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A five-year-old firmware bug that made Coldcard wallet seeds guessable has drained more than 1,800 BTC across four waves of attacks, with the latest sweep still contestable in the mempool.…
The US government has backed Japan in its first coordinated yen intervention since 2011, threatening to unwind global carry trades and shake crypto markets.…
Mastercard has finalized its acquisition of BVNK, a move designed to deepen its stablecoin strategy and accelerate crypto integration into global payments.…
The DTCC executed its first live tokenized asset trades with major Wall Street participation, signaling a fundamental shift in how traditional finance handles settlement infrastructure.…
Mastercard finalizes its acquisition of BVNK, signaling a serious strategic commitment to stablecoin-native payments infrastructure and intensifying competition across global digital finance.…
An ongoing theft targeting Coldcard Bitcoin wallets has surpassed $114 million in total losses, with wallets continuing to be drained as of early August 2026.…
Ripple has issued an emergency xrpld 3.2.1 hotfix capping validator manifest handling after a flood attack risked draining node resources across the XRP Ledger.…
A firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets failed to properly use true random number generators, allowing attackers to sweep 1,359 BTC worth roughly $85 million.…
The CFTC ordered UBS Financial Services to pay $8M over anti-money laundering failures, sending a sharp warning to crypto firms about compliance gaps.…
BlackRock deploys two tokenized money market funds — BSTBL and BRSRV — across Ethereum and multiple blockchains, opening on-chain access to Treasury yields.…
Bitget is pulling out of Japan in a phased exit ending December 31, 2026, citing tightening crypto licensing rules and severe yen currency turbulence.…
Visa moves to acquire fraud-prevention specialist BioCatch for up to $2.4B in cash, signaling that behavioral biometrics is now mission-critical infrastructure for payments.…