LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The cryptocurrency arm of Jump Trading said on Thursday it had restored more than $320 million to crypto platform Wormhole after the decentralized finance site was hit with one of the largest crypto heists on record.

Wormhole and other blockchains, has been exploited - with 120,000 Ethereum (ETH) worth around $325 million Portal, a DeFi bridge between Solana stolen. This makes it the fourth largest crypto theft of all time, and the second biggest from a DeFi service.

The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal.

So by all means enjoy the mock-inauguration of a corrupt, senile hack as the fruit of ballot-box stuffing and fake COVID panic. But remember that now we all live in a tinpot Bananas Republic. And a disciplined, fanatically nationalist, resurgent Red China is smiling. The virus it shipped worldwide succeeded beyond its leaders’ wildest expectations.

Theft of yucca cacti from indigenous communities in Mexico's northwestern state of Baja California for export is reportedly accelerating, underscoring the silent issue of plant trafficking in the country. Indigenous communities in the municipality of Ensenada have raised alarm about the continuing theft of yucca, a plant on which they are economically reliant, from reserves, apás, Kiliwas and Paipai communities according to El Universal.

This story is outside the FT's paywall (you do not need a subscription to access it) so it can be shared freely. It was early 2018 when Jan Marsalek, the young chief operating officer of German fintech champion Wirecard, held a meeting in his palatial home in Munich to talk about a new special project he was interested in: recruiting 15,000 Libyan militiamen.

Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, will become the head of the ECB. Already, she has made a fool out of herself. Following a two-day marathon in which "Spitzenkandidat" Failed and Merkel's Plan A and Plan B Dumped Lagarde will now head the ECB and give up her job at the IMF.