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.
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.
A user who bought a Ledger wallet at a Mediamarkt store reported finding a hidden spy component inside, extending a supply-chain attack previously tied only to an Asian reseller.
A user says a Ledger hardware wallet bought at a European MediaMarkt store contained unauthorized components, as Ledger confirms a separate incident tied to Asian reseller CryptoBilis, whose ownership quietly changed months before attacks surfaced.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daily transactions on Robinhood's Arbitrum-based layer-2 network fell sharply in early October, even as decentralised finance deposits stayed above $1 billion and perpetual futures volumes rose. Robinhood also confirmed it is exploring a tokenized ETF with T. Rowe Price.
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.
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.
Analytics firm Onchain Lens has publicly called on Binance to audit and freeze accounts tied to funds stolen from buyers of a Ledger-authorized reseller, after 430.2 ETH moved through Tornado Cash.
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.
A critical integer-overflow bug in the XRP Ledger's payment engine could have let an attacker mint unlimited XRP. RippleX patched it before any known exploitation, bypassing the network's usual consensus procedure for the first time in more than a decade.
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.
Ledger is investigating balance losses tied to a Southeast Asian reseller called CryptoBillis, while an unverified claim of $86 million stolen from Ledger users spreads online and separate phishing emails impersonate the company.
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.
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.
Ledger has asked reseller CryptoBillis to halt sales after reports that funds were drained from hardware wallets purchased through it, with an on-chain analyst estimating losses near $86 million.
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.
Charles Guillemet dismissed warnings of an imminent AI-driven break of ECDSA signatures, arguing that recent mathematical advances remain theoretical and that a real collapse of asymmetric cryptography would take down far more than crypto wallets.
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.