridge contracts in 23 transactions across four networks: Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche C-Chain and Polygon.

The attacker swapped the stolen assets into each chain's native token and consolidated the full amount into ETH at 0xd86cbc1892bfda05f3d7e6c17c71709b6ae957a5.

Terms of the agreement

On 28 July ChainConnect sent an on-chain message to that address from the bridge deployer 0x68d447e2a4c6e7c1945725939a0cbcb4a67f9b30. The terms: keep 15% as a whitehat bounty, return 85% to the project, public written acknowledgement as a whitehat, no civil claims and no independent identity-attribution efforts by ChainConnect. The offer stood until 31 July, 23:59 UTC.

Return transaction
Time: 18:30:59 UTC, 30 July 2026
From: 0xd86cbc1892bfda05f3d7e6c17c71709b6ae957a5
To: 0x840B3De19e3FAB72fa9A168bD8Dd71B678c57989
Amount: 280 ETH (85% of the agreed total)
Tx: 0xe78bfae09b6b8fab1057f472f605044dea8d066b73e5012837050a5bc6d6eb00

Confirmation from ChainConnect

"ChainConnect confirms that the controller of 0xd86cbc1892bfda05f3d7e6c17c71709b6ae957a5 has fulfilled the agreed return terms for the ChainConnect bridge incident of 26 July 2026.

We confirm receipt of 280 ETH to 0x840B3De19e3FAB72fa9A168bD8Dd71B678c57989 in tx 0xe78bfae09b6b8fab1057f472f605044dea8d066b73e5012837050a5bc6d6eb00.

The retained amount is acknowledged as the agreed whitehat bounty. ChainConnect considers its commitments under the agreement fulfilled and the matter resolved with the controller of 0xd86cbc1892bfda05f3d7e6c17c71709b6ae957a5."

ChainConnect, 31 July 2026

The investigation

The case was handled by the AML Crypto investigations team. From the first hours after the compromise we mapped the fund flows across all four networks, traced the swaps and consolidation, and identified the attacker's addresses.

The funds came back a full day before the offer expired – rather than being dispersed further through mixers and swap services.

Fund flow graph in Bholder https://bholder.amlcrypto.io/shared/b1e47a79189345c3a1ecf87c08d2fa1d

We work incidents like this from hour one: tracing, attribution, exchange outreach, recovery negotiation. @amlcrypto

🚀 I’m heading to Blockchain Life in Dubai on December 1–2, 2026 — see you at the Forum!

On December 1–2, 2026, Blockchain Life 2026 returns to Dubai for one of the world’s largest gatherings focused on Web3, cryptocurrency, mining, and AI.

The event will bring together 15,000+ attendees from 130+ countries, 200+ world-class speakers, 200+ booths at the expo, 3 dedicated stages, global live networking, and the debut of AI Future.

Why attend Blockchain Life?

🔹 A full week of live networking with key market players over 2 days of the Blockchain Life Forum, hundreds of side events, exclusive meetings, and the Formula 1 Grand Prix Final.

🔹 200+ star speakers, including crypto whales, founders and C-level executives from top exchanges and leading Web3 projects, prominent investors, Tier 1 funds, global experts in crypto and AI, and legendary traders.

🔹 200+ leading companies at one of the industry’s largest expos — from major crypto exchanges and mining firms to Web3 pioneers, AI developers, and cutting-edge startups.

🔹 AI Future Forum — a new track dedicated to AI, covering the most progressive trends of the future, breakthrough robotics developments, and the convergence of AI, crypto, and business.

🔹 Legendary Afterparty at one of the world’s top clubs featuring a globally renowned headliner.

🔹 Startup Pitch and Blockchain Life Awards — where startups showcase their ideas and innovations and leading companies gain industry recognition.

🎟 Book your early bird ticket with 10% off using promo code SEMENCHUK

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🏁 The snapshot is done. Standings are locked.

At 10:00 PM progress froze — the rankings are counted, the results are final and not up for review. Everything you managed to grind made it into the tally.

The winner is official: the city goes to the Esparza family. 👑
Congratulations to everyone who stood under their flag — and hats off to those who fought to the very last minute against them.

🎁 Rewards are already on the way. Everyone who was part of a faction gets a reward for taking part — keep your notifications on, we'll reach you soon. If a prize takes a couple of hours, don't worry — it'll get to all of you.

Thank you for this season — you made the finale. 🙌 Your feedback has been heard: next season the Faction War will be more exciting, more accessible and more transparent.

The city has a new owner. For now — it belongs to the Esparzas.

A fiesta of a house in true Barcelona-modernisme spirit: flowing forms, cool white lime plaster and big glossy trencadís tiles — cobalt, emerald, turquoise — running along the cornices, window surrounds and sculpted chimneys. A giant paella sizzles over an open fire in the yard, a wrought-iron bull weathervane spins above a little sandy arena, a flamenco guitar dozes against the wall, and a serpentine mosaic bench curls around the plinth. Come kick-off, the house pulls on a colossal red-and-yellow scarf and out-cheers
the whole street.

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🚨 Final Countdown — Only 2 Days Left to Mint Your GameBoard NFT!

This isn’t just another NFT.

It’s your personal game board in MiniPoly, visible to every player you compete with.

🎲 47 unique worlds
👑 Chance to mint the legendary Golden Board
💎 Only 29.99 TON

⚡ Once the mint ends, GameBoards will only be available on the secondary market.

Don’t miss your chance to become one of the original owners.

👉 Mint now:
https://getgems.io/launchpad/gameboard

🖼️🏁 ASPHALT RACING — checkered flags and engine heat. Five frames, animated Legendary on top. Open the Pit Crate, chase the animated drop, complete the set for the Grid Star. Frame the finish line. 🏎️

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🌹🦁 ESPARZA BLOODLINE — old money never forgets. Climb the ranks in 5 skins, from button-man to the Don with a blood-red rose. Open the Family Coffer, claim the Legendary, complete the set for the Dynasty Crest. Earn your seat at the table. 🥂

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