Crypto scams and K-pop fans

Members of South Korean K-pop band BTS.
In February, we investigated a bizarre scam involving fans of K-pop band BTS, who call themselves ARMY. “What TF is happening with ARMY Twitter…”, a BTS fan had tweeted a few weeks earlier. That tweet was part of a thread which, in screenshot after screenshot, revealed what she believed was a plot to infiltrate the internet space of her fellow BTS fans—and then scam them senseless with phishing attacks.
NFTs are all the rage. Here’s why.
We first wrote about non-fungible tokens (NFT) in late February, days before Beeple’s now-famous NFT-backed jpeg sold for $69 million at a Christie’s auction, sparking a global craze. Fungible simply means interchangeable. NFTs are thus a type of crypto asset in which each token is unique. This makes them useless as a currency, but extremely useful as incorruptible certificates of authenticity for, well, anything.
Zomato’s IPO playbook

Zomato’s cofounder and CEO Deepinder Goyal
After a hugely successful IPO, Zomato made a bumper debut on Dalal Street on July 23. After the stock closed at Rs 125.85 on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 65.59% higher than the issue price, we took a close look at Zomato’s IPO playbook and what helped make the food delivery…