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Covers crypto markets and regulation from Spain for The BTC Portal.
The US Department of Justice is examining whether Binance breached its 2023 criminal settlement after prosecutors sought forfeiture of $61 million allegedly tied to laundered Iranian oil proceeds, as the exchange separately tightens compliance rules for Brazilian users.
Directives from Beijing's top bodies call for a closed, sovereign ledger to audit industrial data and coordinate computing power — a model that pointedly avoids public networks and sits apart from the digital yuan.
Charles Guillemet dismissed warnings of an imminent AI-driven break of ECDSA signatures, arguing that recent mathematical advances remain theoretical and that a real collapse of asymmetric cryptography would take down far more than crypto wallets.
Bishkek has ordered the liquidation of its state-run gold-backed stablecoin USDKG and its issuer EVA, after the UK sanctioned the company over alleged ties to a Russian sanctions-evasion network.
The Ethereum Economic Zone, Gnosis and Zisk, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, have executed Ethereum's first atomic cross-chain transaction between mainnet and a Layer 2 network, with a full rollup block on Gnosis Chain targeted for early 2027.
Of 558 networks tracked by DefiLlama on October 4, 2026, 514 generated less than $1,000 in daily transaction fees, while just seven chains, led by Solana, cleared $100,000.
Core Lightning has told operators to update to version 26.06.8 immediately after confirming active attacks against nodes running 26.06.7 or earlier, warning that funds held in routing channels could be at risk.
The House Oversight Committee has asked Hyperliquid, Crypto.com and PredictIt operator Aristotle Exchange to hand over user-verification and trading-surveillance records, following a leveraged short position that turned a profit of more than $150 million around Donald Trump's tariff announcement.
A Dutch tax reform passed by the Second Chamber would replace the Box 3 system with a model taxing actual wealth returns, naming cryptocurrencies among the assets whose annual appreciation could be taxed from 2028.
In a September 27 essay, Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum has moved far beyond its Bitcoin-inspired origins and will be transformed almost entirely by 2030, with the PeerDAS upgrade marking the true start of that shift.
The Federal Council has ordered the Department of Defense to draft a new Cybersicherheitsgesetz by June 2027, mirroring the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, drawing criticism from open-source and Bitcoin advocates over bureaucratic burden and privacy.
The FBI's Operation Blackout shut more than 500 fraud sites and warned over 10,000 potential US victims, but the headline $15 billion figure is largely the paper value of one bitcoin lot already in government custody, tied to Cambodia's Prince Holding Group.
Circle has launched Bitcoin-backed borrowing in Circle Mint via Morpho, while Coinbase rolled out fixed-rate loans and tokenized-stock collateral markets on the same protocol, deepening institutional reliance on Morpho's lending infrastructure.
Prosecutors in Manhattan and DOJ's Criminal Division are examining whether Binance knew about and allowed transactions tied to Iranian oil sales, following a $61 million civil forfeiture case.
SlowMist and OKX confirmed that FomoPeek, an app tracking large crypto holders on iOS, concealed a module capable of extracting private keys via the iOS Keychain, reigniting concerns over app store vetting.
The Home Office and HM Treasury have launched a four-year plan to hire 500 specialist agents and deploy AI tools against money laundering, after the NCA estimated more than £100 billion is laundered annually via UK structures.
ESMA's latest risk report flags elevated market, contagion and operational risks across the EU, a sharp crypto downturn, and a new 'defensive asymmetry' from frontier AI models capable of executing cyberattacks.
Deutsche Bundesbank has become the first institution to self-host Matter Labs' Prividium framework, running a permissioned Ethereum layer-2 environment on its own infrastructure while anchoring validity proofs to the public network.
Polish prosecutors have filed organized crime and misappropriation charges against a suspect identified as Romana Ż. in connection with $2.1 million in Zondacrypto user funds, and are seeking her pretrial detention.
Apple removed 'Tron Wallet – USDT & TRX' from the App Store and cancelled linked developer accounts after finding mismatched registration details, though it found no evidence the app executed a reported $17,528 unauthorized transfer.
A draft anti-money-laundering bill approved by Madrid would give police, tax authorities and intelligence services direct access to a registry of crypto accounts held at exchanges, without requiring individual data requests.
Westminster Magistrates' Court issued a freezing order in January 2025 covering $13.5 million tied to an investigation into Sorare, the fantasy football platform that sponsors the Premier League.
The UK government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payments and digital money, including stablecoins, with amendments to the Financial Services and Markets bill due before the House of Lords this month.