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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The French hardware wallet maker unveiled Crypto Loan at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, letting holders borrow USDC or USDT against wrapped bitcoin collateral while keeping custody on their device.
Coinbase will bring back its Pro trading platform by the end of 2026, built on the infrastructure of Deribit, the options exchange it bought for roughly $2.9 billion, as part of a new combined venue called Coinbase Global Exchange.
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.
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.
The sudden death of Ondo founder Nathan Allman without a will has set off a legal fight between his mother and the company's interim CEO, even as the tokenization platform's business keeps growing.
A cloned voice and a fake WhatsApp message from Intesa Sanpaolo's CEO led Fideuram's treasury to wire nearly €95 million to China and Hong Kong in February. Over €53 million has been clawed back, but €39.5 million converted into cryptocurrency remains unrecovered.
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.
Bitpanda GmbH grew adjusted revenue to €371 million in 2025 but posted a net loss of roughly €14 million, reversing last year's €62 million profit, after marketing costs jumped 56% and financial losses widened.
HSBC has obtained an issuer licence from Hong Kong's monetary authority and named its planned Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin RedCoin, positioning the bank alongside rivals Standard Chartered and Bank of China (Hong Kong) in a race to issue regulated digital tokens.
HSBC has confirmed the name of its forthcoming Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, alongside survey data showing gaps in customer understanding of how such tokens work.
tZERO Securities is giving eligible US companies access to Goldman Sachs' $105 billion FTIXX money market fund through Lynq, an Avalanche-based settlement network, without tokenizing the fund's shares.