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Vienna-based MEGE zweite GmbH, operating as BingX EU, has been authorised by Austria's FMA under MiCA, potentially allowing the exchange to passport crypto-asset services across the 29-country European Economic Area.
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.
Finance ministers agreed on October 9 to limit ESMA's direct oversight to 10-15 of roughly 360 EU crypto service providers, under a package that also proposes expanding the DLT Pilot Regime for tokenization.
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.
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 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.
Two reports published by Europol on Wednesday urge Europe to begin migrating wallets and encrypted data away from cryptography that quantum computers could eventually break, citing Bitcoin's cumbersome upgrade path as a case study.
A breach of Denmark's central population registry, disclosed weeks after the country launched its AltID wallet, has reopened questions over how centralised data stores underpin Europe's digital identity and tax-reporting ambitions for crypto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stani Kulechov has publicly criticised the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority after their contributions to the MiCA consultation proposed extending the stablecoin yield ban to lending, borrowing and staking, and restricting regulated firms' access to DeFi.
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.
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.
Three months after France's transitional PSAN regime lapsed, the country's crypto landscape has been reshaped by MiCA, with 35 licensed providers, Binance France's departure and new European supervisory scrutiny on the horizon.
A couple near Montpellier has been targeted twice within six months in crypto-related home invasions, as French prosecutors report a sharp rise in kidnappings and abductions linked to digital assets since 2023.
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.
Three masked men broke into a home in Taverny, France, using stolen data from crypto tax platform Waltio to try to extort cryptocurrency from a family. Six suspects have since been indicted.