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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.
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.
Circle has launched Bitcoin-backed borrowing in Circle Mint via Morpho, while Coinbase rolled out fixed-rate loans and tokenized-stock collateral markets on the same protocol, deepening institutional reliance on Morpho's lending infrastructure.
French exchange Paymium has told customers their personal data was exposed after a breach at email provider Brevo, the same incident that triggered a phishing campaign against Trezor users.
MOEX will launch ruble-settled perpetual futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Tron indices from September 22, restricted to qualified investors, as Russia continues to build synthetic crypto exposure into its regulated financial system.
The European Central Bank has begun preparatory work to place part of its own funds portfolio into tokenised securities, with settlement to take place in central bank money on its newly launched Pontes platform.
A family of four was tied up and threatened overnight in Vendin-le-Vieil, northern France, as intruders forced the father, who works in crypto, to hand over roughly €40,000. Four suspects remain at large amid a surge in violent attacks on crypto holders across France.
Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA application before regulators ruled, restricting its EU services since July. The Wall Street Journal reports ECB president Christine Lagarde may have pressed Athens against approval — a claim Greek regulator HCMC denies.