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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.
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.
The Ethereum Economic Zone, Gnosis and Zisk, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, have executed Ethereum's first atomic cross-chain transaction between mainnet and a Layer 2 network, with a full rollup block on Gnosis Chain targeted for early 2027.
Payments firm Conduit Technology has filed suit against Tether in New York, alleging the stablecoin issuer froze $2.76 million of its working capital for over a year without justification.
The Independent Community Bankers of America has taken the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to federal court, arguing that a rule letting crypto firms obtain national trust bank charters has created an unregulated fourth category of banking.
Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel laid out three technical paths the ECB is studying to settle tokenized assets with central bank money, without committing to any of them.
Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional, working with EUROPOL, DEA and Portuguese police, arrested 27 people and seized 1.3 million USDT alongside cash, vehicles, boats and firearms in a cross-border operation targeting a drug trafficking and money laundering network.
Open USD went live on October 30 backed by commitments from Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa exceeding $1 billion, yet dashboards from Bridge and DeFiLlama show circulating supply closer to $480-490 million, a gap that sits uneasily with stablecoin transparency expectations in Europe.
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.
The House Oversight Committee has asked Hyperliquid, Crypto.com and PredictIt operator Aristotle Exchange to hand over user-verification and trading-surveillance records, following a leveraged short position that turned a profit of more than $150 million around Donald Trump's tariff announcement.
AllUnity, licensed as an electronic money institution by BaFin, has launched USDAU, a dollar-pegged stablecoin built for institutional clients under the EU's MiCA regime, live across six blockchain networks.
A Dutch tax reform passed by the Second Chamber would replace the Box 3 system with a model taxing actual wealth returns, naming cryptocurrencies among the assets whose annual appreciation could be taxed from 2028.
Guardia Civil investigated four members of a family in Cáceres for allegedly running a fake crypto investment scheme that used forged bank statements, staged events and more than 90 bank cards to move victims' money.
In a September 27 essay, Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum has moved far beyond its Bitcoin-inspired origins and will be transformed almost entirely by 2030, with the PeerDAS upgrade marking the true start of that shift.
Bitget has revised its estimate of funds stolen in a wallet breach to $387.5 million after adding zcash and tron to the list of compromised assets, and has launched a bounty programme offering 5% of recovered or frozen funds.
A civil forfeiture complaint filed on July 15 targets $84.2 million held by Capstone Ltd., which prosecutors allege acted as an intermediary for transfers connected to Tether and Bitfinex, as EQIBank's bid to recover the frozen funds was rejected in California.
Gracy Chen said attackers compromised a critical wallet server and manipulated transaction records to push through unauthorised transfers, as Bitget brings in Mandiant and SlowMist to investigate.
Ondo Finance has launched three tokenized portfolio products built on investment strategies designed by BlackRock, available to eligible investors outside the United States on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
The FBI's Operation Blackout shut more than 500 fraud sites and warned over 10,000 potential US victims, but the headline $15 billion figure is largely the paper value of one bitcoin lot already in government custody, tied to Cambodia's Prince Holding Group.
RBI has widened its partnership with Bitpanda to offer bitcoin and crypto services in 11 Central and Eastern European markets, as European banks increasingly move into digital assets under MiCA.