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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.
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.
The European Securities and Markets Authority has told MiCA-authorized crypto firms to stop offering services on asset-referenced and e-money tokens that fail to meet the regulation, with a deadline of 8 January 2027 to unwind existing client exposure.
The United States government's bitcoin holdings have lost more than $15 billion in paper value since October 2025, a direct consequence of a March 2025 executive order that bars Washington from liquidating confiscated coins.
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.
MEPs have adopted a resolution pressing the European Commission to confront corruption risks tied to cryptocurrencies and opaque corporate structures, with calls for greater transparency of crypto wallets as part of a broader anti-corruption push.
Two DWF Labs subsidiaries have filed a $141 million lawsuit against custodian BitGo at the High Court of London, alleging the firm sold locked-up FF and ESPORTS tokens months before their unlock dates.
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.
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.
France's National Assembly finance committee adopted five crypto-related tax and reporting measures to the 2027 budget before voting down the whole revenue section on 9 October, sending the debate to the full chamber next week.
Richard Blumenthal has given Cantor Fitzgerald until October 23 to hand over documents on its financial relationship with Tether, after a Senate report found USDT dominant in wallets linked to Iran.
France's finance committee has adopted an amendment ending tax deferral on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions from 2027, a proposal originally pitched by three crypto entrepreneurs. Trade body Adan, which counts stablecoin issuers among its members, has said little.
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.
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.
After a 15-month review, Germany's financial watchdog has turned down the MiCA licence application of futurum bank AG, the entity behind Bitcoin.de, leaving one of Germany's oldest crypto marketplaces without a clear path back to trading.
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.
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.
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.
The French National Assembly's finance committee has begun voting on ten crypto-related amendments to the 2027 budget bill, adopting a new tax on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions and a ten-year loss carryforward, while rejecting a wealth-tax extension to digital assets.
Two reports published by Europol on Wednesday urge Europe to begin migrating wallets and encrypted data away from cryptography that quantum computers could eventually break, citing Bitcoin's cumbersome upgrade path as a case study.