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Covers crypto markets and regulation from Spain for The BTC Portal.
Three successive chairs of the Digital Assets Advisory Committee have resigned since March, leaving the body without leadership as the CLARITY Act stalls in the Senate and US crypto policy moves back to SEC and CFTC rulemaking.
The U.S. Treasury hit Bank of America with its third-largest fine in history for deliberate Bank Secrecy Act violations, reopening the contrast between the bank's past insistence that crypto firms meet the 'banking standard' and the leniency of its own penalty next to Binance's 2023 settlement.
HEX founder Richard Heart and his wife were detained in a dawn raid after an Interpol Red Notice issued at Finland's request over aggravated tax evasion, triggering a sharp drop in the HEX token.
Hardware wallets with hidden chips capable of reading recovery phrases have now surfaced in the newer Ledger Flex model, undermining Ledger's claim that the tampering was confined to a single Southeast Asian reseller.
An amendment to France's 2027 budget bill would force holders of self-custody crypto wallets worth over €100,000 to declare them, as the country records a sharp rise in physical attacks tied to digital assets.
Coldcard's official X account posted and quickly deleted a phishing link in the early hours of October 11. The bitcoin hardware wallet maker says its offline 2FA and credentials show no sign of compromise, but it is investigating possible unauthorised access at the platform level.
Tibane Labs, including former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès, says it has identified three generations of covert hardware implants in Ledger Nano X devices capable of capturing and transmitting recovery phrases, as Ledger investigates fund losses tied to a Southeast Asian distributor.
Blockchain tracking shows the United States government transferred 833.6 BTC to Coinbase Prime and 40,285 BNB elsewhere, reigniting questions over how Washington handles forfeited crypto under its strategic bitcoin reserve policy.
Payments firm Conduit Technology has filed suit against Tether in New York, alleging the stablecoin issuer froze $2.76 million of its working capital for over a year without justification.
The iShares Bitcoin Trust, now the largest spot bitcoin ETF, has absorbed $1.57 billion in net bitcoin purchases over 30 days, part of a broader wave of institutional inflows into US spot bitcoin funds.
Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional, working with EUROPOL, DEA and Portuguese police, arrested 27 people and seized 1.3 million USDT alongside cash, vehicles, boats and firearms in a cross-border operation targeting a drug trafficking and money laundering network.
A seven-day live test moved $750,000 in obligations between Lloyds Banking Group and Visa using the stablecoin USDC, with funds reaching Visa in under an hour, including over a weekend.
AllUnity, licensed as an electronic money institution by BaFin, has launched USDAU, a dollar-pegged stablecoin built for institutional clients under the EU's MiCA regime, live across six blockchain networks.
Tether says it has frozen roughly $550 million in USDT linked to the Central Bank of Iran and sanctions-evasion networks, acting in coordination with the US Treasury's Operation Economic Outcast.
Bank of Spain governor José Luis Escrivá called tokenised bank deposits 'a clear alternative to cryptocurrencies' at a September 15 forum, as the digital euro project moves toward strict wallet caps and European regulators seek to loosen MiCA's stablecoin reserve rules.
On-chain analysts have traced a portion of the funds stolen from Bitget to wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus-affiliated TraderTraitor group, yet no government or agency has issued formal attribution, a striking contrast to the swift response after last year's Bybit hack.
A joint report from the EBA, ESMA and EIOPA warns that quantum computing could undermine cryptographic systems underpinning Bitcoin before commercially viable quantum machines even exist.
RBI has widened its partnership with Bitpanda to offer bitcoin and crypto services in 11 Central and Eastern European markets, as European banks increasingly move into digital assets under MiCA.
A new legal framework took effect in Russia on September 1, allowing limited retail trading of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies while the Bank of Russia's digital ruble became operational nationwide.
Elon Musk's platform has taken alleged operators of a bitcoin-focused fake news network to England's High Court, accusing them of fabricating stories about Goldman Sachs and Citibank to farm engagement payments.
ESMA data shows the number of banks registered as crypto-asset service providers under MiCA rose from about 40 to about 80 between June and September, lifting their share of the bloc's registry to nearly a quarter.
A technical review of hundreds of non-custodial wallet apps on Apple's App Store found dozens exposing users to key leaks, weak encryption and unsigned remote code execution, prompting fresh warnings for European holders to keep funds off phones.
A federation of over 80 companies backs Blockstream's Liquid Network, but only 15 hold signing power over its bitcoin reserves. On September 6, that narrow multisig authorised transactions that drained nearly all of it.
A class action filed in New York accuses the French hardware wallet maker of downplaying a December 2023 breach of its Connect Kit software, with a lead plaintiff claiming nearly $2 million in stolen crypto.