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Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis says one of the largest victims of a scheme involving manipulated Ledger hardware wallets was himself a scammer, who lost more than 60 BTC originating from a task scam.
Payward has signed a binding agreement to acquire Saldo Finance Oy, owner of Lithuania-based Saldo Bank, securing a European banking license and adding deposit and lending capabilities across five markets.
Ledger has confirmed that a hardware wallet linked to a customer of Asian retailer CryptoBilis contained an unauthorized hardware implant, as German users separately report suspicious devices bought through retail, including MediaMarkt.
Raheim Hamilton, co-founder of the Empire Market darknet marketplace, was sentenced to 40 years in prison and ordered to forfeit 1,230 Bitcoin, reviving questions over whether seized crypto will feed into the US strategic Bitcoin reserve.
Germany has adopted the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, obliging crypto service providers to report customer and transaction data for automatic exchange with foreign tax authorities from September 2027.
FinCEN has withdrawn two long-pending crypto surveillance proposals, a 2023 mixer reporting rule and a 2020 self-hosted wallet rule, as the Trump administration pushes a lighter regulatory touch. The move stands in contrast to the EU, where DAC8 reporting obligations took effect this January.
SPD politician Parsa Marvi tells BTC-ECHO that Germany's coalition government wants to align crypto gains tax treatment with other capital income, potentially ending the one-year tax exemption as early as 2027.
Two years into MiCA, Circle has told the European Commission that the regulation's reserve requirements are too rigid, proposing changes to bank deposit ratios, bond concentration limits and counterparty caps.
A new system built with the Open Anonymity Project lets users pay for AI and other API services on Ethereum mainnet without providers being able to trace payments back to a specific deposit.
A draft bill from Germany's finance ministry would end the one-year tax exemption for crypto gains, taxing Bitcoin and Ether disposals as capital income regardless of how long they were held.
Bitcoin.de has been unable to trade for three months as its parent bank awaits a MiCA licence, and the exchange's operator Bitcoin Group has posted a sharp deterioration in first-half results.
US Bitcoin Spot ETFs took in $2.4 billion last week, their strongest weekly haul since October 2025, pulling 2026 flows back into positive territory after a rough start to the year.
IBM has connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift's new blockchain-based Shared Ledger, letting banks move tokenised deposits around the clock while keeping existing ISO 20022 messaging intact.
A new financial disclosure shows Donald Trump's portfolio bought additional shares in Michael Saylor's Strategy in July, part of a wider set of crypto-related stock trades that coincide with reported crypto earnings exceeding $1 billion this year.
Binance is investing $100 million in Circle and has signed a five-year commercial agreement to expand the integration and promotion of USDC, with a particular focus on emerging markets.
A token exploit that began with the theft of FET and unauthorized minting of NTX has widened to include SingularityNET's AGIX and World Mobile's WMTx, pushing estimated losses above $16.7 million. Fetch.ai has halted AGIX-FET conversion and suspended its Ethereum bridge.
The Wall Street Journal reports that ECB President Christine Lagarde personally asked Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve Binance's MiCA application, citing past US violations and fears over dollar stablecoins.
A week of contrasts in crypto: Bitcoin spot ETFs bleed capital while XRP funds attract fresh money, Blockstream chases down stolen Bitcoin, Bitwise shutters its Dogecoin ETF, and Berlin floats a flat 25 percent crypto tax from 2028.
The European fintech has secured preliminary approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national bank, a step that would allow it to offer cryptocurrency and stablecoin services directly to American customers.
Two Thai businessmen are taking Tether to court, alleging the stablecoin issuer froze about $42.4 million in USDT in October 2025 without a court order, months before a formal seizure order followed.