Phishing campaign aimed at 885,000 phone numbers, security firm says
Rapid7 says a crypto phishing operation targeted 885,000 numbers with texts leading to fake wallet sites. Here is what the pages ask for, and where to report.
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HSBC and Standard Chartered make first live transfer on Swift’s blockchain
HSBC and Standard Chartered have completed the first live bank-to-bank tokenised deposit transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger. It's a real piece of plumbing, and it's closed to everyone outside the banking system.
Solana blocks are about to arrive faster and carry less. That mostly cancels out
Solana is cutting its target block time from 400ms to 350ms, and trimming how much work each block can hold. Faster blocks that do less isn't the same as more capacity, and it probably won't make your transactions cheaper.
Bitcoin’s jump to $70,000 was decided by the US bond market, not by crypto
Bitcoin went from $64,100 to nearly $70,000 in hours after the US Treasury doubled its bond buybacks. A lot of that move was bearish traders being forced to buy, not new demand.
BitBox found the flaws before anyone lost money
The Swiss wallet maker says two severe firmware bugs have been patched, with no reports of anyone being exploited. It's the opposite ending to the Coldcard story, and the fix only works if owners install it.
Sending ETH to a new address is about to cost more, and some wallets will quote you the old price
Ethereum's next upgrade ends the flat fee that every simple ETH transfer has carried since day one. Wallets built around the old number will get your sum wrong, so check before you send.
The SEC has finally written crypto rules down. They aren’t rules yet.
Regulation Crypto is the first time the SEC has tried to write rules for tokens rather than squeeze them into securities law from 1933. It still has to survive a comment period and a vote, and it changes nothing for UK holders.
A Korean bank signed up with Ripple. That doesn’t tell you anything about XRP
Jeonbuk Bank will use Ripple's payments platform for cross-border business transfers. Nobody has said whether XRP is involved, and the difference matters more than the headline does.
Four empty seats could freeze Cardano’s treasury on 1 September
Four of the seven seats on Cardano's Constitutional Committee expire in the first days of September, and the replacements still need an on-chain vote to pass. Here's what actually stops if it doesn't, and what carries on regardless.
The stablecoin rule isn’t about owning them. It’s about who can sell them.
Treasury has proposed rules setting out which platforms may sell stablecoins to US customers from 2027. Nothing in it stops anyone holding one, and that distinction is the whole story.