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An amendment to France's 2027 budget bill would force holders of self-custody crypto wallets worth over €100,000 to declare them, as the country records a sharp rise in physical attacks tied to digital assets.
A user who bought a Ledger wallet at a Mediamarkt store reported finding a hidden spy component inside, extending a supply-chain attack previously tied only to an Asian reseller.
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.
Analytics firm Onchain Lens has publicly called on Binance to audit and freeze accounts tied to funds stolen from buyers of a Ledger-authorized reseller, after 430.2 ETH moved through Tornado Cash.
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.
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.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has responded to warnings from researcher Justin Drake about artificial intelligence threatening the cryptographic schemes securing Bitcoin, Ethereum and other networks, pointing to lattice-based systems as the area of greatest near-term concern.
Bishkek has ordered the liquidation of its state-run gold-backed stablecoin USDKG and its issuer EVA, after the UK sanctioned the company over alleged ties to a Russian sanctions-evasion network.
Blockchain tracking shows the United States government transferred 833.6 BTC to Coinbase Prime and 40,285 BNB elsewhere, reigniting questions over how Washington handles forfeited crypto under its strategic bitcoin reserve policy.
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.
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.
Of 558 networks tracked by DefiLlama on October 4, 2026, 514 generated less than $1,000 in daily transaction fees, while just seven chains, led by Solana, cleared $100,000.
The iShares Bitcoin Trust, now the largest spot bitcoin ETF, has absorbed $1.57 billion in net bitcoin purchases over 30 days, part of a broader wave of institutional inflows into US spot bitcoin funds.
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.
Core Lightning has told operators to update to version 26.06.8 immediately after confirming active attacks against nodes running 26.06.7 or earlier, warning that funds held in routing channels could be at risk.
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.
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.
JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou estimate bitcoin's average production cost at roughly $85,000, a level the asset briefly cleared last week before slipping back below it, as hashrate and mining difficulty continue to decline.
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.