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U.S. authorities’ push to seize more than 127,000 bitcoin has revived a key thread: several of the wallets at issue are labeled by...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced sweeping sanctions and forfeiture actions targeting transnational criminal organ...
Monad co-founder Keone Hon warned users to stay vigilant after fake links appeared as Telegram ads in its official announcements c...
Security Alliance has developed TLS Attestations to cryptographically verify phishing reports, solving the problem of scammers clo...
Singapore’s High Court has given the green light to a restructuring plan for crypto exchange WazirX, clearing a major obstacle in...
The Singapore High Court’s approval clears the way for WazirX to restart operations and begin compensating more than 150,000 users...
The Oct. 10–11 sell-off that erased an estimated ~$19–20 billion across crypto within 24 hours has ignited a fierce post-mortem ov...
Crypto betting platform Shuffle suffered a data breach via its CRM provider Fast Track, exposing most users’ data, founder Noa Dum...
Ethereum devs have introduced Kohaku to enhance wallet privacy and security with modular tools, zero-knowledge recovery options an...
A $21 Million Breach With Familiar Fingerprints Reports have emerged that the crypto subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Gr...
The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has sanctioned 19 crypto firms for operating unlicensed Virtual Asset operati...
Bitcoin’s path to becoming a central bank reserve asset may no longer be far-fetched, according to Deutsche Bank analyst. Key Take...
The European Union is reportedly considering sanctions targeting A7A5, a ruble-backed stablecoin tied to sanctioned Russian actors...
The European Union is weighing a fresh round of sanctions targeting A7A5, a ruble-backed stablecoin that has rapidly become the la...
Several banks in Russia, Belarus and Central Asia are also in the EU’s firing line for enabling crypto-related transactions, accor...
A new Russian-linked stablecoin, A7A5, has surged to a $500 million market capitalization, becoming the world’s largest non-U.S. d...
Standard Chartered has warned that over $1 trillion could flow out of emerging-market (EM) banks and into stablecoins by 2028, as...
DeFi lending protocol Abracadabra has fallen victim to another exploit, losing approximately $1.8 million in MIM tokens in a sophi...