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M-CERT warned French maritime operators including the ports of Marseille and La Rochelle of attacks by NoName057(16), a pro-Russian hacktivist group that pays crowdsourced volunteers in TON cryptocurrency, months after a Europol crackdown.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The US Treasury has sanctioned a financing network involving two French associations, accusing them of converting charitable donations into cryptocurrency that reached Hamas's armed wing. Three people were arrested in France.
Industry groups poured $8 million into pushing the Clarity Act through Congress, but the bill fell one vote short in the Senate on September 15. Regulators are now delivering parts of the industry's agenda through rulemaking instead.
A US Senate subcommittee investigation into more than 800 sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Tehran found the overwhelming majority operated almost exclusively in USDT, prompting Tether to disclose its own freezing figures and cooperation with law enforcement.
A Wall Street Journal report says Polymarket was targeted by an attempted fraud worth roughly $10 million while compliance staff warned for months about weak safeguards, as the platform prepares for record trading volume around November's US midterms.
A group calling itself "iamnotavillain" claims to have obtained data on 680 Revolut customers by hijacking the certified email account of an Italian prefecture, demanding 6,000 XMR in ransom. Revolut denies any system breach.
Nasdaq Ventures has taken a $100 million stake in Payward, Kraken's parent, deepening a March partnership on tokenised equities as exchanges from ICE to CME jostle for position ahead of possible SEC approval in 2026.
A Solana token called Trump Digital Gold, promoted by a certified X account linked to Real Trump Coins, lost 99% of its value within under three hours of launch on August 29, wiping out a peak market cap of $66 million.