Crypto Wrench Attacks Hit 52 in H1 as Physical Coercion Cases Surge
Frequency slowed in Q2 but first-half exposure surged more than 1,000% year-on-year, with France and Western Europe absorbing most of the incidents.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
Frequency slowed in Q2 but first-half exposure surged more than 1,000% year-on-year, with France and Western Europe absorbing most of the incidents.
A senior enforcement principal deputy exits mid-pivot on crypto policy, with a former SEC attorney lined up to take the role as priorities shift toward court-tested actions.
The commissioner stopped short of calling vaults securities outright, but the structural framing pushes curated strategies and onchain lending squarely into the SEC's lane, with Morpho down 5% on the…
Britain's 2027 tokenized sovereign bond pilot has Treasury, BoE and FCA backing, but the absence of a credible pound stablecoin means the onchain settlement layer is still the bottleneck.
The company-level ban and nine-figure judgment land without the founders as parties, leaving their parallel federal cases to set the precedent on individual liability for the collapse.
The Treasury keeps renewing licenses that let US refiners buy sanctioned Venezuelan crude, with collections this year already past thirteen billion and big Louisiana and Texan Gulf operators among…
A narrow procedural window forces a decision the market has been waiting two years for: which agency writes the rules for digital asset trading, and who answers to whom.
The commissioner is signalling that the agency will case-by-case each vault and lending product, and builders who try to engineer around securities law will pay the price.
Trading volumes slumped most of the quarter before stabilizing in June, but the analyst sees the market-structure bill as a larger swing factor than the near-term print.
France's regulator wants prediction-market trading off-limits; Polymarket argues the read-only site still belongs in the European information stack and will fight the geoblock in court.
The SEC's crypto mom signalled that how a protocol is designed, not where it runs, decides whether U.S. securities law applies, a posture that puts every yield strategy on notice.
The five civil complaints, filed by the Scam Center Strike Force, lift the task force's recovery total past $800M and show how routinely crypto rails are being used to launder proceeds of personal…
The morning call signals the market-structure bill is moving fast enough that industry lobbying groups want the latest draft before committee markup resumes.
8lends and FINMA-supervised Maclear AG split the stack: settlement stays onchain, while underwriting, collateral registration and default recovery stay inside regulated legal rails.
The bill, framed by the Terra $40B wipeout, would ring-fence client funds from issuer insolvency, a structural fix the industry has wanted since 2022.
The appointment links OKX to ICE’s market infrastructure push as tokenized listings near 20% of H1 exchange launches and RWA perpetuals hit $311B.
The rollout links election odds to polling, fundraising and news as Kalshi broadens its derivatives ambitions and seeks a valuation near $40B.
The CEO's stance matters because Nvidia walks a fine line in Washington, where chip-export controls overlap with an open-source debate that shapes who trains frontier models.
The provision bars the president, Congress, and federal officials from issuing crypto while in office, with bipartisan negotiators aiming to lock in updated language within days.
Islamabad is pitching the ask as a reward for brokering US-Iran diplomacy, while the rupee remains under pressure and IMF talks stall.