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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.
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.
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.
ESMA and the French, German and Greek watchdogs are examining whether Binance can lawfully keep serving EU clients under MiCA's reverse-solicitation exemption after failing to secure a licence, the Financial Times reports.
Four Greek firms have entered ESMA's MiCA registry as the Hellenic Capital Market Commission rejects a Wall Street Journal report alleging ECB chief Christine Lagarde pressured Greece's prime minister over Binance's licensing bid.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has published evidence pointing to Chinese intermediaries moving funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack through THORChain on behalf of suspected North Korean attackers, while the protocol has declined Bitget's request to block flagged addresses.
Bitget has frozen withdrawals after confirming a $351.6 million theft from its hot and warm wallets, with CEO Gracy Chen citing preliminary evidence linking the attack to a North Korean hacking group.
Britain's leading financial industry lobby has terminated Coinbase's membership after a review of its admission criteria, according to Bloomberg, just as the FCA prepares to open applications for the country's new crypto regulatory regime.
A sixth suspect has been charged in Poland's investigation into the collapse of Zondacrypto, formerly BitBay, as investigators search a fuel depot where founder Sylwester Suszek was last seen in 2022.
French exchange Paymium has told customers their personal data was exposed after a breach at email provider Brevo, the same incident that triggered a phishing campaign against Trezor users.
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.
Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA application before regulators ruled, restricting its EU services since July. The Wall Street Journal reports ECB president Christine Lagarde may have pressed Athens against approval — a claim Greek regulator HCMC denies.
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.
A seizure warrant unsealed by the US Department of Justice cites a February 2025 message from Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades instructing donors to route USDT through Trust Wallet, RedotPay, OKX, Kast or Bybit rather than transferring directly from Binance.
Lemon will wind down its Brazilian operation weeks after launching a card in the country, joining other platforms that have already closed shop.
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.
Nasdaq Inc. has invested $100 million in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, in a deal that values the firm at $21 billion.
The National Crime Agency has placed crypto assets third on a new nine-point list of economic crime priorities, citing hundreds of billions of pounds in criminal money moving through UK finance and detailing two operations that yielded arrests, seizures and millions in frozen funds.
Coinext ends operations after nearly ten years and joins NovaDAX and Digitra in a wave of exchange closures under pressure from Brazil's central bank regulation.