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Nearly 678,000 people had their details exposed in a breach at the French tax administration, in a year already on course to be the country's worst for violent robberies aimed at crypto holders.
Ireland is drawing up anti-money-laundering standards that would treat crypto arriving from a wallet you control differently from crypto arriving from another exchange. Here's what that looks like at the withdrawal screen, and how much of it already applies in the UK.
Israel's largest lender is preparing to offer bitcoin, ether and solana trading in its own app, with Galaxy providing the plumbing. Convenient, yes. But the coins sit with a custodian, and bank deposit protection doesn't stretch to cover them.
Binance says it will stop processing transactions involving 16 platforms, 11 of them newly added after the EU's latest Russia sanctions package. HTX is the biggest name on the list, and the difference between a blocked route and a frozen balance matters.
Marinade Finance says 28.83% of staked SOL stopped voting early Wednesday, leaving Solana about 4.5 percentage points short of the level where it stops finalising blocks. Nothing broke, which is the part worth understanding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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