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The European Banking Authority has designated Circle's USDC as the EU's first 'significant' e-money token under MiCA, triggering joint supervision with France's ACPR from 12 November, while Tether's USDT remains outside the bloc's regulated market.
Kash Patel announced the FBI's Operation Blackout had seized roughly $17 billion from crypto scam networks, but offered no breakdown of the figure, while Ghanaian authorities pushed back on the bureau's account of a West African raid.
A proposed French tax amendment would strip MiCA-approved stablecoins like USDC and EURCV of their deferral benefit, while leaving Tether's USDT untouched. Chainalysis warns the measure could push users toward offshore platforms and DeFi.
A High Court judge has decided that Chinese law, not English law, should determine victims' rights over 61,000 bitcoins seized in London during the Zhimin Qian fraud investigation, strengthening the UK state's position in a case worth roughly $5 billion.
Britain has frozen an £8.9 million St James's Park penthouse belonging to Thet Li, the alleged chief financial officer of the Prince Group, as Washington separately pursues roughly $14 billion in Bitcoin tied to the network.
A trader known as "realist" on X says three armed men invaded his home, bound him and stole roughly $800,000 in crypto and a Rolex — the latest in a string of violent "wrench attacks" against crypto holders in the UK and France.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A report marking 50 years of the Amiens section de recherches lays bare how stolen or outdated data files fuel a wave of violent home invasions across Picardy, often targeting people with little or no cryptocurrency at all.
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.
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.
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.
Bloomberg reports that OKX has widened its investment round to include Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures and Qube Research & Technologies, extending a round previously led by Intercontinental Exchange without disclosing new terms.
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.
Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT says he deployed roughly $3.5 million of his own funds to infiltrate a Chinese money-laundering network suspected of serving North Korea's Lazarus group, helping identify addresses tied to the $1.5 billion Bybit theft.
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.
Mercedes Henry, a 35-year-old former universal banker at Ameris Bank in the Atlanta area, has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly using client banking data to link six accounts to Coinbase wallets controlled by accomplices.