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Covers crypto markets and regulation from France for The BTC Portal.
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.
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.
French investors trading tokenized shares, crypto-assets and derivatives all pay the same 31.4% flat tax from 1 January 2026 — but the rules on losses, exemptions and declarations differ sharply depending on which legal category applies.
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.
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.
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.
A US Senate subcommittee investigation into more than 800 sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Tehran found the overwhelming majority operated almost exclusively in USDT, prompting Tether to disclose its own freezing figures and cooperation with law enforcement.
EBA, ESMA and EIOPA have classified quantum computing as an emerging financial stability risk, noting that roughly 6.9 million bitcoin sit in wallets with exposed public keys as developers work on mitigation proposals BIP-360 and BIP-361.
South Korean wallet maker D'CENT says 6,678 accounts were drained of 11.75 million XRP between September 15 and 20, with stolen funds routed through THORChain, NEAR Intents and Binance.
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.
Listed companies added just 5,900 BTC to their treasuries over three months, down from more than 159,000 BTC during the 2025 boom, as falling share premiums and an MSCI exclusion consultation curb the trade that once rivalled ETF demand.
The Financial Conduct Authority raided three unregistered peer-to-peer crypto trading sites in London that swapped cash for bitcoin and stablecoins without identity checks, part of a broader enforcement push against the country's shadow crypto economy.
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.
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.
The Autorité nationale des jeux is looking into whether Robinhood's predictive markets activity falls under French gambling law, as the American broker sponsors Ligue 1 club OGC Nice this season.
Chainalysis estimates $9.4 billion in potentially taxable crypto activity in France for 2025, against just €368 million in declared capital gains last year, as the EU's DAC 8 reporting directive approaches in 2027.
Hackers have published stolen data belonging to the City of Berlin on the darknet after a bitcoin ransom deadline passed without payment.
A new statutory objective will require the Bank of England to promote innovation in payments and digital money, arriving weeks after the central bank eased its draft stablecoin regime.
A Solana token called Trump Digital Gold, promoted by a certified X account linked to Real Trump Coins, lost 99% of its value within under three hours of launch on August 29, wiping out a peak market cap of $66 million.