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Covers crypto markets and regulation from France for The BTC Portal.
M-CERT warned French maritime operators including the ports of Marseille and La Rochelle of attacks by NoName057(16), a pro-Russian hacktivist group that pays crowdsourced volunteers in TON cryptocurrency, months after a Europol crackdown.
A proposed French tax amendment would strip MiCA-approved stablecoins like USDC and EURCV of their deferral benefit, while leaving Tether's USDT untouched. Chainalysis warns the measure could push users toward offshore platforms and DeFi.
Britain has frozen an £8.9 million St James's Park penthouse belonging to Thet Li, the alleged chief financial officer of the Prince Group, as Washington separately pursues roughly $14 billion in Bitcoin tied to the network.
More than a month after an attacker exploited a flaw in Blockstream's Elements software, Liquid Network's bitcoin peg-outs remain suspended, with roughly 603 BTC still missing from the reserve backing L-BTC.
Speaking at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said tokenizing collateral assets and money flows could release tens of billions of dollars, as the exchange pushes toward near-round-the-clock trading by December 2026.
A 20-year power purchase agreement between Google and Constellation Energy, backed by more than $4.3 billion, underscores how tightly AI companies are binding themselves to long-term electricity supply — a model bitcoin miners have yet to replicate at scale.
Singapore-based fintech Based says an unauthorized party accessed an internal dashboard managing its Visa card program, potentially exposing identity documents of some cardholders. Funds and card details remain safe, the company says.
Coinbase will bring back its Pro trading platform by the end of 2026, built on the infrastructure of Deribit, the options exchange it bought for roughly $2.9 billion, as part of a new combined venue called Coinbase Global Exchange.
Paris will levy 17% on dormant bank savings held by Caisse des dépôts to raise €1.4 billion, while millions of lost bitcoins remain entirely beyond the reach of French tax authorities.
Mercedes Henry, a 35-year-old former universal banker at Ameris Bank in the Atlanta area, has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly using client banking data to link six accounts to Coinbase wallets controlled by accomplices.
Speaking in London, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel laid out three possible architectures for putting Eurosystem reserves on distributed ledger technology, all preserving the two-tier banking system the euro area relies on.
The Hyperliquid Policy Center made its first submission to an EU regulatory consultation, arguing perpetual contracts are already covered by MiFID II. ESMA's own response, filed the same week, calls for tighter rules on third-country platforms and DeFi gateways.
A couple near Montpellier has been targeted twice within six months in crypto-related home invasions, as French prosecutors report a sharp rise in kidnappings and abductions linked to digital assets since 2023.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has published evidence pointing to Chinese intermediaries moving funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack through THORChain on behalf of suspected North Korean attackers, while the protocol has declined Bitget's request to block flagged addresses.
Chainalysis's 'Geography of Cryptocurrency' report shows that while crypto market capitalization lost $2.1 trillion between July 2025 and June 2026, actual on-chain economic activity fell only 1.6%, propped up by a surge in peer-to-peer and cross-border stablecoin transfers.
Three masked men broke into a home in Taverny, France, using stolen data from crypto tax platform Waltio to try to extort cryptocurrency from a family. Six suspects have since been indicted.
French exchange Paymium has told customers their personal data was exposed after a breach at email provider Brevo, the same incident that triggered a phishing campaign against Trezor users.
The European Central Bank has begun preparatory work to place part of its own funds portfolio into tokenised securities, with settlement to take place in central bank money on its newly launched Pontes platform.
Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA application before regulators ruled, restricting its EU services since July. The Wall Street Journal reports ECB president Christine Lagarde may have pressed Athens against approval — a claim Greek regulator HCMC denies.
Four suspects have been indicted, three placed in pretrial detention, over a violent home invasion in Taninges targeting a woman's crypto assets, part of a surge in physical crypto crime recorded by French prosecutors.
The EU securities regulator has flagged tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets as emerging channels through which crypto market stress could spill into traditional finance.
The National Crime Agency has placed crypto assets third on a new nine-point list of economic crime priorities, citing hundreds of billions of pounds in criminal money moving through UK finance and detailing two operations that yielded arrests, seizures and millions in frozen funds.
Qivalis, a consortium of European banks, is preparing to bring a euro-denominated stablecoin to market before the end of the year, with the token expected to run on the Ethereum blockchain.
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau says organised crime groups are renting private vaults to hide crypto private keys alongside cash and luxury goods, as the agency works to recover roughly €360 million from its largest crypto seizure ever.