Technology
Nearly 14,000 Trezor owners had their names and addresses exposed by a shipping firm
Trezor says a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk exposed personal data belonging to nearly 14,000 customers. No coins were taken, and none can be. The risk is what a verified list of hardware wallet owners is worth to somebody else.
The Block, Cointelegraph and Decrypt
2 months ago · 5 min read
Technology
A third of all ether is now staked. A proposal would pay you less for it
Ethereum researchers have filed a proposal that would destroy a growing slice of staking rewards as more people stake. Here's where that yield comes from, why anyone would want to shrink it, and who has the most riding on it staying put.
The Block, CoinDesk and CryptoSlate
3 months ago · 8 min read
Business
The funds that never chose bitcoin may be forced to sell Strategy
MSCI is consulting on kicking "non-operating companies" out of its main equity indexes, and Strategy and Metaplanet both land on the deletion list. Index funds don't get to have an opinion about that.
CoinDesk and CryptoSlate
3 months ago · 6 min read
Policy
The FCA’s HTX evidence: a purchase one of its own staff made
The regulator and the exchange are reportedly in settlement talks over crypto promotions aimed at UK residents. The claim at the centre of it is a single test purchase made from a UK IP address.
Decrypt
3 months ago · 5 min read
Business
Tether says the Big Four have finally checked its books. Here’s what that does and doesn’t prove
Tether says KPMG U.S. has been through the assets behind its $180bn USDT stablecoin, and even counted the gold bars. An audit answers one question well and leaves several others open. Here's which is which.
CoinDesk and The Block
3 months ago · 8 min read
Markets
Standard Chartered sees LINK at $200 by 2030, plus three other targets built on the same guess
Standard Chartered has put a $200 end-2030 target on Chainlink's LINK token, betting that tokenised real-world assets need an oracle. Here's what an oracle actually does — and why the bank's four separate targets aren't four separate signals.
Cointelegraph, The Block and CoinDesk
3 months ago · 9 min read
Business
Strategy sold bitcoin to defend a share price, not to cash out
Strategy shifted 1,690 bitcoin into a $108.6m buyback of its own preferred shares. The amount is trivial next to its 840,447 coins — what the money was spent on is the part worth reading.
Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate and CoinDesk
3 months ago · 7 min read
Technology
4,500 people did the safe thing with their bitcoin. It didn’t help.
About $70m of bitcoin drained from 1,200 hardware wallets in under an hour, and the fault was in the devices rather than anything the owners did.
CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block and Decrypt
3 months ago · 9 min read