Binance will block withdrawals and may hold or return deposits from Nov. 1 when Brazilian users skip a central-bank questionnaire on cross-border crypto. Resolution 521/2025 makes the exchange report those flows as foreign-exchange activity in a market Chainalysis put at $252.5 billion over twelve months.
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Drift's DFX recovery token opened at about 0.0104 USDT per dollar lost in the $295.4 million April exploit, roughly one cent on the dollar. Paying every capped pledge in full would lift that to about 50 cents, and the other half depends on Velocity's revenue and on funds recovered from the attacker.
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Chainalysis puts India's domestic crypto exchanges at 0.7% of exchange inflows, against 12.5% for Brazil-based platforms. CryptoSlate calls India's 1% withholding on sale proceeds an operator explanation for the gap, one the report does not measure.
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Chainalysis tied the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked hackers, saying it pushed their 2026 crypto theft past $1 billion. Its AI cut more than 20 hours of tracing to minutes, while the bill falls on a Bitget user fund the exchange puts above $464 million.
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Absa, Africa's first bank to offer Bitcoin custody, says Bitcoin is most of what its institutional platform holds. The book draws on South Africa's stock of crypto assets, a small fraction of the value that moves through the country in a year.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission proposed rules on October 1 letting stocks, bonds and funds trade as tokens from February 4, 2027. Comments close November 11, while bills from both main parties would push the January 1 crypto income tax back as far as 2030.
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Treasury's OFAC sanctioned 10 people over Ploutus ATM jackpotting, a scheme US officials tie to at least 1,500 attacks and $40.7 million in losses. Treasury calls the thefts a key revenue source for the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua.
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Korea's licensed crypto exchanges lost 78% of operating income and a third of their combined market capitalization in H1 2026, a regulator survey shows. Bitcoin fell by the same third over the half, so the case for an exodus to offshore leverage has to rest on won deposits and turnover, figures that fit a move into Korean stocks just as well.
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Fundsz operators Brian Early and Alisha Ann Kingrey must pay more than $31 million under a default judgment the CFTC announced on September 30. What investors actually recover depends on what the pair can pay, and the CFTC acknowledges that limit for orders like this one.
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Former NCA officer Paul Chowles must repay £1.81 million over 50 bitcoin he took from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017, when they were worth about £60,000. The order values only the 30 coins police recovered, at today's price, so the 20 he spent are the state's loss.
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Chainalysis says blockchain-assisted cyberattacks, driven mostly by North Korean and Iranian state actors, have risen more than fivefold since last year. The malware reads server addresses or code from public chains, and no seizure or hosting takedown can delete those records.
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Citi is adding Coinbase-run stablecoin checkout to its merchant services, and one report says the bank will hold digital dollars that earn 3.75%. Whether that reward reaches Citi's customers decides if a major bank has joined the side of the yield fight its industry opposes.
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Chainalysis puts Latin American on-chain activity at $593.8 billion in the year to June, up 9.8%, while global crypto market value roughly halved. Stablecoins absorbed the shock, so the region's usage figures now track demand for dollar settlement and remittances.
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678,000 DGFiP records are being marketed with names, addresses and income figures together. France logged 33 of CertiK's 52 verified physical coercion attacks on crypto holders in H1 2026.
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The wallets held. The customer list did not: 39,798 names, phone numbers and shipping addresses, taken through commerce plumbing nobody threat-models.
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Chainalysis Government Solutions filed at the Court of Federal Claims on August 17 over a sole-source blockchain forensics award to TRM Labs. The contract's value has not been disclosed.
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Roughly 40,000 SafePal customers had names, addresses and payment methods exposed, according to Crypto Briefing; the air-gapped device held, the shipping list did not.
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No seed phrases were touched. What was taken is names, phone numbers and shipping addresses for people known to own a hardware wallet, now advertised on a crime forum.
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The rebate ladder that recruits big exchanges also shrinks the burn: 60 cents of every fee dollar at the bottom tier, 26.25 cents at the top.
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The judge moved the second trial to April 26, 2027, on the defense's own request. The count that would actually settle non-custodial developer liability is still waiting on sentencing.
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Invest · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 6, 2026 · 5 publishers
- FBI takes control of the server handing out Hamas's rotating donation addresses
Invest · September 2, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Crypto issuers ask the SEC for ETF efficiencies while keeping their commodity-trust structures
Invest · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Fifteen wallets turned $18,657 into $330,000 on a borrowed Trump endorsement
Invest · August 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Israel's blockchain-tracing contract costs 18% of what one laundering case seized
Invest · August 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 25, 2026 · 3 publishers
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Invest · August 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 18, 2026 · 2 publishers
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Invest · August 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
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