France charges 88 in crypto ransom kidnapping crackdown
France has logged 135 crypto-linked abductions since 2023 — and the curve steepened sharply in 2025, with one preliminary count for 2026 already past last year's full-year pace.
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France has logged 135 crypto-linked abductions since 2023 — and the curve steepened sharply in 2025, with one preliminary count for 2026 already past last year's full-year pace.
Withdrawn from Bitfinex at $19,329, the 300 $BTC re-entry books a $17.6M paper gain — and deposits that size to a major exchange usually mean an intent to sell.
Two wallets, one suspect, two consecutive high-conviction bets on governance tokens — the pattern matters more than the dollar size for traders tracking smart-money flow.
The wallet that built a 68.25M $ASTER position at $1.66 is now selling into a token trading 93% below its cost basis — a forced-distribution read for the rest of the holder base.
On-chain data shows a wallet associated with trader RookieXBT deployed 25,000 USDC to acquire approximately 1.89…
Trader 0x2d2e just added another 568 ETH ($1.32M) to an ASTEROID position that has now crossed $2.47M in cost basis — conviction meets a -7% paper loss.
A newly created wallet (0x0b8a) sold 75 ETH — worth roughly $174,000 — on Hyperliquid before rotating the proceeds into…
On-chain data shows four newly created wallets withdrawing a combined 10 million ASTER tokens — worth approximately…
A wallet identified as CX2tAR deposited 2.2 million TRUMP tokens — worth approximately $6.29 million — to Binance…
Abraxas Capital deposited 4,835 BTC — worth approximately $378 million — to Kraken within the past hour, in one of the…
Wallet 0x1527 — the largest on-chain $ASTER long — has swapped exposure into $CHIP while layering fresh longs in $MON and $TAO, putting roughly $25M of capital to work across four altcoin positions.
Ben Zhou says derivatives and tokenized products still demand MiFID and EMI licenses, and the end of the MiCA grandfathering window on July 1 will force a sharp consolidation among smaller European…