Morgan Stanley's head of wealth management told Barron's the firm plans to launch a proprietary digital wallet later this year.
Former ECC CEO Josh Swihart hinted at the "misalignment" between the needs of a tech startup and its nonprofit parent organization.
Ledger customers woke up on Jan. 5 to an email no one wants to see: their names and contact information had been exposed through a breach at Global-e, a third-party payment processor. The company clarified what hadn't been compromised: no payment cards, no passwords, and critically, no 24-word recovery phrases. The hardware remained untouched, the […]
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On-chain security researcher ZachXBT flagged hundreds of wallets across multiple EVM chains getting drained for small amounts, typically under $2,000 per victim, funneling into a single suspicious address. The theft total climbed past $107,000 and kept rising. The root cause is still unknown, but users reported receiving a phishing email disguised as a mandatory MetaMask […]
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Industry insiders expect deal momentum to continue into 2026, driven by consolidation, targeted acquisitions, and a still-open IPO window.
Trust Wallet's Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix. The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating in the background, the way browser extensions are designed to. Users who followed every standard self-custody rule, such […]
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Trust Wallet told users to disable its Chrome browser extension version 2.68 after the company acknowledged a security incident and pushed version 2.69 on Dec. 25, following reports of wallet drains tied to the Dec. 24 update. According to BleepingComputer, victims and researchers began flagging thefts soon after 2.68 rolled out. Early public tallies placed […]
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Changpeng Zhao, a co-founder of Binance, which owns the utility, said the losses will be reimbursed.
Anchorage Digital acquired Hedgey, a startup that builds solutions for managing token allocations, distributions, and vesting schedules.
The move comes amid a series of product launches, including Solana support, perps trading via Hyperliquid, and a recent Polymarket rollout.
x402 V2 is “multi-chain by default” and compatible with “legacy payment rails,” like ACH and card networks.
When the ball drops this New Year’s Eve, you could look to Bitcoin to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions. Bitcoin can enforce promises with code and collateral. That unlocks a class of “self-bribes,” in which a person escrows funds today under conditions only future behavior can satisfy, with payout paths encoded in script […]
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In its 4.5-year run, Farcaster failed to find a sustainable growth mechanic in the social app, co-founder Dan Romero said.
Founded in 2020, Polymarket is now reportedly courting a valuation of up to $15 billion amid a breakout year.
Fordefi offers an institutional-grade multi-party computation wallet solution that safeguards over $120 billion in monthly transaction volume.
The wallet service will allow users to exchange different fiat currencies into regional currency 'Dongbaek-jeon' in the form of a stablecoin.
For a few days in November, a malicious Chrome extension ranked as the fourth result for “Ethereum wallet” on the Chrome Web Store. The extension, called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” looked polished enough to pass as legitimate. It had a clean icon, a generic name adjacent to security language, a flood of five-star reviews, and boilerplate […]
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Digital wallets won the payments war. By mid-2025, around 65% of US adults used them, accounting for 39% of e-commerce and 16% of in-store transactions. Apple Pay and PayPal are boring infrastructure now, the default way millions move money without thinking about it. Web3 wallets are not. A September Mercuryo and Protocol Theory study of […]
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Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed asked the Justice Department and the Treasury Department to investigate World Liberty Financial after a watchdog alleged that WLFI token sales touched wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, a Russia-linked ruble token, an Iranian exchange, and prior Tornado Cash users. The senators’ referral arrived after Accountable US […]
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The Ethereum Foundation published a blog post outlining the goals for the upcoming Ethereum Interop Layer, now open for testing.
Kohaku is a suite of privacy-preserving crypto tools to enhance privacy and security in the Ethereum ecosystem.
OKX is following competitors like Coinbase by integrating DeFi trading directly into their core self-custody wallet product.
UK citizens are currently blocked from viewing certain Ledger blog pages, including an educational post on multisig wallets, due to new compliance rules. When visiting these pages, users in the UK receive a message: “Due to new rules in the UK, certain Ledger.com webpages are restricted.” These restrictions affect crypto educational resources and are linked […]
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Self‑custody was once the ultimate badge of credibility in crypto. A declaration of faith in sovereignty over convenience, code over blind trust, and cryptography over legal fine print. But for many of the space’s earliest and wealthiest adopters, that belief is starting to bend under a different kind of pressure: wrench attacks. In a world […]
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MetaMask spent years as the default gateway to Ethereum, the browser extension that turned “connect wallet” into muscle memory for millions of users. Now Consensys is betting that same reflex can work across blockchains. In late May, MetaMask flipped the switch on native Solana support, letting its 30 million monthly active users manage SOL and […]
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MetaMask spent years as the default gateway to Ethereum, the browser extension that turned “connect wallet” into muscle memory for millions of users. Now Consensys is betting that same reflex can work across blockchains. In late May, MetaMask flipped the switch on native Solana support, letting its 30 million monthly active users manage SOL and […]
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Bitget Wallet said it plans on adding Hyperliquid's perpetual trading features onto the wallet system in the coming weeks.
The update rolls out automatically, requiring no user action, and will be made a default standard for MetaMask.
MetaMask Director of Product Christian Montoya previously told The Block that the hot-wallet platform is “launching a new loyalty program.”
Nevada regulators shut down Fortress Trust on Oct. 22, citing insolvency that left the custodian holding roughly $200,000 in cash against $8 million owed in fiat and $4 million in crypto. The cease-and-desist order marked the second major Nevada trust-company collapse in two years, following Prime Trust’s entry into receivership in June 2023. Both firms […]
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