Journaliste
Covers crypto markets and regulation from France for The BTC Portal.
Trade association Adan has reported breaches at the French tax administration to data protection authority CNIL, citing the FICOBA bank account leak and a suspected DGFiP agent leak, after months of silence from the Finance Ministry.
A twelve-month review of Binance and Bybit funding payments on BTCUSDT perpetual contracts shows actual returns closer to 3% than the oft-cited 11% annualised rate, once fees and settlement timing are factored in.
CryptoBilis, Ledger's suspended Southeast Asian reseller, secretly changed hands in March, as Mt. Gox's Mark Karpelès finds an LTE spy module hidden inside a Ledger device shipped from Malaysia.
A report marking 50 years of the Amiens section de recherches lays bare how stolen or outdated data files fuel a wave of violent home invasions across Picardy, often targeting people with little or no cryptocurrency at all.
A Manhattan jury found Jonathan Spalletta guilty of computer fraud and money laundering after he drained roughly $55 million from the DeFi protocol Uranium Finance in April 2021, later spending part of the proceeds on rare trading cards and collectibles.
A breach of Denmark's central population registry, disclosed weeks after the country launched its AltID wallet, has reopened questions over how centralised data stores underpin Europe's digital identity and tax-reporting ambitions for crypto.
An analysis of more than 10,000 Polymarket transactions shows how a handful of accounts and a viral social media push inflated the odds on French mayor David Lisnard's presidential bid — far above his 3.5% Ifop polling score.
Near Intents says all funds stolen in a cross-chain exploit have been returned, less than two days after its CEO publicly identified the attacker and set a deadline for restitution.
A Solihull investor known only as James was beaten with a hammer for 45 minutes while his pregnant wife was smothered with a pillow, in a robbery directed by phone. The BBC's account lands amid record figures for violent crypto thefts.
The US Treasury has sanctioned a financing network involving two French associations, accusing them of converting charitable donations into cryptocurrency that reached Hamas's armed wing. Three people were arrested in France.
The ECB president is calling for oversight of autonomous AI agents in finance, even as these systems already clear payments among themselves in USDC through protocols such as x402 and AP2, outside the central bank's reach.
ESMA and the French, German and Greek watchdogs are examining whether Binance can lawfully keep serving EU clients under MiCA's reverse-solicitation exemption after failing to secure a licence, the Financial Times reports.
HSBC has obtained an issuer licence from Hong Kong's monetary authority and named its planned Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin RedCoin, positioning the bank alongside rivals Standard Chartered and Bank of China (Hong Kong) in a race to issue regulated digital tokens.
tZERO Securities is giving eligible US companies access to Goldman Sachs' $105 billion FTIXX money market fund through Lynq, an Avalanche-based settlement network, without tokenizing the fund's shares.
The Nasdaq-listed firm led by Mike Novogratz has moved $100 million of its treasury into sUSDS and now accepts the token as loan collateral, deepening its financial links to the Sky ecosystem, formerly MakerDAO.
Britain's leading financial industry lobby has terminated Coinbase's membership after a review of its admission criteria, according to Bloomberg, just as the FCA prepares to open applications for the country's new crypto regulatory regime.
Security researchers have parked 52.37 BTC seized from the July Coldcard firmware exploit into a newly formed Wyoming statutory trust, part of an effort to return stolen funds to holders whose wallets were drained by a predictable seed-generation flaw.
MOEX will launch ruble-settled perpetual futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Tron indices from September 22, restricted to qualified investors, as Russia continues to build synthetic crypto exposure into its regulated financial system.
A Wall Street Journal report says Polymarket was targeted by an attempted fraud worth roughly $10 million while compliance staff warned for months about weak safeguards, as the platform prepares for record trading volume around November's US midterms.
Seven suspects, including a Swedish fugitive caught in the UAE, are accused of laundering roughly 70 million kronor through cryptocurrency in an operation authorities tie to organised crime and contract killings.
A seizure warrant unsealed by the US Department of Justice cites a February 2025 message from Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades instructing donors to route USDT through Trust Wallet, RedotPay, OKX, Kast or Bybit rather than transferring directly from Binance.
The Rennes public prosecutor's office has indicted four people over the April kidnapping of a family in Ploudalmézeau, Brittany, in a plot aimed at stealing their cryptocurrency holdings.
Nasdaq Inc. has invested $100 million in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, in a deal that values the firm at $21 billion.
A draft law from Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil could end Germany's twelve-month rule that currently lets crypto holders sell coins tax-free.