Kinto, a blockchain project operating on Arbitrum, has announced that it will cease operations at the end of September, following a catastrophic $1.6 million hack in July that rendered the platform insolvent. The decision essentially represents a bankruptcy for the start-up, which had touted itself as a safer version of traditional DeFi because it verified users and insured wallets. The crash is the result of a smart contract loophole on Kinto's chain, which was exploited by attackers to mint 110,000 fak ...